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FRIDAY, Nov. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Severe spinal cord injuries are incurable today in humans, but a new injectable therapy that restored motion in laboratory mice could pave the way for healing paralyzed people.The therapy — liquid nanofibers that gel around the damaged spinal cord like a soothing blanket — produces chemical signals that promote healing and reduce scarring, researchers report.The treatment produced astonishing results in lab mice paralyzed by spinal cord injuries, according to senior researcher Samuel Stupp, founding director of the Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill."We found that in about four weeks effectively, somewhere between three and four weeks after injection of the therapy, the paralysis was...

FRIDAY, Nov. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As many parents know, children can be notoriously picky eaters. In some cases, their chronically fearful approach towards food amounts to what is considered a serious psychiatric condition.But a new survey of adults who were, and continue to be, finicky eaters suggests that rather than forcing a child to eat foods they don't like, parents will probably make more headway by embracing a non-confrontational approach at mealtime."Let's start with what didn't work," said co-senior study author Nancy Zucker, director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders, in Durham, N.C. "When individuals perceived that they were being forced to try or eat something — for example, that they were being made to stay at the table until they finished or that they...

FRIDAY, Nov. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-loss surgery sliced the risk of severe liver disease or liver cancer in obese people with fatty liver disease, a new study finds.It included more than 1,100 patients with an aggressive type of fatty liver disease. Patients who had weight-loss (bariatric) surgery had a nearly 90% lower risk of advanced liver disease, liver cancer or related death over the next decade, The New York Times reported.Those outcomes were seen in only five of the 650 who had bariatric surgery, compared with 40 of 508 patients who did not have the surgery, according to the study published Nov. 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Consistent with previous research, the study also found that patients who had weight-loss surgery were also 70% less...

FRIDAY, Nov. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Arm and shoulder pain are common for women after breast cancer surgery, and beginning a supervised exercise program soon afterwards can go a long way to easing the discomfort, new research suggests.As the team of British investigators explained, restricted shoulder movement and chronic pain or swelling in the armpit area can really impact a patient's recovery and quality of life.However, "we found robust evidence that early, structured, progressive exercise is safe and clinically effective for women at higher risk of developing shoulder and upper limb problems after non-reconstructive breast surgery," said the team led by Julie Bruce. She's a professor in the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Warwick, in England.In the new...