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Now the Blind can ‘hear’ What They Can’t See or Rad

...ve developed a device that can enable the blind to hear what they cannot see or read//. Called 'E-Netra', it costs Rs.2,000-3,000 and it reads texts through an embedded system and converts them into voice that can be heard through earphones. Right now it can only read text, but later it is likely to p...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

...patients in other parts of the world that we never hear about day-to-day. They could affect any one of us in this room, and that's really what this program is about, trying to reduce risk for health care everywhere for everyone." Karen Timmons, president of a U.S. based patient safety organization that ...

Chinese Medicinal Compound Stops Formation of Cysts in Polycystic Kidney

...t is as if the phone is ringing but the cell can't hear it. So, never sensing a signal to stop, the cells lining the fully-formed kidney tubules keep right on subdividing and growing. The result of this hyperproliferative, unregulated growth: uncontrolled growth of cells lining the tubules and the formati...

Canadians Despair for Family Doctors

...amily doctor. Those who are fortunate enough to hear about doctors taking on new patients are regularly required to go through a screening process before being accepted. If a would-be patient has too many health issues, he or she may not be accepted as a patient -- leaving them in a state of anxiety....

Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players

... a statement saying the team was 'disappointed' to hear about the guilty plea and that 'the conduct in question is diametrically opposed to the values and standards of the Mets organization and our owners.' GPL/B...

Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

...lood tested before getting married. "Whenever we hear of a marriage we go to that place with our child. We make them aware of the consequences of a union like ours," she added. The couple's campaign has impressed the entire medical fraternity of the Arambag sub-divisional hospital. Many doctors - like...

China Agrees to Share Bird Flu Samples

... a WHO spokeswoman in Beijing. "Normally when we hear those kinds of reassurances, we're pretty positive that they will be sharing shortly," she said. The state-run China Daily quoted a Ministry of Health official as saying it was preparing to share new samples. "As requested by the WHO, we will sen...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

... to collect the EEG signals, during which patients hear a series of low- and high-frequency tones as well as some novel sounds. Patients were asked to respond by pressing a button every time they heard the high frequency tone, also known as the “oddball” tone, which generates ERPs in the EEG. Generally, i...

Graphics- Helps Bridge Gaps in Patients’ Understanding of Medical Condition

...garding treatment options. It is not uncommon to hear families of patients, complain that their concerns about treatments were not addressed well enough. Statistics has revealed that one-third of families who have lost their dear ones to illnesses, most often blame doctors for miscommunicating treatment...

National Neurosurgery Awareness Week Kicks Off During Annual Meeting of the AANS

...san K. Bejjani, MD, AANS spokesperson. When people hear the word 'neurosurgeon,' most think 'brain surgeon.' However, neurosurgeons are medical specialists who diagnose and treat disorders of the entire nervous system. Of course, they operate on the brain, but they actually spend close to 70 percent of th...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...enerative diseases of the eyes,// will relieved to hear that the lowly neural progenitor cell may be useful for restoring the deteriorating vision. In a study in rats, neural progenitor cells derived from human fetal stem cells have been shown to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye dise...

Root Beer - Safe Soft Drink

... contact with teeth. 'My patients are shocked to hear that many of the soft drinks they consume battery acid,' Dr. Ross explains. For example, one type of cola ranked 2.39 on the acid scale, compared to battery acid which is 1.0. Researchers concluded that non-colas cause a greater amount of erosion t...

Making Sense of the World Through a Cochlear Implant

... is predictable. 'In a noisy environment, when we hear speech that appears to be predictable, it seems that more regions of the brain are engaged,' explains Dr Jonas Obleser, who did the research whilst based at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), UCL. 'We believe this is because the brain sto...

Simon Cowell Has No Sympathy For Britney Spears Mental Health Problems

... people live in that are beyond belief. So, when I hear about the Williams and the Spears going into rehab I think, 'I'll tell you what rehab is. Go to where I just went, where people really are suffering and then you'll see just how good your life is'.' Source-IANS R.S...

New Protocol Targets Aggressive Brain Cancer

... run the Marine Corps. Marathon in October. “You hear the old adage ‘Live every day like it’s your last.’ Now after this traumatic event in my life has happened, it has changed the way I think in that respect. I live life even more fully than I used to. I look for everything. Me and the wife share more ...

‘Delayed Reaction’ to Radiation Therapy Takes the Life of a Woman After 30 Yeas

...o radiotherapy. He said: 'One is almost shocked to hear that somebody should endure such a treatment when it is designed to help them overcome a disease. But I must bear in mind that the way in which radiotherapy was approached has now been refined. In 1971 the world was a different place and doctors felt...

Hearing Impaired Student Captures International Performance Award

...ng pitches of high frequency. “I’m still able to hear physically with the help of hearing aids, and play...are to assist him in tuning pianos. “I’ll try to hear the ‘vibration’ of the pitch,” he said. “If the piano sounds ‘calm,’ then it’s in tune. That’s how ...

Lard, Have Mercy

...ax for health schemes.Not many people are happy to hear that, but where does the solution lie? A lot is blamed on today’s food: tempting, readily available, cheap and very bad. Yet not only are today’s foods cheaper than ever, they are even more accessible than fresh fish, vegetables, whole grain...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

... blind people around the world //who would like to hear more about this invention. Scientists working for the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California have improved upon a previous invention released in 2002; a prototype artificial retina. They plan to start clinical studies for t...

Never-Betrayed Men Less Likely to Indulge in Child Sex Abuse

...d females,' Freyd said. 'In psychology, we often hear about main effects – men vs. women, trauma history vs. no trauma history – but here what we have is an interaction, where trauma history really mattered with the men, and their ability to believe a story depended on their personal experience,' she sa...

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