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The elderly can sleep better now!

...chers had the pearls placed on seven points of the ear believed to have an effect on promoting sleep. In the treatment that lasted for 3 weeks, the subjects' sleep was monitored thrice - before the therapy, in the middle of the therapy period and within one week after completion of therapy. Researchers c...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

...r newborn baby to catch more colds, coughs, middle ear infections and more severe problems like bronchitis and pneumonia all of which can put your baby back into the hospital. If anything provides motivation to stop smoking, it seems being pregnant would....

Hearing loss can be detected by simple screening

...deafness. The other causes of hearing loss include ear wax impaction and chronic otitis media (fluid in the middle ear). However these conditions could be cured by surgery. It's important that the physician checks his or her older patients regularly for hearing loss....

Salt-Water Pools Good for the Health

...lic use. Before the opening of the pools, skin and ear infections were a common problem in the children. ...researchers, acts as the equivalent of a nasal and ear washout and also cleanses the skin, helping to minimize the likelihood of infections. The study inv...

Antibiotics Overload For Kids Questioned

Acute otitis media (AOM), or middle ear infection, is the most common bacterial illness in...getting treated unnecessarily with antibiotics for ear infections. Children who are given antibiotics when they don’t need them may build up antibiotic res...

Link Between Ear Infections And Asthma

...tes. A new study shows children who have multiple ear // infections in early childhood are more likely t...was found that children with a history of multiple ear infections were twice as likely to suffer from asthma than children with no history of ear infection...

Simple Exercises Might Help Vertigo

...go caused by loose particles floating in the inner ear canal. Participants reported experiencing episodes...ead and body movements to clear particles from the ear canal. The latter requires more extreme whole body movement. Results reviewed, after one week showe...

Laser Therapy Found To Help People Quit Smoking

...ser beams to acupuncture points // on the body and ear to eliminate the craving for nicotine. It is a noninvasive method , has no side effects and smokers need only three to five treatment sessions that last about 30 minutes. Researchers studied 340 smokers who either received three treatments, four tre...

Diagnosing Sleep Apnea By Overnight Sleep Testing Method

After studying 100 patients at an ear , nose and throat clinic researchers say people who go to the doctor complaining of snoring // shouldn't expect to receive a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome ( OSAS ) based on a routine examination alone instead an overnight sleep testin...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

Replacing lost sensory hair cells in the inner ear may restore partial hearing ability of the deaf ma... the differentiated non-sensory cells of the inner ear are encouraged to change the phenotype. Deafness is often associated with loss of sensory hairs in ...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...ve stress that may damage the cochlea of the inner ear of the younger ones and cause permanent damage to hearing abilities of young rats. Carbon monoxide at the exposure limit of 0.0025% in air can cause oxidative stress for the children. Oxidative stress happens when the free radicals in the body inte...

Cure For Deafness Leads Scientist To Find How Fishes Can Hear And Hum Sounds At Same Time

...ntrols the vocal muscle system and the part of the ear that hears sound in a fish found along the coastli... As the study indicates a relationship between the ear and the auditory and vocalization systems of the brain, it could further help scientists to understa...

Studies On Hearing Loss Discovers New Causes

...ound waves travel from the hair cells of the inner ear to the auditory nerves. The probable causes of this may be age, disease, infections, tumor or stroke. Diabetes: Diabetes affects the population in terms of affecting the metabolism of blood glucose and impaired function of the insulin that helps i...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

...gene that causes deafness in humans into the inner ear of mice. This gene acted through a dominant negati...t the membrane covering one opening into the inner ear of the mice. The slightly porous membrane allowed the interfering RNA to diffuse into the inner ear ...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...oud noise doesn't always damage the delicate inner ear immediately just by brute force. Rather, in most cases it provokes the inner ear into making harmful oxygen molecules called free radicals. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, an...

SNUPPY – Woo Suk Hwang reveals World’s first dog cloe

...the researchers implanted nuclei from his father’s ear cells into eggs from female dogs, having removed the eggs’ nuclei. By passing a small electric shock to start development, the embryos were implanted into the uterus of a surrogate mother, which was a labrador dog. The team used DNA fingerprinting to...

Internet Helps Patients In Finding Info About Their Children's' Health Conditions

... procedures, such as tonsillectomy or placement of ear tubes, as outpatients at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center during September 2003 and January 2004. Parents were asked questions about their access to the Internet and whether they had searched for information on their child's medical cond...

Have You Ever Wondered How We Perceive Different Sounds?

... has been focused on how sensory hair cells in the ear –– the cells largely responsible for hearing // –...transform the mechanical vibrations that enter the ear in the form of sound waves into chemical signals, which they then direct to the brain. It is surpr...

How balanced are you? Need Help!!!

... This dizziness could indicate damage to the inner ear of both ears that results in bilateral vestibular loss. Worn on the belt, it contains sensors that detect when the person sways outside a vertical "safe zone". A computer then converts that information into musical tones played through headphones, ...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

...nign tumors which grow in the nerve connecting the ear and inner ear to the brain - and 3,553 people who did not have the disease. No link has been established between a...

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