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Men Use Their Brain Differently From Women

...ght-handed volunteers were used in the tests. This points towards differences with regard to ‘hard wiring’ in the case of men and women where their brains are concerned. This information can be utilized to help patients at a later stage. ...

After sugar it is salt’s turn to come under the scientist's eye

...f some people for salt. The results of the study points that a person's liking for salty taste may be related to how much was the weight at birth. The Monell researchers found an inverse relation of salty taste acceptance by two-month old infants against their birth weight: lighter birth weight infants ...

Asthma an be treated with Vitamin supplement intervention

...ial College said, “Research is really exciting and points the direction towards potential new strategies for reversing steroid resistance. This has major implications for how to treat patients with severe asthma and could also substantially reduce the use of NHS resources.' Dr Catherine Hawrylowicz, a lead...

Law To Govern Acupuncture

...ivision of the body. By activating the acupuncture points in the body the neurotransmitters of the body is activated leading to proper functioning of cells. The Ontario Bill would help in maintaining standards of professionals, which would be set up by the college of Professionals, as the chances of infec...

Golgi Orientation controls Neuron Growth

...dritic Golgi outposts are located at the strategic points to do just that. And I believe this is the first such specific organelle identified at a dendritic branch point positioned to perform this fundamental neuronal function." The Researchers feel that still a lot has to be explored to understand the mech...

You Can Be Emotional And Logical

...her at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, points out that decision-making involves both emotion and reasoning. "It's important to try to understand how these two large networks we usually attribute to emotion and reason are interacting," Rustichini adds. Ming and his fellow researchers now intend...

Haj Pilgrims Being Tested For Presence Of Bird Flu Infection

...ad arranged for health checks at different arrival points across the country. Details’ regarding the people sent back after the monitoring is currently unavailable. Mecca is a religious destination for over 2.5 million Muslims from across 160 different countries. A majority of these pilgrims migrate from ...

Medical Tourism To India Hurts US Hospitals

...mes that number is left permanently-disabled," she points out. Indian hospitals feel that if they are getting the same care at a lesser cost, then patients will naturally look at the greener grass, something that American hospitals are noting with concer....

Improved cure and activity level seen among patients treated by Vertebroplasty.

...ing rest and activity improved an average of seven points one week after treatment and remained improved one year following vertebroplasty. Prior to treatment, the average RDQ score was 18 on a scale of 23. The RDQ dropped to an average score of 11 immediately after treatment and remained at that level thro...

Zap the butt (cigarette) with Laser Therapy

...ized guidance. The laser technician targets energy points on the body using a “cold” laser beam, releasing natural chemicals called endorphins. Endorphins are known to have a calming, relaxing effect on the body that consequently helps in reducing nicotine craving and withdrawal symptoms. The laser doubly b...

Does Magnet Therapy Posses Healing Powers?

...t they were al benefited from the treatment. He points to the statement in Finegold-Flamm editorial that said that MRI devices (uses powerful magnets) do not affect/harm ones health nor provides any healing effects as wrong. He has conducted experiments in which 1000 individuals are exposed to MRI and20%...

Eating Seafood Results In Brighter Babies

...acids during their pregnancies had a verbal IQ six points lower than average. This is striking, because pregnant women have been advised to limit their consumption of oily fish and seafood in order to avoid exposing their foetuses to dioxins and brain-damaging methyl mercury. Dr Hibbeln, whose research i...

Data On Quality Of Health Care Can Be Easily Obtained

...rs to hold true from patient to patient. The study points to patients' reports as an effective tool that can be used more widely to improve the quality of care, said study author Dana Gelb Safran, director of the Health Institute at Tufts-New England Medical Center....

Humans force yet another species to extinction

...ue to deforestation and genetic evidence the study points to a catastrophic collapse in orangutan population...s Chikhi, The main researcher, Michael Bruford, points that the collapse occurred within the past hundred years. The massive effects were observed within t...

Death Wishes Influenced By Ethnicity and Racial Background

...s in our study is that there are so many different points of view, it is important for health care providers to treat everyone as an individual," commented lead author Sonia A. Duffy, Ph.D., R.N., research investigator with the Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research at the Veterans Affairs Ann...

Lunar Forces Affect The Surface Of The Earth

...y holds the earth's surface layer back. Doglioni points to a profound asymmetry in the distribution of the earth's big mountains as a part of the evidence. Both the Rocky and Andes mountains are on the eastern side of the Pacific Ocean. The answer, according to him, is that in the eastern Americas, the un...

Do not get unduly stressed or emotional as it may affect the heart!

...toll on your physical health and body." The main points to be kept in mind are :- * Isolate and detect the causative agent for stress and try to manage it. A psychologist can help to manage stress to prevent heart disease. * consult a doctor. * Give space and time to yourself. Do not overhaul yourse...

Girl Foetus Aggravates Asthma Symptoms

...eir lung function for 10-day intervals at selected points in pregnancy. Lung function and a number of other factors that might influence severity of the mother's asthma were recorded automatically. Asthma worsened in mothers with either male or female foetuses until about 30 weeks gestation, after which ...

Alzheimer’s: Blame it On the Genes; Lifestyle changes the only Saving Grac

... Though this is not a foregone conclusion, yet it points a finger to heredity that predisposes a person to be struck by Alzheimer’s. Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at the Boston University School of Medicine, opines that late onset Alzheimer’s is induced by several factors, and risk prone individuals with a ...

Anti-Retrovirals in Africa, not a distant dream

... Africa, Botswana and Namibia, will be the contact points for sales of the antiretroviral drugs. ...

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