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Inability to Recognize Familiar Smells Could Signal Alzheimers

People who have difficulty recognizing familiar smells could be experiencing an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published Monday. Scientists already know that the first lesions of the degenerative brain disease tend to show up in an area of the brain...

Impaired Odour Identification Predicts Cognitive Decline for the Elderly

Older adults having difficulty in identifying common odours may be at a higher ri...der persons without manifest cognitive impairment, difficulty in identifying odours predicts subsequent development of mild cognitive impairment," the authors con...

Just One Cigarette can Cause Nicotine Addiction

...-such as cravings, restlessness, irritability, and difficulty in concentrating. During the study, 1,246 sixth-grade students in six Massachusetts communities were monitored for over four years. The students were interviewed frequently about smoking and symptoms of addiction. The researchers noted that of t...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...he really big issue is still the stigma and social difficulty that surround the diagnosis of epilepsy and its management." It has been seen that women with the illness were more likely to take their own life then men. The incidence of suicide decreased as sufferers grew older. In fact, more quickly, than in the...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

... felt pain in their legs and some have experienced difficulty in walking after being injected with the methotrexate drug numbered 070403A and 070403B," the statement said. "Local drug regulators have been ordered to re-evaluate the drug," it said. On Friday, a Beijing court sentenced Cao Wenzhuang, a depart...

Top China Official Pessimistic on Fixing Food Safety Woes

...od safety mechanisms will gradually emerge and the difficulty in integrating and organising inspection work will only grow,' he said. 'The inspection, prevention and emergency response systems of food safety departments... will face increasing pressure and challenges,' Sun said. Reports in the United States...

Star Health Grants Boon To India's HIV-Affected

...the social stigma attached to HIV patients and the difficulty in drawing the individuals out to take up a policy on their own , had forced Star Health to adopt the institutional route to offer this cover. In addition, the company has also come out with a product called `Red Carpet' for senior citizens. It off...

China Bans Sales of Leukemia Drug in Latest Medicine Scare

...d for acute leukemia reported feeling pain and had difficulty walking after being injected with the drug, Xinhua news agency said. The medicine is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, it said. The watchdog ordered food and drug administrations in Shanghai and the Guangxi region in the nation's south to ...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...dentical to one another and so scientists have had difficulty understanding how they function, said Dr Chris Thompson, who carried out the research with Professor Alan North and Dr Sam Fountain in the Faculty of Life Sciences. By looking at slime mould we were effectively able to turn the evolutionary clock ba...

Reason Behind Trouble Remembering in ADHD Kids Revealed

...d that children diagnosed with ADHD had incredible difficulty detecting doubles at all," news.com.au quoted lead... brain activity. "That means they essentially have difficulty recognising new usual things as new, which makes learning new things very difficult," Keage said. Wh...

Memory Problem in Older Women Lead to Restless Nights

...ive test, they were nearly twice as likely to have difficulty staying asleep and one-and-half times as likely to have problems falling asleep and being awake for more than 90 minutes during their sleep cycle, said study author Kristine Yaffe, MD, with the University of California, San Francisco, and member of t...

Group Therapy and Willpower can Help Smokers to Quit

...hey do smoke a cigarette. The side effects include difficulty sleeping, flatulence, headaches and nausea. According to expert Christian Kroeger at the Therapy Research Institute in Munich, such medicines are only really suitable for heavy smokers who are likely to experience severe physical and mental repercu...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...oping eyelids, muscle weakness, slurred speech and difficulty swallowing. If not treated quickly with antitoxin, botulism can paralyze breathing muscles, and victims could spend months on ventilators until the toxin wears off. Botulism is rare. The paralyzing illness can leave victims hospitalized for months ...

Older Women With Memory Problems at Increased Risk for Restless Nights

...ive test, they were nearly twice as likely to have difficulty staying asleep and one-and-half times as likely to have problems falling asleep and being awake for more than 90 minutes during their sleep cycle, said study author Kristine Yaffe, MD, with the University of California, San Francisco, and member of t...

Increase in the Rate of Food Allergy

... vomiting and in some cases, potentially dangerous difficulty breathing or collapse (anaphylaxis). Even when a reaction isnt dangerous, its often frightening for those involved. There is an urgent need for coordinated systematic studies of the epidemiology of food allergy in Australia and abroad, to ascertain...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

... showed that study participants experienced severe difficulty with "state maintenance," or the ability to maintain both the sleep and waking states. Overall they had reduced quantity and quality of nocturnal sleep and episodes of sleep scattered throughout the day. Increased amounts of daytime sleep significant...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...d legs that lead to foot deformities, tripping and difficulty walking. The gene abnormalities responsible for 70 percent of cases are already known. Those patients and their families can choose to have genetic tests, which may be used to guide treatment or help family members find out if they are at risk. B...

Doctors Remove Tumour from Heart in a Rare Surgery

...roectodermal tumour (PNET) of the heart. It led to difficulty in breathing, high fever and swelling of the face. "Ram had a potentially deadly, cancerous tumour arising from both the upper chambers of the heart, blocking the blood flow into the chambers and the right lung," Wockhardt's cardiovascular surgeon ...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...n opiate users in India. Traffickers have little difficulty in converting opium, which is easily available, to smack or heroine. The entire conversion process takes less than an hour. The problem has been further compounded by Indias location, which lies between the Golden Crescent (Pakistan, Iran and Afgha...

Two Year Probation for Cobra Owner Helder Claro

...athleen Caldwell said 39-year-old Helder Claro has difficulty understanding the impact of his actions on others. Terrify the teens with cobra was his way of controlling them and get his way with them. Caldwell ordered him not to be alone or in a position of trust with any female under the age 18, unless it is...

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