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Among the various causes of neuropathy, hypothyroidism is little frequent. In order to study in a better way this epidemiology, some Norwegian neurologists have enrolled 38 women with hypothyroidism being treated, extremity pain not ascribable to particular diagnoses and no presence of diseases [...]
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Some surgical approaches for Parkinson disease, among which high-frequency electric stimulation of subtalamic nuclei through a surgically implanted stimulator, were realized. There were not, at that moment, comparative wide-range studies comparing this kind of therapy with the traditional medical [...]
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Sleep disorders are a very frequent disease, above all with age; but in spite of the fact that the so many used drugs bring side effects, sometimes also important ones, studies taking therapies alternative to drugs into consideration are still few. So, some researchers in Norway have randomized 46 [...]
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Essential tremor (a bilateral mainly postural or intentional tremor, involving hands and upper limbs) is not rare and can be a great discomfort for people affected by it. According to this study, it seems that diagnosis is often wrong: 71 patients to whom diagnosis of essential tremor was made by a [...]
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According to the results of the WHI (Women’s Health Initiative) trial, hormone estrogen therapy with or without progestine improves neither cognitive ability nor life quality. Some supporters of hormone therapy have however supposed that other estrogen formulations could instead obtain favourable [...]
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It is estimated that in USA sleep disorders concern about 46% of children. In a survey in 2001 on American pediatricians, it resulted that about half of them recommended the use of antihistamines to induce and maintain sleep. To verify whether this therapeutical indication is correct, 44 children [...]
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Within yeast cells there is a molecule, called alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn), causing the cellular death when it is produced in excess, through a block of protein movement from endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi complex. A gene was discovered that, if activated or amplified, protect the cell from the [...]