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Combined exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy improves outcomes in patients with heart failure (sciencedirect)


SJCRG: Not just pills, but mind and will power!
Quoting:
“..combined 12-week home-based exercise (EX)/cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program with CBT alone, EX alone , and with usual care (UC)….”
Note that the patients in the study had depression.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - March 14, 2010 at 10:38 am

Categories: CHF, Heart Failure, Uncategorized, heart disease, physical therapy, psychology   Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Relationship between insulin therapy and cancer (eurekalert)


SJCRG: Metformin would inhibits, Insulin would promotes cancer. More risk numbers are needed here.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - March 4, 2010 at 1:49 pm

Categories: Diabetes, Uncategorized, cancer, type 2   Tags: , , , , ,

Intramuscular interferon beta-1a therapy in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a 15-year follow-up study (pubmed)


SJCRG: This a resounding endorsment of Intramuscular interferon beta-1a therapy:
quoting :
“… We conclude that patients continuing to use intramuscular interferon beta-1a had less disability and better quality of life compared with patients not currently using intramuscular interferon beta-1a 15 years after randomization into a clinical trial…”

4 comments - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - February 21, 2010 at 1:05 pm

Categories: Multiple Sclerosis, autoimmune diseases, brain, neuroscience   Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

MS: Caregiver Support for Therapy Regime Matters! (sciencedirect)


SJCRG: Yay for the caregivers! But that was to be expected…

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - February 4, 2010 at 1:18 pm

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Insomnia: online treatment program for insomnia using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)


SJCRG: Mentionned in Webdoctor/Ivanhoe,this link brings to a low cost cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) online program to help for insomnia [no pills]: The program author , Dr Jacobs, seems to have good credentials. Worth a try?

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - January 25, 2010 at 1:24 pm

Categories: insomnia, neuroscience   Tags: , , , , ,

Exercise therapy for multiple sclerosis (Cochrane)


SJCRG: Exercise can help, but see you health care provider for what and how much. CLICK HERE

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - January 24, 2010 at 12:27 pm

Categories: Multiple Sclerosis, autoimmune diseases, brain, neuroscience   Tags: , , , ,

Tinnitus: Cognitive behavioural therapy can provide some help


SJCRG: There treatment that help Tinnitus, Cognitive behavioural therapy seems to have improve the quality of life.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - December 15, 2009 at 12:13 pm

Categories: Uncategorized, neuroscience, tinnitus   Tags: , , , , , ,

Orally Inhaled Migraine Therapy Is Effective, Study Shows (ScienceDaily)


SJCRG: sure beats shots…

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - December 14, 2009 at 11:59 pm

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Mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on mental health of adults with a chronic disease (ScienceDirect)


SJCRG: Mind versus pain and disease. Mind techniques will help.

SJCRG: Then again what is mindfullness? ClickHere for link to Wiki definition

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - December 13, 2009 at 10:30 am

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Autism spectrum disorders: cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety in children (sciencedirect)


SJCRG: This is about a review of the cognitive-behavioral therapy methods

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by infocus - November 26, 2009 at 11:19 am

Categories: autism, autism in children   Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

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