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Cancer Doctors Okays Controversial Prostate Therapy

... no mention of brachytherapy. "There was a lot of noise at the time about not putting brachytherapy in the guidelines," said Dr. Laurence Baker, associate chief of hematology/oncology at the University of Michigan and chairman of the committee writing the guidelines. The general consensus at the time, th...

Rumbling stomach

...ch and intestines onward and downward. Some such noise is normal; Its absence when a doctor uses a stetho... tract or when the stomach is empty of solids, the noise can seem deafening. The contractions are also exaggerated and noisy in some gastrointestinal disease...

Self control makes stress response easy

...d they had control. In reality, the frequency of noise bursts was the same for both groups - but the illusion of control seemed to be important. The researchers caution that it's not yet clear how to relate this small lab study to stress exposure in everyday life. But it's a clear demonstration that cont...

Mental growth in babies at risk

...sing language learning disorders. With increase in noise pollution in societies, the hearing center of a baby's sensitive developing brain could be damaged. In an experiment conducted on young rats, the hearing center, or auditory cortex, in a growing rat's brain undergoes swift and radical reorganisation/...

A Reason To Smile

...sia or a drill and that eliminates the "harrowing" noise that comes with other dental equipment. The disadvantages to lasers are they take longer than traditional methods; they can't be used on teeth that have existing fillings; certain types of fillings could damage the laser tip; and the cost of laser e...

Noise pollution can cause harm in cognitive development of children

Exposure to environmental stressors like noise can cause health problems// like cognitive impairm...-nation study to see the effect of pollutants like noise from the traffic and aircrafts on the health of the children. They had assessed the health of 2844 c...

‘Loud Noise’ Research may help in Development of Prosthetics for Eldery

... University of British Columbia have shown that // noise can at times help, rather than hinder, people's ab...hings. It is not unusual to have an aversion for noise unless you are one of the modern age teenagers! The noise in India during Diwali can be deafening an...

Preventing falls in elderly with noise

...use distractions in hearing something. But sensory noise may not be limited to hearing only. Noise may be p...ation. According to the current research, tactile noise may increase our ability to concentrate on weak touch sensations that in other circumstances, we wou...

Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

...permanent." In addition to hearing loss, too much noise exposure can result in hearing constant ringing, c...r ears have very little quiet time to recover from noise exposure. Often, listeners play music too loudly to drown out the background noise in these environm...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...e are thought to be exposed to hazardous levels of noise at work, such as in mining, construction, manufact... "For as much government regulation as we have for noise exposure on the job, it's a very difficult thing to get people to comply, and also to carry that out...

High Levels Of Noise In Work Place Found To Increase Blood Pressure

...chnique called sympathetic resonance. Reduction in noise levels // and blood pressure has been associated w...fore, an understanding of the relationship between noise and blood pressure is important. Blood pressure readings are given as two numbers, with one above ...

Hospital Noise Raises The Risk Of Medical Error: Study

...sch-Vishniac and James E. West found that hospital noise is among the top complaints of both patients and h...ceed the World Health Organisation's 1995 hospital noise guidelines, which suggest that sound levels in patient rooms should not exceed 35 decibels, they say...

Irritating Noise Increases Risk Of Heart Attacks

...besides being really harsh on the ears, high-level noise can be bad for the heart as well. Writing in the l... intention to find the link if any between chronic noise and the risk of heart attacks. Our results demonstrate that chronic noise exposure is associated wit...

High Decibel Levels Raise Heart Disease Risk

...n a stark warning German researchers say that loud noise can increase the risk of heart attacks in elderly ...d women. This risk is squarely attributed// to the noise related to the workplace as well as the usual din associated with traffic. It was found that this ...

High Decibel Noise May Lead To Tumor

...The study revealed that, constant exposure to loud noise (noise from machines, power tools, construction, a...eveloping the tumor almost 2.25 times. Exposure to noise from Airplanes, and Motor enhanced the risk of tumor by almost 1.3 times, while consistent exposure ...

Exposure to Grating, Noise, Music Can Cause Tumors Leading To Deafness

... around 50 years of age. "It doesn't matter if the noise comes from years of on-the-job exposure or from a source that isn't job-related. It's not surprising that the longer that people are exposed to loud noise, the greater their chances become for developing the tumor,' said Colin Edwards, lead researche...

