Patients who received a short course of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) over the telephone from trained therapists reported that they felt "better" or "very much better" at the end of a six-month treatment period, and also three months after it ended. The Arthritis Research UK-funded trial...
My 2.5 yo is a really good kid but her worst downfall is at the dinner table. I don't allow toys at the table, but even without them, everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - is a game. It started by her making all her food "walk" around the table. I told her that had to stop (which it did without...
A 76-year-old man suffering from agonizing post-stroke shoulder pain for more than ten years is now pain-free, thanks to the world's first implantation of an investigational pain therapy device from SPR™ Therapeutics...
More...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) may be alleviated by the anti-cancer drug Rituximab, suggesting that the source of the disease could lie in the immune system, according to a new study published in the online journal PLoS ONE. Uncertainty about the cause of CFS, which is characterized by extreme...
A study that doctors and patients alike pinned their hopes on has not been conclusive in finding a linked between the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a virus known as XMRV, which includes a group in a class of mouse leukemia. Two different researchers had reported a link between Chronic Fatigue...
I watched a retro presentation on cancer recently. One of the statements made was that to date, all successfully cured chronic metabolic diseases have found their remedy in something related to diet (generally speaking, what you should consume but don't, or what you are consuming which you...
Biomaterials may prove key to healing chronic wounds in Diabetic patients, delegates will hear today at the 24th European Conference on Biomaterials. Over 950 delegates are at the event in Dublin, which is jointly hosted by NUI Galway's Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials and the...
By some estimates, up to 85 percent of Americans have experienced low back pain and research reported in The Journal of Pain showed that pain intensity ratings, pain location and sensory and affective variables differ among individuals with acute and chronic low back pain. In some cases, these...
Preliminary results from the first four brains donated to the Canadian Sports Concussion Project at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, TorontoWesternHospital, reveal that two of the four former Canadian Football League (CFL) players suffered from a brain disease known as Chronic Traumatic...
Victrelis (boceprevir) has been approved by the FDA for adults with hepatitis C who have either never been treated with medications before or have not responded well to drug therapy. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval is for Victrelis use alongside peginterferon alfa and ribavirin...
Chronic pain is an epidemic. One in four Americans suffers from chronic pain due to diseas including cancer and HIV and the medications used to treat those diseases. One reason for the persistence of chronic pain may be that the patient's central nervous system creates abnormal connections or...
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is an epidemiologically important virus with a worldwide distribution and causes acute hepatitis in humans. Acute HAV superinfection causes severe liver disease, acute liver failure and even higher mortality rates in patients with underlying chronic liver disease (CLD)...
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCRX) announced the presentation of new data that confirms forodesine's clinical activity in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) at the 52nd Annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting & Exposition being held in Orlando, Florida...
i really have been trying to find a right answer. I feel like i have chronic disorder..ive been in and out of depression since i was very young. lack of sleep. not eating much. When i date it really gets in the way because my feeling get changed and i cant have a clear thought. Its like i lost...
Experimental drug Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin) was found to lower the risk of major vascular events by 16.1% compared to a placebo for patients with chronic kidney disease, Merck & Co announced today. Vytorin is a cholesterol lowering medication. Examples of major vascular events are...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Botox injection (onabotulinumtoxinA) to prevent headaches in adult patients with chronic migraine. Chronic migraine is defined as having a history of migraine and experiencing a headache on most days of the month. "Chronic migraine is one of the...
...headaches? I've gone to numerous doctors (medical and others), psychologists, neurologists, and I've taken various supplements and medical drugs, and nothing has worked. The anxiety disorders I have are Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and OCD, and I've been taking a...
...headaches? I've gone to numerous doctors (medical and others), psychologists, neurologists, and I've taken various supplements and medical drugs, and nothing has worked. The anxiety disorders I have are Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and OCD, and I've been taking a...