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

This study was performed on 60 patients with diabetic neuropathy, whereby they were given light therapy twice per week for a full month. The results showed the improvement of neuropathy outcomes in the light-treated group. This study supports and validates the use of light therapy in which the authors noted has been used over the past three decades by physicians for the management and the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy <view study> Read Less