Tag: "protector" at medical news

Dentists Recommend Kids Use Mouthguard To Protect Them When Doing Sports

...n their lower jaw, the dentist may suggest a mouth protector for those teeth as well. Kids suffer thousands of injuries each year on the playing field, the basketball court or while skateboarding, biking or during other activities. "Injuries to the face from participating in a sport or other recreational a...

'Expedition Everest' Finds New Species

... of the Yeti, a creature whose traditional role as protector of the sacred has been integral to conservation in the region. Those beliefs inspired the story of Expedition Everest – which includes selected findings from the two-month expedition included as part of the experience. Additionally, Jeff Corwin, host...

Understanding Sleeping Sickness

...rypanosomiasis, or conversely a higher chance of a protector effect (2). The associations brought out between these mutations and the disease necessitate work to confirm this in different populations and environments. New investigations, particularly in genetic epidemiology, are currently being put into oper...

New Study Finds On/Off Switch for Septic Shock

... the journal Genes & Development. A killer and a protector Septic shock is the nation’s 10th most frequent ...d sepsis in these animals. In summary, auf1 is a protector that can stop an infection from progressing to septic shock, explains Dr. Schneider. It does so by h...

Brain Inflammation A Friend for Alzheimer's Patients

...sease. Perhaps inflammation is playing the role of protector and is acting more like an ambulance crew helping at the site of a road wreck, not causing the crash. The work suggests that doctors not rush in to turn off molecular events that scientists have widely considered to be detrimental in people with th...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...ave its way, while the court would be seen as the protector of the tribals. In the affidavit, overflowing with anger, the government says the Green Bench of the apex court has delivered judgments that have only contributed to accentuating poverty, social unrest and a spurt in Naxalite activities in some sta...

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