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New Wellness Website Launched – Resource For Mind, Body, & Spiri

...g events for publication on LizWellness.com to the attention of the editor at Wellness.Liz@gmail.com. Source-Generef.com/...

Brain Networks Strengthened by Closing Ion Channels

...ive changes in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). “Our data..., planning, and organizing, as well as suppressing attention to distracting stimuli,” said Amy Arnsten, lead author and neurobiology professor at Yale. The bra...

Don't Gamble With People's Health, Warn Experts

...ners should understand this and should focus their attention on more serious issues. For a start, how about the misery and isolation of elderly people and the hopelessness of young people who are unemployed long term? /L...

98% of Food Imported by the U.S is Not Inspected for Food Safety

...e the food is imported. When such foods escape the attention of Food safety authorities, it makes it a ready recipe for food contamination. "FDA doesn't have enough resources or control over this situation presently," said Mike Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety. Only 1.3 ...

India may See Outbreak of Cardiovascular Illnesses

...e with India as its paid, after 2000 onwards, less attention towards health as its priorities were different, it says. India today bears the burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Besides tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, HIV/AIDS, hitherto neglected diseases like diabetes are likely to t...

India's Pharmaceutical Industry to Be Global Player: Study

...lure of profits on the world market could distract attention from research into illnesses typical of developing countries. The study was published ahead of a conference in Toronto May 2-4 of biotech firms from the US, Canada, India, China, Brazil and Africa. Source-IANS/V...

New Invention to Detect Blood Clots

...olved in a motor bike accident. He needs immediate attention // as the doctor suspects head injury. There could be a blood clot which can lead the patient to disability or death. The device the Dr. Alok Sharma is using is called the Infrascanner. This new invention is a portable imaging device which uses Ne...

Chinese Food- a Global Risk?

...an international apprehension. It has also put due attention of the incapability’s of the American food inspectors to catch problem shipments. The shipments that enter the US are in millions and the inspectors can only check only a fraction of it. Michiel Keyzer, director of the Center for World Food Studies...

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

...ol courses too. It is drawing interest as national attention has turned to reducing both medical errors and the high cost of malpractice insurance, which has been blamed for driving doctors out of business. Doctors' often-paternalistic relationship with patients is giving way to an understanding that "it's ...

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

...s 15 percent higher in areas that are critical for attention and controlling emotions. The neurobiological underpinnings of bipolar disorder — an illness marked by a roller coaster of emotions between mania and depression — are not well understood. Nor is it understood how lithium works in controlling these...

Ray of Hope for Women on Motherhood Day

...ies and committed individuals. To attract national attention towards the issue of safe motherhood, WRA appealed for the declaration of April 11 as National Safe Motherhood Day in 2001, which finally came into being in 2003. WRA has also been focusing on the issue of training auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM) an...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

... the industrialized world that doesn't pay careful attention to the innovation that's happening in India ... is...that the promise of profits may divert much-needed attention away from research into diseases like tuberculosis and malaria that plague the developing world, and...

Accident Victims Often Need Psychological Help

...ntion." But First Aid workers should pay special attention to such people. "Sometimes it is sufficient just to be on standby without saying much," she advises. Questions too can help assess how the person is feeling. "If the person says something like: 'I don't know where I am', it is an indication of a ...

Tea Workers Health Precarious, a Study

...medical officer of health was asked to pay special attention to the health of the workers of the closed and abandoned tea gardens. Only after the workers said they were happy with the steps taken did the Governor leave the garden. GPL/B...

Brain Structured to Make Human Beings Religious, Claims a US Scientist

...rea right behind our foreheads, helps us focus our attention in prayer and meditation. The parietal lobe, located near the backs of our skulls, is the seat of our sensory information. Newberg says it's involved in that feeling of becoming part of something greater than oneself. The limbic system, nestled d...

Race Takes Back Seat to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

...ntrolling hypertension. “A lot of public health attention has already been paid to getting high blood pressure under control, so it may be just that this risk factor is under tighter control in some ethnic groups than in others,” he says. “African Americans are clearly getting heart failure from causes othe...

Foot Deformity Could Be Corrected With Minimal Surgery

...one and Joint Surgery. His method has caught the attention of pediatric orthopaedic surgeons worldwide, and he is training other surgeons in the United States and internationally to use the method successfully. The difference between Dobbs' method and casting techniques tried in the past is in the way forc...

Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical

...ems. Whatever the objections, A4M’s personalized attention and all the pep talk is getting it more and more converts. The 49-year-old Clothia Roussell, wife of a leading property developer, says she draws inspiration from the prophets. "I've read in the Bible how we're supposed to live to see 120, and tho...

Biofeedback Treats One Type Of Chronic Constipation

...ction."We did the study to find out: Is it medical attention and coping strategies or alterations in muscle-fun...n how to push or relax muscles. They were provided attention in the form of coping strategies and muscle relaxation tapes. In addition to using objective anal/...

Research to Protect Accident Victims from Epilepsy

...ic jerking seizures, but instead with memory loss, attention problems and the like. Doctors could mistakenly attribute such subtle symptoms to the original brain injury, post-traumatic stress or some other factor. So epilepsy becomes inevitable. Now researchers are trying to figure out whether the newer seiz...

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