Complementary and alternative medical therapies for chronic low back pain: What treatments are patients willing to try?
Most patients with chronic back pain in our sample were interested in trying therapeutic options that lie outside the conventional medical spectrum.

Latest advances in antiaging medicine
Rapid progress is being made in our ability to modify the aging process

Gene Therapy Converts Dead Bone Graft To New, Living Tissue
Researchers have created a way to transform the dead bone of a transplanted skeletal graft into living tissue in an experiment involving mice.

As Many As 30 Percent Of Travelers Don't Wash Hands After Using Public Restrooms At Airports
Does it take an outbreak of a frightening, potentially fatal infectious disease like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or a gastrointestinal illness on a cruise ship to get people to follow Mom's advice to "wash your hands after using the bath

Einstein Researchers Develop Blood Substitute That Shows Promise For Use In Emergency Situations
An artificial blood product developed by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is showing great promise in ongoing clinical trials in Stockholm, Sweden - the first time that a blood substitute has ever been used successfully in humans.

New Study Reveals Promising Osteoporosis Treatment
A New York University College of Dentistry professor has developed a calcium phosphate-based supplement that -- even at low concentrations -- significantly improves bone strength and thickness without the side effects of many current drug treatments.

Eye Doctor Says Laser Surgery Safer Than Contacts
Traditional assumptions have held that contact lenses are safer than laser surgery to correct vision problems.

No Medical Benefit from Liposuction: Diabetes and Heart Disease Risk is Unchanged After Fat is Removed
Liposuction is no substitute for dieting when it comes to preventing diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Read My Lips: Not All Fillers Are Safe For Lip Augmentation, Rejuvenation
Lip augmentation is not just for women who want larger, sexier lips. As people age, their lips lose fullness which makes them appear older.

Sodium, Prostaglandin May Be Keys To Successful Treatment For Some Bedwetters
Children with a form of bedwetting that does not respond to a common medication have more sodium and urea in their nighttime urine, possibly because of an imbalance of prostaglandin, a hormone-like substance, a new study has found.

New Vaginal Microbicide For Herpes And HIV To Be Tested
A team of researchers at UCSF is seeking young women to participate in the first U.S. study of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to prevent herpes and HIV infection.

Mayo Clinic finds effective test to determine treatment for chronic cough
Researchers have found that an asthma diagnostic test, the exhaled nitric oxide test, is an inexpensive, quick and easy way to determine whether inhaled corticosteroids will relieve a patient's chronic cough.

Stimulation of the semicircular canals can artificially control human walking and balance
By applying electrical currents across the heads of people while they walk, researchers have improved our understanding of how our vestibular system helps us maintain upright posture; at the same time, the researchers found that the stimulus could be appl

Penn researchers use the abdomen to deliver oxygen to assist ailing lungs
Novel technique, based on an animal model, could buy needed time to heal damaged lungs and save lives

Enhancing Regeneration: Animal Study Suggests Novel Way To Reverse Heart-attack Damage
Using a two-drug approach, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have demonstrated that it may be possible to rescue heart function after a heart attack and protect the heart from scarring.

High estrogen levels associated with dementia in older men
One large study showed that women receiving estrogen therapy had an increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. However, the evidence for how testosterone levels affect men is contradictory.

Sleep deprivation doubles risks of obesity in both children and adults
Research by Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick has found that sleep deprivation is associated with an almost a two-fold increased risk of being obese for both children and adults.

History of cannabis as a medicine: a review
The article discussed the history of therapeutic use of Cannabis

Tongue Scrapers Only Slightly Reduce Bad Breath
Bad breath is a common problem for many people, given the wide variety of substances traveling through our mouths daily.

Progress in the development and acquisition of anticancer agents from marine sources
This article reviews some of the technical strategies that are being employed to collect and identify novel marine products with potential antitumoral properties...