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Anti-Microbial Coating For Use Over Biomedical Devices Developed

...that they do not kill the bacteria. Therefore, the phenomenon of bacterial resistance would be virtually non-existent. The researchers next step is to work towards development of anti-microbial contact lenses and other anti-microbial biomedical devices. If fruitful, it would mean a considerable health benefit...

Fear Factor Found To Be Crucial In Shaping An Individual’s Personalit

... are repeated without unpleasant occurrences. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as "extinction memory," the deficiency of which may manifest as an anxiety disorder. The study participants were required to view a series of digital photos that featured lamps with either a red or a blue light shining. Vary...

Global Warming Could Cause 5 Million Illnesses: WHO

...he poor countries, who are not responsible for the phenomenon in any way. The study's lead author, Jonathan Patz, a professor at the university's Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies was empathic is stating that the climate change affects those nations that have played a negligible part in inducin...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

... had suffered a sudden death, which was an unusual phenomenon in otherwise healthy children. All had taken Tamiflu. Deaths from influenza are uncommon among both children with and without high-risk conditions, but do occur, the FDA report said. Attribution of causality for the reports of sudden death and cardi...

Viagra Drug for improving blood circulation

... patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon//. Raynaud's phenomenon is a disease condition in which there is a poor bl...s in poor circulation of blood and pain. Raynaud’s phenomenon which causes poor circulation can also lead to ulceration or tissue death in the toes and fingers. ...

Tamiflu Shortage Can Be Better Handled By Combining It With Probenecid

... individual effect of both the drugs combined. The phenomenon could be exploited in the present scenario where the avian bird flu is posing a serious threat across different regions of the globe. // Tamiflu is a prescribed drug for seasonal flu, because it will be a first line of defense if the H5N1 bird fl...

Age-Dependent Alterations Not Specific For Alzheimers Disease

..., and the vascular reactivity was calculated. This phenomenon also proved to be age-dependent, but the process was not related to AD. Results indicate that the lack of forehead vasomotion reflects aging better than does the forearm vasomotion. Both of these functions are preserved in AD. The novel findings fr...

Fertility Treatment Offered During Summer Has Better Chances For Success

...om sunlight) in enhancing the sperm quality. The phenomenon is called as photoperiodism, and is linked to the hormone melatonin, that regulates sleeping and walking cycles. It was believed that melatonin acted through the pituitary gland, which is "switched off" during IVF cycles, However, researchers have no...

Drug Pramipexole Usage Linked To Gambling Addiction In Parkinsons Patients

...h is a severe addiction to gambling is a very rare phenomenon mostly occurring due to usage of anti-Parkinson’s drug and the addiction to gambling is stopped when the patient stops taking the drug. The study was done in 11 patients with Parkinson’s disease and they had addiction to gambling, these patients were...

Wishing the pain away

...g chemicals, called endorphins, play a role in the phenomenon known as the placebo effect — and that this response corresponds with a reduction in feelings of pain. Previous studies at U-M and elsewhere have shown that the brain reacts physically when a person is given a sham pain treatment, which they believe...

Understanding The Role Of Olfaction In Taste

... dual response to odours. They were driven by the phenomenon that sensing an odour "orthonasally" through the nose triggers the perception that it is coming from the outside world, while sensing it through the mouth - or "retronasally" - causes the perception that it arises from the mouth. Its similar to sayin...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...in 1974, and detection rates rose immediately in a phenomenon that became known as the "Betty Ford blip." The daughter of Betty Ford has said that every woman should have mammography from the age of 35 onwards, a strategy not supported by most cancer experts. Nancy Reagan, Wife of Former President Regan, had a...

Brain scans show why we always have room for dessert

...-- you are full of one thing but not another. The phenomenon may help explain why diets fail, but it also sheds light on how the brain works. Gottfried, said he wanted to find out how the brain learns and wanted to look for brain regions that showed decreased activity going from pre- to post-feeding . Live b...

Contemplating the effects of the “Morning After“ Pill

...egg. Reproductive physiologists demonstrated the phenomenon in a controlled clinical trial published in the December 2004 . When the pills, also known as emergency contraception (EC) were given before ovulation, they were able to inhibit or postpone ovulation; pregnancy rates among those taking these pills we...

Human immunity system can battle HIV.

...cess is called RNA silencing and is often a common phenomenon in plants and animals, only it was not known for humans. The process, which works by RNA silencing, can ultimately destroy the RNA of the virus. The scientists of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, US, it is possible to cause seq...

The Size Of The Heart Does Matter

...ve a higher rate of the condition, but suggest the phenomenon may help explain the higher rates of heart disease and stroke seen in them and thus pave the way for therapies that can minimize ethnic disparities in the future....

Obesity a global problem

...and-in-hand with adult obesity in many places. The phenomenon means countries that still face problems of under-nutrition also need to pay attention to the prevention of obesity-related illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Obesity is also on the increase among non-Western immigrants to indu...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...ound that the cells all fired at the same time - a phenomenon seen during epileptic seizures. Nothing happened if caffeine was not added to the preparation, or if oxygen was present. The researchers believe that the caffeine molecules bind to receptors in the cells, blocking the action of a chemical called ade...

Warm yourself to sleep

...fter a shift in blood flow to hands and feet. The phenomenon is closely related to the release of hormones such as melatonin, which regulate sleepiness and wakefulness. The researchers say that a hot water bottle at the feet may not directly act on the central nervous system to cause sleep, but it can trigger ...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...zheimer’s disease – occurs. They suggest that this phenomenon might explain why Alzheimer’s develops later in life and that hormonal treatments for testicular cancer, which suppress testosterone levels, could potentially predispose individuals to this form of dementia. In their study Dr Sam Chater and colleagu...

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