NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and Strokes
... at a subpixel level," Selzer said. "You need that kind of detail to help catch heart disease as early as you can, often before there are any outward symptoms." During the test, a patient lies on an examination table while a technician applies gel to the neck to image the carotid arteries, located on bo...Titan may Produce Glucose Watches Soon
...ade. For diabetics, a prick-less sensor of this kind would be most welcome. India tops the list of diabetics with 3.5 crore. It is projected to cross the 5 crore mark easily by 2025. Diabetics must monitor their blood glucose levels. Strict control over blood glucose has been shown to decrease the r...... pin down how the dentate gyrus contributes to the kind of pattern separation involved in identifying new and old spaces. While the mice behaved normally in most situations, they became confused when required to distinguish between different spaces. This may model the difficulties in forming distinct memo...AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study
...or years, saying that Indians do not have the same kind of sexual networks that are common in southern and eastern Africa, in which both men and women often have two or more occasional but regular sexual partners over long periods of time. Also, outside of prostitution, transactional sex between teenage g...Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics
...der list, but the process took two months. "It was kind of frustrating," Lindsey said. "I thought, 'Am I e...families drive two hours to see a physician of any kind that will take Tricare, said Dorrie Hagan, state family program director for the Montana National Gu...Fangs Taken Out of Canadas Bill 29
...ry-business manager, Judy Darcy, Bill 29 made this kind of contract flipping designed to frustrate unionization, possible. It has created crisis and chaos and uncertainty in health care for five years now .The government should not allow any more damage to flow from Bill 29 , she was quoted. Jim Sincla...Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash
...ime our country and the world has experienced this kind of the disease." Within three months of the disease being identified, a vaccine was developed; and the ministry authorized 12 factories to produce the vaccine. Government figures from the Ministry of Agriculture put at 18,597, the number of pigs ...A Handful of Pistachios a Day Helps to Keep Your Heart Healthy
... amount of healthful monounsaturated fat, like the kind found in pistachios, is a more effective way to prevent heart disease than reducing overall fat intake. What's more, we noted very good compliance and a positive response from participants during the four-week period," he said. As a part of the stu...To Die For: Rolls-Royce and 'green' Coffins at British Funerals
... unusual trend in funerals is for "green" burials, kind to the environment . Since 2000, Vic Fearn and Company have been making offbeat caskets which it markets under the title "Crazy Coffins". The firm recently expanded their range to include illustrated ones. "We didn't invent anything, the demand cam...Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship
...partners, the opposite of what women experience as kind of the gatekeepers of sexuality. Once they enter a...ave existed for hundreds and hundreds of years, we kind of take them for granted and assume this is the way society is and the way men and women should act....Equality Among Genders in Terms of Sex Dreams
... the lights are out. According to a first of its kind survey in four decades, the canadian research team report that about 8 per cent of everyday dream reports from both genders contain some form of sexual-related activity. Professor Antonio Zadra from the University of Montreal psychology presented hi...US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers
...s. About 35 percent of soldiers are seeking some kind of mental health treatment a year after returning home under a program that screens returning troops for physical and mental health. Only three days ago a study revealed former soldiers were twice as likely to commit suicide as people who had not s...Shocking Figures Of Britains Abused Elders Revealed
...0 British senior citizens were victims of some kind of abuse, over the last year . The major survey carried out by the National Center for Social Research and Kings College London, and funded by the Department of Health and Comic Relief is the first national study into the prevalence of elder abuse...Emotional Stress Could Be a Factor in Causing Alzheimers: Study
... study of mice that repeated emotional stress, the kind humans experience in everyday life, may contribut...know was whether exposure to milder stress, of the kind we experience in our daily lives, can induce tau phosphorylation, explains senior research associate...Hazardous Medical Waste Discovered Again In San Jose
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... This is the largest population-based study of its kind to date. Researchers found that women who previously delivered by caesarean section had a 47% increased risk of developing placenta praevia and a 40% increased risk of placental abruption in the following pregnancy. The authors believe that caesa......inking coffee wards off Type 2 diabetes// and some kind of cancers too. Some experts believe that it can also lower the risk of heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver. Antioxidants in coffee help control the cell damage that can contribute to the development of the disease. It is also a source of chl...Malfunction of Gene Causes Schizophrenia, Depression
...Both types of DISC1 mutant mice exhibited the same kind of reduced brain volume seen in people with schizophrenia and depression, and both types showed biochemical abnormalities in the function of the protein produced by the DISC1 gene. The researchers concluded that the different effects of anti-psycho...... make it look having more protein. How long this kind of tainted food has been coming in from china nobody knows. The understaffed food inspection authority find it difficult to check each and every consignment that comes in. 'Clearly that is a concern if that has been going on for a long period of time...