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Tag: "ability" at medical news

The right is responsible

...a graduate student. "It has been thought that this ability is a hallmark of consciousness. To know that our own face is ours inevitably requires a knowledge of the self. Without self-knowledge, it would be seemingly impossible to recognise who we are." Puce, who studies face recognition, says that the peop...

Gene therapy restores sight

...a defect in the genes responsible for the retina's ability to translate light into nerve impulses.// In humans, LCA causes severe rapid onset of blindness, a process which begins before birth so infants are born partially blind. Bennett's team injected the eyeballs of dogs born with LCA with cells modified ...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

...inful, regular exercise does actually increase the ability to walk with ease. Positive effects are seen within three months. // Unfortunately, say physicians at Johns Hopkins University in the US, too few patients with PAD are diagnosed and, even if they are, physicians are not prescribing the walking tr...

FDA's control is inherently weak

...d 16-fold from 1990 to 1999, dwarfing the agency's ability to inspect the test sites. More worrisome, is that the FDA does not know how many such tests are not reported.// " It's a serious problem, it's growing, there needs to be something done about it right away," George Grob, a deputy HHS inspector gener...

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

...tiff arteries, and impaired kidney function. The ability to reduce vascular stiffness could have a major influence on reducing deaths from heart disease. For the current study, investigators at nine U.S. clinical centers recruited 93 people over the age of 50 who showed evidence of vascular stiffening, inc...

Omega-3 fatty acids impair immunity

...be aware that very large doses may compromise your ability to fight infection - especially if you have reason to believe your immune system isn't as strong as it might be. The researchers are trying to better understand how omega-3s undermine the immune system - and may then be able to figure out ways of pre...

Statins reduce heart attacks

...ver's production of cholesterol and increasing its ability to remove LDL cholesterol already in the blood. Statins may also modestly increase HDL, the good cholesterol, and slightly decrease triglycerides, another fat in the blood. The three biggest-selling brands of statins are Lipitor, Zocor, and Pravachol...

Depression disturbs heart rate

... blood vessel size, blood pressure and the heart's ability to contract. A healthy heart is one with a high HRV. The fact that depression lowers HRV points to an important mind-body mechanism. Clearly, it may be essential to treat depression as well as heart problems following a heart attack, if the patient i...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...examethylene amiloride (HMA) appears to reduce the ability of viruses to escape from infected cells. This could develop into a new drug to tackle HIV. "We have found a drug that blocks the channels HIV may use to spread to uninfected cells," said Professor henry.Budding is the method by which viruses spread...

Contraceptives decreases Libido

...ed in the journal Human Reproduction, measured the ability of women to detect distinctive smells such as musk...king the Pill experienced rises and falls in their ability to sense smells, corresponding to particular stages in their monthly cycles. Their sense of smell wa...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...top a woman producing pheromones and undermine her ability to pick up the right chemical signals from men. Scientists believe pheromones may help people choose biologically compatible mates....

Detection of Cancer

...his diagnostic molecule may be associated with the ability of cancers to escape the immune system and cause d... four major causes of cancer deaths worldwide."The ability to do a broad test for cancers will be extremely important, as early detection is a major factor in ...

Hormone treatment helps obese people slim down

...n problems with their leptin genes or their body's ability to produce leptin. Individuals with such problems might be predisposed to become obese and might benefit from leptin therapy....

Over-The-Counter Drugs May Prevent Alzheimer's

...aque collects in the brain and interferes with the ability of nerves to communicate with each other. The study showed that ibuprofen, indomethacin and sulindac sulphide lowered the production of the amyloid-beta 42 (AB42) protein, which helps to form the plaque believed to cause Alzheimer's. The three drug...

Quit coffee and help your heart

...t coffee consumption may interfere with the body's ability to keep homocysteine levels in check, possibly by inhibiting the action of the vitamins folate or B6....

Early Clue to Down Syndrome

...s available to doctors approach the face picture's ability to detect Down syndrome. "The bone is white, whereas absence of bone produces a blackness," Nicolaides says. "In a place where you should be seeing a whiteness you are seeing a blackness." The combination of nasal bone screening with several other ...

The cancer-fighting gene

...eat cancers. The structure may give clinicians the ability to formulate genetic screening programs to identifyt women at risk for the deadly disease.The finely detailed images, will give researchers new clues on how the crucial protein effectively prevents cells from becoming cancerous.// The protein is en...

Zinc supplements improve survival rate

...ant women. Zinc deficiencies can impair the body's ability to fight disease, and previous research has also shown that preschoolers given zinc supplements had less diarrhoea and pneumonia. Such illnesses can be especially serious for infants, and are more common in babies with low birth weights, who also m...

Armpit odour enhances mood

...am believe that the effect may be due to the human ability to detect the presence or absence of hormones in sweat which signal aggression, reports "New Scientist" magazine. Denise Chen, at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia recruited 30// volunteers in six different age categories - young gi...

Sniff out flatulence

...searchers selected two judges who had proved their ability to distinguish between the array of different gases through a blindfold test. Their job was to hold a syringe of gas three centimetres from their noses, slowly empty it and sniff. They had to rate the odour emitted on a scale of 0 (no odour) to 8 (ve...

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