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Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News From Medical News Today

• Study Finds Back Pain Sufferers Benefit From Chiropractic Care And Other Comp...
  A recent study, "Perceived Benefit of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Back Pain" (Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, May - June 2010, Vol. 23 No.3), found the majority of respondents receiving CAM for back pain repo...
  
  
• The Effectiveness Of Acupuncture For Exercise Tolerance In Heart Failure
  Acupuncture can improve exercise tolerance in patients suffering from chronic heart failure. This was determined in a clinical pilot study by the team headed by Dr. Johannes Backs, physician and study director at the Department of Internal Medicin...
  
  
• Potential Industrial And Agricultural Uses Of Echinacea Trump Health Claims
  Echinacea has been used for hundreds of years as an herbal remedy to prevent or treat colds, and today it is among the most commonly used herbal medicines in North America. However, in spite of its popularity, studies of the effect of the herb on ...
  
  
• Appointment To The Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee, UK
  We are pleased to announce that the Appointments Commission has appointed one new member to the Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee (HMAC). HMAC is an independent body that works closely with the MHRA, advising UK health ministers on traditional ...
  
  

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

• Research On Enzyme For Activating Promising Disease-Fighters Co-Authored By M...
  Grown-ups aren't the only ones making exciting scientific discoveries these days. Two middle school students from Wisconsin joined a team of scientists who are reporting the first glimpse of the innermost structure of a key bacterial enzyme. It he...
  
  
• Dense Bones Linked To Raised Risk For Prostate Cancer
  Men who develop prostate cancer, especially the more aggressive and dangerous forms that spread throughout the body, tend to retain denser bones as they age than men who stay free of the disease, suggests new research from Johns Hopkins and the Na...
  
  
• Bid To Aid Transplant Cancer Patients
  Organ transplant patients who develop cancer may be helped by a treatment that uses blood cells to attack their tumour. University of Edinburgh researchers have generated a bank of white blood cells from healthy blood donors to treat patients with...
  
  

Diabetes News From Medical News Today

• Government Of Canada Announces Continued Support Of National Aboriginal Diabe...
  The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced $110 million in funding over two years for the Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) to continue addressing high rates of diabetes among Aboriginal people...
  
  
• Implanted Wireless Glucose Sensor That Could Transform Management Of Diabetes...
  American bioengineers have demonstrated that an implanted glucose sensor with potential to transform the management of diabetes has passed a crucial test: the device they developed worked continuously in animals for over a year, without showing ...
  
  
• Pitt Team Says One Molecule, Many More Insulin-Producing Cells To Treat Diabetes
  With a single stimulatory molecule, human insulin-producing beta cell replication can be sustained for at least four weeks in a mouse model of diabetes, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Diabetes, a jou...
  
  

Dermatology News From Medical News Today

• Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA
  Researchers have long known that humans lack a key enzyme -- one possessed by most of the animal kingdom and even plants -- that reverses severe sun damage. For the first time, researchers have witnessed how this enzyme works at the atomic level t...
  
  
• Join Neutrogena's Wave For Change And Help Raise Up To $200,000 For Disaster ...
  Understanding teens' determination and passion for change, Neutrogena, the #1 dermatologist-recommended skin care brand, is launching Wave for Change, a charitable campaign that makes it easy for teens everywhere to not only give back, but to choo...
  
  
• Gene-Silencing Nanoparticles May Put An End To Pesky Summer Pest
  Summer just wouldn't be complete without mosquitoes nipping at exposed skin. Or would it? Research conducted by a Kansas State University team may help solve a problem that scientists and pest controllers have been itching to do for years...
  
  

 

Yahoo! Health News

• Hands-only CPR, pushy dispatchers are lifesavers
  More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions — especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth, according to new research.
  
  
• DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic
  Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared."
  
  
• Health group sues FDA over antimicrobial soap
  A nonprofit environmental group has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency failed to regulate toxic chemicals found in "antimicrobial" soap and other personal care products.