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And now live birth on the internet.com?

... cool? Singapore’s Thomson medical center website gives parents passwords that can be entered and - lo and behold!!! Live audio video feed of their wards pop out of the computer! Though this isn’t the first time in the world that this is happening, the hospital has set the trend in using live audio vide...

How do babies understand language?

...science at the Washington University in St. Louis, gives us an insight into the way children understand and speak languages at such a tender age.These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American association for the advancement of science in San Francisco.For years the ability of children ...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

...aches itself to a key position on cancer cells and gives new potency to failing chemotherapy drugs thereby extending survival of advanced colorectal cancer patients. IMC-C225, the new drug which is actually a monoclonal antibody, is designed to interfere with the epidermal growth factor receptor, a molecu...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...rval between the first stroke symptoms and the MRI gives doctors an indication of critical changes in blood flow to the brain. "This allows us to be more certain about the probability of recovery, and to put a number on that probability," said Dr. Steven Warach, a neurologist at the NINDS. Dr. Warach and...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...ribe heart rhythm- as an open complex system. This gives a better chance of detecting temporal changes in heartbeat rhythm and placing them in the context of the individual patients' health. The reliability of its prediction has been tested in collaboration with practising physicians at the major hospi...

Tea Tales

...m of flavonoids and its sub group flavanols, which gives the tea its antioxidant properties.Polyphenols protect the cells from damaging physiological process known as oxidative stress. Oxidation produces free radicals these are unstable molecules which occur naturally// in the body and an increased ...

How to diagnose heart failure?

... University of Texas say that physical examination gives two distinct signs that signal heart failure. Generally the power of the simple physical examination is forgotten by many. But doctors at the Heart Failure Research Unit at the University of Texas now reveal that two signs in a physical exam are high...

Decision making made easier

...imes this is difficult, when the clinical evidence gives conflicting messages and new research comes up all... decision-making - an interactive video disc. This gives extra information about your health issue and helps you make up your mind. It has been trialled with...

Gel prevents pregnancy

...r.Dr Wiesberg says "Its major advantage is that it gives women another option, and the more sage effective methods, the more likely women are to find a method that suits them at a stage in their lives"....

Cannabis for pain

Cannabis extract gives powerful relief for chronic pain, and should be studied for future clinical use, a medical researcher has told a conference in Glasgow.Dr William Notcutt of the James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth, England, said the cannabis extract used in his st...

Have sex and stay young

...artner, and not promiscuous sexual activity, which gives the most benefit. "Casual sex would bring a lot of the detrimental things to staying youthful such as anxiety and the absence of security. Both those things are associated with a loss of youth." <br...

Resurface your skin

...otes production of new collagen - the protein that gives skin its youthful elasticity. The treatment takes just 15 minutes and you might expect a visible improvement after three to five treatments spaced out over about four weeks. You do need to protect your new skin from the sun thereafter, with sunscre...

Detection of Cancer

... test for prostate cancer is not very reliable and gives many false positives, while many women find a mammogram awkward," Professor Parish explained. The value of mammography for breast cancer screening is also under debate, as reported in The Lancet this week.The clinical trial, which will involve 1,450 ...

Bronchitis in the young

...more affected than women. Chronic bronchitis often gives rise to bouts of heavy bacterial infection, and can eventually lead to very serious problems with the respiratory system.// The researchers, led by Professor Roberto de Vinci, of the University of Verona, Italy, uncovered wide variations in the rat...

A new hearing device improves hearing

...hearing device that is implanted in the middle ear gives better sound quality than a more conventional aid. Doctors say that there's now a better option for those with hearing loss.//The usual kind of hearing aid transmits sound through the eardrum, and may produce feedback - distracting sounds and whistle...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...earned that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gives results that are equally effective. They looked at 80 patients, in the US and all over Europe, that were scheduled for a conventional test, giving them an MRI scan in addition. The new imaging technique, which does not involve any injections, was 6...

Staying mentally energitic prevents Alzheimer's

...t, for everyone can find some mental activity that gives pleasure - now knowing that it may also protect them from dementia. What's not yet clear is just how mental stimulation protects the brain. It's also possible that a predisposition to Alzheimer's somehow leads to mental passivity in later life; furth...

Fresh approach to TB treatment

...genetic blueprints of different mycobacteria. “It gives us the prospect of using existing anti-fungal compounds where there is knowledge about toxicological safety or at least provides strong leads for drug development - means that these drugs could be suitable to combat TB many years before an entirely n...

Tea can prevent aging

...m of flavonoids and its sub group flavanols, which gives the tea its antioxidant properties. Polyphenols protect the cells from damaging// physiological process known as oxidative stress. Oxidation produces free radicals these are unstable molecules which occur naturally in the body and an increased...

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

...t if the pill is chewed or crushed and sniffed, it gives a stronger dose--providing a high that can be addictive and dangerous. The controversial Purdue Pharma painkiller OxyContin has been implicated as the direct cause or main contributing factor in 150 deaths and a likely contributor in an additional 3...

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