MP3s And iPods Can Damage Hearing

...longed exposure to these gadgets. Exposure to loud noise can damage the soft tissue of the ear, causing hea...hysicians. Earlier, a study showed that too much noise can also lead to tinnitus, a ringing, whistling or clicking in the ears. The American Tinnitus Assoc...

The effects of Ecstasy more pronounced in presence of music

...en the drug and then exposed to music at nightclub noise levels. The measurement of electrical activity in the rats' brains was done and it was found that noise prolonged the effects of ecstasy by up to five days. Biomed Central Neuroscience features the stud...

Tinnitus: a problem which is still ambiguous

...ople are plagued all round their life from hearing noise in their head, ears. Jan Dawson suffered from it since she was three. She describes it as the noise similar to the // soldiers marching up and down a metal spiral staircase. After 25 years later she ...

New Test Offers Hope in Effective Hearing Aid Design for Babies

...to different frequencies played against a baseline noise while the individual is asleep. The accuracy of this test would be first tested on adults before it can be used in babies. Hair cells present in the cochlea (a part of the ear) has the remarkable ability to respond to sound waves, through a vibrato...

Soft Drinks May Be Banned In Rajasthan Schools

... healthy society. Earlier also there has been much noise over the purity of these soft drinks, so it better to not to take a risk," said Ashok Kapil, an educationist. Not all students are as excited though. "Why should the government intervene? It is my choice what to drink, what to eat, where does th...

Constant Exposure to Noise May Enhance Risk of Heart Attack

...e same, if work environment reverberated with high noise levels, then chances of a heart attack were a thir... Medical Center in Berlin, constantly dealing with noise exposed people to regular stress that has an effect on the heart causing an upswing in blood pressur...

New Home New Blessings

... and share in your perfect service and that in the noise and clutter of the kitchen they may possess you in tranquillity; through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ In the garage the prayer would be: ‘Almighty and everlasting God, be to this household a guide in all their journeys and a shield from every danger.’ ...

Red Wine May Reduce The Risk Of Age Related Deafness

... normal cellular processes and in response to loud noise and exposure to powerful antibiotics, can damage the hairs. But he explained that the antioxidants such as resveratrol, found in red wine and green tea, and salicylate, the active ingredient in aspirin, should be able to neutralise the free radicals....

U.S: Prize for the best hearing category (ethnic groups) goes to…. Non-Hispanic Blacks

...mewhat surprising because of the greater number of noise sources now present in our society. One potential ... jobs, potentially offsetting the effects of newer noise sources. In addition, it is worth noting that the effects of playing portable music players such as ...

Researchers Develop An Electric Device For Relief From Migraine

...y about a device was effective in treating nausea, noise and light sensitivity, which could help in migrain...rity of TMS treated patients felt that they had no noise sensitivity, while more them half felt no light sensitivity, 88% of them felt no nausea when compare...

Music to Some, Torture to Others

...e in hearing ability. They invented a high-pitched noise that would irritate teenagers but wouldn't be heard by adults. This devious invention known as the Mosquito was to make loitering kids disperse from storefronts without discouraging adults from shopping there. Of course technology can work both way...

Sound Separated into Sound Frequencies

...observation for the Max Planck researchers because noise affects the auditory cortex, leading to hearing loss, which also probably disrupts such organised patterns of the brain. Now that many of these fields can be functionally identified, studies can focus on how the responses of these fields are changed ...

Earlier the Cochlear Implants Used Better the Speech

... ‘OK, now the people goes to stand there with that noise and now -- Woo! Woo!’ and ‘OK, the train's coming to get the animals and people.’ The testing session was part of research that indicates the earlier a deaf infant or toddler receives a cochlear implant, the better his or her spoken language skills...

Genes Responsible For Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Identified

...have identified the genes that are responsible for noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). Researchers at the Un...ring a study of 1,000 men who were exposed to high noise courtesy their work at paper pulp mills and steel factories in Sweden. The scientists tested the men...

Two Distinct Types of Vocal Cord Dysfunction Identified

...both can include labored breathing, an inspiratory noise often described as wheezing, chest tightening and shortness of breath. In VCD the symptoms are a result of an abnormal closing of the vocal cords rather than inflammation of the airways, as in asthma. Of the 49 patients in the original study popula...

