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Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

...erage contamination rate was 35 percent. Rates of acquiring rhinovirus from a contaminated surface during daily life activities, such as phone calls or turning on the light, were significant, averaging 47 percent in the study (28/60 touches, p = 0.07). However, surfaces contaminated for just one hour yielded ...

Understanding Reasons for Tone deafness

...racts in right frontal brain areas as being key in acquiring normal musical competence." "We used a technology called voxel-based morphometry (VBM), which is a computerized and automated procedure that allows one to search throughout the whole brain for structural differences in terms of brain tissue concentr...

Awareness Must to Tackle Hepatitis: Experts

...he Apollo Hospital here. "The groups at risk for acquiring the disease include intravenous drug users, haemodialysis patients and healthcare workers with exposure to blood and its products, transfusion and transplant recipients and people with tattoos." Says G.L. Telang, managing director, Roche Scientific...

ICU Rooms Home to Many Resistant Infections

...aled that these patients had greater likelihood of acquiring these bacteria than patients in rooms previously occupied by patients who did not have these bacteria. The researchers published their study in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine where they concluded that this added risk ...

Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Linked to Previous ICU Room Occupants

...atment-resistant bacteria may increase the odds of acquiring such bacteria.// Two particular microorganisms cause significant illness and death in hospitals: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), according to background information in the article. Resea...

Risk of STD Lowered with Circumcision

Circumcision in men appears to lower the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection, according to the...y suggests that circumcision may lower the risk of acquiring and spreading such infections by up to 50 percent, which would therefore suggest "substantial benefi...

Adolescents With A History Of Arrest Are At Greater Risk For HIV Infection

...nd Alcohol Dependence- November issue, the risk of acquiring HIV infection is seen more on adolescents with arrest histories// than adolescents with no arrest history. Researchers from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center and Brown Medical School attribute higher rates of substance abuse, sexual ris...

A New Research Explores Connection Between Emotionality And Alcoholism

...tal activity may reflect brain systems involved in acquiring rewards and the positive moods we feel when we obtain a desirable object or goal. Conversely, right frontal activity may be involved in inhibiting behavior in the face of negative consequences and the anxiety we feel in those circumstances." This imb...

Surgeries Stalled For Fear Of CJD Outbreak

... and surgical instruments and is in the process of acquiring disposable instruments, some of them borrowed from other hospitals. According to Jean Riverin, media relation’s officer for the Public Health Agency of Canada the situation has been controlled and the risk to others coming to the university health ...

Johns Hopkins Computer Scientists Unravel 'Language Of Surgery'

...erence award for best student paper. "Now, we're acquiring enough data to go from ‘words' to ‘sentences,'" said Hager, who is deputy director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, based at Johns Hopkins. "One of our goals for t...

Robotic Model To Teach Surgical Skills

...erence award for best student paper. "Now, we're acquiring enough data to go from ‘words' to ‘sentences,'" said Hager, who is deputy director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, based at Johns Hopkins. "One of our goals for t...

Oral Hygiene Can Prevent Tooth Decay for Patients With Cleft Conditions

...ith cleft lip/palate faces predisposing factors to acquiring dental tooth decay.// A new study reviews the literature and provides strategies for early prevention. The study is published in the latest Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal. Cleft lip/palate is the most common congenital craniofacial abnormality, a...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

... the six papers looking at smoking and the risk of acquiring HIV infection found that smoking tobacco was an in...ile smoking might be independently associated with acquiring HIV, it does not appear to be related to progression to AIDS”, write the investigators. They add, “t...

Managing Emotions to Prevent HIV

... While most HIV prevention interventions focus on acquiring practical behavioral skills like how to use a condom, the authors conclude that more needs to be done to protect oneself from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The role of emotions in the engagement of health promoting behaviors, specifi...

Genetic Flaws Leads to Diabetes

...ericans with diabetes and many more at the risk of acquiring it. With this discovery preventive medicine can be tailor made according to an individual genetic make up. Some genetic areas that are in no way connected to diabetes have been discovered but which harms the body’s ability to control the blood s...

UK Facing Major Sexual Health Crisis Among Teens

...cted partner, adolescent girls have a 1% chance of acquiring HIV, a 30% chance of getting genital herpes . Bri...cted partner, adolescent girls have a 1% chance of acquiring HIV, a 30% chance of getting genital herpes, and a 50% chance of contracting gonorrhea." Baroness ...

Signalife Recorder Transmits Heart Rate Data From Champ Car Driver in Real-Time

...ignalife developed a novel ECG recorder capable of acquiring full clinical-bandwidth data from drivers participating in the Champ Car racing. "The data that we have been able to collect during development of this monitor is of high quality, especially considering harsh environment in which it is recorded," sta...

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