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Avian Nightmare

...weather predicted, thousands of wild birds will be moving west; areas of Britain included, away from cold frozen lakes and in search of open water. These birds may be carrying the deadly H5N1 virus, which causes avian flu. There are fair chances of these birds passing the virus on to poultry. If the per...

Viral Gastroenteritis Grips Quebec Enmasse

... weakness and if someone's already weak and hardly moving it makes them move less and they're subject to all kinds of complications like pneumonia and other things." Dr. Joseph Portnoy said. SV...

Poor Ward Care Is Harming Patients

...or medical staff, having to virtually beg for help moving up the bed or getting to the toilet, and repeated requests for pain relief. It’s these experiences, and not the skilful surgery, that patients remember and tell their friends about. And it’s these that make patients, especially elderly patients, dr...

Einstein's Tea Leaves Inspire New Blood Separation Technique

... blood plasma at the microscopic level without any moving parts, potentially allowing doctors //to do blood tests without sending samples to a laboratory. The new method uses the same principle that causes tea leaves to accumulate at the center of the bottom in a stirred teacup, a phenomenon first explain...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...to have a clear understanding of the mechanism for moving glutamate from the brain to the blood. Glutamate concentrations are several times higher in the blood than in the brain, and the body must be able to pump the chemical “upstream.” Glutamate pumps, called transporters, are found on the outsides of blo...

Royal College Issues Revised Guidelines for Face Transplantation

... Royal College of Surgeons of England now endorses moving cautiously forward in performing further face transplants, according to a report published in the Jan. 27 issue of Transplantation. In its initial report in 2003, the Working Party concluded that facial transplantation should not be attempted until...

Are We Prepared for Flu Pandemic?

...m because it’s not possible to prevent people from moving about in the early stages of a pandemic. A national preparedness plan should be detailed and clear in the interphasing of the components of the plan of action. Perhaps these tasks are too much for overloaded agencies like the DOH and the DA. The ...

Private 3D Ultrasounds Enabling Moving Pictures of Fetus may Be a Risky Proposition

...pularity of three dimensional ultrasounds enabling moving pictures of the unborn child. It is no longer news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had purchased their own ultrasound machine in 2005, so that they could monitor their baby’s growth, at will from their home. Geoff Watts, a science writer, who fe...

Cell Phones and Driving

...t. What’s the worst distraction? Reaching for a moving object inside the car, according to a study on dri...hes. Researchers determined that reaching for a moving object inside the car increased the crash or near crash risk eight times. Looking at something outsi...

Cataplexy During Status Cataplecticus Resembles REM Sleep

...ng Drooping eyelids Difficulty speaking Difficulty moving arms or hands or a weakened grip Buckling of the knees Persons who think they might have a sleep disorder are advised to discuss the problem with their primary care physician, who will refer them to a sleep specialist. Source-Eurekalert PR...

South Asians in US More Prone to Heart Disease

...nal HDL and external risk factors like stress from moving and new jobs and high-fat diets make for a deadly combination." Since joining MCG in October, Dr. Dodani, a South Asian immigrant herself, and collaborators at MCG and the University of California (UCLA) at Los Angeles have been studying 29 Augusta...

U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic

...e masks. The most effective measure seemed to be moving early and quickly. For example, said Dr. Howard Ma... Louis, which had was hit weeks later by the virus moving inland from the Eastern Seaboard and had time to react as soon as flu cases rose above averages. “...

‘Manual on Healthy Lifestyle Choices’ Releasd

...salt. The guide also encourages Canadians to get moving and incorporate more exercise into their lives along with making changes in their eating habits. For the first time users can personalize their food choices using an interactive tool called my food guide on the food guide’s website. This is als...

X-ray System to Show Moving Bones in 3-D

...ique that uses X-rays to view objects, can produce moving images in two dimensions, but not 3-D. An orthopedic surgeon trying to figure out the best way to repair a torn knee ligament or an evolutionary biologist tracing the disappearance of digits in pigs would face a difficult task. To see the exact pos...

Drug Combination Improves Parkinson’s Symptoms In Mic

...nts suffering from this disease have difficulty in moving their limbs. Advanced stages of this disease could even witness a total immobility of the patients. <B...

Fiji Urged to Intensify AIDS Fight

...nted cooperation, coordination and a framework for moving together at country level," he said. Source-IANS SRI...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

... They could also tell which direction objects were moving in front of them. In the current device, the receiver for the signal is implanted under the skin behind the ear with a wire connection to the eye implant, but the improved version will fit under the skin around the eye. More significantly, it no...

Dizziness Linked To Anxiety Disorders

...nsitive to a few motions like driving in a rain or moving in a crowded store. As per the scientists involved in this study, this finding could provide an insight into the causative factors of dizziness. JYT...

Mouse Study Suggests Anxiety Disorders Take Root in Infancy

...mice showed the expected signs of anxiety, such as moving around less open spaces and taking longer to start eating in new environments as compared with normal animals. To determine which of the two receptor populations--the one in the forebrain or the one in the brainstem--is most critical in that regard, ...

US Government Pushes Ahead With New Meat Inspection System

...aid that she thinks it is a mistake for USDA to be moving forward on this at this time and she "will be monitoring what happens very closely." The objections to the government's action boil down to two arguments. One is that by not involving all the stakeholders in the planning and design of the new syste...

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