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Meniscal Damage Could Lead To Cartilage Loss And Knee Osteoarthritis

... the impact of which was greater in the joint that connected the lower leg to the knee (tibiofemoral joint). Cartilage loss was also related to meniscal tear, meniscus height and inadequate coverage of the meniscus. Although the study does not provide complete details regarding the type of meniscal damage th...

Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!

...nsisting of 17 micro sensors and two nano sensors, connected through a local area network. The project coordinator Dr Evangelos Bekiaris puts the vision in words and says,” The sensors will allow you to sleep at home on, for instance, a mattress with sensors instead of going to a hospital which is much more...

Health Care System in US Needs a Change

...ittle islands of information. Very few of them are connected or consistent. This is mainly due to the competing vendors. Their main interest is to provide the buyers with the latest technologies thereby they become ubiquitous and then reap the benefits. The healthcare workers have to unite to develop a nat...

Angina Risks Pronounced In Women over 45

...he researchers also opined that angina in women is connected with higher mortality rates. Prof Hemingway said: "For women, angina is a more significant public health problem than many doctors, or indeed the general public, realise. Women develop angina at a similarly high rate as men and the angina that wome...

Seconds Between Life And Death

...oa and the Hospital Donostia. These implants are connected to the heart by some wires as well as to a central unit placed under the skin. Each IAD implant is programmed to store all the arrhythmias and electrical discharges that that particular patient undergoes. Every year about 70 internal automatic defibr...

Novel Device Developed To Help Autistic Individuals Communicate Better

...o the side of pair of glasses, that can in turn be connected to a handheld computer, equipped with image recognition software, in addition to a software capable enough of reading the emotions displayed. The software then signals the wearer through a vibratory movement, signaling that the listener is not involv...

Studies Show Brain becomes Less Specialized With Age

...erscores the importance of taking into account the connected and networked nature of the brain and its function in understanding human neural aging....

Lack Of Social Skills Linked To Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

...of people suffering from the disorder are not well connected to those parts of the brain that control attention, it said. The researchers took the brain scans of 16 people with ASD and above-average IQs, as well as those of 16 unaffected volunteers. They were shown four images on the screen - two of houses a...

Lack Of Communication Between Brain Areas Can Cause Autism

...he face processing areas of the brain are not well connected to those parts of the brain that control attention such as the frontal and parietal regions, he said. He further stated that, it is very hard to pick a face out in a busy crowd, but when the right face is found and paid attention to it, then all th...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

...ind and geomagnetic storms on Earth may be somehow connected to human health. Michal Kovac and a colleague at a neurology clinic in the city of Nove Zamky, southwest Slovakia, found that the number of strokes among local residents rose significantly every 10.5 years and 7.04 years - time periods that corresp...

Polymer Molecule Layered On Carb Molecule to Increase Sensitivity

... reaction ping the carbon nanotube; if the tube is connected to an electrode, the tube will carry a signal that corresponds precisely with the amount of glucose detected. The first polymer binds to the carbon nanotube. Enzymes are attracted to the polymer, leaving an outer layer for the next polymer of opposit...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

... for them to be politically involved and be better connected to legislators," he said. "I think physicians have been left off the table (in the debate on healthcare reforms). But if we physicians don't look after the patients' interests, who will? It is we who have to shepherd the flock." According to him, ...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

... for them to be politically involved and be better connected to legislators," he said. "I think physicians have been left off the table (in the debate on healthcare reforms). But if we physicians don't look after the patients' interests, who will? It is we who have to shepherd the flock." According to him,...

Certain antidepressant drugs associated with pronounced suicidal tendencies

... other antidepressants. SSRI was also found to be connected to the use of aggressive methods to kill oneself, that did not exclude the use of firearms, jumping from heights and hanging....

Risk of Cancer from Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...son explains that TNF-blocking antibodies might be connected with an increased risk for infection and malignancies because the drugs interfere with immunological mechanisms critical to fighting infection and the body’s normal function in surveying itself for cancerous cells. The risk patients undertake when ...

ISRO To Expand Telemedicine Network, 4 Speciality Hospitals To Be Included

...mote or rural district hospitals or health centres connected to 33 speciality hospitals in major cities. According to ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair, the telemedicine programme is an example of societal orientation of the Indian space programme. Many speciality hospitals, besides state governments and non-...

Gastric Bypass And Laparoscopic Reflux Surgery Gaining Popularity

...ouch receiving food intake. The food pouch is then connected to the small intestine to create a new gastric outlet. Patients in both age groups were afflicted with serious obesity-related health conditions, including Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, severe hypertension, sleep apnea, joint arthropathy and asthma. ...

Japanese Scientists Develop Thought-Controlled Robotic Hands

...the formation of each shape and fed this data to a connected computer. After a short training period, the computer was able to recognise the brain activity associated with each shape and command the robotic appendage do the same, it said. Finally, the robot hand could be made to respond faster than a user...

Scientists Develop Thought-Controlled Robotic Hands

...the formation of each shape and fed this data to a connected computer. After a short training period, the computer was able to recognize the brain activity associated with each shape and command the robotic appendage do the same, it said. Finally, the robot hand could be made to respond faster than a user's...

New Hope For Impotent Men - Artificial Penis On The Way

...his includes making sure all the blood vessels are connected so that the new tissue functions and does not turn into scar tissue like the original tissue. Source:IANS...

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