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...pray for a quick recovery with no complications. Fifty-nine percent of the people who knew they were being prayed for had complications after surgery, while 52 percent of the people who did not know whether they were being prayed for experienced complications. Reverend Dean Marek of the Mayo Clinic, a researcher who worked on the study, said in a press release that he didn’t anticipate these results. “Obviously, my research colleagues were surprised by the unexpected and counterintuitive outcome,” he said. Knowing that they were being prayed for may have...
Focused ultrasound (FUS) was approved by the FDA in 2004 and is available at 16 U.S. medical centers. Smith was treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She lay belly down in a machine designed by an Israeli company, InSightec, for three hours the first day and almost four hours the second day. The device focuses high-frequency ultrasound beams at targeted spots of fibroid tissue, heating them to 180?. Doctors use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track the volume and temperature of the fibroids after each zap. No incisions are needed. The treated fibroids shrink and become dead...
...globe die from asthma each year, and between 100 million and 150 million people suffer from the disease. Asthma rates have risen rapidly in industrial nations over the past 20 years, adding increased urgency to improving treatment. “I see patients with asthma all the time in clinic,” says Umetsu. “For the patients with severe disease, it can be extremely frustrating. My hope is that we can develop methods that will ultimately cure this disease.” Umetsu is already studying ways to prevent NKT cells from causing asthma. Asthma attacks...
That view is echoed by Dr. Michael Silber of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "It's certainly a minority of Ambien patients who develop problems with sleep eating," says Silber, who first described the effect in a 2002 research article in the journal Sleep Medicine. It generally disappears after the patients stop taking Ambien and--significantly--can also occur in folks who don't take Ambien...
...Leslie is well off compared to some around the lagoon who have sought the help of Joshua Lamu, the nurse at the village's health clinic. He opens the exercise book in which he records new sexually transmitted infections in teenagers; the names - one per line - take up two full pages. "I think it is related to the logging boat crews," he says. Asked if there's hiv in the area, he replies: "I don't know. I can't test for it." The director of the national disease prevention and control unit, Dr. John Paulsen, believes children...