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Tower of London Facing Pollution Threat

...mous tower will turn a more brownish yellow. To measure the color change, Brimblecombe and his colleagues used colorimeters to record the color of stone stored in the towers basementsand away from airborne pollution. Placed there through the ages during repairs, the stone provided the team with a timeline...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

...gned by UNC School of Public Health researchers to measure the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on military and non-military families. The researchers chose to study Texas because of the large military population there and the availability of data. Researchers found that prior to October 2002, rate of...

Emory Participates in Study to Slow Progression of Parkinson's Disease

...pants have been assigned. The investigators will measure disease progression using standard rating scales that measure quality of life, cognitive function, walking and the ability to carry out other activities of daily ...

Mexico Supreme Court Accepts Petition To Review Mexico City Law Legalizing Abortion During First Three Months' Gestation

... pregnancy in the city, and lawmakers approved the measure in April. City Health Secretary Manuel Mondragon said the law requires that women seeking abortions prove they are residents of the city except in cases of medical emergency. He also said that each facility would be able to perform about seven abor...

Revolutionary Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection

...ecently cleared by the FDA that allows doctors to measure the stiffness of tissue, relative to surrounding areas. This new technique may significantly reduce the need for biopsies. In fact, the American Cancer Society confirms only 20 percent of biopsies turn up positive for cancer. In a recent elasticity...

Individuals Distraction can Be Measured by a Computer Based Test

...tay focused, yet current psychometric tests do not measure it," said Professor Lavie. She says that the test correlates with responses given to the 'Cognitive Failures Questionnaire' that predicts a person's level of distractibility, provided that the subject answers honestly. "Relying on questionnaires ...

Step-Based Guidelines in New Pair of Studies

...10 minutes. While pedometers are useful tools to measure step counts, this team notes pedometer-derived ste...as a marker of distance for walkers and runners to measure their activity achievements," said Werner Hoeger, Ed.D., FACSM, lead author. "To estimate the number...

Refugees No Burden On Health System

...ved refugees in Australia,' he said. 'One way to measure whether people born in refugee-source countries face difficulties in accessing hospitals would be to assess utilisation rates by length of time in Australia. 'It can be argued that recent arrivals would have less knowledge about the availability of...

TB and Measles Scare in Canada Now

...ymptoms and that's why it was a very precautionary measure that we decided to detain them." Measles is a contagious disease that spreads through coughing or sneezing. Symptoms include a mild fever and a rash on the forehead and behind the ears and a dry cough. Dr. Howard Njoo, director of the health agency...

Unhealthy Lungs Linked to Hostility?

...and wearing a nose clip, blowing into a machine to measure their lung capacity, which can indicate upper airway obstruction. Recent research demonstrates that greater hostility predicts lung function decline in older men. This is the first study of young adults to offer a detailed examination of the inver...

Fertility Test at Home Possible With a New Kit

...g test for men that is the first at-home device to measure the concentration of motile sperm, and a test for women that measures a hormone considered a marker of egg quality. The availability of the two-in-one test helps drive home the message that both men and women can contribute to infertility, experts ...

Brain Tumor Patients Survival Depends on Predicting Treatment Responses Earlier

...ares that use of metabolic or molecular imaging to measure brain tumor patients' response to treatment is a p...n tumors, said Chen. "We used molecular imaging to measure the changes of metabolism in tumor cells," and FLT-PET provided much higher response rates than MRI,...

Disaster Balloons can Be Used to Keep Communication Intact During Calamities

... natural disaster. These will include gadgets to measure low atmospheric pressures and high winds that indicate a hurricane, ground movement that accompanies an earthquake, and the noxious gases produced by a volcanic eruption. According to the scientific magazine New Scientist, balloons fitted with comm...

Forgetfulness Actually Helps Your Brain Stay Healthy

...ed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain activity of 20 healthy adults as they performed a simple memory test. The test included memorising three pairs of words, two of which were closely associated. These pairs were: ATTIC dust, ATTIC junk and MOVIE reel. After studying "ATTI...

A Pratical Tool to Detect Bone Mass Deficiencies in Children With Chronic Diseases

...ich used dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to measure bone mineral content (BMC) and density (BMD) in 1,500 healthy children between the ages of 6 and 17. The study is the first to include all criteria needed to serve as a pediatric reference database for normal bone density in children: 1. The most c...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...uestionnaire on days 1 and 42 that was designed to measure binge eating tendencies. The researchers looked ...educed their scores on a questionnaire designed to measure binge eating tendencies: On day 42, 83% of participants on pramlintide were categorized as having mi...

Second Hand Smoke Has Serious Consequence on a Childs Heart

... reduced brachial artery endothelial function -- a measure of arterial health. Endothelial dysfunction impairs blood vessels' ability to dilate. Even modest exposure to tobacco smoke alters endothelial function in children, and may impact early development of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)," s...

Stay Young by Practicing Zen Meditation

...xel-based morphometry (VBM), a recent technique to measure gray matter changes from MRI brain scans, and a computerized task of sustained attention. Researchers found that while both total gray matter volume and attentional performance displayed the expected decrease with age in control subjects, meditator...

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

...o death for killing their seniors in 2006. Another measure recommended by the DIPR committee is the introduction of a cadre of combat psychologists who would be trained both in soldiering and in countering stress-related issues. "These combat psychologists would move with soldiers in the field to provide i...

Standards for Measuring Narrowing of Carotid Arteries too Aggressive

...s for the use of ultrasound as a screening tool to measure narrowing of the carotid artery may be too aggressive, resulting in some needless follow-up tests and procedures according to researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Narrowing of the carotid can be a precursor to a stroke. Hisham ...

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