Therapist news articles and latest advice

This section of our website offers daily news articles concerning research within the therapy industry and articles on health advice.

Therapy research news

Group therapy helps breast cancer patients (WABC-TV New York)
New research suggesting group therapy can help breast cancer patients keep the disease in remission.


Lighting the Way run to benefit cancer research (Redlands Daily Facts)
REDLANDS - Redlands Firefighters will join the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of the Inland Empire and Optivus Proton Therapy, of Loma Linda, in sponsoring Lighting the Way, a 10K, 5K and 1K run to benefit childhood cancer research.


This Essential 2008 Report on the Global Radiation Therapy Market is Now Available (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Radiation Therapy Market: 2008 Edition" report to their offering.


Long-Term TITAN Study Evaluates PREZISTA(R)/ritonavir Vs. Lopinavir/ritonavir As Part Of HIV Combination Therapy In ... (Medical News Today)
Tibotec recently announced long-term study results from a phase 3 clinical trial, which compared PREZISTA(R) (darunavir)/ritonavir to lopinavir/ritonavir, as part of HIV combination therapy, in lopinavir/r-naive, treatment-experienced HIV-1 infected adults.


Maggot Therapy Gains in Popularity (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers.


Health advice articles

Insurers make pitch for health coverage mandate (AP)
AP - The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.


Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP)

Undated file picture of 30-year old Colombian female recipient Claudia Castillo, taken at the Hospital clinic of Barcelona. The pioneering transplant of a windpipe stripped of its cells and seeded with recipient stem cells has given Castillo a new lease on life, according to a study released Wednesday.(AFP/LANCET PRESS OFFICE)AP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.





Ginkgo fails to prevent Alzheimer's in large study (AP)
AP - The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans. "We don't think it has a future as a powerful anti-dementia drug," said Dr. Steven DeKosky of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, who led the federally funded study.


Panel urges revised warning on facial filler risks (AP)
AP - Cosmetic surgery patients who think facial fillers are a magical antidote to aging must be better informed of possible risks, government health advisers said Tuesday.


Family history can trump breast cancer gene test (AP)

Doctors examine an X-ray in a file photo. Women with a family history of breast cancer but who test negative for two genetic mutations commonly linked to it still have a very high risk of developing the disease, Canadian researchers said on Monday. (File/Reuters)AP - If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too.