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Three Teslas magnetic resonance imager acquired. Shot in the arm for research

...al ganglia - altered with this condition - and the perception of tactile, auditory or visual stimuli. Within this line of research, one of the priority studies is related to the control of voluntary movement. For the patient with Parkinson’s, and using magnetic resonance, the areas of the brain that function wh...

Gene determines pain threshold...

...inherited a molecular machinery that reduces their perception of pain. This difference results not from personality or culture, but real differences in the biology of the sensory nervous system." Woolf and researchers in Germany and at the US National Institutes of Health said, "Rats with pain caused by nerve...

Hypnosis and Acupuncture Show Promise for Labor Pain

...on is focused narrowly to achieve changes in mood, perception or behavior. Simkin said she’s not surprised that the best evidence on complementary and alternative therapies was for hypnosis and acupuncture. Those techniques require additional and expensive training, she said, so health researchers are motivat...

Cigarette, Pipe or the Hookah , Equally Bad to Make You Go Up in Smoke !

... Hookah is dangerous, more so because its look and perception speaks of deception. Hookah has almost acquired a ...ropabation’ it received, along with the widespread perception of being a mild form of the cigarette. Dr. Christopher Loffredo found that the genetic damage in t...

Perception Stabilized – Thanks to Your Brains

..."You might expect that if you move your eyes, your perception of objects might get degraded," explains senior au...internal image stabilization system to prevent our perception of the world from turning into a blurry mess. Explains lead author Ziad Hafed, Ph.D. "Obviously, the...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

...ls and sound bytes have contributed to the tabooed perception of mental illness. Indeed the media can buck the trend, by using its power to undo the misconceptions created, in an all out effort to remove prejudices from people’s mind. Finally ‘Mental Illness’ is not a bad word and like any other form of ill...

Effective Cure for Alcoholism – A single dose of LS

...ts subsequent popularity as a street drug, and the perception of it as a threat to public safety, triggered a worldwide ban in the late 1960s--including its use in medical experiments. However, the ban on its use in medical experiments appears to be lifting, Dyck noted. A few groups of researchers in the U.S., ...

The 'Chip' in Your Brain!

...r now. He too formerly adhered to the conventional perception that drawing similarities between the unique human brain and the digital computer mans closest imitation to it, is fallacious. However his recent research has forced him to perceive that there are a lot of similarities that can be seen between the tw...

"New" Clear Advantages In Nuclear Medicine

...rally the word "nuclear" conceives a hazy flawed perception in the mind concerning an indefinable ethereal energy that permits doctors// to peer non invasively into the body. In the words of Jonathan M Links the former president of Society of Nuclear Medicine(SNM), who has presented his views ...

New Antipsychotic Medications have Little Advantage Over Older Drugs

...ls. The findings run contrary to the widely held perception that second-generation antipsychotic agents are safer and more effective in treating patients with schizophrenia than the less-expensive first-generation class of medications. For almost 50 years, antipsychotic medications have been the primary meth...

For Super-Obese Patients, Duodenal Switch Beats Gastric Bypass

...o keep the weight off longer.” "There has been a perception amongst bariatric surgeons that the duodenal switch might provide better weight loss than gastric bypass in super-obese individuals," said Prachand. Several studies have demonstrated higher rates of weight-loss failure and weight regain following gas...

Georgetown University Heads Alternative Tobacco Project

...hers at Harvard and Roswell Park will consider the perception of consumers to these products, and will examine tobacco company documents, including testing reports and patents. New legislation passed recently in the District of Columbia that provides for smoke-free workplaces contained an exemption for researc...

Obesity on a high in France

...se.Obesity is on a high in France, in spite of the perception that French avoid overeating and junk food. This is reported by the study that is being conducted every 3 years since 1997. The drugs group Roche, manufacturer of weight loss products promoted this survey. It signifies growing concern on obesity in...

Pharmaceutical Companies Banned from Giving Gifts at Stanford

...ures were mainly undertaken to counter the growing perception that medical institutions are too intertwined with...ances of conflict of interest." Cohen said, "The perception that industry is supporting (medical) education erodes the trust by the public that information used...

About 5 Percent of Adults with Insomnia Use Alternative Therapies

...helped provides useful information on the public's perception of effectiveness of CAM therapies for insomnia or trouble sleeping, it does not directly address the efficacy of the CAM therapy," the authors write. "A positive answer to this question could be due to a placebo effect, the natural history of the co...

Boosting Energy Naturally

...ll meals or snacks every few hours can reduce your perception of fatigue by ensuring a steady supply of nutrients to the brain. ? Don't smoke. Nicotine speeds the heart rate, raises blood pressure, and stimulates brain-wave activity associated with wakefulness, making it harder to fall asleep. And once you do ...

Information about future risks imperative to heart attack patients

...eriences, and mood of the patients influence their perception about risks, that has a bearing on how they take care of themselves after an attack. Researchers feel that patients need to understand the risks therein and need to have information from health care providers abut the dos and don’ts so that there...

Escalating Healthcare charges in UAE

...nt health care system, states: “Why is it that the perception of people remains that the health care system is not as good as it should be, that the quality of care in its facilities leaves much to be desired and that it needs a major overhaul? Why is it that patients prefer to be treated abroad, despite the di...

Danger and insecurity in contemporary life

...and non-monetary benefits and the way in which the perception of risk changes as it becomes a familiar part of daily life. Source-Eurekalert YT...

New drug assists patients' suffering premature ejaculation

...ded. The team said 'The Drug improved patients’ perception of control over ejaculation, satisfaction with sexual intercourse and overall impression of change in condition. Partners benefited through improved satisfaction with sexual intercourse.' SA...

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