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Tag: "perception" at medical news

Are Women Not Hearty Enough Towards Seeking Heart Care?

...mportant role played by feminine attitude, belief, perception about heart disease and treatment alike. Statist... the study that outline variability in the disease perception could be used in designing awareness programmes for preserving cardiac function. It such issues are ...

Experiment Creates Illusion Of Weight Loss

...is the case in reality, and it is merely a case of perception deficit. High levels of parietal activity were felt by the subjects who felt the highest rate of shrinkage. The experiment provides proof that the human brain maps and re-maps the dimensions of the body on a continuous basis. People suffering from ...

Patients More Willing To Use Self-Injectable HIV Therapy Than Anticipated

...y and safety. The reasons include; the physicians' perception that patients would be reluctant to use a self-injectable therapy, the physicians' opinion that the patient would not be able to incorporate FUZEON into their lifestyle and the potential misconception that FUZEON is not appropriately recommended in g...

Discovery of a built-in 'fat sensor'

... possibility that an alteration in the lingual fat perception may be linked to feeding dysregulation. The sens...lean subjects, suggesting that inappropriate lipid perception might influence obesity risk by impacting feeding behavior. The researchers conclude t...

Women Feel More Pain Than Men

...ability to minimize pain often affects a patient's perception of their results.' 'We hope this data will give new perspective on how to better treat post-operative pain in women.'...

Seeing Is Believing Does Not Hold Good For Color Perception

It has been regarded that color perception is dependent on the specialized cells of the eye. ...e true as the results of a research state that our perception of color is controlled much more by our brains than by our eyes. The number of color-sensitive cone...

Opioids And Abnormal Pain Perception

...t of the controls. In addition, their altered pain perception did not reset 4 weeks subsequent to the cessation of opioid use.The present study provides further evidence that OAs exhibit short tolerance to the CPT, as manifested by their quicker hand withdrawal, which can be interpreted as hyperalgesia. ...

Complete Robotic Surgery To Revolutionize Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

...at screen. This improved perspective enables depth perception that sharpens the visualization of the prostate and the network of nerves and tissue surrounding it. Robotic technology also deserves special credit in the post surgical phase marked by a speedy recovery and reduced hospital stay. The surgery being...

Problems in rural health delivery and remedies

...atisfaction levels, inadequate access, poor usage, perception of high level of mistrust and corrupt ion, neglect, lack of community participation and ownership, and ineffective monitoring. It is precisely to address these maladies that the Union government has launched the National Rural Health Mission (2005-...

Dental health neglected by over 60 % of Indians

... eating habits' and 'being born with bad teeth', a perception prominent in rural areas. According to the survey, as much as 60% of people in India have never visited a dentist and only 2% actually visit a dentist regularly. When it comes to dental problems, a dentist’s clinic is someplace where the Indians wo...

Safe Neighborhood Means Less TV For Preschool Children

...national sample, the relationship between parental perception of neighborhood safety and obesity, physical activity and television viewing in preschool children. Television viewing is associated with aggression and poorer academic performance in school-aged children, and TV-viewing patterns are established earl...

Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking

...Adolescent Medicine, research reports say that the perception of children in the age group of two to six years old were different about cigarettes and alcohol if they are exposed to the same in movies or if parents smoked as well. // When pretending to shop for a social evening, children two to six years old w...

Have You Ever Wondered Why Male And Female Voices Differ?

...he brain spontaneously activates, creating a false perception of a voice. The reason these voices are usually male could be explained by the fact that the female voice is so much more complex that the brain would find it much harder to create a false female voice accurately than a false male voice. The study ...

Implants In The Ear Is Effective Against All Types Of Hearing Loss

... surgery scored significantly higher on the speech perception tests following surgery, even when the implanted ear was profoundly deaf prior to surgery. The researchers also noted that patients’ ability to interpret speech in a noisy environment increased dramatically over time in proportion with the amount of ...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

...l around the globe and has permanently changed our perception about life and communication. Very little information is available about the radiation risk associated with the device, which has been taken so much for granted.// Mobile phones emit non-ionizing radio frequency waves and operate in a frequency rang...

Understanding The Role Of Olfaction In Taste

...odour "orthonasally" through the nose triggers the perception that it is coming from the outside world, while se...through the mouth - or "retronasally" - causes the perception that it arises from the mouth. Its similar to saying that we like the 'taste' of a wine, because of ...

Have You Ever Wondered How We Perceive Different Sounds?

...aring // –– develop unique shapes that enable the perception of sound. Situated in the hearing portion of the inner ear, the hair cells transform the mechanical vibrations that enter the ear in the form of sound waves into chemical signals, which they then direct to the brain. It is surprising to know that...

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy

...ed results could also be accounted by the workers' perception that overtime is something that's more than what one should be doing. The increased risk wasn't merely a result of demanding work schedules being concentrated in inherently riskier industries or jobs, contradicting the existing belief that people w...

Hypertension Drug of Choice for African Americans

... under-utilized among African Americans due to the perception that this form of anti-hypertensive medication is not effective,” stated Dr. Saunders, who was one of the researcher of the study, he also added: “This study shows that nebivolol lowered blood pressure in a dose-dependent manner and was well-tolera...

Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

...e any differences between males and females in the perception and experience of pain, but that is no longer the case,” said Dr Ed Keogh a psychologist from the Pain Management Unit at the University of Bath.He further said: “Research is telling us that women experience a greater number of pain episodes across t...

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