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Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...ght brain activity when people viewed a self-morph compared to a co-worker-morph. "One of the astonishing findings in psychology is that humans and the apes (including chimpanzees, orangutans, and some gorillas) are the only species that recognise their own faces in a mirror," says Keenan, who began researc...

Plavix Gets FDA Okay for New Indication

...h by 20% in acute coronary syndrome patients, when compared with placebo....

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

...m were carrying a specific genetic variant of HLA, compared to just 20 per cent in a control group of non-sleepwalker. It's not yet clear just how this immune variant affects the body's sleep cycles. But it's also interesting to note that many of these patients also suffer from REM (rapid eye movement) sleep ...

The hazards of using disinfectant hand gel

...e University of Geneva, and colleagues in Germany, compared a range of gels and four alcohol-based hand rinses with the performance of a standard disinfectant, 2-propanol. They found that none of the gel formulations was as good as the 2-propanol at killing bacteria. However, the rinses did give as good a p...

A hormone may decrease Menopause Symptoms

...er a seven-day period after 12 weeks of treatment, compared with less than 10% of patients in the placebo group. The trial results were presented at a meeting here of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. The study, which enrolled women who were naturally or surgically menopausal, consisted of a three-...

Breast cancer risk seen in twins

...dentical twins were destined to get breast cancer, compared to just one woman in nine among the general population. In simple words, sharing your genes with an affected twin sister trebles your risk of breast cancer above the norm. This suggests that genetics plays a far bigger role in breast cancer than prev...

Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects

...ir ovulation and sexual activity. The researchers compared women who had sex at a time deemed "optimal"--either the day before or the day their body ovulated--to women who had sex at a "non-optimal" time: more than a day after ovulation or more than 2 days beforehand. According to the findings, there were n...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...es area over a 2-year period from 1995 to 1998 and compared them with 5,000 samples donated by 30 men from Northern California during the same time period. The donors' average age was about 20, and most were college students. The researchers also analyzed data on air quality in both regions. The greater t...

Good treatment for leg ulcers

...trials covered a total of 600 people. Five of them compared pentoxifylline and compression bandaging with plac...tive in producing complete healing. Three trials compared pentoxifylline with placebo and in this case the drug was 50 per cent more effective in producing co...

The advantages of berries

...ing amounts of freeze-dried black raspberries, and compared to animals whose diet did not contain the berries....traordinarily wide range of beneficial compounds - compared to other berries and fruits. They are full of anthocyanins, which give them their dark colour, pheno...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...chromosomal defects--a prevalence of just over 4%, compared with roughly 2% among women without gestational diabetes. The increased risk was specifically for defects of the sex chromosomes, particularly anomalies in which the child had an extra X chromosome. In boys, this extra X can result in Klinefelter's ...

Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children

...llness. These investigators, from Texas and India, compared the effectiveness of three different methods of zinc administration to see which method worked best. Around half of the children in this study received either zinc syrup or zinc syrup and vitamin A by workers at a field clinic. Another quarter recei...

Healing a painful neck

...ted being "entirely recovered" or "much improved," compared to around 60 percent of the physical therapy group and 40 percent of the regular care group. An editorial accompanying the study suggests the need for additional studies to clarify these results. The author writes, "If better results are seen in thi...

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

...gery, the patients had lower levels of the hormone compared with both normal-weight people and obese people wh...-pound woman--had a 24% increase in ghrelin levels compared with their pre-diet levels. In contrast, people who underwent surgery had ghrelin levels 80% lower t...

Dementia linked to HIV

... cognitive damage. In a recent study, researchers compared cognitive test results for 200 people. 80 HIV pati...ess likely to suffer from cognitive problems. When compared to those exhibiting homosexual/bisexual and heterosexual risk factors, injecting drug users had less...

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

...recognizing "anger," "disgust" and "surprise." And compared with other test subjects, they tended to label neutral expressions as "disgusted" and disgusted expressions as "angry," according to Best's team. Finally, in a test of sensory perceptions related to OMPCC function, IED patients had more difficulty i...

Beer guards against Colon Cancer

...he15 rats given a water diet developed tumors when compared with about 50 % of the 15 rats that had beer or beer products in their diet, Another 13 rats were fed salt water as controls and none of them developed cancer; they were not given the cancer-causing agent. The researcher suggested that it is prude...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...ol group had died or suffered a non-fatal stroke, compared with 100 in the placebo group, a difference that could have been due to chance. However, there was a "borderline" statistically significant higher number of fatal strokes in the estradiol group — 12 vs. four in the placebo group, Viscoli says. And no...

Sleep apnoea linked to surgical risks

...pnoea group had complications after the operation, compared to nine per cent in the control group.he anaesthetics, sedatives and painkillers used around surgery aggravate sleep apnoea, as does the need to lie on the back after the operation. The researchers say sleep apnoea should, if possible, be treated bef...

Ginseng aids Diabetes

...of the substance daily for 10 days. They were then compared to mice that didn't receive the injections. Researchers found the mice that received the injections had significantly improved results on standard tests to measure diabetes severity. These mice also lost a significant amount of weight, mainly due to...

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