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Composite fillings to hasten work procedures

... for decades, but this new compound has the unique ability to incorporate with photocurable polymer composite resins — making it stable or degradable, depending on your intended application. The most proximate application of nonbiodegradable ACP would be in orthodontics. Mixing it into the adhesive would pr...

Chew to improve memory

... research suggests. In tests, scientists found the ability to recall remembered words improved by 42% among p...res, and so-called working memory, for example the ability to retain a person's telephone number. He said the heart rate of the real chewers after the tests wa...

Drugs may fog memory

...g-taking habits and whether they affected people's ability to remember simple tasks. Dr Andrew Scholey, a psychologist from the University of Northumbria, said: "The more they had taken ecstasy in the past, the more their long-term prospect of memory failed. The other thing we recorded was the number of er...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...rt failure, in which the heart gradually loses its ability to pump blood efficiently, affects nearly 5 million Americans. The condition may be chronic, but patients can develop severe attacks of breathing difficulty that require hospitalization. Dr. Ann Bolger, an American Heart Association spokeswoman, sai...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...sound could boost the clot-busting or thrombolysis ability of tPA, he explained Friday during a news briefing at the 27th International Stroke Conference in San Antonio. Alexandrov uses a hand-held ultrasound device fitted into a frame "like the frame inside a construction worker's hard hat," he said. Using...

Epilepsy can be predicted

...seven minutes before it occurred. They say: "The ability to anticipate seizure may have considerable practical implications for the large population of patients with uncontrolled epilepsy. "If proven reliable, such an application would lower the medical consequences of seizures and improve the quality of l...

Cure for common cold

...et in the virus’ coat, interfering with the germ’s ability to infect cells and make copies of itself. Other cold remedies merely suppress symptoms, like drying runny noses or coughs. In clinical trials, Picovir shortened the length of the cold to roughly six days from seven. Patients took the pills three tim...

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...hanges that allow a cell to polarize or move. That ability is important in muscle cells, which produce a lot ...key to the structural changes that give a cell the ability to break off from a tumor, float through the body in the bloodstream, and take hold in a satellite l...

Panel suggests selling allergy drugs OTC

...Drugs are prescription for a reason. They have the ability to do both good and harm. Claritin, Allegra and Zyrtec have almost no side effects and are equally effective as the antihistamines that are available over the counter today." said Robert Seidman, WellPoint's chief pharmacy officer. Anti-allergy me...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...rsatile alternative to embryonic stem cells, whose ability to sprout different cell types has spawned debate between those who think such research destroys a life and those who say it has life-saving potential. The new findings challenge the notion adult stem cells taken from one tissue can directly produce ...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...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...

Blood Vessel Surgery Safe for Diabetics

...tion. Diabetes, in which a person either loses the ability to respond to the sugar-processing hormone insulin //or doesn't produce the hormone at all, is a major risk factor for heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and limb amputations. But Dr. Allan D. Hamdan and colleagues found that, though diabetes ...

Chewing gum found to increase brainpower

...res, and so-called working memory, for example the ability to retain a person's telephone number. He said the heart rate of the real chewers after the tests was three beats per minute faster than the non-chewers, and 1.5 beats per minute faster than the sham chewers. "What we think is that the mild increase...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...m, reducing their numbers as well as their crucial ability to move or "swim,". "Our most significant finding was that as the ozone level went up, the sperm concentration went down," said Dr. Rebecca Z. Sokol, a professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Southern California's Ke...

New operation for swallowing problems

...ery, seven of them had marked improvement in their ability to swallow, rapidly passing from tube to normal feeding, and six progressed to a normal diet. Their voices improved too - sounding less 'wet' and more natural. Evidently this is a promising approach for those with vagal nerve damage....

The advantages of berries

...nd folic acid. The researchers also compared the ability of black raspberries to absorb free radicals with ...es. The raspberries had 11 per cent more absorbing ability than blueberries, and 40 per cent more than raspberries. Even if you can't easily get hold of black ...

A promising treatment for wart removal

Depending upon the body's own ability to get rid of warts, a researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are analysing and testing the needs. In a previous trial, they showed how a single injection got rid of warts in 70 per cent of participants.// The new treatment i...

Dietary cure for fighting Helicobacter pylori

...acterium Helicobacter pylori is remarkable for its ability to live in the strong acid conditions of the stomach. A compound found in broccoli is powerful against the bacterium that is likely dependable for many cases of stomach cancer.// It's now well established that this microbe is responsible for ulcers a...

A way to slow the progression of Type 1 Diabetes

... Patients with type 1 diabetes eventually lose the ability to produce insulin entirely and rely solely on injected insulin to maintain control of their good sugar levels. However, the 12 patients treated with anti-CD3 mAb produced more natural insulin and needed less injected insulin one year after treatment...

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 to...

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