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Research Explains How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits

...s Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The exciting idea is that scientists have discovered ways to increase the number of new neurons, and this may facilitate learning in the hippocampus portion of the brain.” The researchers studied young adult rats, using a group of lead-treated and non-treated (contr...

Health Secretary Apologizes For Failed Online Recruitment System

...look into their problems, saying that the proposed idea of one job interview per doctor was unfair as many of them had been offered more. The complaints against the online recruitment system include the forms being badly worded, not asking pertinent questions, not allowing applicants to set out relevan...

Breakthrough in Converting Blood Groups

..., leading science journal Nature has said. The idea of such antigen-stripping, says Nature, goes back to the early 1980s, with the discovery of an enzyme in coffee beans that removes B antigens from red blood cells. The newly discovered bacterial 'B' enzyme is nearly 1,000 times more efficient than ...

Pies Restricted To Once A Term For Kiwi School Kids

...and bad food for their kids. They did not like the idea of government telling them what food to give to their children. According to Carol Thomson, as pies and sausage rolls are fattening food, it should be served occasionally. The quality of fat also cannot be ensured in some cases. Educating the peo...

FSA Proposes Packaging of Fatty Food in Smaller Packs

The food standards agency has come out with a good idea to ensure reduction in the consumption of fatty food. With a view to encouraging// "portion size control" and improve the health of the nation, they have proposed that fat laden foods be sold in smaller packs. This move by the FSA seeks to encourag...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

... that may influence the cells around them. 'The idea was to test the cells as a continuous delivery sys...hing to inject the eyes many times over years. The idea was to use the cells as a continuous delivery system, but we found they work quite well on their own...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...n in the last couple of years probably because the idea that people need to be screened is finally getting out there." When caught early, DuBois notes, malignant growths still contained in the intestine can be removed with surgery, and 50 percent of patients are cured this way. “ Yet, about 30 perce...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...that may influence the cells around them. "The idea was to test the cells as a continuous delivery sys...hing to inject the eyes many times over years. The idea was to use the cells as a continuous delivery system, but we found they work quite well on their own...

Lesser the Better- Minimally Invasive Surgery Breakthrough

..., in the March edition of Annals of Surgery. The idea of using magnets to manipulate the instruments in the abdominal cavity was formulated after Dr. Cadeddu watched a television show featuring teens who used magnets to hold studs on their lips to avoid getting their lips pierced. “Once you think abou...

Specially Developed Proteins Could Help Resist Ageing

...en, nitrogen and oxygen could be on the way. The idea has received a mixed reception from scientists in the field. Some point out that deuterium is toxic in moderate quantities, while others said it would be almost impossible to eat the right amount of fortified food to have a beneficial effect. Nick ...

Tumors Targeted Naturally

...pe, it can be easily displaced. The team got the idea to mimic this process from efforts to transplant pig organs into primates. The surfaces of most mammalian and bacterial cells express large amounts of a carbohydrate, called alpha-Gal in scientific shorthand, while the cells of humans and other highe...

Scientists Re-grow Dental Enamel from Cultured Cells

...er provided with an appropriate environment. The idea for the culturing technique originates from 1975, when Dr. J.G. Rheinwald and Dr. H. Green of Harvard Medical School reported the use of feeder layers for culturing epithelial cells from the skin (the 3T3-J2 cells used in the current study were gifte...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

... has been made anywhere." He notes that the very idea of making the TB patients visit the clinics thrice a week for treatment and collect medicines under the DOTS is almost outrageous. For how many can afford to trek to the nearest clinic that many times a week, who will pay them the transport fare and ...

eSie Touch Elasticity Imaging, and a Promise of Avoiding Breast Biopsies

...des further insight into potential pathology. "The idea of using the mechanical characteristics of soft tissue to diagnose disease is almost as old as medicine itself. Hippocrates shared this knowledge more than 2,000 years ago," says Klaus Hambuchen, head of the Ultrasound Division of Siemens Medical Sol...

Drug for Blood Pressure also Treats Lung Cancer

... reduce lung cancer deaths,' said Gallagher. The idea to evaluate the effects of angiotensin-(1-7) on lung cancer came from studies observing that rates of lung cancer were lower in people whose high blood pressure was treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. These drugs, which inclu...

Making Sense of the World Through a Cochlear Implant

... and have a high level of background noise. 'The idea behind the study was to simulate the experience of having a cochlear implant, where speech can sound like a very distorted, harsh whisper,' says Professor Sophie Scott, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the ICN. 'Further down the line, we ho...

Gene Study Offers Hope of Potent Anti-cancer Drugs

...erent cancers but, until now, have not had a clear idea about how many mutations in these genes were directly involved in triggering cancer. The latest study analyzed 200 samples of cancerous tissue, surveying 500 genes and sequencing more than 250 million letters of the DNA code. An international team ...

Unique Savings Scheme Aids Sex Workers

...ills. We are working with communities that have no idea what it means to save or open a bank account," say...ained Jayashree, TAI's communication officer: "The idea is not to just reward them for their savings but their consistency and the ability to standout as ro...

Dialysis Trust Set Up in Bangalore by End-stage Kidney Patients

...uted the Dialysis Trust of Bangalore with the main idea of increasing awareness about kidney diseases. It is estimated that about 1.5 million people world over undergo dialysis. The focus of Bangalore Dialysis Trust is to enhance the awareness of this disease and most importantly spread the information t...

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo - Announce They Are To Introduce Healthy Drink

... about its link to obesity, the report said. The idea of healthy soda is not entirely new. In 2004 Cadbury Schweppes caused a stir when it unveiled 7Up Plus, a low-calorie soda fortified with vitamins and minerals. Last year, Cadbury tried to extend the healthy halo over its regular 7Up brand by labe...

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