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Caffeine Boosts Memory, Improves Attention Span

...nt of caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee by performing Functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. They found increased activity in the frontal lobe of the brain. It is this area that is associated with working memory. The researchers also found increased activity in another area called the anterior cin...

Men Use Their Brain Differently From Women

...e human brain are utilized by men and women, while performing the same tasks. This goes to prove that the brains // of men and women really do work differently. The volunteers for the study were called upon to perform simple motor tasks, visual spatial tasks, verbal tasks, and memory tasks, while the functiona...

Open Heart Surgery Possible In Himachal Pradesh Now

... Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) hospital will begin performing open-heart surgeries on patients in Himachal Pradesh. 'The IGMC hospital has built a new unit equipped with the // latest equipment including light monitoring system, life support system, auto intensive care light, automatic operation bed and latest...

Teenage Girls May Not Need Parents Consent For Abortion

...et permission or consent from their parents before performing an abortion. Nathalie Lieven, FPA said, "Parents were no longer necessarily the best people to advise a child", and that the traditional "paternalistic approach" that assumed they were ran contrary to social changes in Europe over the last 20 years...

Teens not interested in early sleep

... may prepare children for adult lifestyles and for performing tasks under sleep deficits that are common in adults of modern societies.” ...

Faster way of producing Bird flu vaccine using Reverse Genetics

...y. She added, "There are technical difficulties in performing reverse genetics. Reducing the number of plasmids will certainly increase the efficiency. It might save you a week or so if your first go using the old technique did not work but there are lot of barriers in using this technique including bulk prepar...

First Crossover Kidney Transplantation In Germany

...es to crossover transplantation and a tradition of performing such operations. Some countries, such as Switzerland and Romania, allows such practice when a healthy partner in a couple is unable to donate his or her kidney to the spouse, either because of blood group incompatibility or the potential recipient’...

Using Eyes As The Line Of Reference For Fetal Brain Imaging

... drawing a line of reference through the eyes, and performing subsequent imaging along that plane, the three imaging planes required can be rapidly acquired. This technique avoids the need of taking unnecessary images, whereas in the past, it took several attempts to obtain the diagnostic images needed. Also, ...

Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Helps In Removing Thyroid Cysts

...pic equipment includes 1.9 mm thin instruments for performing needlescopic procedures. "Modern laparoscopic surgery is cost effective, 25 percent cheaper than open surgery," Ramana said. "The cost of this operation is around Rs.40,000 and a patient can be even discharged after 24 hours." Ramana hoped that on...

Treatment For Reversal Of Effects Of Sleep Deprivation In Brain

...in images of brain activity while the animals were performing the matching task. These scans showed that the drug was able to reverse most of the changes in activity patterns that occurred with sleep deprivation – which may explain its success at increasing performance. Source: Newswise...

Limiting sperm motility for contraception

...oating of the egg. Clapham and his colleagues were performing a general screen of the human gene database for novel calcium-selective ion channel genes when they discovered one with an unusual structure that resembled other channels known to play a role in cell motility. Using antibody tracers, the researchers...

Obesity More Likely to Cause Disability than Death in Elderly

... defining “active life” as having no difficulty in performing any functions necessary for day-to-day life, researchers drew several conclusions. About 13 percent of the population over age 70 was obese in 1993, and women were more likely than men to be obese, said the researchers. They had found that obese ad...

HIV Screening May Increase Patient Life Span

...model to estimate the health benefits and costs of performing voluntary HIV screenings in health care settings and they found that screening for HIV infection is cost effective....

Effective Diagnosis Of Spinal Cord Injuries

...ists in Canada MRI technology could determine //if performing surgery would benefit patients. They say they found that trauma-induced spinal cord compression on MRIs predict a poorer neurological recovery. Surgery can relieve spinal cord compression. However, unless surgeons are fairly certain the procedure wi...

Intermittent Exercising The Best Way To Burn Fat

... third day, participants ate a high-fat meal after performing intermittent exercises. The intermittent exercises consisted of three, 10-minute bouts of exercise separated by 20-minute rest periods. It was observed that when participants exercised intermittently before eating a high-fat meal, their triglyceride...

Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

... certain whether a man has prostate cancer without performing multiple needle biopsies. Researchers say by testing for EPCA in men with high levels of PSA, one may be able to detect the presence of prostate cancer earlier, before it is discoverable by biopsy, saving patients the fear and stress of repeat proc...

CPR! How Effectively is it being done ?

Researchers who observed rescue crews performing CPR on heart attack victims found they regularly gave people significantly // more breaths than called for by American Heart Association CPR standards.While the standards call for 12 to 15 breaths per minute, the EMS personnel were delivering on aver...

Screening Test For Early Diagnosis Of Colorectal Cancer

...earchers conclude saying greater reimbursement for performing screening tests, increased education efforts, and simple reminders for patients and physicians would improve screening rates and save lives....

Photographs An Effective Tool In Detecting Skin Cancer

...e in improving the diagnostic accuracy of patients performing SSE. ...

Methamphetamine Users Found To Suffer From Mood Disorders

...ved Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans while performing different tasks to measure cerebral glucose metabolism, which is an indicator of brain function. Researchers measured the glucose metabolism in seven areas of the brain, which are known to regulate emotion, motivation and behavior. Results of the s...

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