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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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People lose teeth all the time, either through trauma when teeth are knocked out (athletes like rugby players and boxers usually experience this) or owing to decay, gum disease or old age. Whatever the reason for loosing your teeth they need to be replaced both for aesthetic and functional reasons. |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Have you ever heard of bone marrow transplantation (BMT)? Do you know what it is? What it is for? Or how it is done? But first of all let’s start with the basics. Bone marrow is a spongy sort of material that is found inside of our bones. |
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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Proteins have four calories per gram and are the most slowly absorbed foods. Until the early 1980s, fats were considered to be the slowest-absorbing of the 3 food groups. Research from a university on the East Coast determined otherwise. |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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Calcium is required for stronger bones. It is also required for heart, muscles and nerves to function properly and for your blood to clot typically. Each day we lose some calcium in the urine and to a lesser extent through perspiration. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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IF YOU possess wonderful hearing, you have something actually precious. Just think! You can listen to the melodious song of a bird, the ripple of a brook, the voice of a loved one. Through your ears you can receive lifesaving messages, too perhaps from an automobile horn, a siren or a fire alarm. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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Full dentures are the most general restoration used for patients missing all of their natural teeth. The only other alternatives to full removable dentures are dental implants. |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
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Yoga has been practiced by different sages since ancient times. Today, you would see the rage that has been made for this age-old form of exercise. Yoga has cultivated its’ niche in the contemporary society from the old to youngsters, children and celebrities, everybody is into the yogic passion. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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The pain known as sciatica (sometimes misspelled as "syatica" or "psyatica") is caused by irritation of the sciatic nerve (one on each side). The symptoms of sciatica commonly start in the buttock and may expand partly or all the way down the leg. |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
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When stress hormones are released into the body owing to a stressful situation, several things may befall. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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At the World Biomaterials Congress, May 28 till June 1, DSM will introduce an significant growth of its high-performance Dyneema Purity® polyethylene fiber portfolio that is targeted to provide increased lifetime and 25 percent greater strength than the original product. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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New data show that a once-yearly infusion of Reclast® (zoledronic acid) Injection 5mg was significantly better than risedronate at increasing bone mass in patients with osteoporosis caused by glucocorticoids, generally known as steroids3. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Although we are a generation of excessive calcium supplementation and cheese consumption, we have not been able to make a dent in osteoporosis or hip fractures. In 2008, osteoporosis will cost $17.8 billion in the United States. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Perhaps the aging process can't be stopped. But it can be predicted, and new research from Tel Aviv University indicates that people may live longer and lead healthier lives as a result. Researchers have developed a new biological marker that represents the age of a body's bones. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Nearly 60,000 women aged 55 years and older have enrolled in a landmark, multi-national study that will focus on the management of osteoporosis across the globe. |
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Saturday, 05 April 2008 |
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Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced that the European Commission has agreed a new indication for FORSTEO(R) (teriparatide [rDNA origin] injection) for the treatment of osteoporosis associated with sustained, systemic glucocorticoid therapy in women and men at increased risk for fracture. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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Servier Laboratories Ltd has welcomed the progress made by NICE to increase access to medicines like strontium ranelate in its revised draft guidance for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women but is disappointed that many women are still unable to access... |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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Radius Health ("Radius") announced the completion of patient enrollment into its Phase II clinical trial of BA058, the company's bone anabolic candidate for treatment of osteoporosis. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has announced that abstracts are now being accepted for the only global congress devoted specifically to all aspects of osteoporosis, IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis. Online abstract submission is now available on the IOF website. |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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At 14 years old, Adam Vasser of Los Altos, Calif., was an active child who loved baseball. Then a mysterious virus attacked his heart, making a heart transplant essential to save his life. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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Leading academics and practitioners from the northeast United States will discuss the newest advances in bioengineering research and nanotechnology - like the "printing" of human organs from ink jets and a new, injectable way for relieving lower back pain - at a conference hosted by Brown... |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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Current US guidelines for the prescription of potent anticoagulants by surgeons who perform joint replacement operations could be doing patients more harm than fine, according to Dr. Nigel Sharrock and his team from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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New data indicates an aggressive Vitamin D treatment plan should be considered when caring for all Osteoporosis patients. Doing so may help decrease their likelihood of developing Vitamin D deficiency. |
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
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An innovative new website is set to offer an invaluable resource for whiplash patients around the globe. The whiplash website, the first of its kind in the world, will deliver targeted info for whiplash related injury. |
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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Vitamins are an integral part of our lives. Vitamins have been proven to defend us from many different diseases. Many of the beneficial effects of vitamins on our health have been linked to their antioxidant properties. |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
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Medtronic, Inc. |
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
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IDM Pharma, Inc. (the Company) (Nasdaq: IDMI) announced that it has initiated enrollment in a clinical protocol finalized with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which provides mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE) to eligible, high-risk osteosarcoma patients through a compassionate access study. |
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
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Tom Venuto's Burn The Fat After 18 years in the fitness business, “How do I get good abs” is still BY FAR the most usually asked question I receive out of the 30,000+ emails that come into my office every month. |
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
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For statues, stress injuries come from standing in place for hundreds of years. Using a novel technique, researchers have now developed a way to predict such fracturing, applying the procedure to Michelangelo's David in an study that proved simpler, faster and more accurate than preceding methods. |
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, variants of the gene LRP5 are significantly associated with an increase in the risk of fractures (up to 20%). |
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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The Department for Work and Pensions is preparing to publish a report by Dame Carol Black, the DWP's National Director for Health and Work, on assisting people on sick leave to come back to work. |
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Bones (Orthopaedics) 
