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Mainstream media slants cancer articles toward unrealistically positive outcomes

Mainstream media slants cancer articles toward unrealistically positive outcomes

(NaturalNews) Mainstream media coverage of cancer treatments disproportionately covers positive outcomes and aggressive treatments while underreporting on palliative care and death, according to a study conducted by researchers from the ...

Music benefits the brain, research reveals

(NaturalNews) Northwestern University scientists have pulled together a review of research into what music — specifically, learning to play music — does to humans. The result shows music training does ...

Unexpected viral ‘fossils’ found in vertebrate genomes

ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — Over millions of years, retroviruses, which insert their genetic material into the host genome as part of their replication, have left behind bits of their ...

Tuberculosis advance: Existing drugs can potentially target the disease’s capability to spread

ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — Often causing no symptoms in carriers of the disease, worldwide tuberculosis (TB) infects eight to ten million people every year, kills two million, and it ...

Less Pain, More Gain in OA With Regular Exercise

Patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) who stick to a recommended exercise program and increase their overall physical activity have less pain and more improvement in physical functioning, according ...

TZD Use Linked to Fracture Risk in Women 50 and Older

Patients with type 2 diabetes may face an increased fracture risk when treated with thiazolidinedione (TZD) drugs, data from a massive observational study suggest. Use of rosiglitazone (Avandia) or pioglitazone ...

Shea May Slow Arthritis

Shea extract may help stall the progression of osteoarthritis, according to a new study. The study tested the effects of a compound sourced from the seed of the African ...

Texas Health Plano, Texas Back Institute Offer SpineAssist® Surgical Robot For Spine Surgeries

Fifteen-year-old Tressa Scott of Allen hasn’t been able to stand up straight for more than a year until now. The Allen teenager grew an inch and a half and gained ...

Ortho Kinematics Launches Multi-Site Clinical Study Of KineGraph VMA™

Ortho Kinematics, a privately held spine diagnostics company focused on revolutionizing spine motion analysis, announced this day that it has begun a multi-site clinical study of the KineGraph VMA™, and ...

American Academy Of Ophthalmology Wins Award Of Excellence For Haiti Relief Efforts

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) is one of only 21 organizations nationally to receive an Award of Excellence for its Task Force on Haiti Recovery work from the ASAE ...

ACT Files Documentation With FDA For Clinical Trials Using ES Cells To Treat Eye Disease

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (“ACT”; OTCBB:ACTC) announced that it has submitted documentation and a complete response to substantively address the issues raised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Topaz Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Data From Topical Ivermectin Trials Presented At Society Of Pediatric Dermatology

Topaz Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held biotechnology company, announced positive results of studies of topical ivermectin cream, which it is developing as a potential treatment of Pediculus humanus capitis (head ...

Florida Company Smart Nutra Inc. Makes Breakthough Advancement In The Treatment Of Lice

According to Smart Nutra Inc., there were 6-12 million outbreaks of head lice reported in the United States this year. Large outbreaks of louse infestations have also been reported from ...

Treating Multiple Sclerosis With Antihypertensive Drug

Researchers in Heidelberg and Stanford have discovered a new signalling pathway of brain cells that explains how widely used antihypertensive drugs could keep inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) in check. ...

REM Sleep Disorder Could Be Early Warning Of Parkinson’s, Dementia That Develops Decades Later

American neurologists and sleep experts suggest in a recent study that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease or dementia that develops ...

Dense Bones Linked To Raised Risk For Prostate Cancer

Men who develop prostate cancer, especially the more aggressive and hazardous forms that spread throughout the body, tend to retain denser bones as they age than men who stay free ...

New Surgery Without Incisions Shows Promise For Prostate Cancer Treatment

With a recent first of its kind surgery, doctors at Mayo Clinic in Arizona have developed a new surgical procedure for the treatment of prostate cancer using natural orifices – ...