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For women with PCOS, acupuncture and exercise may bring relief, reduce risks
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Exercise and electro-acupuncture treatments can reduce sympathetic nerve activity in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), according to a new study. The finding is important because women with PCOS often have elevated ...
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Low lead levels in children can affect cardiovascular responses to stress
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Even low levels of lead found in the blood during early childhood can adversely affect how the child's cardiovascular system responds to stress and could possibly lead to hypertension later in life, according to a study from ...
Scientists figure out how the immune system and brain communicate to control disease
Jul 21, 2008 |
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In a major step in understanding how the nervous system and the immune system interact, scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified a new anatomical path through which the brain and the spleen ...
Acupuncture may bring relief for a common condition in women
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Polycystic ovary syndrome, a common condition among women, can be relieved by the use of acupuncture and exercise. This has been shown by a recent study at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Leptin's long-distance call to the pancreas
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Rube Goldberg—the cartoonist who devised complex machines for simple tasks—would have smiled at one of leptin's mechanisms for curbing insulin release. As Hinoi et al. show, the fat-derived hormone enlists ...
Researchers shed light on fat burning
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgia State University have found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulate fat burning much the same way a thermostat regulates temperature inside a house.
Repairing a 'bad' reputation?
Apr 20, 2009 |
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New research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies casts the role of a neuronal growth factor receptor—long suspected to facilitate the toxic effects of beta amyloid in Alzheimer's disease— in a new ...
Researchers find a key mechanism in the development of nerve cells
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Chaos brews in the brains of newborns: the nerve cells are still bound only loosely to each other. Under the leadership of Academy Research Fellow Sari Lauri, a team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has been studying ...
Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease (w/ Video)
Nov 15, 2009 |
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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity ...
Chronically Sweaty Hands? Surgery May Help
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Everyone sweats to some degree during exercise or other exerting activities. But for some people, profuse sweating is a constant that can quickly impact quality-of-life, according to University of Cincinnati ...
Stress and Depression Worsen Childhood Asthma
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some ...
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