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New research suggesting that vitamin C can be effective in curing cancer will renew interest in the "alternative" treatment for the terminal disease.
<!--proximic_content_off--> <!--proximic_content_on-->Three cancer patients who were given large intravenous doses over a period of several months had their lives extended and their tumours shrunk, doctors reported yesterday.
When a person performs a task, this network quiets down, he said, but not in people with chronic pain.
Instead, a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion is constantly active, disrupting the normal equilibrium.
To study this activity, Chialvo did a type of brain scan known as functional magnetic resonance imaging on 15 people with chronic back pain and 15 healthy people.
They gave their volunteers a simple attention task — tracking a moving bar on a computer screen — to observe the brain shifting out of default mode to handle the task.
Both groups performed the task well but when they measured areas of the brain activated, differences emerged.
17 items | 29 visits
Various articles on medicine and health issues.
Updated on Mar 10, 08
Created on Feb 09, 08
Category: Health & Wellness
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