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Women recognise faces better

...conditions, such as a selection of similar-looking profiles or silhouetted faces, different facial expression and varying degrees of picture quality.// At this stage, it’s difficult to explain the results. The guess is that’s a combination of a training and genetic predisposition. It is speculated that one r...

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...etermination of flow velocity, direction, and even profiles within the vessel. It is painles and the study takes 30 to 60 minutes, whereas DSA sometimes takes several hours. MRA is recommended for patients suspected to have narrowing or other abnormalities of arteries or veins in head, neck cardiovascular or...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...ffective training mode for modifying (cholesterol) profiles in female college-aged students. They offer no explanation for why step aerobics proved more beneficial for HDL levels. However, they point out, these findings are limited since the study group was small and, although the women were told not to chang...

Screening device for ovarian cancer

... Researchers in the US have established proteomic profiles for healthy women and those with ovarian cancer, using blood samples. They then used this knowledge on another group of women - of whom 50 had ovarian cancer (some of them at the very earliest stage that is hard to detect) and 60 did not. The prote...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

...and analysis models to devise individual treatment profiles for patients. Reddy said it was planned to launch similar centres in Delhi and Hyderabad in the near future and other key metros later. He said that it was estimated that four out of every five people suffer from back pain which was the single larges...

Exercise has a undeniable effect on cholesterol

... who had taken exercise had far better cholesterol profiles than those who did not. Indeed, not exercising was actually linked to a deterioration in cholesterol profile. The amount, rather than the intensity, of exercise seems to be the deciding factor. So if you are sedentary, move just a little to improve y...

Risk of Heart disease reduced by yoga

...usions. These showed that yoga recuperates lipid profiles and helps with weight loss. Yoga also decreases the number of angina episodes, increases exercise tolerance and decreases narrowing of the arteries (coronary stenosis). Researchers feel that Given that yoga is relatively cheap, and acceptable to many...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...rs concluded that glycemic control and lipoprotein profiles were better in diabetic & non-diabetic post menopausal women who were current HRT users than in the new or previous HRT users. Inflammation, Heart disease & Type 2 Diabetes An annual research conference of ADA investigators presented interestin...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

...istory of kidney stones and compared their genetic profiles with those of healthy people. They found six different mutations in the same gene and having at least one of these was found to increase the risk of having AH by two to three times and having five, increased the risk by a factor of 11.5. The researc...

Switching drugs regularly improves HIV treatment

...regimens with drugs that have different resistance profiles might extend the overall long-term effectiveness of first- and second-line treatment options." In an editorial, Dr. Michael Saag, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, points out that current drug regimens are more efficacious than the ones use...

Latest Tumor Classification More Informative

... origin…This permits tumors with similar molecular profiles to be classified according to biological attributes rather than anatomical location , say researchers....

Raising Good Cholesterol Levels Found To Improve Heart Health

...lems than those taking a placebo. Since all lipid profiles improved, researchers say it is not clear whether ...easing HDL cholesterol levels improves cholesterol profiles and helps prevent angiographic progression of coronary stenosis, and may prevent cardiovascular even...

Is Surgery The Only Solution To Backache?

...logical conditions before and after surgery, whose profiles were then matched for emotional, social and psychological traits. Some of the factors that hampered a quick recovery from back surgery are depression, frequent headaches, use of tobacco and a low education level. The effect of these factors seems m...

Heart rate can predict the risk of sudden death

...he healthy people tend to have abnormal heart rate profiles during exercise and recovery. Researchers had looked into the heart beat profile of 5713 asymptomatic working men of ages between 42 and 53 years who had undergone standardized graded exercise testing between 1967 to 1972, and all of them tested neg...

Arthritis and the Wnt Factor

An article by Nakamura et al., "Expression profiles and functional analyses of Wnt-related genes// in human joint disorders," will appear in the July issue of The American Journal of Pathology. The article revolves around the protein, Wnt. Wnt is a proto-oncogene since its disruption can lead to canc...

Personality profiles of gamblers and substance abusers are similar

...em gambling behavior may share their personality// profiles with substance abusers like drug addicts and alcoholics. Researchers have been able to identify personality traits of problem gambling behavior in people and have found marked semblance with those of substance abusers. Researchers in their research ...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...e key in helping us find new ways to lower glucose profiles in type-2 diabetics and slow the development of disease." Acrp30 is a very large protein and it can only be given by injection. "The future of this biological discovery is in identifying either the receptor for the protein, in other words how it is ...

Blood Test May help Heart Prediction

...evels was seen when comparing those with the worst profiles with those with the best. Men who had the highest levels of apoB, the bad protein, combined with the lowest levels of apoA-1, the good protein, were nearly four times more likely to suffer a fatal heart attack than those who had the lowest concentra...

Airlines Pilot At Heightened Risk Of Having Cataracts

...s flown on each aircraft type, time tables, flight profiles and individual cumulative radiation doses calculated by computer. Among the 71 cases with nuclear cataract, 15 were employed as commercial pilots, whereas among the 374 controls (without nuclear cataract), 64 were employed as pilots. “The odds ratio...

New Information On Virus Goes Against The Age-Old Theory

...own viruses, or to map unknown viruses to existing profiles to better predict their behavior and start appropriate treatment. Source: Newsise...

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