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Google to Digitise 800,000 Books at Mysore Varsity

...he vice chancellor said the company would get free link for these materials once the necessary patent right is done. Prasad, who is also a physicist, said that selected physics students of his university are also getting trained to help in the digitalisation process. Mysore University, an enduring sym...

Obese People More Prone to Severe Persistent Asthma

...any previous studies, this research also shows the link between asthma and obesity is more prominent in women. "A big part of that is simply that 70% of the study subjects were women. We did find a statistically significant association between obesity and asthma severity in men, too," he said. Resear...

Psychological Bullying Hits Just as Hard

...g on victims. There is already strong evidence to link relational aggression with social anxiety, loneliness and depression, peer difficulties and substance use. The authors conclude that the impact of school aggression is such that it calls for creative means to (a) detect relational aggression, and (...

Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

...o track stiffening of large and small arteries and link these measurements with impaired ventricular function. Currently, researchers believe pulmonary arterial hypertension is tied mostly to narrowing of the small blood vessels that carry oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the p...

Some Cancers Linked to Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

... difference in deaths from cancers. There was no link between electromagnetic field exposure and deaths from lymphoid leukaemia, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and brain tumours. But there was some evidence that higher levels of electromagnetic field exposure had an impact on rates of myeloid leukaemia and H...

Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions

...Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between the increasingly popular weight-loss surg...included in the report. In 26 of these patients, a link between the surgery and their neurological condition was found. All of the patients involved in th...

New Insights into Chronic Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

...al inflammation of vessels? To shed light on the link between chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis, a team of researchers in Norway and the United States, affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, focused on the aortas of recent recipients of coronar...

Contact Lens Wearers Warned Against Using AMO Solution

...38 cases after they received reports on a possible link between the AMO contact lens solution and Acanthamoeba kertitis. So far, 46 patients had been reviewed, among whom 36 used contact lenses and some sort of solution and 21 reported use of the AMO contact lens solution within a month of onset of sym...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...lcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. The link between heavy drinking and increased risk of IPV is fairly well established, according to Carol B. Cunradi, senior research scientist at Prevention Research Center and sole author of the study. However, she noted, IPV researchers are increasingly exa...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

...pring Harbor in New York that provides yet another link between neuregulin-1, its receptor ErbB4 and schizophrenia. It shows ErbB4 plays a key role in the maturation and plasticity of excitatory synapses and that normal synapse development is impaired by genetic defects in neuregulin-1 and ErbB4 signaling...

High Level ICU Facilities Afford Greater Survival Chances for Small Infants

...lume NICUs. "Previous studies have established a link between high volume and high quality among NICUs, and this study offers further evidence of that relationship," said Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., AHRQs Director. "It is becoming increasingly clear that some very low birth weight infants are not getting t...

TB Patients in Marginalised Groups Need Social Support for Effective Medical Treatment

...veloping a social model of care, which includes TB link workers to enable access to housing and allied sup...llenge for commissioners of TB services will be to link the evidence for social care with health policy and practice in order to re-configure services with ...

Apple Juice may Help to Keep Childhood Asthma at Bay

... of an actual asthma diagnosis, there was a strong link wheezing and drinking the juice. Researchers found that kids who took apple juice at least once daily were half as likely to experience wheezing as compared to those drinking it less than once a month. Though wheezing does not necessarily lead to...

Antidepressant Use May Boost Fracture Risk, From Harvard Women's Health Watch

...density in those who were depressed. Moreover, the link was found in both younger women and women past menopause. Other studies have found a similar relationship, so investigators have been looking at hormones and brain chemicals potentially involved in both depression and bone loss. Researchers working...

Researchers Identify the Gene Mutation That Raises Breast Cancer Risk

...th Easton on the new study, as saying. A similar link between FGFR2 and cancer among women enrolled in the US-based Nurses' Health Study was found by another group of researchers. "This finding opens up new avenues of research into the causes and prevention of breast cancer by identifying a new biolog...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

... hormone insulin. Insulin is best known for its link to diabetes a condition in which either a complete lack of insulin or systemic resistance to the hormone's activity (as in type 2 diabetes) causes blood sugar levels to soar out of control. Recent studies have shown, however, that insulin also provi...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

...e donor to choose the beneficiary if there is some link between the two people....

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

...ve argued for more than a decade and a half that a link exists between many of these symptoms and the exposure that occurred in Khamisiyah, but evidence has been limited. The latest study, financed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the ...

Obesity Risk Greater For Children Of Overweight Or Single Parents

...lth Research in Perth. Previous indications of a link between poor family functioning and childhood obesity were based on studies without population-based data and without observations across a range of theoretically important factors. Dr Gibson said it is possible that parenting practices regarding c...

Unhealthy Lungs Linked to Hostility?

...lts to offer a detailed examination of the inverse link between hostility and pulmonary function, states lead author and psychologist Benita Jackson, PhD, MPH, of Smith College. Its remarkable to see reductions in lung function during a time of life we think of as healthy for most people. Right now, we ...

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