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Contact Lenses For Younger Children Also

...o take the lenses out each night and to throw each pair away after two weeks. Each participant answered questions on the Pediatric Refractive Error Profile (PREP), a survey containing quality-of-life questions related to wearing contact lenses and glasses. The children and teens filled out the profile b...

Cancer? Get A Second Opinion

...ut a lot of it just has to do with having a second pair of eyes. Having two radiologists read a mammogram is better than one.” Multidisciplinary tumor boards, include surgeons and nurses and cancer doctors who specialize in treatment and diagnosis. The team of specialists reviews all cases before arrivi...

Buy Children Holiday Gifts That Encourage Physical Activity

...lains. Other activity-inducing presents are a good pair of athletic shoes or a gift certificate to a sporting goods store. Downs says that any number of things can spark physical activity, and parents should consider that when buying gifts. “Parents can go through the store with that in mind and find to...

Sticky Proteins Provide New Insight Into Drug Action

...ich increases the heart rate, while the beta-gamma pair should activate ion channels, making cells less electrically excitable and decreasing the heart rate. However, it has been known for some time that while epinephrine does increase cyclic AMP in heart cells, it does not activate ion channels. While ...

Tonsillectomy reduces risk of strep throat

...omy. The date of the tonsillectomy for the matched pair was defined as the index date. All strep infections were recorded for both groups of children. The study population comprised 290 children (145 who received a tonsillectomy and 145 who did not). In the tonsillectomy group, 74 children experienced at...

All in the Name of ‘Breast Cancer Awareness

...istributed a mouse mat featuring a photograph of a pair of perfect breasts to all internet cafés in Hong Kong. While the importance of fundraising for breast cancer causes cannot be taken lightly with around 41,700 women in Britain being afflicted with the disease each year, and killing about 12,400. Ho...

Computer Tool Predicts Effectiveness Of Microbicides

..." he said. "Our findings demonstrate the need to pair potent active ingredients with well-engineered delivery vehicles, and they highlight the importance of the dosage form -- especially its ability to restrict viral diffusion and remain in place -- in microbicide effectiveness," Katz added. More than...

Why some take to greens, while others don’t

...ensitive. The researchers found that, those with a pair of sensitive genes did not take to greens, while those with the insensitive pair of genes, loved green vegetables. The subjects, who had both the sensitive and insensitive within a ...

A New drug Developed To Fight The Bio-Terrorism Threat Of VEE Virus

...d on is known as the nsP2 protease. It acts like a pair of molecular scissors, chopping another complex of VEE proteins into specific smaller protein molecules that work together to transform living cells into VEE virus factories. "This protein is crucial to VEE virus replication, and we want to create dr...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

...illions of individual chemicals called nucleotides pair together in a preprogrammed fashion to build the rungs of a DNA ladder that compose genetic instructions. Changes called mutations in the nucleotides can create coding errors that transform a normal cell into a cancerous one. To locate the altered ...

'Smart Beds' Could Help to Prevent Elderly Patients from Falling

...t Alexandra Hospital. "It's like having an extra pair of eyes," senior nursing officer Shirley Heng told The Straits Times. Falls can result in fractured bones and even death from complications. Last year 73 patients, more than half of them elderly, fell out of their beds at the hospital, the staff sa...

Tobacco Advertising Through Movies Luring Kids

... is still prevalent in movie trailers. "Trailers pair tobacco use with popular movie stars and edgy action shots," the authors write. "These images translate into positive images of tobacco that are conveyed to a broad audience, including a large population younger than 18 years." Studies have shown tha...

Finally, light at the end of the tunnel for those suffering tunnel vision

...zed computer and see-through computer display on a pair of glasses, may just be what the doctor ordered for visually impaired individuals. It is estimated that 1-in-200 Americans above the age of 55 suffer from tunnel vision. "We are very pleased with the results of this first evaluation and hope that w...

Turn the volume down to save your ears!!

...hen they perform to decrease the noise level. Each pair costs ￡150. Gareth Marshall, 25, lead singer of the band, said: "This is about protecting our ears. As musicians, we are constantly exposed to loud music, and the damage, which is done to your hearing over time, is irreversible. "And if we can't he...

Effects Of Autism On Brain Much Wider Than Presumed

... a more complex motor task like drawing or using a pair of scissors. The researchers have concluded that they hope that their findings would lead to better treatment for autism by repairing the faulty circuitry in the bran....

Fittest Of Newborn Neurons Survive

... Ayumu Tashiro, Ph.D., injected a virus carrying a pair of molecular shears capable of deleting a gene encoding part of the NMDA receptor into the hippocampus, a brain region harboring neural stem cells that give rise to new neurons. Newly born neurons infected with virus were marked by a fluorescent dye ...

Multiple Sclerosis in Genetically Susceptible Twins is Augmented by Northern Environment

...he increased incidence of both members of the twin pair getting MS, there would be similarly high concordance among fraternal twins, he says. The study did not suggest that, however, showing instead that both identical twins were far more likely to get the disease than both fraternal twins. In fact, des...

Doctors Optimistic on Separating the Conjoined US Twins

...ah Herrin are joined at mid-torso and also share a pair of legs. If the surgery at Primary Children's Hospital is successful, the twins will each have one leg with Kendra getting the kidney and Maliyah getting a kidney transplant from her mother after she recovers from this week's surgery. Surgeons al...

Domino Transplants Creates new wave In the Field Of Kidney Transplantation

... adding an additional incompatible donor-recipient pair to the chain. However, because there is currently no national system of this kind in place, Montgomery says altruistic donor kidneys often end up on an Internet donation site or at individual transplant centers and so are subject to variable ethic...

NHGRI Aims To Sequence Primate Genomes

...npoint the roughly 5 percent of the 3-billion base pair human genome that is most obviously functional. The seven mammals to be sequenced are: the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus); domestic cat (Felis catus); guinea pig (Cavia porcellus); African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana); tree ...

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