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Nurses Ease the Wounded Heart

...sical well-being decreased. The women in the study described their spirituality as having a significant role in coping with their illness. The study also suggests that culturally competent nurses can recognize the coping strategies used by women from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds undergoing cancer trea...

Outwardly Expressed Anger Affects Some Women’s Heart Arterie

...ssion and suppressed anger. Only expressed anger – described as Anger Out on the rating scale – had predictive value, and only when the age, diabetes or dyslipidemia risk factors also were present. 'Our results appear to differ from the literature on males, particularly young males, in which hostility scores...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...emical signals that elicit immediate behaviors are described as releaser pheromones. Examples of releaser pheromones include mating attractants such as bombykol and danger-signaling alarm pheromones released by insects and mammals, which can elicit aggressive behavior or rapid withdrawal. Primer pheromones ...

Meningitis Case Dismissed as Viral Infection Proves Fatal for Child

It can only be described as deeply tragic.The General Medical Council Fitness to Practice panel, of UK, has heard the accusations made against a doctor// who failed to notice meningitis in a child, and who consequentially died. An infant of two years Wesley Hayward, slipped...

Meningitis and Encephalitis are Different

...meningitis// and the encephalitis cases which were described in the state. Officials have clearly indicated that the bacteria, which cause these two infections, are completely different. Encephalitis is caused by mycoplasma bacteria while meningitis is usually caused by viral or bacterial infection. An ele...

Carriers With Alzheimer's High Risk Gene Type Age Normally Until the Disease Strikes

...ge, along with other factors. The study, has been described as the largest of its kind. This research unearthed that both carriers and non-carriers seem to age normally in the same pattern with similar decline in cognitive function over the years. Decades later, carriers show up with symtoms of aging that beg...

South Asian Sisters Bring Mental Illness Out of Closet

... turned the theme song into a music video, "Lost", described as "a colourful exploration of self and the melodies that haunt us: a performer, performs/ an observer, observes/ both share a secret/ seek and find". Asked why did she choose Meetu Chilana as the singer and Samrat Chakrabarty as the director for th...

Brain-Damaged Girl Frozen in Time to Remain Child-Sized Forever

...the sake of convenience. The Seattle-born girl is described as ‘Pillow Angel’ by her parents as she stays wher...ook place at Seattle Children's Hospital, had been described as ‘ill-advised’ by Jeffrey Brosco, a paediatrician at the University of Miami, in a co-written edit...

Excessive Male Hormones can Cause Bulimia in Women

...f suffering from polycystic ovarian disease. It is described as a compulsive eating disorder .It is conventionally regarded to be caused due to psychological causes. It is usually treated by implementing cognitive behavioral therapy. Menstrual disturbances are often associated with this disorder. These women h...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...nd cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described //in a 17th century Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He documente...

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (And Eating Again)

...ransplant, followed by a pancreas transplant. “He described the heart and the kidneys as the targets of diabetes, and the pancreas as the trigger. Just addressing the target, without eliminating the trigger, would have created a situation that could jeopardize the new organs,” Jim recalls. The first transpl...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...nd cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described in a 17th century// Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He documente...

Researchers Discovered the Gene Responsible for Brittle Bone Disease

...he recessive form of OI that she and her coworkers described in the current paper might occur in 2-3 percent of lethal OI cases. Although there is no treatment for the disorder, the finding does allow OI experts to test families who have lost a child to OI for the presence of the recessive CRTAP gene. Coupl...

Tried To Quit Smoking And Failed? Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW

...the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described results of the 2003 National Youth Smoking Cessation Survey. In it, quitting behavior studied in 1,827 young "established" smokers aged 16 to 24 years is reported. "Smokers who had ever tried to quit were asked about their knowledge of, and perceiv...

Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease

...as von Economo neurons, were first comprehensively described in 1925 by their Romanian-Austrian namesake, who determined that the unusually shaped cells -- large, cigar-shaped and tapered at each end, with only a few dendritic processes extending away from them – were localized in only two regions of the front...

Structure of Iron Regulatory Protein-RNA Complex Solved

...use of iron -- as it binds its target RNA// -- are described by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Iron is an essential nutrient, and defects in uptake and metabolism that result in either deficiencies or overload of iron cause a variety of diseases and disorders, including heart disease...

Mayo Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides

...ished similar findings in October 2006 in which he described a potentially safer and more effective method for controlling crop-destroying aphids. The study was published in the journal Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Background on pesticides and malaria DDT has been banned in most parts of the ...

First Potential Treatment for Dengue

...r appear to be restricted to Dengue. The mechanism described here could provide a molecular basis for a new model of the action of other known hemorrhage-inducing viruses, such as Ebola, Marburg, or Hanta. New lines of therapeutic research against these pathologies, for which no treatment yet exists, can now b...

Novel Brain Scan to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

...ts affixed to abnormal l protein deposits that are described as a characteristic of Alzheimer's. It also affixe...ts affixed to abnormal l protein deposits that are described as a characteristic of Alzheimer's. It also affixes to another chief aspect of this disease called t...

Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides

...ished similar findings in October 2006 in which he described a potentially safer and more effective method for controlling crop-destroying aphids. The study was published in the journal Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Background on pesticides and malaria DDT has been banned in most parts of the w...

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