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- New Study to Show How Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Rate Improvement Change
A new clinical study to determine how people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) evaluate improvements in disease symptoms will be carried out by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health. The study will examine how much of an improvement in pain, stiffness, function and other symptoms is needed before patients consider the change important. The Clinically Important Changes in...
National Institutes of Health
- PET Scans Show Cigarette Smoke Affects Peripheral Organs
It is well known that smoking cigarettes can directly and often fatally damage the lungs. But new research, with support from the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy, shows that cigarette smoke also decreases levels of a critical enzyme called monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) in the kidneys, heart, lungs, and spleen. Too much or too little of this crucial enzyme can have an...
National Institutes of Health
- Adolescent Brains Show Reduced Reward Anticipation
Adolescents show less activity than adults in brain regions that motivate behavior to obtain rewards, according to results from the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study to examine real-time adolescent response to incentives. The study also shows that adolescents and adults exhibit similar brain responses to having obtained rewards. Researchers in the Laboratory of Clinical Studies of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), one of the National Institutes of...
National Institutes of Health
- First Human Study to Show Benefits to Newborns
from Federal Ban on Home Use of Two Insecticides
A federal ban on two insecticides has resulted in a significant reduction in their impact on newborns' birth weight and length, according to a new study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other private foundations. The results of the study the first one to demonstrate the benefits of the ban during pregnancy in human subjects will be published in Environmental Health...
National Institutes of Health
- Animal Studies Show Promise Treating Severe Chronic Pain
Researchers may be on the trail of a new and more targeted treatment for severe chronic pain. In the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team of scientists established in a series of animal studies the therapeutic potential of selectively deleting specific nerve cells from the nervous system that convey severe chronic pain. So effective was the treatment in eight dogs severely affected by osteroarthritis, cancer-related pain, or both, all eventually became more active and...
National Institutes of Health
News
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- Recipe For Healthy Garlic: Crush Before Cooking
ScienceDaily - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Cooking Garlic? Crush it First
MedicineNet - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
- Cooking Garlic? Crush It First
WebMD - Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:31 EST
- Women show pre-diabetes heart risk sooner than men
Reuters - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:54 EST
- Crush garlic before cooking for health benefits: study
The Earth Times - Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:06 EST
Clinical Trials
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- Development of Gourmet Healthy Cooking Workshop for Cancer Patients
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00364975 - Not yet recruiting
Breast Cancer
- Development of Gourmet Medical Cooking Workshop for Lifestyle Changing and Its Affect on Perimenopausal Women
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00364338 - Not yet recruiting
Perimenopausal
- Study Intended to Show That the VISTAKON Contact Lens is Safe and Effective for Use on an Extended-Wear Basis for Up to 7 Days and 6 Nights at a Time.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00241280 - Active, not recruiting
Myopia
- A Randomized Placebo Controlled Study to Show That Rasagiline May Slow Disease Progression for Parkinson's Disease
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00256204 - Active, not recruiting
Parkinson's Disease
- Rural Andhra Pradesh Cardiovascular Prevention Study (RAPCAPS)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00263393 - Recruiting
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