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Marilyn Monroe was Just too Hygienic for Clark Gable!

...nd ate a lot in bed - shoving what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep." Bret's biography of Gable hits bookstores this September....

Shoulder Protection by Throwing Motion in Baseball Players

...beyond adaptation can lead to pain and even growth plate injuries....

FDA Approves First Artificial Cervical Disc

...o remove the disc and then use a graft of bone and plate with screws to fuse the two vertebrae together. The Prestige Cervical Disc would instead replace the impaired natural disc. It consists of two main pieces of stainless steel that articulate against one another with a ball and trough (groove). After...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...her grips allow turning a key in a lock, holding a plate and handing over a business card. So flexible are the fingers that they can open the ring-pull of a soft drink can. Best of all, the wearer doesn't have to do the washing up as it's not totally waterproof. Phil Newman, of Touch Bionics which de...

Flower-power on a Plate in Paris

... cooks are into flower-power and petals are on the plate . "Flowers have been used for centuries in the world of cuisine, but only in a very secondary way", culinary historian Patrick Rambourg told AFP. "In the Middle Ages for example flowers would be strewn on the floor during banquets to perfume the ro...

Fishing for a Speedy Recovery After Chemotherapy or Marrow Transplant

...nt chemical five embryos to a well, 48 wells to a plate then checking each embryo 24 hours later to monitor its development and count its blood stem cells. The screen identified 82 chemicals that markedly increased or decreased gene activity. Of these, 10 turned out to affect the prostaglandin pathway:...

Using Portion-control Dishes can Help Obese Diabetics Lose Weight

...(average age 56) were randomly assigned to use the plate for their largest meal and the bowl when they ate cereal for breakfast. The other half of the participants received usual care, which consisted of dietary assessment and teaching by dieticians. At the end of the six-month follow-up, 122 patients re...

Weight Control for Obese Diabetics

...ng to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine ,a plate and cereal bowl with markers for proper portion si...(average age 56) were randomly assigned to use the plate for their largest meal and the bowl when they ate cereal for breakfast. The other half of the partic...

Now, a Diet Pill That's as Filling as a Plate of Spaghetti!

...ith water. "The sensation is like eating a nice plate of spaghetti," Telegraph quoted Prof Luigi Ambrosio, who led the research, as saying. Professor Ambrosio said that the 500 mg pill when taken with 2 glasses of water results in a tennis ball size lump in the stomach. "We had one extremely importa...

Motion Analysis Helps Teen With Cerebral Palsy Regain Ability to Walk

...ons. The air-bearing assemblies beneath each force plate allow them to be adjustably repositioned, further adding to the versatility of the lab. From the gait of a toddler to a seven-foot basketball player, a wide range of neuromusculoskeletal activities may be studied....

New Technique Dissects Stem Cells' Picky Likes, Dislikes

...squares in the arrays, set the arrays in a culture plate and added a culture medium on top. What they found is that five of the 18 surfaces - each displaying just a single peptide from laminin - did as well as the mixture Matrigel at growing human ES cells in their "blank slate," undifferentiated condition...

CT Better Than Plain Radiographs in Diagnosing Lumbar Spine Fractures

...verse process fractures and one was a superior end plate fracture. "The results of our study determined that lumbar spine radiographs did not provide additional information in trauma patients who underwent abdomen and pelvis CT with lateral scout," said Sangita Kapur, MD, lead author of the study. "If o...

Mandy Moore's New Album Saved Her from Depression

... record. Extraordinary is about stepping up to the plate and going, 'I'm not going to apologise for feeling great about myself,'" she added....

Severe Complications of Circumcision: An Analysis of 48 Cases

...was repaired by a Mathieu in a tabularized incised plate urethroplasty type technique. The group concluded that circumcisions are routine but they may be associated with serious complications. The group felt that experience played a major role and that when circumcisions are performed, they should be don...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...g athletes too are prone to osteoarthritis. Growth plate injuries are most common in boys aged 14 to 16 and...ball/softball pitching, doctors say. The growth plate is like a cap on the end of a long bone. Eventually, it will cement as the skeleton matures, but in ...

Chinese-food Lovers, Beware

... is still unhealthy. According to the report, a plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded w...s (200 calories and 400 milligrams of sodium). A plate of stir-fried greens has 900 calories and 2,200 milligrams of sodium. And eggplant in garlic sauce h...

Certain Drug Treatment Associated With Orofacial Clefts

...left palate (CL/P), 601 cases with posterior cleft plate (PCP), 38,151 cases without birth defects used as the population controls, and 20,868 malformed controls with other defects. Data was colleted from medical records, particularly prenatal logbooks, retrospective maternal data via a self-reported que...

Nanoparticle Research Offers Hope of Artificial Retinas, Prostheses

...e of Nano Letters. The process starts with a glass plate and then builds a layer-by-layer sandwich of two kinds of ultra-thin films, one made of mercury-tellurium nanoparticles and another of a positively charged polymer called PDDA. The scientists then added a layer of ordinary clay and a cell-friendly co...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

...ll the difference between objects such as a cup, a plate and a knife. They could also tell which direction objects were moving in front of them. In the current device, the receiver for the signal is implanted under the skin behind the ear with a wire connection to the eye implant, but the improved versio...

Remicade Therapy Effective in Treating Severe Psoriasis

...cluding pitting, leukonychia (discoloration), nail plate crumbling, red spots in the lunula (crescent-shaped area at bottom of nail), onycholysis (separation of nail from nail bed), nail bed hyperkeratosis (thickening of skin), splinter hemorrhages and oil drop discoloration. In September 2006, REMICADE ...

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