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More effective treatment identified for common childhood vision disorder

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have found a more effective treatment for a common childhood eye muscle coordination problem called convergence insufficiency (CI). For words on a page to appear in focus a child's eyes must turn inward, or converge. ...





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Client-directed therapy technique drastically reduces divorce/separation rates

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using four simple questions to generate client-directed feedback can greatly increase the chances that struggling couples will stay together, according to a recently published study.


Home-based cognitive behavioral therapy relieves IBS symptoms

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 25, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Persons with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can relieve their symptoms as effectively by following a self-administered, at-home cognitive behavioral program as they can by undergoing a 10-week in-office program administered ...


Use of a restraining device in the subacute phase after a stroke no better than rehabilitation alone

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Restraining the use of some patients' unaffected upper limb during the subacute phase following stroke does not appear to generate greater improvements in motor impairment and capacity than standard rehabilitation alone, ...


Physical therapy is effective for management of low-back pain

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new review article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons should help convince many patients with low back pain to consider physical therapy as a first line of treatment for their condit ...


Physical therapists play integral role in prevention, risk reduction, and treatment of lymphedema

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As breast cancer awareness month is observed during October, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is hoping to shine a spotlight on lymphedema, a chronic, debilitating and often irreversible side effect of cancer ...


Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn (AP)

Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped ...


S. Korean firm to open major dog cloning centre

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday.


Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective when delivered in real time by a therapist

Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective when delivered in real time by a therapist

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) seems to be effective when delivered online in real time by a therapist, with benefits maintained over 8 months. This method of delivery could broaden access ...


Older Motorists Improve Driving Performance with Physical Conditioning

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 30, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older people who performed a physical conditioning program developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine were able to maintain or enhance their driving performance, potentially leading to a safer and more independent ...


Breast Cancer Physicians Have Limited Access to Trained Interpreters

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters ...



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