Month: January 2012

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Sex After Menopause: Does DHEA Make it Better?

Sex After Menopause: Does DHEA Make it Better? Hot flashes. Night sweats. A clammy feeling. Irritability. Mood swings. Trouble sleeping at night. Irregular periods. Dry vagina. Crashing fatigue. Anxiety. Difficulty concentrating. Disorientation. Incontinence. Aching muscles. Headaches. Flatulence. Dizziness. Hair loss. Changes in body odor. Bleeding gums. Tinnitus.

Those are only some of at least 35 symptoms suffered by women going through menopause—and the list can sound like a litany of woes or a torturer’s catalogue of triumphs.

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Chocolate Addiction Treatment: Exercise, Baby!

Exercise curbs choco addiction: Almost a third of all Americans and a huge proportion of people in developed countries now struggle to break the grip of an obesity epidemic—and a new study linking exercise to decreased chocolate addiction can be of critical help.

Office workers, in particular, who are forced by heavy workloads, long hours and shifting schedules to sit at their desk all day and engage in stress eating, have higher odds of becoming obese.

A recent study suggests that walking to the office or getting up during the day could help the growing number of white-collar workers keep the pounds off.

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Is Atrial Fibrillation Dangerous? Symptoms, Prevention, & Barry Manilow’s Heart

Barry Manilow has written many songs about young lovers, star-crossed or not, with butterflies in their stomachs and hearts a-flutter. When they first meet, they swoon, and their hearts skip a beat. Listening to these songs and remembering your own loves, so does yours.

But when the famous pop music singer-songwriter’s own heart skipped a beat in 1996, it wasn’t a laughing matter.

After all, although Manilow, then 54, still showed no signs of slowing down and continued to sell millions of albums and perform in hundreds of concerts every year, he was beyond the prime of his life. He was at the age when most people begin to feel the aches and pains of diseases that are bound to develop from the wear and tear of daily life.

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MDMA PTSD Treatment: Ecstasy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

MDMA PTSD Treatment: Ecstasy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? New findings from a number of studies suggest that MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) — the active ingredient in the street drug Ecstasy — can be incredibly helpful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a United States nonprofit is set to undertake many studies to explore this.

American researchers in South Carolina tested 20 people, mostly women suffering from childhood abuse and rape, who received a combination of the drug and psychotherapy. Their findings show that 10 out of 12 — or 83 percent — of the patients who were given MDMA were cured in two months.

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Internet Addiction Effects Changes to Your Brain?

Internet Addiction Effects Changes to Your Brain? Internet addicts have brain changes similar to drug addicts and alcoholics, Chinese scientists found in a recent brain scan of 17 young web addicts.

Preliminary research by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan showed that Internet addicts had changes in the white matter of their brains and disruptions in the connections in nerve fibers linking brain areas involved in emotions, decision-making and self-control.

Researchers say their discovery, published in the Jan. 11 issue of PLoS One, could lead to new treatments for addictive behavior.

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Stem Cell Therapy in Australia: Developments and Updates

Stem Cell Therapy in Australia: Developments and Updates. This is Health Care Zone’s attempt to monitor the developments of stem cell research and treatments (if any) in the Land Down Under. We’ll report on scammy practitioners and clinics (if any), academic studies whether they’re promising or blah, stem cell trials and experiments by drug companies (if any), and what Australian health authorities are saying about the exciting world of stem cells and what they’re doing about the challenges this brave new world poses.

We’ll keep you posted. And come back for updates on stem cell therapy in Australia.

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