Tag: "gamble" at medical news

Sniff to compatibility

...cted to some of father's gene smells may be a safe gamble for a woman to ensure her offspring gets a tried and tested immune system....

Scottish Children Attracted To Serious Gambling

...h-payout machines. That is why teenagers start to gamble seriously with money.Gambling counselors said that the survey showed that it was necessary to include lessons on the dangers of gambling in schools. "Gambling in children is not obvious, like smoking, drinking or physical abuse, but it is there," cou...

"Active" Brain Makes Rational Decisions!!

... asked to choose between either a sure option or a gamble option (where they would have a certain chance of ... study found that participants were more likely to gamble at the threat of losing ￡30 than the offer of keeping ￡20. On average, when presented with the "keep...

Odds Are That Gamblers Have More Health Problems

People who gamble at least five times a year have more health problems than people who gamble less frequently, a new study reveals.// And people with a severe gambling addiction are the most l...

Acid Test - Glaxo's Cervarix, and Merck's Gardasil, Compete

...p said, ``this is a very strategic and high stakes gamble by Glaxo that could have significant implications for both companies.'' Statistics show that cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer among women, with as many as 250,000 women dying every year to the disease. Both the vaccines in question ...

Medications for Restless Legs Syndrome may Trigger Compulsive Gambling

... begun. The report suggests that the compulsion to gamble worsened with increasing doses of the dopamine ago...edication. She developed an uncontrollable urge to gamble when visiting the nearby casino. As the dose increased, her gambling compulsion grew stronger. The t...

Koirala's Temptation and Gamble

It was a gamble for Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala w..., also used the occasion to confess to the biggest gamble of his political life. "I gambled 60 years of my political career to have a dialogue with the Maoi...

Don't Gamble With People's Health, Warn Experts

...just as likely as men to play lottery games and to gamble at casinos, and it is likely that the introduction...growing numbers of people may experience when they gamble is also of paramount importance, stresses Rachel A Volberg, president of the U.S. based Gemini Resea...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...ctation of being rewarded for making the high risk gamble was elevated. Allied to this finding was the observation that there was an attenuated response to losses in the insula, a part of the brain involved with evaluating the emotional significance of an event. According to the authors, the new findings...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...ctation of being rewarded for making the high risk gamble was elevated. Allied to this finding was the observation that there was an attenuated response to losses in the insula, a part of the brain involved with evaluating the emotional significance of an event. According to the authors, the new findings...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

...is of a low-resolution HLA typing report. It was a gamble because we knew that there was only a 30 percent chance of locating a compatible family donor whose stem cells could be used for treating some advanced conditions. Now, it is no longer necessary to go abroad for such treatment," Easow said....

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...wlyweds-to-be will descend on this desert city to gamble that the lucky number holds the key to marital bliss. In the wedding capital of the world, couples are lining up to get married on Saturday, July 7, 2007 -- 7/7/7 -- placing their bets on future domestic tranquility and happiness. In small chapel...

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