Psychological Therapies Ease Arthritis Pain Arthritis sufferers can alleviate their pain by using mental imagery and hypnotherapy. This is the finding of Bryan Bennett and colleagues from Bangor University who presented their findings on the11 September 2008, at The British Psychological Society's Division of
Health Psychology Annual Conference held at the University of Bath.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSunshine Heart Announces IDE Approval To Begin C-Pulse U.S. Clinical Feasibility Trial Sunshine Heart (ASX: SHC), a global medical device company focused on innovative heart assist technologies, announced that it has received conditional approval of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin its first U.S.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSurvival Instincts Propel 'Difficult Patient' To Insist On Quality Care Michelle Mayer had to become a "difficult patient" before she could get her physicians to accurately diagnose the disease that was destroying her
health. And once the diagnosis was made, she had to continue to be what many physicians describe as "difficult" before she could get the best treatment for scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease in which hardening of the skin is a major element.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFDA: West Virginia Livestock Owner Sentenced In Criminal And Civil Contempt Case The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a West Virginia cattle dealer has been sentenced to six months probation for refusing to obey court orders in 2006 and 2008 that prohibited her from introducing animals into the food supply until the FDA had approved her record-keeping system.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSativex Study Confirms Long Term Effectiveness In MS Neuropathic Pain Results from a new study investigating the benefits of Sativex in neuropathic pain in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have shown it gave long-term pain relief. The study followed 42 people with MS who took Sativex - a cannabis-based drug trialled by GW Pharmaceuticals.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Cannabis Like Drugs Could Block Pain Without Affecting Brain, Says Study A new type of drug could alleviate pain in a similar way to cannabis without affecting the brain, according to a new study published in the journal Pain on Monday 15 September.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDepressed Dialysis Patients More Likely To Be Hospitalized Or Die Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. In the study, available online and in the Sept. 15 issue of Kidney International, researchers monitored 98 dialysis patients for up to 14 months.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comReleasing Declining Numbers For Child Mortality, UNICEF Calls For Increased Efforts To Save Children's Lives UNICEF released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five continued to decline in 2007. The new estimates show a 27 per cent decline in the under-five mortality rate, from 93 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, to 68 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007. In industrialized countries there are, on average, just six deaths for every 1,000 live births.
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