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Tool To Detect Health Literacy among Patients

... called the Newest vital sign. It is an easy three minute questionnaire with six questions based on an ice cream nutrition label. Based on the number of correct answers provided by the patient their health literacy can be calculated. Then it is for the doctors, nurses and other health care officials to i...

Firefighters Continue To Battle Blaze

...h as 32,000 liters of foam and water were used per minute to put out the flames in 12 of the 22 tanks. There are also concerns with regard to tank 7. Traffic was also disrupted due to the M10 being closed throughout the day, and M1 being closed temporarily. Major environmental damage is likely to result fro...

Moderate Exercise Is Good For The Heart: Study

... locomotion speed was increased from 10 metres per minute to 17.5 metres per minute, he said. The speed was subsequently reduced to 14 metres per minute for the duration of the study, and no additional rat deaths occurred, he said. "The bottom line is...

Stroke Destroys Nearly 32, 000 Neurons In Just A Second!

...proximating to 7.5 miles are lost in just a single minute following the attack. He has been conducting extensive research on brain imaging (helps quantify the size of a stroke), stroke treatment and quantitative neurostereology (a three-dimensional cell-counting technique that gives good evidence of the l...

Brain cells by millions die during a stroke

...journal Stroke, January 2005 issue. Thus, each minute of an untreated stroke, 1.9 million neurons die, r...count the number of neurons lost with each passing minute that the blood supply is interrupted to the affected region, says Dr Saver. The calculation of dama...

Choosing the Horoscope of Your Baby

...be compromised at an cost. They even go to such minute details of taking the stars in to consideration and want the delivery on that particular time frame. Whatever said and done the new system is here to stay because both the doctors as well as the astrologers are benefited along with the common man. ...

Squinting At Computer Linked To Dry Eye Risk

... blink rates by about 50 percent, from 15 blinks a minute to about 7.5 blinks a minute. The details of the study appear the journal Optometry and Vision Science. The researchers say that squinting is an involuntary action that results in improved eyesight by focusing sharply on objects as well as reducing ...

Prostate Cancer Stem Cells Discovered By York Researchers

...t of the stem cells from prostate tumors, but this minute number was responsible for directing other cells to turn cancerous. Professor Maitland compares current prostate cancer treatments to cutting off the leaves and trunk of a plant but leaving behind the roots that have the potential to grow back. In es...

Not Blinking Enough In Front Of The Computer Can Cause Dry Eye

...links/minute) reduced by as much as 7.5 blinks per minute when there was a 5 % squint to just 4 blinks per minute with a 50 % squinting. A slight increase in the level of squinting was sufficient to cut down the bl...

High Levels Of Noise In Work Place Found To Increase Blood Pressure

...uency of the noise recording was one recording per minute while heart rate and blood pressure were taken every 10 minutes. At the end of the analysis, the following observations were made. Overall noise exposure had a significant effect on blood pressure while the heart rate was worst affected by instanta...

India - Favored Orthopedics Surgery Destination

...iting for an appointment or paying $200 for a five minute consultation were some of the deciding factors, she said. Post her surgery and a three-week stay in the hospital, Gudeus is confident of being able to get back to her favorite sports - squash and tennis -, something that would not have been possible...

Sharp Increase In Morning-After Pill Sales Among British Women

...covers the entire time frame of 40 weeks; from the minute the fetus is conceived to the moment of the birth....

Complete Robotic Surgery To Revolutionize Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

...erving continence and potency but also in reducing minute tremors of the human hand, thereby providing steadiness. Furthermore, the robot’s camera also provides a three-dimensional, stereoscopic image of the body’s interior, as opposed to a two-dimensional image on a flat screen. This improved perspective ...

Taking Music Lesson To Reduce Stress

...e same selection of tracks for 4 minutes each. A 2 minute pause was randomly inserted into each of these sequences. Participants listened to raga (Indian classical music), Beethoven’s ninth symphony (slow classical), rap (the Red Hot Chilli Peppers), Vivaldi (fast classical), techno, and Anton Webern (slow ...

Wrinkle reduction cream has offered insights into working of nervous system

...e research is exploring basic nerve cell function, minute changes that underlie memory and learning, and possible causes of nerve diseases by taking advantage of these highly selective neurotoxins to disturb the function of the basic nerve cell. The neurotoxin is being increasingly used in human therapy to...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...covers the entire time frame of 40 weeks; from the minute the fetus is conceived to the moment of the birth. Being pregnant is a totally different feeling for the would-be mothers, whether they are first time pregnant or having a second, third, and fourth child. For further information read: http://www...

Revolutionary Simple Pregnancy Blood Test Can Save Both Mother And Child

...covers the entire time frame of 40 weeks; from the minute the fetus is conceived to the moment of the birth. Being pregnant is a totally different feeling for the would-be mothers, whether they are first time pregnant or having a second, third, and fourth child. The changes are apparent not only in the bod...

Study Warns About The Use Of Popular Asthma Drug To Stop Children's Coughs

...attack, continue to take one puff of inhaler every minute for 3 to 5 minutes or until symptoms improve. If your symptoms do not improve in five minutes or if you are in doubt, call your doctor or visit the nearest hospital For Futher Information : http://www.medindia.net/patients/ PatientInfo/asthma_...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

...s of Eleutherobin from corals, as it produces only minute quantities. But, scientists are working out to synthesize large quantities of the drug in the laboratory, but it has been a very difficult laborious work to isolate and synthesize the product. Professor Mann's team is making good progress in simplify...

Warning Signs On Powered Baby Milk

...s is due to the fact that although the pathogen is minute in powdered milk formulas it multiplies rapidly when improperly prepared. This is not a recent problem. Some estimated that the poisoning from contaminated infant formula is particularly serious in developing countries, and that the number of child...

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