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Unpleasant Memory of Food could Be Used to Treat Obesity

... elaborate false memories - for instance, of being lost in a shopping mall as a child - can be implanted in people's minds. It is doubtful that psychologists could ethically use it on obese patients without their consent, but Loftus suggests that parents could consent to it. "There is little to stop pare...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

.... Deuel is now half the man he used to be, as he lost more than 200 kg after undergoing an operation tha...imed soprano and opera singer, Deborah Voigt, also lost 50 kg after she underwent a gastric bypass in the US, an operation that reduces the stomach to the s...

Breastfeeding Lowers Maternal Stress

...anged from emotional stress of watching a video of lost and hurt children to situations like public speaking and solving mathematical problems. Researchers calculated the level of stress as the amount of the stress hormone cortisol being present in their saliva. The research findings showed that the moth...

Deadly Diarrhoea Vaccine – Trail Results Promising

...nt of fluids and electrolytes (salts and minerals) lost due to diarrhoea is the main aim. Self-treatment includes avoiding dehydration by drinking lots of electrolyte solutions that are available in all pharmacies and are dispensed without a prescription. More on Medindia: http://www.medindia.net/pa...

New Insight In Periodontal Disease In Postmenopausal Women

...rage of 11 years, at least 57% of the participants lost one tooth. Their research says that alveolar bone loss is one of the most important predictor of losing one’s teeth in such women. For each millimeter of bone loss during menopause, there exists three times as much a risk of tooth loss. This risk inc...

Arthritis risk reduced by exercise

...ercent of the non-exercise group reported they had lost some or all ability to transfer from a bed to a chair, bathe, use the toilet or dress. In comparison, about 30 percent of exercisers did, and the difference between walking and weight training was so slight that researchers considered the benefits al...

Molecule aids fight E. Coli Infections

...he scientists deactivated PGRP-LC, the macrophages lost their ability to detect and devour the E. coli microbes -- but not another type of bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus, which also can cause food poisoning. This pointed to the protein's essential role in enabling the macrophages to react specific...

Success of HIV may depend in its mutations

...old UPI. "This shows that the response to virus is lost later in infection. Now we need to know why," she said. "While there are no direct implications for diagnosis or treatment, an important motivation for this sort of study is the development of knowledge that could lead to successful HIV vaccines, bot...

Lost Teeth Could Signal Heart Problems

...tes with the number of teeth missing. Patients who lost the most teeth had the greatest chance of developing plaque buildup. Among those missing zero to nine teeth, 45 percent had plaque buildup in their artery vessels. Sixty percent of those missing 10 or more teeth had buildup in their arteries. Resear...

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident is getting some hi...te of Chicago offered a "bionic" arm for his other lost limb, putting him at the forefront of biomechanical technology. To get the new arm, Sullivan first ...

Peaceful Slumber said to Restore Memories

...es so many memories each day that some details are lost in that jumble -- but that the brain sorts and reo...mories during sleep.Or, memories could actually be lost during the day, he said, but reconstituted by the brain during sleep by some process that taps into ...

Brain Plays Vital Role In Maintaining Bone Density

...s disrupted, and the amount of bone tissue that is lost is greater than that which is created, with the result that bone density declines and bone structure is impaired. The results of this research, involving a study of the activity of the protein interleukin 1 in the brain, comprise not only a breakth...

Fighting against disease as easy as eating eggs

...ng of the immune system, the human body would have lost its power to fight against diseases eventually leading to death. // The immune system produces certain substances called antibodies, which identify the invading pathogens and cancer cells, effectively labeling them as "bad" so that other divisions ...

A Protein-Rich Diet Combined With Exercise Found To Be More Effective In Weight Loss

...it was seen that people on the higher-protein diet lost more weight. High-protein diets have been controve... loss. But, the protein-rich, high-exercise group, lost even more weight, and almost 100 per cent of the weight loss was fat, report the researchers. In the...

Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled

... days in hospital, he has survived the disease but lost out on life. "His posture remains abnormal while all locomotive abilities are numb. We are doing whatever is humanly possible, the rest is up to god," says staff nurse Reena Pandey. The list is long and dismal as authorities struggle to cope with ...

Drug Pramipexole Usage Linked To Gambling Addiction In Parkinsons Patients

...us history of compulsive gambling, one patient had lost more than $200,000 and another in excess of $100,000. Researchers also conducted a systemic review of previous cases linked to gambling and Parkinson’s disease admitted in Mayo Clinic and found that all the patients with pathologic gambling addictio...

Overdentures: An Optimal Solution To Edentulousness

...f missing teeth is compounded// when all teeth are lost either to disease or simply old age. Traditionally...comfortable for the patient and helps in regaining lost oral function to a better degree than the traditionally constructed dentures....

Beauty Queens Urge On The Importance Of Maintaining Bone Integrity

...he ages of 11-13 roughly equals the amount of bone lost during the 30 years following menopause. Furthermore, it has been established the most physically active young girls gain about 40% more bone mass than the least active girls of the same age. A proper diet (including adequate calcium and vitamin D),...

Implantable devices to be powered by organosilicon compounds in the future

...gy has advanced so much to the extent of replacing lost organs or improving function of existing ones using artificial implants. These implantable devices are becoming commonplace today by serving as a good // alternative to the conventional treatment. Such effective utilization would not have been possi...

WHO reports 36 million deaths world wide due to chronic diseases

...es' economies by cutting the cost of treatment and lost productivity caused by premature deaths, with the accumulated cost to China could be up to US$558 billion, to India US$236 billion, and to the Russian Federation US$303 billion, according to the WHO. The report estimates that over the next 10 years, ...

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