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How do babies understand language?

... a tender age.These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American association for the advancement of science in San Francisco.For years the ability of children to pick up language and to become familiar with it has baffled scientists.Anyone who listens to foreign language finds it even diffi...

Teens turning to Internet for medical queries

...400 students, are being presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine in San Diego, California.Though it is to be welcomed that teens use the Internet to learn more on health, the flip side is that these teens rush to their own diagnosis based on what they see and read and...

Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!

The 58th annual session of the American Association of Endodontists in New Orleans, Louisiana, began with a warning from the scientific community. In a terse message, the dentists said that all toothache need not have dental origins and that toothache should not be ...

Women suffer from sexual dysfunction too

...merican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting in Chicago, said much of the problem with female sexual dysfunction is due to the failure of patients and doctors to communicate about this problem that both parties may be uncomfortable discussing. As women age and go through menopause, the...

Be happy: live long

...he School Sisters of Notre Dame. All 678 agreed to annual cognitive and physical assessments, blood tests and the donation of their brains to the research team upon death. The study has produced evidence that stroke or head trauma can increase a person's chances of suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's di...

Exclusive breast-feeding advised for six months in infants recommends World Health Organization

A resolution put forward by Brazil, at the annual assembly of the world health organization is to be accepted advising exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months in all infants. The resolution was passed at the committee stage on Wednesday after 2 hours of debate where many national delegate...

Distraction therapy found very effective in postoperative patients

... Johns Hopkins, at the American Thoracic Society's annual meeting on 20th May. The doctors who pioneered this distraction therapy add that this is not substitute for pain medication but a way to enhance pain control....

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...d. The findings were presented on May 23rd at the annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiology. The implication of these findings is that at some point in the future, antibiotics could become useless in the fight against acne. Dr. Nord and his team recommend, that dermatologists should closely ...

Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

...he patients. These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association. As a precautionary measure in such patients, chest x-rays should be taken every year to make sure no lesions developed. Almost 25% of patients studied had developed these complications. Bracytherapy,...

Cancer patients turning to Internet for information

...eas at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in San Francisco. Nearly 25% of Dr.Metz's patients said they are accessing information from Internet health sites. Slightly more than 20% of the patients said they used it to find cancer relative information. In the related study, investig...

New dimension in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

...unction, according to a study released at the 96th annual meeting of the American Urological Association in Anaheim, California. This report was the end result of the study done by Irwin Goldstein MD, and colleagues from Boston University School of Medicine who administered DHEA to 32 patients. Long-term r...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...mputer errors. There was a sharp increase in the annual rate of warnings between 1995 and 2000. As the rate of manufacturing of devices increase, they are getting more complex and more chances to malfunction. Nevertheless, having a safety warning is a worry for the patient and supplying a replacement is c...

Coronary heart disease bids Adieu

...servative assumptions, the estimated reductions in annual CHD mortality rates were 1% to 3%," the researchers report. In addition to consuming fortified grains, if all patients with CHD received 1 mg of folic acid plus 0.5 mg of cyanocobalamin per day, the model projected that there would be approximately ...

Cannabis for pain

...ing chronic pain. He announced the findings at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "The cannabis extracts can produce high-quality pain relief, symptom control, and improvement in the quality of life, without significant side effects," said Dr Notcutt.He tested can...

Diabetes on the rise

...e MV Diabetes Research centre in Chennai, told the annual conference of the Association of Physicians of India: "By 2005, we will have 30 to 35 million diabetics in India, and every fifth diabetic in the world will be Indian.// "Epidemiological data shows that now only the prevalence of type II diabetes is...

Breast Cancer Surgery Causes Psychological problems

...ndings at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting. // The researchers asked 266 women who had undergone breast cancer surgery to fill out a questionnaire that evaluated their psychological health. The team also collected data on the severity of the patients' tumors. Breslau's team found th...

Biotechnology on the lead

...rist attacks - as well as natural epidemics.// The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) heard from Colonel Dick Collins, head of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. He said a release of anthrax bacteria near a city of half a million peop...

Cirrhosis linked to genes

...erican Association for the Study of Liver Diseases annual meeting in Dallas....

Research of Ritalin

...e.// The research was presented this week at the annual meeting of the US Society for Neuroscience."Children have been given Ritalin daily for many years, and it is extremely effective and beneficial, but it's not quite as simple as a short-acting drug,It does appear to be safe when used properly, but it ...

Cirrhosis on the rise

... some time//, Professor Liam Donaldson says in his annual report.He adds that females are showing signs of permanent liver damage at an earlier age. Cirrhosis - the permanent scarring and damage of the liver - is irreversible, although treatment can prevent it from getting worse.Among 35 to 44-year-olds, ...

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