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This Chinese therapy works wonders on body ache

Here's how bamboo tapping helps in warding off body pain.

27 Oct 2019 11:58 AM

Dance/ Movement Therapy being practiced in various forms. Photos are for representational purposes only.

A dance of healing

It might not be a very uncommon concept abroad, but in India it is just starting to turn heads.

05 Sep 2019 4:42 AM

Cost-effective and viable, social media is a good platform for therapy. (Photo: Representational/Pexels)

Rise of Insta-therapy

Social media therapy comes as a saviour for those looking for affordable therapy.

12 Aug 2019 8:57 PM

What teens didn't like: mindful eating, a technique that asks people to focus on what and how they're eating. (Photo: ANI)

Art therapy can reduce stress and anxiety disorder

Art therapy can ease stress in teen girls.

05 Aug 2019 10:49 AM

Myocardial infarction is the main cause of heart failure, a condition that now affects over 23 million population in the world. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

New therapy can regenerate heart cells after attack

New therapy discovered can heal damage caused by heart attack.

11 May 2019 10:24 AM

Laser Queen from Gaksung Global is one of the unique product which is ergonomically designed to exert maximum healing effect of Low level Laser and Fedolight.

GakSung Global launches Laser Queen in India

Low level laser and LED therapy is also known as “photon light therapy” or “Phototherapy”.

22 Feb 2019 11:54 AM

In this July 30, 2018, photo Donkey Park visitor Evan Oster leads a miniature donkey through an obstacle course as volunteer Patti Lundgren looks on, at Donkey Park in Ulster Park, N.Y. (Photo: AP)

Beasts unburden: Donkeys at mini ranch help people de-stress

Steve Stiert is devoting his life to providing an opportunity for people to interact with donkeys and experience their calming presence.

13 Aug 2018 11:06 AM

Ultrasound applied to brain may help patients with dementia

Ultrasound waves, applied to the whole brain, improve cognitive dysfunction in mice with conditions simulating vascular dementia.

23 Jul 2018 9:43 AM

Despite yoga's global success, proponents concede there is little consensus on what might constitute therapeutic stretches and poses. (Photo: Pixabay)

Fans of yoga therapy have yet to win over doctors

All of the mystical and pseudo-scientific (trappings) that often accompanies yoga is counterproductive.

21 Jun 2018 12:45 PM

If you treat a parent's depression, a child's depression improves. (Photo: Pixabay)

Does parent-child therapy help depressed kids?

We consider depression to be an impairment of the ability to experience and regulate emotions.

20 Jun 2018 4:06 PM

Experts claim that if testing goes according to plan, then it could mark the end of current alternative treatments transplant by open heart surgery and overreliance on drugs for treatment.

Now millions of heart failure patients can be saved with breakthrough therapy

Majority of this stem-cell therapy takes place at home replacing other costly treatments like open heart surgery.

12 Jun 2018 1:30 PM

Metastatic breast cancer is cancer that has spread to other sites in the body, and the vast majority of breast cancer deaths occur in patients in whom cancer has metastasised. (Photo: Pixabay)

New target found for breast cancer therapies

According to study, the protein is strongly associated with metastatic breast cancer and that could be a target for future therapies.

19 Apr 2018 9:39 AM

Listening to music can create an enhanced learning environment and rebuild damaged neural connections.

Here’s how music can help heal military personnel

Researchers believe it's important for music therapists and treatment centers to share program evaluations and successes.

21 Mar 2018 8:28 AM

The proteins bind to a family of hormones, designated endocrine Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs), that regulate critical metabolic processes in the liver, kidneys, and brain, among other organs. (Photo: Pixabay)

Longevity protein may help develop therpaies to treat diabetes, cancer, says study

Named after the Greek goddess who spun the thread of life, Klotho proteins are located on the surface of cells of specific tissues.

22 Jan 2018 9:17 AM

Luxturna is still significantly more expensive than nearly every other medicine on the global market, including two other gene therapies approved earlier last year in the US. (Representaional Photo)

$850K price tag on gene therapy for rare form of blindness:

The injectable treatment from Spark Therapeutics can improve the eyesight of patients with a rare genetic mutation.

04 Jan 2018 8:27 AM

Just like smokers looking to give up their habits by using anti-smoking products, the Substitute Phone is meant to help extremely-addicted people looking to relieve themselves of their habit.

Want to get rid of your ‘scrolling’ habits? Take the Substitute Phone

The phones have stone beads embedded in the surface and are meant to replicate smartphone scroll gestures.

27 Nov 2017 8:19 AM

New therapy key to spinal trauma recovery, says Doctor

Road accidents major cause for rise in cases.

21 Nov 2017 2:12 AM

Just 240ML of cherry juice daily ups sleep time by 84 mins in elderly

Previous research shows similar results pointing to the potential effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice on sleep.

29 Oct 2017 8:40 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

How vitamin therapy may prevent deadly skin cancer

Researchers find that nicotinamide helps reduce or reverse DNA damage inflammation, and immunosuppression caused by ultraviolet radiation.

11 Aug 2017 2:08 PM

Study is the first to show that an engineered skin graft can survive long term with intact immune system (Photo: Pixabay)

Now, gene therapy may treat diabetes and obesity via skin, say experts

According to researchers, new therapy could be used to deliver therapeutic proteinsfor people with a genetic defect.

05 Aug 2017 11:23 AM

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