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Madness- the Genius Connection

...etween the prefrontal cortex and striatum normally improves cognitive ability; it may have a negative effect when other genetic and environmental factors interfere. The result could be a predisposition to schizophrenia, which is known to be caused by a combination of genes and a person’s environment. Wei...

Action Video Games Improves Vision

...almology clinics. In essence, playing video game improves your bottom line on a standard eye chart. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester. "After just 30 hours, players ...

Helium Helps COPD Sufferers to Exercise

...m-hyperoxia (40 percent oxygen, 60 percent helium) improves the exercise tolerance of COPD patients to a greater extent than only oxygen, which is currently used for treating patients with this disorder. People with severe COPD typically struggle for every breath while exercising and any improvements that c...

Giving Nitroglycerin During Labour Improves Babies' Health

...elps to prolong pregnancy and – most importantly – improves babies’ outcome, with fewer side effects than experienced through the use of other drugs. “Our team is very excited about these findings,” says Dr. Smith, an expert in high-risk obstetrics. “It is estimated that it costs the Canadian health system ...

Creatine Supplement May Help People With Muscular Dystrophies

...ows that short- and medium-term creatine treatment improves muscle strength in people with muscular dystrophie...ogresses. Since some studies suggest that creatine improves muscle performance in healthy people, many researchers have reasoned that it might be helpful in tre...

Common BP Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy

...r a fatal disease-Duchenne muscular dystrophy-that improves both length and quality of life," says Cohn. "For so many reasons, we're excited about these studies and their potential to transform the care of patients with both Marfan syndrome and Duchenne muscular dystrophy," says Dietz. "First, this treatme...

Doctors Role in Preventing STD

...sponsibility for the care of their sexual partners improves outcomes, say the authors. Health professionals should consider these three strategies for the management of individual patients. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

...und no evidence that prompt insertion of ear tubes improves developmental outcomes compared with delayed insertion if the fluid eventually fails to clear up spontaneously. This finding reverses a decades-old belief held by many in the medical community that fluid in the middle ear may lead to developmental im...

Informing Partners Can Help Cut Sexually Transmitted Infections

...sponsibility for the care of their sexual partners improves outcomes, say the authors. Health professionals should consider these three strategies for the management of individual patients. Source-Eurekalert...

New International Study to Test Exercise in Heart Failure Patients

... clinical trials have shown that exercise training improves physiological measurements” such as the distance that patients can walk in six minutes, they said after analyzing 14 trials. “None of these trials enrolled a sufficient number of patients to properly evaluate the impact of exercise training on death ...

Social Status may Affect Lifespan

...ngs because status often brings more wealth, which improves living standards and medical care, reported the online edition of New Scientist. Andrew Oswald and Matthew Rablen, economists at Britain's Warwick University, studied 524 men - 135 winners and 389 nominees - for the Nobel Prize in physics and chemis...

New Method For Fighting Leukemia

...w method for fighting Leukemia. This new method improves the antileukemic activity of a novel agent that triggers programmed cell death, //a development that could lead to more effective strategies for fighting leukemia and other malignancies. The cell death process, or apoptosis, is characteristically i...

Aspirin and Asthma: Study

... adults, they absolutely do not imply that aspirin improves symptoms in patients with asthma. The drug also carries risks of side-effects such as stomach bleeding. SRI...

Benefits of Diachrome for People With Type 2 Diabetes

...bination of chromium picolinate and biotin, safely improves blood glucose levels and cholesterol metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes. Published in the December issue of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics, the study supports the role of chromium picolinate – the most studied, highly absorbed and effica...

Good Diet Includes Herbs

...its," said Zick. Rosemary is an antioxidant that improves memory and possibly helps prevent cancer.Basil, oregano and rosemary fight colds. Thyme treats chronic coughs. "The health benefits of thyme are unique. It has been traditionally used to treat coughs, even whooping cough," said Zick. Turmeric cur...

Physical Exercise Fights Mental Woes

...nd //even Alzheimer's, say researchers. "Exercise improves thinking and mental function and decreases your tendency toward addiction," Marc Siegel, associate professor of medicine at the New York University of Medicine, was quoted as saying by health portal Health Central. "Studies have shown that it works ...

Study Finds Astaxanthin Is Potent Inhibitor of Oxidation in Cell Membrane Model

...e their benefit. Increasing the dose of the statin improves the outcome and extends the benefits to people who have risk factors alone such as high cholesterol, but dose limiting side effects emerge especially when the drugs are taken for a long time. Pashkow said that the recent problems encountered with Pfi...

Keep Kids Active in the Holidays

...the coming year. “Participation in sport not only improves physical fitness and mental health, but it can also help children learn better coordination and social skills,” he said. “Pursuits such as cycling and swimming have the added benefit of teaching children water and road safety.” The Australian Burea...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

... attention operates. The mystery of how attention improves the perception of incoming sensory stimulation has been a long-time concern of scientists. One hypothesis is that when you pay attention neurons produce stronger brain activity, as if the stimulus itself was stronger. That would mean that paying atte...

Keep Kids Active in the Holidays

...he coming year. “Participation in sport not only improves physical fitness and mental health, but it can also help children learn better coordination and social skills,” he said. “Pursuits such as cycling and swimming have the added benefit of teaching children water and road safety.” The Australian Bur...

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