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Photographs as a parameter

...ven when the team controlled for risk factors that might affect both the eyes and risk of stroke, like diabetes, age, smoking and high blood pressure. Ann Elsner from eye institute Boston says the study shows the value of looking carefully at the eye. "The eyes are the windows to the world," she says.Hu S...

Breakfast improves memory

...ain cereal, fruit, or a couple of slices of toast, might be the best breakfast for your body and your mind....

Altering genes through calories

...n mouse genes.Even those averse to weight watching might have their cake and eat it if researchers can find drugs that mimic dieting’s effects. Cutting calories is known to increase lifespan and reduce age-related disease in experimental mammals. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside prob...

For a Better Memory

...or dad left-handed? How about siblings? If so, you might have a better memory for events -- no matter what hand you favour. The key lies in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum, which seems to be larger and more developed in folks with a family history of left-handedness, says study author Steven...

How do patients benefit of clinical trials

.... They learned that only 60 per cent realised they might not get any direct benefit from the trial, even though the information given prior to consent should have made this clear. And less than 40 per cent realised that they might// experience some side effects from an experimental treatment. But virtual...

Women more susceptible to brain damage from ecstasy

...eurotoxic effects on serotonin neurons, that women might be more susceptible than men, and that MDMA-induced neurotoxic changes in several brain regions of female ex-MDMA users are reversible....

Depression a possible danger in elderly

...t that if the follow-up time had been longer, they might even have found higher mortality among// the depressed patients. The effect may be direct - impaired immunity may result from depression, for instance. Or it may be an indirect behavioural effect, with depressed patients being less motivated to tak...

Ritalin May Lower Cocaine Abuse

...ffects of ADHD medications, including whether they might make kids more prone to taking illegal drugs with stimulant effects. Researchers say the findings support studies of children with the disorder that showed those treated with stimulant drugs were less likely than untreated children to abuse illicit...

Birds breed viruses

...formation to be able to say how severe the illness might have been in the population if it had spread. Causes were due to:-1.Poor sanitation of the wholesale markets for poultry and the chicken stalls in the retailed outlets .2.Chicken stalls and markets in close proximity to the living and playing areas ...

Zinc supplements improve survival rate

... common in babies with low birth weights, who also might be more prone to zinc deficiency. Providing the supplements, which cost about 30 cents a month, would be an easy, inexpensive way to address a serious problem....

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Directly to Brain

Delivering drugs via nasal spray might overcome a major obstacle to treating brain ailments such as strokes according to researchers.Based on early studies in rats, researchers from the Stroke Lab and Alzheimer's Research Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, reported that “a direct path from th...

The henna allergy

...eople taking jobs in certain industries where they might come into contact with the chemical. Dr Hausen said: "It is possible that the mark from the tattoo will remain for several months, which is of course socially quite uncomfortable if it concerns parts of the body which are very visible such as the han...

Alcohol within the body

...the body itself. Dr Diehl thinks undigested food might stay in the intestines of obese people for longer. This could allow normally harmless gut bacteria to ferment the food and produce alcohol, which would then cause fat to form in the liver. Dr Diehl's team tested the theory on mice genetically engin...

Armpit odour enhances mood

...a noticeably "depressive effect", an outcome which might have been anticipated by any parent of a teenage b...ested that hormones in the body odour of the young might act as a signal of aggression. She pointed to a recent study which showed that people can distingu...

Predictable genes

...ut individually weak genes." Every woman, he said, might be able to have her own "genetic profile" which would closely predict her risk of breast cancer. He added: "Established risk factors are very important, but they are not good discriminants of risk for the individual."It's been shown that if you tak...

Risk Of Developing Arthritis

... capacity and age. Don’t overdo it now because you might regret it later,” Logan says. The charity has launched a campaign to raise ￡ 250,000 to fund its sports injuries-related work. The charity is currently financing work into a new type of cartilage transplant surgery aimed specifically at younger peo...

Cure for blindness

... retinal transplant to restore sight in people. It might be applicable to those with retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. There are currently no effective treatments for these conditions. But there's a long way to go, say the researchers, in working out how best t...

Early puberty more resistance

...aintains bone strength.However, they added that it might be possible to avoid fractures by having a first child later in life....

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

...ou have got a high or low level of cholestrol that might influence the way the nerve cells work." Dr Garland said impulsivity stimulated by low cholesterol levels could be responsible for many types of dangerous behavior....

Lancing tumours into the body

...disastrous.He also says that Ishiyama’s prototypes might be too long to safely navigate some of the tighter turns in blood vessels.While Ishiyama concedes that his swimming machines won’t replace standard tools such as catheters for medical operations any time soon, he thinks that nanobots even smaller tha...

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