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Hope for tinnitus sufferers

...the position and frequency of non-painful electric shocks applied to their amputated stumps. The corresponding brain areas were stimulated by the treatment, which led to growth of these areas and resulted in a 70% reported drop in patients’ pain. After training for two hours a day over four weeks the tinni...

Strong emotions can cause heart problems

...alities in the heartbeats and can deliver electric shocks to get the heart back into the right rhythm. The p...ic shock from the implanted device. Out of the 56 shocks recorded during the study, the arrhythmias that lead to shocks had begun from heart flutters were pr...

Combination therapy for patients treated with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

...ers such as Sotalol // found to reduce the painful shocks in ventricular arrhythmia patients undergoing Impl...illator (ICD). ICD treatment produces high voltage shocks which are used to treat fatal cases of ventricular arrhythmias, but these shocks are very painful wh...

New Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators to avoid unnecessary shocks

...hole heart, which could avoid unnecessary electric shocks to the chest. This new Implantable Cardioverte...en. This new device has the advantage of detecting shocks accurately, which avoids unnecessary electric treatment. Researchers feel a clinical trial has to be...

Simulated Heart Tissue Enhances Understanding of Arrhythmias And Defibrillator Failure

...gineered tissue have unraveled that while electric shocks akin to those produced by defibrillators normally stopped errant waves, in few cases caused them to advance and proliferate. These findings have been reported on Feb 1, 2006, by the teams in The Duke University and Johns Hopkins University, headed ...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

...ons made these women, who are being given electric shocks as part of their psychiatric treatment, open up to others." Chaulagain feels the therapy is important for trafficking victims. "There are women who have spent years in brothels where their bodies were subjected to the worst kind of abuse," she sa...

Shock Wave Therapy Increase The Risk Of Diabetes

...sed risk rose with greater number and intensity of shocks administered. Those treated with lithotripsy also had 1.47 times the risk of having hypertension -- high blood pressure -- than those who received the other kidney stone treatment; risk was highest for those who had both kidneys treated. The resear...

Study Finds That Migraine Drug Can Ease The Severest Of Facial Pain

...the angle of the jaw to the front of the face. The shocks are momentary but can repeat for several seconds. Paroxysms may last for hours, and then subside for long periods. This pain is often considered as one of the severest pains. Compression of the root of the trigeminal nerves by an artery is thought to...

Expanding Price Control Detrimental for Pharma Companies: CII

...oriented Indian companies. "Any sudden regulatory shocks like increased price contro would be detrimental to the industry and the economy," Piramal said. Quoting independent studies, Piramal said that there had been an average five per cent decline in real terms over the last four years and drug prices in...

Scientists Seek Release Of Health Workers In Libya

...re workers were imprisoned, tortured with electric shocks to extract "confessions", tried in a Libyan court, convicted, and sentenced to death by firing squad. The resulting publicity caused the Benghazi paediatric HIV-1 outbreak to become the focus of international scientific efforts to understand how it ...

Call Centre Staff Could Face Hearing Damage Risk

... acoustic shock, say health experts. // Acoustic shocks are temporary or permanent disturbances of the functioning of the ear or of the nervous system, which may be caused to the user of a telephone or earphone by a sudden sharp rise in the acoustic pressure produced by it. The sound could be a whistle, ...

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

...ore should be tuned in to the damage that acoustic shocks could cause, and suitably gear up to handle such scenarios. Ideally employers would do well to reduce the risk of acoustic shock. It would help if they conduct regular hearing checks, and have a realistic estimate about potential risks. It is imper...

Impact of Climate Change in Africa

...n victims.' (Baumann 1894, Masailand) Ecological shocks such as that experienced by the Maasai are predicted to be a feature of global warming. 'It is important to use long-term historical and palaeoecological data to try to understand the frequency and effects of extreme events, and the way societies and...

Secrets of the Heart's Signals

... model's ability to predict the impact of electric shocks on tissues throughout the heart, a demonstration w...gnaling process and how it interacts with electric shocks delivered by a defibrillator in order to improve the current anti-arrhythmia therapy. Defibrillato...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

...ggest festival, similar to India's Dussehra, often shocks foreigners with the pools of blood and severed heads and entrails of sacrificed animals littering places of worship. Chand's victory is especially sweet coming after a harrowing time as the women's wing of the Maoists and other feminist organizatio...

Potential Of Epilepsy Surgeries Are Not Fully Harnessed Say Brain Specialists

...nt a 'Vagus nerve stimulator' which delivers tiny shocks to a nerve in the neck that in turn signals the brain. It doesn't cure epilepsy like surgery can, but can reduce some patients' seizures. Also under study is beaming the seizure spot with radiation, using a technique called the Gamma Knife....

Alcohol may Help You to Be Cool

...the mens belligerence, as measured by the kinds of shocks they chose to hand out. In the next part of the study, the researchers required 120 men, some drinkers, some no, to simultaneously perform a difficult memory task. The idea was to see if they could distract those who were under the influence from t...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...rk, genetically engineered mice received mild foot shocks in a certain environment and were re-exposed to th...Cdk5 activity was inhibited, the bad memory of the shocks disappeared when the mice learned that they no longer needed to fear the environment where the foot ...

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