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Kalam Appeals to Eradicate Hearing Disability

...for restoring hearing to the deaf and the dumb. I saw four-year-old deaf and dumb children. After one of month of implanting and training they spoke out few words legibly. After six months of computer-aided training, I have seen the children speaking normally. This touching scene moved me. I felt that I...

John Hopkins CGHH program provides Global Health education

...idea of this online course came to them after they saw that their John Hopkins website with information on AIDS had more than 2 million hits and urgent queries from 82 countries which made them feel that there is a great gap in sharing of knowledge. Now their new online courses on AIDS and its treatment ...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...a bleeding head and a broken arm. Her husband, who saw her talk to a male neighbor has given her a good thrashing, to 'teach her a lesson she wouldn’t forget.' Scenario 3, Bangladesh: Rehana, a worker in a local garment factory has been beaten black and blue by her husband. Reason: she refused to part ...

Gene responsible for developing prostate cancer identified

...1 to be much higher in the advanced tumors. 'We saw that Mer was expressed at reasonably high levels in prostate cancer cells. And so Dr. Nupam Mahajan, the study's first author, decided to look at whether Mer had an effect on prostate cancer growth signaling,' Earp said. In experiments, which used th...

Feeling good is good enough for a man

...greatest improvements in body image were those who saw actual increases in the amount of weight they could lift at the gym." The study followed men and women, between the ages of 18 and 29, during a 12-week full-body progressive resistance-training program. Significant body image improvements were fou...

New device to help spinal cord injury cases walk

...eadmill and worked with them and 18 weeks later we saw a considerable improvement." Five patients, whose spinal cord injuries had taken place from two to 24 years prior to the study, completed two to five sessions per week of FES therapy. After practicing with physiotherapists, the patients learned ho...

UK Committee Warns on Food Shortages Due to Flu Epidemic

...ife. Distribution networks in this country - as we saw through the petrol crisis - are very finely balanced and any interruption can affect it quite dramatically,' said Lord Mitchell, a Labour peer. He added that owners should discourage absenteeism so that food gets delivered on time....

Hospitals to Equip Themselves with ER Especially For Psychiatric Patients

...itals, taken care by Moses Cone Health System also saw a raise in the number of mentally ill patients (600-700) pouring in each month. All this is due to the modifications introduced in the state health care services for mentally ill patients. As such the above mentioned hospitals are not equipped to ...

Mystery behind Brain activity during recalling events disentangled

... align his mental state to the state when he first saw the picture. Hence it is called as mental time travel because the person travels back the memory lane to associate or recall the image. When recalling events the person usually tries to put himself back in the same situation he was at the time of t...

‘Never Say Die’ Spirit of Visually Challenged - Makes Him a Role Modl

...ife of Srinivas, volunteered to marry him when she saw his perseverance. Today she assists Srinivas in the wok and is all praise for her husband saying he is now able to lead a decent life which seemed to be an impossible dream a few years ago. "Now we are happy as we are able to lead a normal life as ...

Overeating Caused By Consuming Too Many Flavors All At Once

...nds. The study participants also lost body fat and saw their cholesterol, blood sugar, insulin, and blood pressure decline. He said ethnic foods, such as Italian and Indian, are good examples of flavor thematic eating. Top chefs also plan meals around a harmonious blend of flavors. Katz said sensory spe...

Starpharma Develops New Gel (Vivagel) To Prevent HIV Transmission

The pharmaceutical company Starpharma saw an 8% increase in its share, following approval of Vivagel by the FDA, a new formulation, believed to prevent transmission of HIV. // The company even signed a $20 million (US) contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseas...

New warning signs for child meningitis

...children were sent to hospital the first time they saw a doctor. In many cases, children were admitted to hospital only after an initial misdiagnosis, the research found. Generally, primary-care clinicians are over-reliant on the classic symptoms of rash, headaches, stiff neck, light sensitivity and imp...

More Britons Take To Alcohol Because Of Stress

... said it was dealing with difficult people and 58% saw stress as having too much to do, and 64% wrongly believed that stress was an illness. Although stress can lead to illness such as depression, it is not an illness in itself. The DPP is issuing guidance to help people deal better with stress. DPP s...

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

...her friend’s soul. She was deeply touched when she saw her friend in the hospital. “There was nothing of her in the bed; she looked 95. Her throat was cracked from dehydration”, she told The Echo. According to official sources, Evelyn is said to have died on Saturday. On the 1st of January 2006, Dr. D...

A treatment for lung cancer: similar to Vitamin A but with few side effects.

... were not treated with bexarotene. The researchers saw a reduction of almost 50 percent in terms of total tumor burden in mice who were given bexarotene for 12 weeks after the animals had already developed benign tumors following injection of a lung carcinogen. "Seeing this magnitude of response in suc...

Pay Cut Leads To Increased Levels Of Insomnia Among Workers

...ses whose supervisors did not receive the training saw small drops in insomnia levels after the four-week...ths and found that nurses with trained supervisors saw their levels of insomnia reach those levels were they were just slightly higher than those nurses wh...

Task Learning Made Simple By Taking Short Breaks

...ce. But researchers were taken aback by what they saw when the rats were resting. Then, the same brain cells replayed the sequence of electrical firing over and over, but in reverse and speeded up. "It's absolutely original; no one has ever seen this before at all," says Edvard Moser, who studies memor...

Switching Off Protein Could Play Key Role In Success Of Radiation Therapy For Cancer

...s and protect them from fusion or degradation. "We saw that Rad9 stabilizes telomeres, and because we aren't yet sure how it does it, we will continue to study how Rad9 influences the telomere structure," Pandita said. "We speculate that without Rad9, some of the other proteins associated with the telome...

A Glass, Half Filled With Water Is Half Full Or Half Empty?

For those who instantly saw it as a half full glass, there is some hearty news for you. The positive energy pervading your body will promote overall well-being// and also lower cardiovascular risk by 50%. In a study conducted among 545 Dutch men in the age group of 64 to 84, ...

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