Recently added articles from Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients:
Self-injury in autistic teens.(care and treatment)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Bernard Rimland, PhD, gives an overview of factors that contribute to aggression and self-injury among autistic teens in a 2005 article for Autism Research Review International. Physical pain from migraine, chronic infection, stomach pain, and, oddly, hypersensitive hearing often underlies ...
Vitamin C effective for melasma ...(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Sixteen women with idiopathic melasma were randomly assigned to apply 5% ascorbic acid cream on one side of the face and 4% hydroquinone cream on the other side, each night for 16 weeks. Sunscreen was applied daily throughout the study. The best subjective improvement was reported on the ...
Topical garlic extract heals warts and corns.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Twenty-three patients with 2 to 96 warts (all on the hands except for two cases with plantar warts) and 9 patients with 1 to 2 corns on the feet applied a lipid extract of garlic twice a day until full or best recovery was seen. Complete recovery was seen in all cases with warts after 1 to ...
Can DHEA help prevent diabetes?(dehydroepiandrosterone)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Twenty-eight women (mean age, 50.2 years) with hypoadrenalism due to Addison's disease (71%) or bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing's disease (29%) were randomly assigned to receive, in double-blind fashion, 50 mg/day of DHEA or placebo for 12 weeks. Compared with placebo, DHEA ...
Does watching television make kids fat?(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Sixteen non-overweight children (aged 12-16 years) were studied during three separate three-week periods: 1) baseline, 2) increasing targeted sedentary behaviors by 25-50% (increase phase), and 3) decreasing targeted sedentary behaviors by 25-50% (decrease phase). Sedentary behavior was ...