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A successful new rehabilitation approach to treating children with cerebral palsy puts its focus on where a child lives and plays, not just improving the child's balance, posture and movement skills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-environment-child-equal-benefit-children.html Neuroscience Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:53:02 EST news232811558 Soy isoflavone tablets do not appear to be associated with a reduction in bone loss or menopausal symptoms in women within the first five years of menopause, according to a report in the August 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-soy-tablets-reduction-bone-loss.html Cancer Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:00:01 EST news232030764 Kaiser Permanente Northern California patients who obtained new statin prescriptions via a mail-order pharmacy achieved better cholesterol control in the first 3-15 months following the initiation of therapy -- compared to those patients who only obtained their statin prescription from their local Kaiser Permanente Northern California pharmacy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-mail-order-pharmacy-statin-prescriptions-cholesterol.html Health Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:09:04 EST news230547983 An injection of stem cells into the heart could offer hope to many of the 850,000 Americans whose chest pain doesn't subside even with medicine, angioplasty or surgery, according to a study in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stem-cell-patients-options.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:35:32 EST news229275319 Massage therapy helps ease chronic low back pain and improve function, according to a randomized controlled trial that the Annals of Internal Medicine will publish in its July 5 issue. The first study to compare structural and relaxation (Swedish) massage, the trial found that both types of massage worked well, with few side effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-massage-eases-pain-randomized-trial.html Health Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:00:03 EST news229009415 Use of vitamin D supplements during pregnancy has long been a matter of concern but now researchers writing in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research report that even a high supplementation amount in healthy pregnant women was safe and effective in raising circulating vitamin D to a level thought by some to be optimal. The study also found no adverse effects of vitamin D supplementation, even at the highest amount, in women or their newborns. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-vitamin-d-supplements-safe-healthy.html Health Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:12:23 EST news228474729 Long-term, regular use of vitamin E in women 45 years of age and older may help decrease the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by about 10 percent in both smokers and nonsmokers, according to a study conducted by researchers at Cornell University and Brigham and Women's Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-long-term-vitamin-copd.html Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:01:09 EST news227426392 Treating idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss with injections of steroids directly into the ear appears to result in recovery of hearing that is not less than recovery obtained with the standard therapy of oral corticosteroids and may be a preferable treatment for some patients to avoid the potential adverse effects of oral steroids, according to a study in the May 25 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-therapy-sudden-loss-disorder-suitable.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 May 2011 02:50:01 EST news225474378 Results from C91 "Late-Breaking Clinical Trials" on Tuesday afternoon, May 17, will bring new light to clinical problems and potential treatments. While five examine possible new therapies for people with asthma (pregnant women), emphysema, lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), TB and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a sixth looks at the safety of physician- vs. nurse-led transport teams for critically ill patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-late-breaking-clinical-trials.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 May 2011 16:57:50 EST news224870255 Liposuction has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the country. It has been around since 1974 and there are now more than 450,000 operations a year. But does the fat come back? A recent study by Teri L. Hernandez, PhD, RN and Robert H. Eckel, MD, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that the fat eventually returns within one year, and is redistributed to other areas of the body, especially the upper abdomen. There was further redistribution around the shoulders and triceps of the arms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-liposuction-fat.html Medical research Mon, 09 May 2011 12:29:27 EST news224162945 A video-based decision aid helped severely obese people to make more informed choices about bariatric surgery and reach more certainty about them, according to a trial involving 152 Group Health patients, e-published in Obesity in advance of print. This randomized controlled trial is the first to test shared decision making for weight-loss surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-trial-video-people-bariatric-surgery.html Other Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:47:21 EST news221388430