Arthritis & Rheumatism
How to talk to your doctor about arthritis pain
Chronic pain can be excruciating, debilitating and hard to describe.
Dec 21, 2020
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News tagged with spasm
Neuroscience
A role for the slow oscillations of the neocortex in epileptic spasm generation
Epileptic spasms are a type of brief seizures that are the hallmark of catastrophic seizure disorders, which are characterized by severe cognitive and motor deficits. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas ...
Dec 08, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID bites: Cracked teeth another coronavirus scourge
(HealthDay)—Dentists are drilling down on another worrying trend related to the coronavirus: more cracked teeth.
Sep 24, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers discover cause of asthmatic lung spasms
Researchers at Rutgers and other institutions have discovered how muscle contraction (bronchospasm) in the airway, which cause breathing difficulty in people with asthma, occur by creating a microdevice that mimics the behavior ...
Aug 22, 2019
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Medications
Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain
Pelvic pain associated with endometriosis often becomes chronic and can persist (or recur) following surgical and hormonal interventions. According to results published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, treating pelvic ...
Jul 11, 2019
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Medical research
In fluke experiment, espresso quells rare genetic disease
A lot of people say they cannot live without coffee, but for one 11-year-old boy living in France, that may be literally true.
Jun 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Exercise shown to improve symptoms of patients with chronic kidney disease
Just 12 weeks of aerobic and strength-based exercise reduces symptoms and levels of fatigue in patients with chronic kidney disease, a study in Leicester has found.
Aug 16, 2018
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Medications
'BioSimilar' drug approved to treat certain types of anemia
(HealthDay)—Retacrit (epoetin alfa-epbx) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first "biosimilar" to the anemia drugs Epogen and Procrit.
May 15, 2018
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Medical research
New botulinum neurotoxin discovered—potential to treat a number of medical conditions
Botulinum toxins are currently applicable in more than 80 medical conditions including muscle spasms, overactive bladder, chronic migraine, cervical dystonia, sweating and cerebral palsy (CP). A new toxin, Botulinum neurotoxin ...
Aug 03, 2017
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Cardiology
A simple fix to avoid some unnecessary coronary stents
Physician researchers at Thomas Jefferson University suspect that some cases of coronary artery spasm go unrecognized and are incorrectly treated with stents. The good news - there could be a simple fix to eliminate these ...
Mar 20, 2017
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