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A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

...ig culprit. It is better to seek immediate medical attention when people suffer persistent cold or irritation in the throat. Even facial pain, nasal discharge, blockage, continuous dry cough, sneezing, headaches, running nose and change of voice are enough reasons to see a medical specialist for the treatment ...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...Secretary Robert Gates in June, comes amid renewed attention on troop and veterans care following recent disclosures of shoddy outpatient treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the premier care facility for soldiers in Washington. The task force found 38 percent of soldiers and 31 percent of Marines r...

45 Day Jail Sentence for Paris Hilton

...ry sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything. I'm sorry and I did not do it on purpose at all, before the judge pronounced the sentence. She has to report to a womens jail by the laid down date or go behind bars for 90 days. Hilton, 26, pleaded no contest in January to reckles...

Abnormal Face Processing in Toddlers With Autism

...rsive to toddlers with ASD. Therefore, the limited attention to faces and eyes observed in natural settings may be due to the fact that faces dont stand out to them as much as other objects in the environment. There also may be heightened arousal related to the complex social and perceptual context in which fa...

Researchers To Test Whether ADHD Medication Helps Young Adults While Driving

...s more effective in helping young ADHD drivers pay attention and have fewer driving mishaps while on the road. A second study Cox's team completed showed that ADHD young drivers fare better when driving cars with manual transmissions rather than automatic transmissions. In this latest study, funded by Shire Ph...

Premature Birth Linked With Increased Use of Pesticides

... years, Dr. Winchester and colleagues have focused attention on the outcomes of pregnancy in Indiana and the United States in relation to environmental pesticides and nitrates in surface and drinking water. Last year at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting, Dr Winchester reported that birth defects...

Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

...e rich world, the disease is attracting a bit more attention in the West, if not more funds. Leishmaniasis isn't a priority for the government and its aid donors, grappling with shocking rates of infant mortality, tuberculosis, malaria and trauma. Some foreign troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have also been ...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...sychology research both indicate that paying close attention to one thing can keep you from noticing something ... the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that attention does not have a fixed capacity - and that it can be improved by directed mental training, such as me...

Children of Asylum Seekers Dont Get Adequate Medical Care in Australia

...migration detention centres. It is mow turning its attention to the health of asylum seeker children living in the community. In a study of 70 such children in Melbourne, the College found that 25 per cent hadn't seen a doctor since arriving in Australia and 64 per cent hadn't seen a dentist. Paediatrician ...

Too Much TV Watching Linked With Poor Academic Performance in Teens

... more than three hours of television at age 14 had attention problems in subsequent years. By comparison, only ...less than one hour of TV at age 14 showed the same attention deficits later on, reported online edition New Scientist. Nearly one-third of those who watched ma...

Resident Bacteria May Help Clean Phosphorous From Lakes

...n recent years, Madison residents have focused new attention on water-quality problems ranging from beach closings to unsightly, odoriferous blue-green algae blooms caused by an overload of phosphorus within area lakes. In reality, those problems began in the city more than a century ago. They originated in...

Deadly Virus Hits Popular Lake in US

...nebago, he said. Hopefully, there will be a lot of attention paid to this....

Gene Thought to Help Kill Cancer Cells may Actually Help Them Thrive

...-damaged cancer cells to self annihilate, but less attention has been paid to p53s role in repairing damaged cells, said John McDonald, chair of Georgia Techs School of Biology and chief research scientist at the Ovarian Cancer Institute. Georgia Tech researchers found that p53 may be a double-edged sword. C...

America on Brink of Allergy Crisis

... GME positions, and is bringing this to the urgent attention of federal policy makers. The College is taking the lead by funding 20 allergy-immunology 2-year fellowship training positions from 2005-2009 at a total cost of $2 million. However, this is only a beginning. We at American College of Allergy, Asthm...

Survey Shows That Patients Have Trust and Confidence in Their Doctors

...e political meddling that gets in the way, diverts attention and leads to so much of the waste....

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

...assessments are now possible. They pay specific attention to the group of products enriched with phytosterol and stanol which work to reduce the amount of bad cholesterol entering the bloodstream. These are intended for people with mildly elevated cholesterol levels. Within the population as a whole these p...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

...alth disorders. Not many seem to have turned their attention to the deplorable situation in our own backyard. Yes it is happening in Kashmir. A year-wise break-up of patients visiting the Government Psychiatric Hospital in capital Srinagar reveals that from a mere 775 people visiting the hospital in 1985, ...

Quality Versus Quantity: Transforming Kidney Transplant Policy

...hird transplants necessary later in life. Recent attention has been focused on designing new methods of prioritization, one that allocates kidneys based on matches with the most favorable risk factors for long-term graft survival. Patients would be ranked based on the expected gain in years-of-life compared ...

Chronic Pain can Impair Memory and Concentration

...wo-thirds of whom showed significant disruption of attention and memory when tested. Dr Dick and Dr Rashiq su...of working memory and a neuropsychological test of attention on separate "pain" and "less pain" days. On the "less pain" day, participants were tested after r...

Hyperactivity and Poor Academic Success Linked to Common Genetic Influences

...ness, fidgeting, distractibility, impulsivity, and attention span). Academic achievement was based on teacher assessments of English and mathematics skills conducted at the end of the first year of primary school (equivalent to first grade in the United States). "Whatever the mechanism responsible, the find...

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