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Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News From Medical News Today

• Traditional Chinese Medicine Makes Fertility Treatments Far More Effective, T...
  Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations and acupunctur...
  
  
• Chinese Herbal Medicine May Provide Novel Treatment For Alcohol Abuse
  UCLA researchers have identified how a component of an ancient Chinese herbal anti-hangover medicine called dihydromyricetin, isolated from the plant Hovenia, counteracts acute alcohol intoxication and withdrawal symptoms...
  
  
• Scientists Examine Toxicity Of Medicinal Plants In Peru
  Many developing countries rely on traditional medicine as an accessible and affordable treatment option for human maladies. However, until now, scientific data has not existed to evaluate the potential toxicity of medicinal plant species in Peru. ...
  
  
• Vitamin D For Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, And Bone Fracture Protection? E...
  Does vitamin D supplementation protect people from bone fractures, cancer and cardiovascular disease? Researchers wrote in Annals of Internal Medicine in two separate articles that so far there is no compelling evidence to support any of these c...
  
  

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

• Six-Organ Transplant Girl Goes Home Today
  After 100 days in hospital and undergoing a complicated 6-organ transplant, 9-year-old Alannah Shevenell, from Maine, leaves Boston Children's Hospital today and goes home. Alannah has been treated for a rare form of cancer; an inflammatory myofib...
  
  
• Device Provides A Platform For Viewing Cancer Cells And Other Macromolecules ...
  A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even more elusive...
  
  
• For Brain Cancer - A Thought-Provoking New Therapeutic Target?
  Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common of all malignant brain tumors that originate in the brain. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis because it is a highly aggressive form of cancer that is commonly resistant to current therapies. N...
  
  

Diabetes News From Medical News Today

• Memory Function - Decaffeinated Coffee May Help
  Drinking decaffeinated coffee may improve brain energy metabolism associated with diabetes type 2, according to a study published in Nutritional Neuroscience and carried out by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Brain energy metabolism...
  
  
• Link Between Insulin Resistance And Brain Health In Elderly
  New research from Uppsala University shows that reduced insulin sensitivity is linked to smaller brain size and deteriorated language skills in seniors. The findings are now published in the scientific journal Diabetes Care. The main hormonal func...
  
  
• Metabolic Side Effects Such As Obesity And Diabetes Caused By Antipsychotic M...
  In 2008, roughly 14.3 million Americans were taking antipsychotics - typically prescribed for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or a number of other behavioral disorders - making them among the most prescribed drugs in the U.S...
  
  

Dermatology News From Medical News Today

• Erivedge - Treatment For Most Common Form Of Skin Cancer
  Basal cell carcinoma is a form of skin cancer caused by regular sun exposure, or other ultraviolet radiation, which starts in the top layer of the skin (epidermis), is usually painless and grows slowly. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just ...
  
  
• FDA Approves Drug For Common Skin Cancer
  On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of drug to treat adult patients with advanced basal-cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer. The drug's generic name is vismodegib and was developed by the US part of...
  
  
• Skin Inflammation Controlled By Gatekeeper Signal
  A new study unravels key signals that regulate protective and sometimes pathological inflammation of the skin. The research, published online in the journal Immunity by Cell Press, identifies a "gatekeeper" that, when lost, can cause inflammatory ...
  
  

 

Yahoo! Health News

• Olympus to hold shareholder meeting on April 20
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's troubled Olympus Corp said on Sunday it will hold an extraordinary shareholders meeting on April 20, when it is expected to seek approval of a new management team. The maker of cameras and medical equipment is struggl...
  
  
• Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school
  LE ROY, New York (Reuters) - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the...
  
  
• Health Tip: Prepare for Breast-feeding
  (HealthDay News) -- Preparations for successful breast-feeding begin during pregnancy.