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New Ban on Smoking to Be Considered

...nia, coughing and wheezing, asthma attacks, middle ear infection, cot death, and possibly cardiovascular and neurobiological impairment in children. These findings were confirmed by the UK’s Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH), which reviewed the evidence in 2004 following its initial rep...

Antibiotic Ear Drops Favored Over Oral Antibiotics for Ear Infections

A multicenter study on treating common ear infections in children with ear tubes adds to a growing body of evidence that favors antibiotic ear drops over antibiotics swallowed...

Outcomes of Surgically Implanted Hearing Aids

...nd consistent stimulation of the part of the inner ear known as the cochlea is critical to a child's development of speech and language. Bone-anchored hearing aids, structures that are surgically attached to the skull's temporal bone, treat hearing loss by directly stimulating the cochlea and conducting ...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...f the adrenal gland, stria vascularis of the inner ear and some areas of the brain. Melanin molecules are composed of aggregates of smaller molecules of polyacetylene, polypyrrole, polyaniline and their copolymers. The type of melanin differs according to the proportion and banding pattern of these small...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

...s a recent study. It is generally believed that ear fluid has to be removed as it hinders development ...n children. But this study suggests that inserting ear tubes to remove ear fluid do not improve developmental outcomes up to 9 to 11 years of age. This imp...

Liposuction, Quick Fixes for the Obese

... year, followed by eyelid surgery, liposuction, ear correction and face or neck lifts. The growth in demand is part of an overall beautification frenzy sweeping the globe. In the UK, total cosmetic operations were up 31 per cent last year to almost 29,000, according to BAAPS. The Harley Medical ...

Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors

...n body, such as the urinary tract, eyeball cavity, ear and cerebrospinal fluid," Sitti told New Scientist. "They could also be employed to monitor toxic or pathogenic biochemical agents in the environment as well for inspection and maintenance of liquid filled pipes in spacecraft and nuclear plants." S...

The Secretions Influence Opposite Sex

...tal signs like body temperature, skin conductance, ear pulse, blood pressure, respiratory function and cardiac rate throughout the experiment. They also measured mood and sexual arousal by checking the levels of cortisol, a hormone that has been associated with arousal and mood, in saliva samples....

Cochlear Implants in Both Ears Enables Better Hearing

... deaf children who have a cochlear implant in each ear more accurately locate sounds when they use both i...eals that the brain is still open to input from an ear that was deaf for a very long time.' Litovsky emphasizes that her goal is not to tell parents or d...

Researchers Warn Against the Use Of Garlic To Treat Childhood Ailments

...elieving effects for treating pain associated with ear infections in children. However, it was unknown how much the garlic itself contributed to the pain relief. There were no significant improvements when using garlic to treat cardiovascular disease in youngsters, and more study is needed to explore t...

Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears

...tant mid-ranged pitched sound in his injured right ear accented by the periodic piercing of a high-pitche...lear implant replaces the damaged mechanism in the ear that stimulates the auditory nerve, Zeng believes that a properly pitched acoustic sound will have t...

Car Airbags Will Cause Permanent Hearing Loss in 17 Percent

...hought, airbag deployment is more hazardous to the ear when a car’s windows are rolled down. These are ...ags are deployed is actually less hazardous to the ear than rolled-down windows. This is because the higher pressure generated in the closed cabin actually...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

... the signal is implanted under the skin behind the ear with a wire connection to the eye implant, but the improved version will fit under the skin around the eye. More significantly, it now has 60 pixels instead of 16 and because it is smaller the operation to implant it is much less traumatic, taking...

Need for Cost-effective Hearing Implants

...ls implanting a small electronic device inside the ear while a magnetic microprocessor is placed outside the ear to amplify external sounds, digitize them and send radio signals to the deaf person's ear to enable ...

Stem Cell Transplants Explored as a Possible Treatment for Hearing Loss

... a leader in stem cell-based research on the inner ear at the Stanford University School of Medicine,// h...apy -which could be as simple as an application of ear drops - and stem cell transplantation into the inner ear to remedy hearing loss. Currently he's wo...

Newborns With Respiratory Distress Potentially Have Rare Genetic Disease

... associated with recurrent or persistent sinus and ear infections. Half of patients with PCD have reverse...the respiratory tract, including the lungs, middle ear and paranasal sinuses, have abnormal or no motion. As a result, the airways become obstructed and in...

Rats Feast on Dead Patient in Kolkata Hospital

...'s body was handed over to his relatives// with an ear and nose nibbled away by rats. TV reports said ...body was handed over to his sons it was found with ear and nose nibbled away by rats. Soon a mob led by the youth wing of the Congress started protesting...

Inner-ear Volume Study Leads to Higher Surgery Success Rates

...he ear. Holes result from either injury or prior ear problems, such as ear tubes. Perforated eardrums can predispose the ear to infection or result in hearing loss. “Until t...

Vaccines Effective in Preterm Babies too

... eye irritation and fever, but it can also lead to ear infections, pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and rarely, death. The mumps virus causes fever, headache and swollen glands, but it may also cause deafness, meningitis, painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and rarely, death. The rubella viru...

Quality of Childcare Program Affects Language Development

...nd number and variety of words. Because frequent ear infections might impact language delay, children w... hearing loss and there were no effects of chronic ear infections on the basic language constructs measured in this study. Source-ewswise SRM...

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