Is There a Connection between Hearing loss and High-speed Dental Tools?

...ks and is most commonly caused by exposure to loud noise such as music at a rock concert, power tools or gu...tures within the inner ear and if exposure to loud noise continues, permanent hearing loss is likely. Most of the current high-speed hand pieces, such as hi...

Turn the volume down to save your ears!!

... fitted earplugs when they perform to decrease the noise level. Each pair costs ￡150. Gareth Marshall, 25, lead singer of the band, said: "This is about protecting our ears. As musicians, we are constantly exposed to loud music, and the damage, which is done to your hearing over time, is irreversible. "A...

Pertusis scare at a maternity hospital

... vaccination. Chest cough sounding like a crowing noise or a whoop is the main symptom. Last Friday, a teenager, Jehan Nassif, died of meningococcal disease in Sydney. The victim’s boyfriend, George khouzame was told that she didn't need medication. Her death created a public outcry. ...

Gene linked to Hearing Loss in Aged Identified

...auses with the most common environmental factor is noise exposure. Elderly people are often subject to fe...happens early in life, irrespective of exposure to noise and other environmental factors. The University of Antwerp team undertook the study of over 1,200 ...

Tune Your Brain to Hear Another in a Noisy Ambience

...f the worst places because the level of background noise is high, and so scientists call this the "cocktail...detect a particular sound in the middle of lots of noise relies on the fact that we have two ears, and each detects an individual sound at a slightly differe...

Listening to the Sound of Skin Cancer

...be introduced, to act as light absorbers -- and as noise makers. "We're looking for methods to attach other kinds of absorbers to cancer cells," Viator said. For example, he said, gold nanoparticles -- particles only a few millionths of a millimeter wide -- could be attached to the cells using proteins tha...

Hypnosis and Acupuncture Show Promise for Labor Pain

...e, relaxation, aromatherapy, acupressure and white noise on pain relief. But the review did not turn up enough evidence to determine if any of the other therapies bring women significant comfort. The meta-analysis compiles data from 14 studies that included more than 1,400 women. Five studies examined hy...

Kids Help Other Kids to Protect Their Hearing from Personal Music Devices

...nd use it to study beliefs and practices regarding noise among young people in her Portland, Oregon hometow... give you sunburn," he says. But hearing loss from noise exposure, he points out, is subtle and can take years to manifest itself. William Martin believes ...

Smoking Hinders Pregnancy

...study. Dr Soares concluded: 'In spite of all the noise generated about the effects of smoking in a series of health areas, its possible effect on uterine receptiveness has never been evaluated until now. 'Our study is just the first step on this path, and certainly not the last, but it means that we sh...

Noise In Neurons Is good

Can noise be good? Yes, within the brain, say researchers.Br...nt the ambiguities of the real world—and that this noise dramatically enhances the brain's processing, enabling us to make decisions in an uncertain world. ...

Are call centers turning a deaf ear to potential acoustic shocks?

...e of call centre employees, and cause them to make noise about the apathy of nearly two-thirds of call // c...o offer protection to their workers from unhealthy noise levels at the workplace. Clearly, there is no allusion to the acoustic shock aspect; as the present ...

Zinc – A New Key Player In Brain Circuitr

...utant mouse shows the same exaggerated response to noise as children with the genetic disorder called "startle disease," or hyperekplexia. The findings shed light on a nagging mystery in neurobiology: why the connections among certain types of neurons contain considerable pools of free zinc ions. And eve...

Toy Story Turns Bitter-Christmas Toys, No Music to the Ears!

...bserved that eight of the 15 toys recorded average noise levels of 81-105dBA. Among the toys, the toy gun turned out to be the one that needs to be gunned down, recording the highest reading of 143 decibels at 2.5cm, and 140 decibels at 25cm. Researcher Dr Brad Backus said: "Children's toys clearly h...

Soldiers Exposed To Gunshot Noise Need Better Hearing Protection

...orders by using short-term exposure to the impulse noise generated by five gunshots from a kbk AKMS rifle, commonly known as an AK-47. In the study, soldiers using hearing protection did not have their hearing affected. Soldiers without hearing protection experienced the expected levels of hearing loss. Co...

