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Cut the Trans-Fats

...or months to find trans- fat alternatives, holding blind taste tests with customers and using their feedback to create menus with more variety, including fruit juices and skim milk, according to Universal Studios' officials. Trans-fats are hydrogenated vegetable oils, used in the food industry to make pr...

Law Professor Finds Home Health Care Workers Have Few Legal Protections

...al Safety and Health Administration, have turned a blind eye to home health care workers," said Smith. "The problem the government faces is, how do you regulate the employment relationship of someone who works in a private home?" The issue will become increasingly important in the future, as Baby Boomers...

Equal Opportunity for the Disabled

... Many of the websites are also inaccessible to the blind and the visually impaired. On this day, several groups and initiatives around the world will seek to raise the awareness on the rights of persons suffering disabilities. The objective of this day will revolve around exploring better ways of accessi...

Migraine Sufferers More at Risk of Heart Attack

...an include, but are not limited to, light flashes, blind spots, blurred vision, and the formation of dazzling zigzag lines during the migraine. Aura can also include changes in sensation and smell. "Until we understand more about the association between migraines and heart disease, patients with migrain...

Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease

...th Chlamydia trachomatis and 8 million are already blind or severely visually impaired. In some parts of third-world countries, more than 90% of the population is infected. Chlamydia trachomatis has a variety of strains; different strains are responsible for different diseases. Some strains cause sexually ...

Google could help diagnose difficult medical cases

...from each case and did a Google search while being blind to the correct diagnoses, reported Newswise wire. They then selected and recorded the three diagnoses that were ranked most prominently and seemed to fit the symptoms and signs, and compared the results with the correct diagnoses as published in th...

Popular Antiaging Supplement Has No Beneficial Effects

...y that DHEA has an antiaging effect.” The double blind study involved 87 men and 57 women who were followed for two years. Participants showed no change in several markers of aging -- body composition, physical performance, insulin sensitivity or quality of life. Mayo Clinic’s findings contradict some ...

Choice of Anesthesia in C-section

...eview were generally small and there was no way to blind the physicians caring for mothers or their infants as to the method of anesthesia -- which may introduce biases," said Lockwood. The review found that more women preferred to have general anesthesia compared to epidural and spinal anesthesia for su...

New hope for IBS patients…

.../It is for the first time that a randomized double blind study has shown a continued effect of an antibiotic for IBS symptoms post-treatment. The study, entitled...

The Search For Eternal Youth-DHEA Not The Magic Potion

...conducted a randomised, placebo controlled, double blind trial on 87 men and 57 women to study the effects of the popular antiaging// supplement DHEA(dehydroepiandrosterone). The report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Oct 19) has come out with the findings that DHEA cannot be considered t...

Facial Expressions are Inherited: Study

...e facial expressions of 21 volunteers who had been blind from birth along with those of their relatives, re... the results, they discovered that even though the blind volunteers had never seen their relatives' faces, their facial expressions were extremely alike. "...

Blindness cases in China on the rise

...apped with eye problems, including about 5 million blind people, " said Professor Wang Lihua, vice director...blind. "Please stay away from the special lane for blind pedestrians and volunteer them a hand when it is necessary," said Yang Zhixiao, an official with the...

Results for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Show Significant Vision Improvements

...yes treated with photodynamic therapy were legally blind at the end of the first year of study, patients who received Lucentis treatment were able to avoid legal blindness in seven out of eight cases. Seven percent of the Lucentis-treated patients improved to 20/20 vision at the one year endpoint. It truly...

Cuban Deaf-blind Children Regain Hearing

Nearly 20 Cuban deaf and blind children can hear now, thanks to the implant of an electronic device that has revolutionized the world of profound// neuro-sensorial auditory deficiency. The patients received the implant at La Pradera International Health Centre in Havana, the Pren...

Chocolate Chip Cookies to Keep Cholesterol at Bay

...erol between ages 35-36 were subjected to a double blind study randomly, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Those who participated were randomly divided into two groups, the Right Direction Cookie group and placebo cookie group. Each individual were portioned two cookies per day for the next 4 w...

US to Lift Ban on Canadian Drug Imports

... and Drug Administration has surprisingly turned a blind eye to personal purchases of nonnarcotic prescription drugs from places such as Canada and Mexico in shipments of as much as three months' worth. However from Nov. 17 the situation changed with customs undertaking a quiet crackdown on foreign mail...

Eye-opener for Stroke Victims Suffering Partial Vision Loss

...t has been devised that is capable of arousing the blind field, the area incapable of sight. This could ind...nts portrayed a stronger visual sensitivity in the blind field. Dr. Arash Sahraie, who led the research team said, "We are very excited about this finding...

Danger and insecurity in contemporary life

...sions. "Strategies in between pure rationality and blind faith or hope become more and more important in a world with growing uncertainties," he says. Media scare stories about all kinds of threats, from the Millennium bug and bird flu, to the dangers to health of mobile phones and GM foods, have been bl...

Region in the brain in-charge of face recognition includes object recognition as well.

... exceptional in recognizing faces and another face blind are fine-scale differences in their brains' functional structure." Source-Eurekalert...

Risk Of Colorectal Polyps Recurrence Can Be Controlled By Rofecoxib

...study was a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind trial funded by Merck Research Laboratories. Study results showed that patients taking rofecoxib had a lower recurrence rate of adenomas than those taking placebo (41 percent vs 55 percent; p About the Study The study included 2,587 evaluable patie...

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