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Pacifier Use Reduces Incidence of SIDS: Study

...es it possible for the infant to be aroused from a deep sleep that could result in the stopping of breathing. Pacifiers also increase sucking satisfaction and provide a source of comfort to infants." Parents should be aware of the effects of pacifier sucking on an infant's oral health. "Children should ...

New Gadget to Treat Insomnia, Stress

...es users to lower their own heartbeat by regulated deep breathing, said the online edition of Daily Mail. ...roach has been used for lowering blood pressure as deep breathing may relax muscles surrounding small blood vessels. The user puts a finger on the sensor...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

...ehavior,” Grabowecky said. “When you need to dig deep to summon that extra ounce of attention, it's as if you engage a symphony of brain activity that can come to your rescue as millions of neurons together make the music that represents a vivid conscious experience,” added Ken Paller, professor of psyc...

Findings on Dangerous Parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii Published

...toxoplasmosis can cause AIDS patients to go into a deep dementia and become unconscious of their surroundings. "It's one of the worst syndromes an AIDS patient can die from," said Jay Radke, another of the MSU authors. Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Symptoms usual...

Kidney Racket Not Ruled Out in Children's Killings

...m several gunny bags fished out of the dirt in the deep drain behind the residence." "While Surendra initially confessed to killing six minor girls and two boys, sustained interrogation of his employer Pandhera led to disclosures of the rape and killing of grown up girls too," the police chief said. ...

Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years

...them into pieces and bury the bodies in a two-feet deep ditch behind the house," said the police official. "We have recovered blades from the house that must have been used as cutters." "Both the men have admitted to their crime," added Rathore. The duo would lure the children into the white-coloured ...

New Findings on Toxoplasmosis

...toxoplasmosis can cause AIDS patients to go into a deep dementia and become unconscious of their surroundings. "It's one of the worst syndromes an AIDS patient can die from," said Jay Radke, another of the MSU authors. Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Symptoms usual...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

...k, like I’d pulled a muscle when I tried to take a deep breath," Egan Addis comments. After the third time each lung had collapsed, surgeons went in to restore some of the lung function. Nine years after she began suffering symptoms, a Penn pulmonologist finally diagnosed her with LAM disease. "Finally, i...

Creating Memories During Sleep

...to the cerebral cortex. This occurs usually during deep sleep. Thereafter it gets stored as long term memory. Investigations by Thomas Hahn, Mayank Mehta and the Nobel Prize winner Bert Sakmann from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have now shed new light on the mechanisms th...

Alcohol Consumption Could Lead to Disturbed Sleep

...p in the second half of the night and overall less deep sleep, reported the online edition of science portal EurekAlert. Deirdre A. Conroy and other researchers at the University of Michigan examined 18 people - nine men and nine women -, their drinking habits and its impact on their sleep. As people ...

Alcohol Dependence For Sleep Perceptions May Result In Alcoholism

...p in the second half of the night and overall less deep sleep. As people drink more regularly across nights to fall asleep, they become tolerant to the sedating effects of alcohol and subsequently use more alcohol each night to help fall asleep. This escalation in drinking can lead to alcoholism." Conr...

New Technique to Detect Cancer in Early Stages

... they were able to accurately detect early tumours deep beneath the tissue surface. The radiation targets specific proteins and carbohydrates in the cells, Huang said. Varying combinations of biochemical molecules create a "fingerprint", helping in determining whether the cell is normal or not, he sai...

Men are from Mars and Women from Venus, but why on Earth are Women so Woefully Wronged?

...ny changes, yet more needs to be done to alter the deep - rooted perception of women and violence. The United Nations campaign for the human rights of women and girls has made notable strides in increasing the awareness about the fallout of gender based violence on the economic, social and cultural health...

Pregnant Women With Lupus Are At Greater Risk

..., were nearly six times more likely to suffer from deep vein thrombosis -- a blood clot -- and 3.5 times more likely to develop sepsis, a severe illness caused by an extreme infection of the bloodstream. Many women with lupus also were anemic or had low blood platelet counts at delivery and were three tim...

Deep-Brain Stimulation for Dystonia patients

...mber 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The deep brain stimulation device was surgically implanted into a part of their brain related to dystonia. The patients were divided into 2 groups. The first group's device was programmed to function after a week of implantation. After 3 months, improvement...

Scientists suggest a new ‘brain wave’ for sound sleep and improved memoy

...alp which is closely akin to brain's signal during deep sleep helped to improve ‘recall’ of word pairs mem... given no electrical stimulation . A stimulating deep sleep seems to augment the replay of recently imprinted memories in the brain thus enabling it to be...

Anorexia Nervosa – Uproot the Disease by Understanding Key Triggers and Motive

...tance to self-starvation, which has its roots in a deep seated need or emotion. In his estimate, treatment measures that do not take cognizance of the significance the illness holds in the patients’ lives, may not realize an absolute cure of the eating disorder, leading to a recurrence of the problem. ...

Improved memory with mild electric stimulation

...rted that the current made the brain move into the deep slow-wave sleep. At this stage, there are normal electric fluctuations in the prefrontal neocortex that is associated with conscious thought and spatial reasoning. In the study, no memory enhancement was noticed when current applied was of a differ...

Laborious efforts of NHS Trust to confine labor to homes

...iveries at home. The Trust which is running into deep financial trenches with projected annual expenses overflowing to an excess of 4.5 million pounds more than allotted funds is trying cost cutting measures to allay a severe debt. The Trust is trying to reduce the number of in patients who may actually...

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

...e children's food items contain more salt than the deep blue sea, according to a new study.// Reducing children’s consumption of salt by half brings about a dramatic reduction in their blood pressure which would help to protect them from the risk of heart disease and stroke later in life. The report sta...

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