Home Near a Main Road is a Host to Respiratory Problems

...ose to a main road is quite a nuisance in terms of noise and pollution. Now, a study by Switzerland researchers has enabled enough reasons to stay// as far away from arterial roads as possible, because people living in proximity to them are likely to suffer from respiratory problems showing up as breathles...

Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears

... its high-pitched ringing, tinnitus is an internal noise that varies in its pitch and frequency. Some treatments exist, but none are consistently effective. Zeng presented his study Feb. 13 at the Middle Winter Research Conference for Otolaryngology in Denver. “Tinnitus is one of the most common hearin...

Car Airbags Will Cause Permanent Hearing Loss in 17 Percent

...ger posed by everyday “impulse” noises. An impulse noise is a brief burst of sound like a shotgun blast, as opposed to a continuous noise like the droning of a washing machine. Price said in addition to the well-known dangers of impulse n...

Stem Cell Transplants Explored as a Possible Treatment for Hearing Loss

...ld be the solution. As the population has aged and noise pollution has grown more severe, health experts now estimate that one in three adults over the age of 65 has developed a handicapping hearing loss. Coming up with the answers is a slow process, Heller said. 'This research takes time and money, but ...

Making Sense of the World Through a Cochlear Implant

...science. In an ordinary setting, where background noise is minimal and a person's speech is clear, it is mainly the left and right temporal lobes that are involved in interpreting speech. However, the researchers have found that when hearing is impaired by background noise, other regions of the brain are ...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

... fingerprint. This technique in effect cancels the noise from vibrations of non-anthrax molecules. “The combination of shared preparation pulses and an ultrashort time-delayed probe pulse maximized the signal and lessens the background contribution,” Scully says. They call this approach femtosecond adapt...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

...which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to require them. “The people at OSHA have no interest in running a regulatory agency,” said Dr. David Michaels, an occupational health expert at George W...

Iceland Introduces Smoking Ban in Bars and Restaurants

...mber of people outside nighttime venues will cause noise and possibly violence in the city streets,' Gislason said. Some 24 percent of Icelanders smoke, the most recent figures available from 2005 show.According to the Public Health Institute of Iceland, people smoking in bars or restaurants will not be fi...

Hearing Loss Becoming an Epidemic in Canada

...anada in Toronto. "I believe we're on the verge of noise induced hearing loss becoming a public health crisis." Due to the prevalence of noise in today's society, the number of people with hearing loss is expected to grow faster than the rate ...

'Muscle Noise' may Diagnose Neuromuscular Disease Sans Radiation Exposure

...Oceanography researchers works by measuring muscle noise to reveal a patients condition. Karim Sabra and colleagues at the institute placed 16 sensors, each 1.5 centimetres apart, along the thigh of a healthy male volunteer while attaching increasing loads to his ankle. This enabled them to measure the v...

90% Young Clubbers Have Symptoms of Hearing Damage After a Night Out

...ubs, gigs and bars, it's only too easy to clock up noise doses that could damage their hearing forever," he... British Government should establish a recommended noise exposure level for audiences attending music venues and events, and educate young people about noise...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

Tinnitus is understood as the perception of noise in the ears or inside the head although there is n...tivity taking place (which occurs when an external noise is produced). It is estimated that between 10 and 17% of the population has suffered tinnitus at so...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...bing noises. Among the experienced meditators, the noise had less effect on the brain areas involved in emotion and decision-making than among novice meditators. Among meditators with more than 40,000 hours of lifetime practice, these areas were hardly affected at all. "Most people, if they heard a baby...

Cherie Blair to Challenge Hubbys Smoking Ban on Human Rights Ground

...d land me in trouble with the police if it creates noise or disturbance, he said. "I want to eyeball the authorities and am calling on other nightclubs to join me in the challenge," he added. Leading lawyer Rodney Hylton-Potts, who represents Mr West, also insists that the ban should not be imposed on...

Genes Influence the Ability to Listen Two Things at a Time

...ound is a voice we need to listen to or background noise we should ignore. Most people dont even realize they possess these skills, much less how adept they are at them. Auditory processing skills play a role in a childs language acquisition and learning abilities, although the extent of that relationshi...