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Fibromyalgia patients were randomized to a treatment protocol consisting of 12 weeks of tai chi instruction and practice or a control intervention of wellness education and stretching exercises also of 12 weeks duration. The tai chi treatment group demonstrated clinically significant improvements in pain and quality of life compared to the control group and these improvements were maintained at 24-week follow up.
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Low-dose aspirin, given before 17 weeks, significantly decreases the risk of preeclampsia, severe preeclampsia, IUGR, and preterm birth, compared with its effect when given after that time.
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Recent decades have seen a dramatic expansion in the visibility of ethnic and cultural diversity in the United States.
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In september 2010, the most recent study of intercessory prayer was published in the Southern Medical Journal. The researchers suggested that the key to prayer's effectiveness was proximity between the person praying and the one prayed for.
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Women with fibromyalgia participated in a treatment protocol consisting of an educational consultation with a physician, followed by group activities focusing on structured written emotional disclosure and emotional awareness exercises. The treatment group was compared to a wait-list control group of fibromyalgia patients. The affective self-awareness (ASA) intervention significantly improved pain, tenderness, and physical function for at least 6 months in the treatment group compared to the wait-list control group.
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A new analysis of data from the ginkgo evaluation of Memory (GEM) study suggests that the herbal dietary supplement Ginkgo biloba does not reduce the risk of most cancer types in older adults.
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Regularly offered advice by professionals and the lay media that 5-30 minutes of unprotected daily sun exposure a few days a week is sufficient to maintain adequate vitamin D stores may be misguided and, worse, false, woefully underestimating the amount of sun exposure that may be necessary. Supplementing with appropriate amounts of vitamin D seems the appropriate general course.
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WHO recommendations for antiviral use for H1N1 flu; antibiotic use trends for acute respiratory tract infection; denosumab clears FDA Expert Panel; FDA Actions.
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Results of this impressive observational trial suggest that waist circumference may be a more telling sign of mortality risk than BMI, especially among those whose BMI measures do not place them in the category of obesity.
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In a much-publicized study on the physical maturation of young girls in three distinct areas of the United States, researchers found a persistence of early attainment of puberty in African American girls and an increased proportion of Caucasian girls who had reached puberty at ages 7 and 8 years. The study leaders delineate physical and psychological risks associated with early maturation and posit that an explanation for such findings might be some combination of increasing toxic environmental and food exposures.
