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Good Oral Health Equals Good Health for Your Heart

... at bay. And if you do have a gum infection, don’t ignore it, treating it may help open up arteries, and increase blood flow through them. You never know, you may then be warding off a stroke or heart attack. AN...

Bladder Pacemaker For Incontinence

...n constantly. "The sensory system is designed to ignore signals if they are delivered constantly," Grill said. An everyday example of this "habituation" effect is the way people become accustomed to the pressure of a watch against the skin and no longer feel it, he said. Indeed, the researchers found th...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...mune system response. Why do T cells almost always ignore the small intestine, leaving this vital tissue unh...rmed? "It's obvious that T cells must be able to ignore – or become 'tolerized' to – normal intestinal tissue," states Turley, who is also an assistant prof...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

...but subjects were told to pay attention to one and ignore the other. Sometimes the target patterns were fairly dim. At other times they were quite bright. EEG responses from the participants showed more brain activity for brighter stimuli, as expected, but responses also varied depending on attention. The...

Aung San Suu Kyi complains of irregular medical visits

...992, when it was used as an excuse by the junta to ignore the results of the 1990 general election, which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won by a landslide. On Saturday, Gambari also met with SPDC chief Senior General Than Shwe and Vice Chairman Maung Aye in the country's new capital of Nay...

Why Do People Stick To Their Bad Habits?

Why do people ignore public warnings and advertisements on the dangers of bad habits like smoking, drinking alcohol, overeating and stressing out //though they know that they aren't good for health? Why persist in bad habits have become the convention of many people acr...

Anti Atherosclerosis Therapies Linked to Leukemia

...the end of a year. "As immunologists, we couldn't ignore this," Puré says. "The spleen is an important organ of the immune system." Exploring their observation, the scientists ascertained that the spleens of all of the mice in the experiments were somewhat enlarged, swollen with cells called granulocytes ...

A Timely Reminder Of Devastating Health Impact Of Climate Change

...need to combat climate change are now too great to ignore or oppose.” Last year, the AMA and the Australian Conservation Foundation released research on the health impacts of climate change in Australia, which showed the potential for up to 15,000 heat-related deaths a year by 2100. The research also sho...

Smoking in cars-highway to death

...his evidence staring at your faces parents cannot ignore the death knell that tolls far away MST...

Too much time with the telly may trigger autism

...h the researchers have exhorted all parents not to ignore the warning given by experienced paediatricians to curtail and minimize the number of hours devoted to watching T.V for very young children. The American Academy of Pediatrician’s have recommended that children above the age of two should not be allo...

Stress brings about early onset of puberty

...s say. "While society in general might prefer to ignore earlier puberty, the commercial sector certainly has not, drawing heavily on sexual imagery in their marketing to young teens. Such marketing is likely to reinforce the confusion caused by separated physical and social puberty, rather than providing ...

Lack of treatment for cocaine users

...y current and potential users, otherwise they will ignore what they're told. "Cocaine users who develop a problem will require treatment quite different from that offered by traditional services, which tend to be geared to heroin-related problems." GYT...

Imperative to Extend Reach of Federal Health Insurance Schemes for children

... sponsored insurance schemes, while some choose to ignore it because they find the enrollment process time-consuming. Mark McClellan, in charge of the federally subsidized health insurance programs at the Medicare and Medicaid outfits, has reiterated that the US administration can do a lot more to step up...

Cardiologists Ignoring Treatment Of Depression

...ssion// in their patients, they are more likely to ignore to or not recommend treatment for it. The report is published in "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" and "Psychosomatic Medicine." According to the report, up to 20 percent of patients with heart disease meet the American Psychiatric Association's crite...

The Rise in Unhealthy Snacking Habit

... salt and sugar as we and our children continue to ignore the warnings and consume excessive amounts of unhealthy foods. Crisps are just the tip of the iceberg,' said Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the charity. 12.5 teaspoons of oil is present in a common 35 gm (1.2 ounce) packet of crisps...

Easing Kids into the Basics of Back to School

...onflict. Bennett advises children to walk away and ignore the bully because bullies usually seek a reaction of fear or frustration. Humor can be also be used to diffuse a bully’s aggression. Child can also be instructed to say something like, 'Stop doing that. It’s not fair.' He said fairness seems to st...

Bismillah Khan frets over government ignoring request

...is pained that the central government continues to ignore his request for a cooking gas agency for one of his grandsons. The 91-year-old Khan, who was awarded the Bharat Ratna - India's highest civilian honour - in 2001, says a gas agency would be useful for him to run his huge family, reportedly numberin...

Drivers in Casts, a Threat to Others

...said, "And if they believe the patient is going to ignore that advice they've got an obligation to tell us." Accident and Medical Practitioners Association secretary Alistair Sullivan said that doctors were given written guidelines on what patients with a plaster cast should be instructed about driving. ...

Scientist Study New Treatment Modality for Psychiatric Disorders Using Mice

... and that the numbers are irrelevant so you should ignore them. Mice compose the majority of medical research animals, but since no test existed to monitor them for such skills as set shifting, their usefulness in studying autism, other similar diseases and traumatic brain injuries was limited, Garner said....

Skin Cancer More Fatal In Dark-Skinned People

...the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun makes them ignore skin changes indicative of cancers at an early stage leading to higher death rates in dark-skinned individuals. Also, Dr. Gloster has pointed out that two of three most common types of skin cancers are not sun related as they occur primarily in sit...

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