In a healthy brain all the regions exist in a state of equilibrium. When one region of the brain is active, the other regions quiet down.
Dante Chialvo, associate research professor of physiology, Feinberg School, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of people with chronic low back pain as well as a [...]
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Chronic Pain
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Long-term use of calcium channel blockers appear to reduce the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, while no such association was seen for other high blood pressure medications.
Christoph R. Meier, PhD, MSc, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, studied 7,374 men and women over the age of 40. One-half of the group had Parkinson’s disease, the other half–the control group–had no [...]
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Parkinson
Amyloid plaques have long been identified as a significant cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but the speed at which it develops has been unknown.
Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD, director of the Alzheimer’s Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, used a novel technique for microscopically imaging the brains of living animals. Using mice that developed amyloid plaques, researchers imaged initially [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
Typically in an adult’s life they are likely to experience back pain as a result of lifting heavy objects. Employers often train employees on the correct method for heavy lifting.
Niels Wedderkoop, Associate Professor, in a recent article published in the British Medical Association (BMA) journal evaluated 11 studies dealing with workers who experience strain on the back, specifically [...]
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are twice as likely to experience depression as their otherwise healthy peers.
Betsy Sleath, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studied 200 RA patients from 4 rheumatology clinics, seeing one of 8 participating physicians. The patient’s doctor visit was audio taped as well as being interviewed after the visit with a questionnaire [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus
It is estimated that one-third of all adults suffer from some form of arthritis. Both the over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription forms of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) are commonly used to treat arthritis.
The widespread availability of NSAID may result in patients taking more than one form of the drug at a time because of inadequate pain [...]
When a person experiences sleep deprivation they also reduce their working memory ability. Working memory is a form of short-term memory that relates to the ability to store task-specific information–like where you parked your car in a huge parking lot.
Bruce Luber, Ph.D., instructor clinical psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, studied on how [...]
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Medical Issues
Alzheimer’s disease is thought to be caused by neurotoxicity.
Cornell University researchers report in the Journal of Food Science, that apples, bananas, and oranges may provide more than just vitamins, minerals, and fiber. The researchers found that juice extracts from those fruits also have protective antioxidants, called phenolic phytochemicals, that prevents neurotoxicity. A key benefit of [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease. Patients with RA tend to die younger and largely from cardiovascular disease (CVD). A marker of inflammation is an elevation of the C-reactive protein (CRP) and has been shown to predict CVD.
Dr. Tracey M. Farragher, University of Manchester, wondered why other inflammatory diseases, like Crohn’s disease, do [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus
For thousands of years people have considered dairy products as a folk remedy for practically every human illness–most of which are ineffective.
An article in the February, 2008 journal of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) reports that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have successfully used gene therapy to produce therapeutic proteins in [...]
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Medical Issues
