Evidence

Posted: 2nd March 2021

Categories: Models and Methods, Therapy and Self Help

Subjects: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses, Self- Help

Topics: Cardio Vascular Disease, Sleep

Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease

Researchers say they are closer to solving the mystery of how a good night’s sleep protects against heart disease.

Posted: 2nd March 2021

Category: Mind and Spirit

Subject: Relationships

Marital distress, depression, and a leaky gut: Translocation of bacterial endotoxin as a pathway to inflammation

Marital distress and depression work in tandem to escalate risks for inflammation-related disorders.

Posted: 28th February 2021

Category: Therapy and Self Help

Subject: Complementary Therapies

Topic: Acupuncture

Effectiveness of Acupuncture on Pain, Functional Disability, and Quality of Life in Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Hand: Results of a Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by pain, functional disability, poor quality of life (QoL), high socioeconomic impact, and annual costs of over $56 billion in the United States.

Posted: 19th February 2021

Category: Therapy and Self Help

Subject: Complementary Therapies

Topic: Herbal Medicine

Melatonin for the treatment of sepsis: the scientific rationale

Sepsis affects 30 million people worldwide, leading to 6 million deaths every year (WHO), and despite decades of research, novel initiatives are drastically needed.

Posted: 18th February 2021

Category: Therapy and Self Help

Subject: Complementary Therapies

Topic: Homeopathy

Randomized controlled trials of individualized homeopathy: a state-of-the-art review.

Individualized homeopathy is the most controversial form of this therapy. This review aims to summarize the actual state of clinical efficacy research on individualized homeopathy.

Posted: 18th February 2021

Categories: IM Specialities, Therapy and Self Help

Subjects: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age, Nutrition

Topics: Cancer, Dairy

Dairy consumption and risk of breast cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

Epidemiologic findings are inconsistent regarding risk for breast cancer related to dairy consumption. We performed a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies to examine the association between diary product consumption and risk of breast cancer.

Posted: 8th February 2021

Categories: IM Specialities, Therapy and Self Help

Subjects: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age, Nutrition

Topic: Cancer

Summary and meta-analysis of prospective studies of animal fat intake and breast cancer

The objective of the present review was to examine the potential association between animal fat intake and breast cancer. We conducted a meta-analysis and review of epidemiological cohort studies, including data reported in the Pooling Project publication of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer.

Posted: 8th February 2021

Categories: Therapy and Self Help, Mind and Spirit

Subjects: Complementary Therapies, Counselling and Psycotherapy, Self- Help

Topics: Aromatherapy, Massage Therapy

Immunological and psychological benefits of aromatherapy massage

This preliminary investigation compares peripheral blood cell counts including red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), neutrophils, peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs), CD4+, CD8+ and CD16+ lymphocytes, CD4+/CD8+ ratio, hematocrit, humoral parameters including serum interferon-γ and interleukin-6, salivary secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA).

Posted: 6th February 2021

Categories: Therapy and Self Help, Models and Methods

Subjects: Nutrition, 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses

Topic: Nutrition

Dietary guidelines and health—is nutrition science up to the task?

Despite criticism and controversy, nutrition science can be relied on to improve our understanding of food and health, argue Dariush Mozaffarian and Nita Forouh. Nutrition science has been much criticised.

Posted: 4th February 2021

Category: Therapy and Self Help

Subject: Hypnotherapy

Pain treatment with hypnosis

This article reviews controlled prospective trials of hypnosis for the treatment of chronic pain.

Posted: 2nd February 2021

Category: Therapy and Self Help

Subjects: Complementary Therapies, Nutrition

Topics: Anxiety & Depression, Vitamin D

Prospective associations between vitamin D and depression in middle-aged adults: findings from the UK Biobank cohort

A possible role of vitamin D in the pathophysiology of depression is currently speculative, with more rigorous research needed to assess this association in large adult populations.

Posted: 2nd February 2021

Categories: Models and Methods, Therapy and Self Help

Subjects: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses, Self- Help

Topics: Cardio Vascular Disease, Sleep

Sleep duration and myocardial infarction

Observational studies suggest associations between extremes of sleep duration and myocardial infarction (MI), but the causal contribution of sleep to MI and its potential to mitigate genetic predisposition to coronary disease is unclear.