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Researchers Reveal Why Eyes See Things Changing Colour

...light conditions, and are also the basis of colour perception in our visual image. They say that it is the presence of multiple classes of cone cells, each with a different spectral sensitivity, which gives people the ability to discriminate colours....

Benefits From the Use of the Internet in Healthcare Applications Highlighted

...urity concerns," explains Nikolopoulos. "While the perception of the lack of security is inhibiting the use of the Internet for sharing clinical information, various technologies and procedures are being developed to deal with these security problems." The European Union is already enforcing strict medical data...

U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate

...ple purchase foods based on their income level and perception of a foods health benefit and cost. Ethnicity, gender and environmental factors also impact peoples food choices....

High Blood Pressure Linked to Decreased Pain Perception in Heart Patients

...hip between high blood pressure and decreased pain perception in a variety of circumstances , including among in...tand the relationship between blood pressure, pain perception and heart disease," she adds....

Genes Play Major Role in Determining Individual's Sour Taste Perception

...on. The finding that genes influence sour taste perception suggest that genetic analyses could potentially help identify sour receptors. Future studies will evaluate possible receptors by determining whether individual differences in genes for these structures - such as the recently-discovered PKD ion channe...

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

...ery powerful effect that is totally against public perception that milk and other dairy products are bad for your heart," said Elwood....

Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shows No Change of Taste

... sense of taste contributes considerably to flavor perception during eating and drinking and thus plays a major role in the enjoyment of foods and beverages, according to background information in the article. The sense of taste shows little deterioration during aging but can be weakened by disease or medicat...

Doctor Migration Has Limited Impact on Health Care in Poor Countries: OECD

...edical personnel. The OECD report challenged the perception that health professionals are over-represented among skilled immigrants, noting that in 2000, 11 percent of nurses and 18 percent of doctors employed on OECD countries were foreign-born. Half of the immigrant doctors and nurses working in OECD memb...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

Tinnitus is understood as the perception of noise in the ears or inside the head although t...ff, who has defined tinnitus as a phantom auditory perception perceived only by the person. On applying the neurophysiological model in the University Hospital (o...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

...njury. I think a lot of it is really a person's perception of risk," said Dr. Jim Kelaher, director of Occupational Health Programs at Baylor College of Medicine. More hospitals need to do a better job in protection," Makary said. "They need more appropriate and more timely surgical systems so surgeons can...

Many People With Early Dementia Can Drive Safely, Say Experts

Society's perception of older drivers tends to be negative, write Professor Desmond O'Neill and colleagues. Yet surveys of drivers aged more than 80 consistently show prudent driving behaviours. Furthermore, stopping driving can limit access to family, friends, and serv...

Repetition Is Like Chanting The More It is Heard the More You Believe It

...iple times had nearly the same effect on listeners perception of the opinion being popular as hearing multiple people state his/her opinion. Researchers examined the underlying processes that take place when individuals estimate the shared attitude of a group of people and how that estimation of collective o...

Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Restore Eyesight in Blind Mice

... Researchers found that the mice had normal visual perception with their treated eyes. "People can talk and tell us what they see," Nature quoted Alexander, as saying. "Animals are much more difficult. What makes this test so fantastic is that it involves an animals natural response, and the results tell us...

UCLA Imaging Study Reveals How Pure Oxygen Harms the Brain

...essure; the cingulate cortex, which regulates pain perception and blood pressure; and the insula, which monitors physical and emotional stress. All this activity awakened the hypothalamus, which regulates heart rate and hormonal outflow. Activation of the hypothalamus triggered a cascade of harmful reactions...

Combo Therapy may Be Highly Beneficial in Asthma Control

... questionnaire, which measures relief of symptoms, perception of medication, and comparison with other medications based on a score of 1 (lowest) to 100 (highest). Researchers found that SYMBICORT led to statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in AQLQ(S) scores versus formoterol DPI ...

Our Medieval Ancestors Were More or Less Similar to Us Than Previously Thought

...a that people were dwarflike is just not true. The perception comes partly from buildings having low doorways and partly from things like small bits of armour. The reason why you get small pieces of armour is they are the ones made for rich small kids, which didn't get heavily used and so survived. Small doorwa...

Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

...ng disorder, and that the problems occur when body perception doesnt match reality. The researchers say that persons involved in activities or professions that require physical beauty or high levels of physical performance, such as athletes and dancers, are particularly vulnerable to developing exercise disor...

Breast Cancer Patients Follow-up Devalued

...and how follow-up was managed in their area, their perception of it and whether it followed any guidelines issued either at local or national level. They received 256 replies (46%) from a broad range of specialists (128 surgeons, 93 clinical oncologists, 32 medical oncologists and three radiologists). Guideli...

Britneys Letter to Her Fans Covers Issues on Life, Rehab, God and Kids

...It is just so weird because everyone has their own perception of me and how they think I really am. ...I guess we will never really understand or figure out life completely. That's God's job. I can't wait to meet him ... or her, she said....

WHO, UNAIDS Issue New Guidance on HIV Testing and Counseling

...rvices, fear of stigma and discrimination, and the perception by many people - even in high prevalence areas - that they are not at risk. Current evidence also suggests many opportunities to diagnose HIV in clinical settings are being missed, even in places with serious HIV epidemics. While, therefore, expa...

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