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Unregulated Fish Industry Harms Health Of Women

...at affects the blood vessels in the fingers, toes, ears and nose. Though more common in people who live in colder climates, a sample survey found that almost a third of the 800,000 to 900,000 women working in the industry fall prey to Raynaud's Phenomenon. "Raynaud's Phenomenon leads to permanent da...

$2.4 Million Grant To Unravel The Mystery Of Language Recognition.

... fluctuations in air pressure are perceived in the ears but the second part of conversion is a multifarious task. This research will provide an insight of how the brain converts the sound waves into language. Statistics reveal that 1 million people in US are already suffering from aphasia or Language ...

Early Intervention Required For The Hearing Impaired

...child called Sonam was born with a hearing in both ears in India, but she is now able to respond to sounds...y children with congenital deafness affecting both ears can develop spoken language skills and be integrated into a normal school by the age of three or fou...

Implants In The Ear Is Effective Against All Types Of Hearing Loss

...ry. Patients with residual hearing in one or both ears prior to surgery scored significantly higher on the speech perception tests following surgery, even when the implanted ear was profoundly deaf prior to surgery. The researchers also noted that patients’ ability to interpret speech in a noisy environm...

How balanced are you? Need Help!!!

...ess 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, which get lou...

Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

...dults on a college campus, have something in their ears almost all the time as they walk from class, visit... and rest in their apartments," Novak says. "Their ears have very little quiet time to recover from noise exposure. Often, listeners play music too loudly t...

Healthy At 50: Possible?

...e of the rich”. Diabetes is never good news to the ears as it brings along with it lot of other health complications and health restrictions. Source: Indo-Asian News Service More Information on Medindia Diabetes: All of us know someone suffering from diabetes. This sums up the prevalence of diabetes...

Death Of Singaporean Woman After Mysterious Illness

... black//, skin peeled off and blood oozed from her ears in an ordeal that started with a simple fever, news reports said Thursday. Reeling from shock and disbelief, the family of June Wong, 26, is demanding answers. Officials have classified the case as an unnatural death. Wong is suspected of having ...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...gular exposure to carbon monoxide can damage// the ears of young children. Carbon monoxide enters into the atmosphere from kerosene and gas stove combustions, generators and other liquid fuel powered equipments, car exhaust and tobacco smokes. At moderate concentrations carbon monoxide can cause angina, ...

Link Between Sex Hormones And Risk Of Breast Cancer

...in breast cancer. These receptors are the eyes and ears of the cells, receiving and interpreting messages sent by the hormones. Estrogen and progesterone stimulate growth of normal breast cells as well as some breast cancer cells. Previous research has shown a connection between hormone levels and the ris...

Vitamin E Could Restore Sudden Hearing Loss

... could prevent consequences of damage in the inner ears of animals. With this evidence, researchers assumed antioxidants could reduce the damage and enhance recovery of idiopathic sudden hearing loss. Sixty-six participants were enrolled in the study within eight days from onset of the hearing loss. They...

New Treatment For Headache

...d when they found me, I had blood coming out of my ears and my nose. I don’t have a personal recollection for two and a half years after that moment. ”Eric suffered a massive head injury. "My pain just got worse and worse, until I couldn’t stand it. I mean, it was so sharp, I didn’t know what to do. It wa...

A novel augmentation

...om Japan have augmented the cells of frog eyes and ears in a test tube, in the erstwhile step towards grow-your-own organs.The mode uses special cells taken from frog embryos called stem cells. These have the potential to develop into any specific type of cell in the frog's body - heart, skin, muscle and ...

The way you talk matters a lot

... which runs from both sides of the skull under the ears and behind the jaw)could be a more common cause of tears, or dissections, in the walls of the carotid artery. He said around 20% of strokes in young adults were caused by dissections. Dr Zuber said: "This case shows us that everyday activities wit...

Noise tampers hearing

...for significant premature hearing loss. When both ears are affected, even a slight noise-induced hearing loss can result in difficulty hearing consonants such as s, sh, f and v. In cases of moderate noise-induced hearing loss, the problem of hearing consonants and distinguishing words like 'fish' and 'fi...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...r tubes in young children who develop fluid in the ears does not improve speech, hearing or psychological ... age 3 who had experienced persistent fluid in the ears during infancy and very early childhood. In the study, children either got ear tubes immediately, or...

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