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Brain Regions Do Not Communicate Efficiently in Adults with Autism

...ng and positron emission tomography, both of which gauge brain activity by measuring blood flow. Post-mortem studies also suggest impairments in communication at the level of individual brain cells. This over and under abundance of neural connections suggests inefficient and inconsistent communication in...

Saving Hearts with Cutting-Edge Technology

...d a programme that will provide the wherewithal to gauge a patient’s condition in record time. This novel technology that effectively measures the risk in patients is already being employed in many hospitals in Britain, indeed a shot in the arm to doctors who need to take split-second decisions in many lif...

Decaffeinated Coffee... Not Really!

...s set out to conduct a two-phase study designed to gauge just how much caffeine is likely to turn up in decaffeinated coffees. First they purchased 10 16-ounce decaffeinated drip-brewed coffee beverages from nine national chains or local coffee houses and tested them for caffeine content. Caffeine was is...

Smoke-Filled Cars: New Fodder for the Next Clean Air Fight

...of Preventive Medicine. PM 2.5 is one often-used gauge of air quality, which reports the amount of “particulate matter” or particle pollution in the air that is 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller. The smaller the particles, the easier it is for pollution to pass through the nose and throat and penetr...

Three Molecular Triggers Threaten Leukemia Patients

... (AML) and then followed the patients' progress to gauge the cumulative impact of a trio of cell-signaling chain reactions on the disease. "We found that the more of these pathways that are active in a patient, the worse their prognosis," says first author Steve Kornblau, M.D., associate professor in the...

Super Chow, Laced With Semi-Synthetic Vitamin E, Inhibited Spread of Cancer

...ned to its natural vitamin E state,” he said. To gauge the effectiveness of a dietary treatment, the researchers had special rat chow manufactured that incorporated a fairly large quantity of alpha-TEA into the food. They then tested the chow as a cancer preventive and as a cancer treatment. For the pr...

Researchers Estimate Significant Fatty Liver Disease in Children

...olic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in children. //To gauge its occurrence a University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine-led team studied 742 autopsy reports and tissue analysis of San Diego County children aged two to 19 who died from traumatic accidents, homicide or suicide and had a medic...

Manure Blamed as Cause for the E Coli Out Break

...uspected cattle dung are being tested presently to gauge if the same strain of E coli which caused umpteen people to fall sick will bloody stools and a form of kidney failure, is present in it. Deputy Director of the California Department of Health Services Kevin Reilly. Has informed the public that...

‘Obesity’ Acquires Permanent Resident Status in the US

...at it is important to seek medical intervention to gauge the eating and physical activity habits, before the child reaches the danger mark. Russell Pate, professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina, and colleagues put a few kids on a basic treadmill test, and much to their dismay, fou...

Hooked on the Hookah, a’int no good

... participant's mouth, which can then be stained to gauge the chromosomal condition of these cells. They used this technique to study waterpipe smoking in a rural Egyptian village, and reported in a second study, published in 2003 in the Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, that the level of dam...

Monoclonal Antibody Reduces Exacerbations in Asthmatics

... mouthpiece of the PEF meter for three tests. As a gauge for pulmonary function, it is especially useful in patients older than age five who have persistent moderate to severe asthma.) “None of the exacerbations we saw in our study warranted treatment with oral corticosteroids or hospitalization, so they...

Are Food Labels Intelligible?

New York - To gauge the efficacy of food labels and test if it meets the intended purpose, researchers at the Vanderbilt University for Health Services //embarked on a survey involving 200 primary care patients. The survey revealed, despite the enduring habit of reading...

Fearful or Fearless, Control Exists in The Brain

...n the strengths of the stroop test, essentially to gauge the extent of mental expandability, by eliciting people’s choice between a given word and its color. Subjects will be given a list of words to read, for example "blue", "orange", or "violet", in which the word "blue" might be written in red ink, "or...

Diabetes Drug, Exenatide, Good For Blood Sugar Levels and Weight Loss

... a measure of individuals average glucose level, a gauge commonly used by the specialists. The study also revealed that many patients using exenatide also experienced weight loss, an average of 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds), while the patients receiving biphasic insulin aspart had actually gained an average o...

Few Medicaid Kids with Asthma Get Recommended Flu Shot

...uld greatly improve vaccination rates. To better gauge the potential for improving and maintaining vaccination rates for children with asthma, Dombkowski and his colleagues felt it was important to understand the degree to which missed opportunities for flu vaccination occur among these children. The C...

Mind in a Bind – Alternative Intervention

...ica’ is closest as a mirror image. A physician can gauge if medicines are efficacious noting changes in the functional plane. Some of the important remedies used in practice to counter stress are Argentum Met., Arnica, Aurum, Picric acid, Ignatia, Kali Brom, Lillium tigrinum, Natrum sulphuricum, Manganum...

Finally, light at the end of the tunnel for those suffering tunnel vision

...people with tunnel vision. During a study to gauge the success rate of the high-tech device, researchers found that there was a marked increase in the way the visually impaired were able to place their finger on objects. This contraption, which comprises of a small camera, pocket-sized computer and s...

Cigarette companies adopt devious methods to ensure customer patronage

... unique study, the first of its kind undertaken to gauge the levels of nicotine in cigarettes has revealed the sharp rise in the levels of nicotine content in cigarettes, devised to crush the will of a person to quit smoking. The state Department of Public Health has indicated that the amount of nicoti...

Smoke Alarm Too Mild To Alert Elderly From Sleep

A novel study intending to gauge the efficacy of smoke alarms has suggested that high pitched smoke alarms may not be able to alert the elderly. The research conducted on 42// adults, between the ages of 65 to 85 found that a mixed frequency signal showed better results than a compl...

Split-Second Helpings of Intuition Serve Lasting Impressions

...t we could use it in just one tenth of a second to gauge a stranger, according to research in this area. Researchers say that impressions// are formed even in the absence of speech and movement, because all it needs is just a split second to size up a person’s character and decide whether he is worthy of c...

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