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Now, Cellphones That Alert Against Impending Lightning Strikes

...e lightning is. According to the scientists, the multiple receivers in a phone, such as Bluetooth, FM, tri-band GSM, Wi-Fi and RFID, can be tuned to pick up these signals. The software then interprets them, works out the distance to the lightning, and tells the user if the strikes are getting closer. Rese...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...supplement without an NPN, especially if they take multiple herbs or prescription medications. Natural weight-loss supplements and over-the-counter diet remedies make up the largest portion of the weight-loss industry. Health Canada launched the Natural Health Products Directorate on Jan. 1, 2004 to make su...

Repetition Is Like Chanting The More It is Heard the More You Believe It

...much influence as exposure to shared opinions from multiple people. This finding shows that hearing an opinion multiple times increases the recipients sense of familiarity and in some cases gives a listener a false sense...

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

... the future one can use imaging to directly reveal multiple features of diseases that will make it much easier to carry out personalized medicine, where you are making diagnoses and treatment decisions based exactly on what is happening in a person," Nature magazine quoted senior co-author Dr. Howard Chang, A...

Single-tablet With Two Drugs may Help Control High BP Better

... found that patients often have trouble taking the multiple medications they need. As a result, many companies have developed combination pills. The ACCOMPLISH data suggest that these combination tablets have the potential to improve control rates to over 80 percent. The findings of the 18-month data were p...

Not Only Mobile Phones, Even Passengers can Increase the Risk of Road Accidents

...may amplify the risk of crash for young drivers by multiple pathways, which include not only driver distraction but also peer pressure. "Further well-designed research is needed to investigate the factors underlying the increased risk for phone use and passenger carriage and the ways in which the risk can b...

Army Hospital Conducts First Multiple Organ Retrieval and Transplantation

...y hospital here has conducted an accident victim's multiple organ retrieval and transplantation to give a new lease of life to three individuals. The retrievals were conducted at the Army Hospital (Research & Referral) here Wednesday night and the organs were transplanted Thursday on two patients at the sa...

Unique Electrical Stimulation Device to Restore Mobility in Stroke Survivors

... in treating patients with traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cerebral palsy. Boffins, however, agree that further research is required to determine the specific long-term benefits of the NESS L300....

Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions

...symptoms. Many of the patients also experienced multiple nutritional abnormalities, especially low serum copper, vitamin B12, vitamin D, iron and calcium. Attention should be given to long-term intake of vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent some of these complications and to avoid severe and rapid...

Even at Four Months, Babies can Tell When Speakers Switch Languages

...ation abilities needed for separating and learning multiple languages. As a part of the study Weikum and colleagues tested three groups of infants ages four, six and eight months from monolingual English homes and two groups of infants ages six and eight months from bilingual homes. They showed each gr...

New Mouse Model to Aid in Cancer-causing Genes Hunt

...melanoma, lung, colon, and pancreatic cancers, and multiple myeloma. They found that genetic instability in the mouse cancer cells resulted in DNA alterations that were identical to similar changes in human tumors in many cases. This similarity suggested that the new mouse model might be useful in steering ...

High Pretreatment PSA Velocity Predicts Worse Outcome

... factor was PSA velocity. As expected, men who had multiple risk factors died from their disease significantly earlier than those with one factor. Of the men who underwent treatment with RP or RT, 44 percent and 28 percent, respectively, had pre-treatment PSA velocities of > 2 ng/ml/year as their only ide...

Chinese Take Fertility Drugs to Beat One Child Policy

...ey are taking to fertility drugs in the hopes of a multiple pregnancy. In the process they are saddled with mo...county maternity hospital are filled with lists of multiple pregnancies. Dr Guo Gui Fen turns the handwritten pages slowly and points to the name of each moth...

Binge Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive Deficits Among College Students

...ty measures, Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) results, and multiple indicators of heavy alcohol use. Note: The Iowa Gambling Task is a computer card game in which four decks of cards are presented on the screen. The participant must choose a card from one of the four decks: each time they choose a card they will "w...

Scientists Identify the Most Significant Single Predictor of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

... prognostic factor. They observed that men who had multiple risk factors died from their disease significantly earlier than those who had only one factor. Among men who underwent treatment with RP or RT, 44 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively, had pre-treatment PSA velocities of 2 ng/ml/year as their onl...

Cultural Bias Against Women Hampering Fight Against AIDS in Africa

... making, such as the decision to use a condom, and multiple partners by both men and women, prevalence of HIV-related stigma and discrimination, which hinders testing and disclosing of an HIV positive status, gender-discriminatory beliefs linked to sexual risk taking and failure of traditional and government ...

New Device for Stroke Patients Improves Walking

...able to help patients with traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell also offers a similar device for rehabilitation of arm movement: the NESS H200. Additional devices used in stroke rehabilitation at the Hospital include the NeuroCom SMART Balance Mas...

Fecal Bacteria, a Source of Contamination

Using a toolbox approach or multiple means researchers have concluded that almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams had excessive levels of fecal bacteria . These water bodies were declared impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. The tool box method of testing was more ...

Regular Exercise may Slightly Increase HDL Levels

...reasing time per session is better than performing multiple brief exercise sessions when total time for exercise is limited, as is the case for many people,' the authors write....

Development of Broadly-protective HIV Vaccine is Possible

...duce cross-reactive antibodies that can neutralise multiple viral strains. The latest study shows that the goal of induction of truly broad-spectrum neutralising antibodies may be achieved. During the study, USU Professors Dr. Gerald Quinnan, Jr. and Dr. and Christopher Broder attempted to elicit cross-...

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