Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine), knowing the critical role of nitric oxide in angiogenesis (new blood vessel growth/collateral circulation), and understanding low level light's influence (670nm) on increasing nitric oxide levels, decided to perform a study to see if low level light therapy was able to independently effect nitric oxide levels and angiogenesis. As expected, the study concludes with supporting light therapy's ability to independently increase nitric oxide levels and increase new blood vessel growth in oxygen-deficient areas. This study is now published in the journal of molecular and cellular cardiology <view study> Read Less

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is now being used in conjunction with both chemotherapy and radiotherapy for it’s ability to help increase the sensitivity of both treatments for malignant brain tumors. The authors go over some of the new protocols being deployed, with one of them being radiation therapy given within 15 minutes from hyperbaric exposure. This allows more oxygen into the brain, thus making the radiation therapy more effective. In addition, carboplatin-based chemotherapy combined with hyperbaric oxygen show a significant advantage in survival for recurrent malignant brain tumors <view study> Read Less

Light therapy has been used for decades in the field of dentistry for many different applications. This study looked at dental stem cells following the application of light therapy and found there to be a stimulatory effect on the proliferation of these cells <more> Read Less

This publication looked at review of articles using light therapy for hair loss. They concluded that this therapy appeared to be both safe and effective for hair loss in men and women. One study in mice showed that light therapy stimulated hair growth in mice subjected to chemotherapy-induced hair loss. As they went through the actual mechanisms, the main one that is hypothesized is to be "stimulation of epidermal stem cells in the hair follicle bulge and shifting the follicles into anagen phase" <view study> Read Less

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are encouraging further studies to be performed as they found that "the studies as of today suggest that LLLT has a potential to be used in fat and cellulite reduction as well as in improvement of blood lipid profile without any significant side effects <view study> Read Less