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Computer Power to Give Spice Girls' Weak Voices a Boost!

... will make use of a new hi-tech system, which will present the digitally improved recordings as their own voices. The system works by taking the singer's live voice on stage and electronically comparing it to the perfect vocal sounds that have previously been recorded in the studio. So, when the all-gi...

Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research

...cademy," Sidhu says. "My study looked at molecules present on the surface of egg and sperm to prevent fertilisation." He migrated to Sydney in 1995. "I joined Macquarie University as chief scientist in reproduction physiology of marsupials. We developed a system of in-vitro fertilisation for brush-tailed ...

Potential Cure for HIV Discovered

...enetics in Dresden. "Nevertheless the results we present offer an early proof of principal for this type of approach, which we speculate might form a useful basis for the development of future HIV therapies," Sarkar concluded....

Sexual Fantasies Play an Important Role in Boosting Desire

...l desire they experience. However, "women normally present more anxiety disorders than men" regarding transitory emotional stages such as anxiety, because anxiety strongly affects women's sexual function. On the basis of the sample studied, which consists of 608 subjects aged 13 to 43, researchers have fou...

Probiotic Drinks can Stave Off Hospital Infection

...tridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterium that is present naturally in the gut of around 3% of adults and 66% of children. C. diff doesnt cause any problems in healthy people. However, some antibiotics that are used to treat other health conditions can interfere with the balance of good bacteria in the gu...

Living With Stress

... becomes a cause for concern. Nevertheless, in the present time, stress has a negative connotation and is undeniably an urban malaise. Stress through the ages At the core of all survival lies a series of confrontation with stress and adaptations to live with it. Homo sapiens , today, is an evolved s...

Proteins Behind Mad Cow Disease may Protect Against Alzheimer's

...ns corrupt the normal version of the prion protein present in brain cells, causing them to change their shape which in turn results in brain damage and death. Given that Alzheimer's and variant CJD are similar, the researchers looked for a link between the two diseases. They found that the build-up of ...

Allergic Individuals Should Keep Away from Cats, Say UK Scientists

...towards cats as they get older. Cat allergen is present on very small particles that readily become airborne when disturbed and are easily inhaled. When a person experiences an allergic response, a chemical called human immunoglobulin, or IgE, produced by the immune system in response to the presence of...

Osteoarthritis Facts and Causes

...appear to be associated with pathology both in the present study and another study involving the shoulder area. Another reason FAI may not cause hip damage is that the positions in the study were static, as opposed to repetitive trauma, which the study did not evaluate. The authors acknowledge that since t...

Experts in Istanbul Seek Nature and Measure of Happiness

...y to a simple question: "To what extent are you at present happy with your life?" They had to give it a mark out of 10. Veenhoven, who heads the World Database on Happiness, has compiled figures for 95 countries. It turns out that the happiest folk on the face of the Earth are the citizens of Denmark who...

Girls With Cancer Given Fertility Hope

...rom Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem will present full details of his research at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, this week. We were able to extract oocytes \ using needle aspiration from very young girls, he told the European Socie...

New York Bans Trans Fats in Restaurants

...crunchy. Trans fats like saturated fat are often present in cookies, pasta, pizza and doughnuts, and they a...re serving that they would rather go to court than present this important information where their customers can readily see it," Frieden said. The city indic...

Scientists Identify New Possible 'biomarker' for Pancreatic Cancer

...t cancer. They also observed that the receptor was present in 79 per cent of primary pancreatic cancers, and 83 per cent of metastatic cancers. Waltz believes that the RON receptor's signalling pathways may be a key factor contributing to pancreatic cancer progression, and that it may give drug developers ...

Hoarding can Endanger Lives, Says New Study

...hoarding behaviour. Hoarding behaviour may also be present in persons with dementia In severe cases, clutter can get so out of control it can endanger lives-as in the case of a Houston woman who died in a 2006 fire because her clutter-filled home hindered firefighters' efforts to rescue her. "Hoarding is...

VYVANSE(TM) Drug for the Treatment of ADHD in Adults

...7 years; that some impairment from the symptoms is present in two or more settings (e.g., at school and home); that the symptoms continue for at least six months; and that there is clinically significant impairment in social, academic or occupational functioning and the symptoms cannot be better explained by...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...nd fewer patients with heart failure in those that present to hospital with heart attack or threatened heart attack," says Keith A. A. Fox, MB. ChB., FRCP, lead author of the paper, co-chair of GRACE and a professor of cardiology at Edinburgh. "These data are extremely encouraging, and suggest that we're ...

Anti-inflammatory Drug Fails to Improve COPD Symptoms

... patients. Although the malignancies may have been present when the patients enrolled in the study, "the possibility that infliximab contributed to the progession, and thus the diagnosis, of malignancies remains a serious concern." This safety issue, coupled with the "resoundingly negative results," make i...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Associated With Slow Wave Activity During Sleep

...how a blunted SWA response to sleep challenge. The present CFS study included only women, and none had current depression. Therefore, our results cannot be explained on the basis of depression." Experts recommend that adults get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good health and...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

...ies on an average is around 2,500 every month. The present level of deaths is a serious cause of concern," th...al is simply overburdened and just cannot meet the present day demands. "Poor facilities, shortage of qualified nurses and paramedical staff is another seri...

Study Examines the Pathologization of Guantanamo Suicides

...e detention. Although humanitarian agencies aim to present the psychological states of the detainees as indicators of the abominable conditions of their detention, by presenting the attempted suicides as the result of impaired psychological functioning, they inadvertently play into notions of the detainees a...

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