Article: Chicago homicides down 13 percent this year

Article: Research shows Tai Chi exercise reduces knee osteoarthritis pain ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... University School of Medicine have determined that patients over 65 years of age with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who engage in regular ... otherwise good health. The mean age of participants was 65 years with a mean body mass index of 30.0 kg/m2. Patients were ...

Article: Regeneration can be achieved after chronic spinal cord injury.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when treatment delayed is more than a year after the original spinal cord injury. "The good news is that when axons have been cut due to spinal cord injury, they can ...

Article: Losing while cruising to the store.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Researchers found that residents were 10 percent less likely to be obese if they lived ... quartile of the 2000 census-were 26 percent less likely to be obese if there was one ... options in their neighborhoods, while 30 percent have access to at least one retail food ...

Article: Report documents the risks of giant invasive snakes in the US.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... surroundings. "We have a cautionary tale with the American island of Guam and the brown treesnake," said Reed. "Within 40 years of its arrival, this invasive snake has decimated the island's native wildlife -- 10 of Guam's 12 native forest birds ...

Article: Patients in US 5 times more likely to spend last days in ICU than ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... of all hospital discharges, only 2.2 percent in England received intensive care, compared to 19.3 percent in the U.S. They also found that hospital ... in England than in the U.S. (19.6 percent vs. 7.4 percent). But when examining ...

Article: Study shows unsedated colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... underwent?'' Results Approximately 90 percent of patients surveyed after unsedated colonoscopy ... procedure in either group. Only 9.4 percent of patients in the sigmoidoscopy group and 10.8 percent of patients in the colonoscopy group considered ...

Article: Surgeons at Boston Medical Center offering new procedure for acid ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... invasive and may be associated with side effects like gas bloat and difficulty swallowing. For this reason, less than one percent of GERD patients currently choose invasive surgical therapy to treat their condition. Keywords: Acid Reflux Disease, Anesthesia ...