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Research Finds How Post-traumatic Stress Leads to Long-Lasting Memories

... in response to an exposure to a new environment," she said. "Our findings show that this gene makes more Arc protein in the hippocampus only if the experience is emotionally arousing or important enough to activate the amygdala and to be remembered days later." The researchers were surprised to find n...

Soya Found To Affect Women's Ability To Conceive: Professor

...ticides, affected mouse sperm in the same way, but she was surprised to find that human sperm was extreme...was surprised to find it appeared more sensitive," she said, saying that even tiny doses of genistein could cause sperm to "burn out". Fraser, a professo...

Death Of Singaporean Woman After Mysterious Illness

...n medication, the paper said. "After a few days, she complained of aches and was given painkillers," he...tive, subsequently developed gastric pain. In all, she was prescribed about six types of drugs for her systems, but did not improve. Rushed to Tan Tock S...

Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

... should also let their instructors know what he or she can do to help them - things such as talking louder, using more visual aids, facing the class when talking," he says. "All larger classrooms should have speaker amplification systems installed, but they are often not in place or are not operational. ...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

...d international awards. On hearing about the award she said: "It's something nice for me and the Institute.” She is a member of the WHO advisory committee on cancer, has to her credit, 95 publications in national and international journals. This annual awards is Asia's version of the Nobel Prize. It w...

Woman In Coma Gives Birth To Daughter

An American woman who had gone into coma when she was four months pregnant, had been proclaimed //as...ad kept her on the machines for three months after she was pronounced brain dead, for the sake of her unborn child. Susan was admitted to the hospital afte...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...utrition nirvana' were putting themselves at risk, she said. "A lot of these people who follow the exam...n't do any harm, and could well do you some good," she said. However taking doses many times the recommended daily allowance (RDA) could be seriously har...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...opera singer, Deborah Voigt, also lost 50 kg after she underwent a gastric bypass in the US, an operation that reduces the stomach to the size of a pouch that can hold 30 to 60 ml. The procedure also places a bypass around the middle portion of the small intestine to decrease the amount of calories absor...

Chicken pox beholds brain tumour risk

... relationship is not known .In the original study, she explained, "we just kind of stumbled on the association" between chickenpox history and glioma risk. As this study is just a lightener , more research should be done to unveil the role of chickenpox infection in the prevention of glioma,the most com...

DNA and clones

...cleus.Dolly the sheep may have been a success, but she was preceded by 274 stillborn, miscarried or dead ...ure rate that has remained relatively steady since she was born in 1997. Gene therapy - inserting 'good' genes to replace defective ones - has also been do...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

...when a woman reaches menopause and loses estrogen, she can lose a good deal of bone density faster than it can be replaced and as a result have fragile bones and fractures.The study found that nearly 40 percent of postmenopausal women in the United States have undetected low bone mass, placing them at se...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...the gaze of others facilitates social development, she added. Farroni and her colleagues believe that the new study could help scientists figure out what goes wrong in children with autism. According to him, individuals with autism have difficulties with many forms of social communication, and their ga...

Brain defect may play role in stammering

... the white matter connections. This German study, she added, did not study gray matter anatomy, so it may be that both are affected in people who stutter. A lot more research needs to be done to learn more about the neural mechanisms that induce stuttering. Martin McKeown, a neurologist at Duke Universi...

Success of HIV may depend in its mutations

...lost later in infection. Now we need to know why," she said. "While there are no direct implications for diagnosis or treatment, an important motivation for this sort of study is the development of knowledge that could lead to successful HIV vaccines, both to prevent and to treat HIV infection," infectio...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

...addition to improvements made in therapy. However, she also added that the debate on effectiveness of screening mammography in reducing breast carcinoma mortality for women who are 40 to 49 years of age is still on. Buseman and her colleagues, in the latest study, looked at 247 women diagnosed with brea...

SARS outbreaks contained

...ch has claimed 812 lives. "Today is a milestone," she said, but it came with the warning that "the world is not SARS free." "There are still close to 200 SARS patients in hospitals," Brundtland said in a statement from WHO headquarters in Geneva. "It is possible that cases have slipped through the net....

New birth control to limit women's periods

... just talking about doing away with menstruation," she says. "We're talking about doing away with women's normal hormonal menstrual cycle, which is really responsible for what fundamentally makes a woman a woman." The failure rate for traditional birth control pills is around 1 to 2 percent with perfect...

New ! Male Contraception

...Dr. Wang says. To give men more say in the matter, she is studying implantable rods that contain progestin and testosterone. Together, those hormones suppress sperm production. After the implants, normal sperm activity is all but eliminated. The rods are initially implanted in the individuals arm .Once...

Gene Activity connected to Schizophrenia

... 30-fold greater risk of developing schizophrenia, she said. In the second study, Sabine Bahn of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues also identified genes on chromosome 22 that they believe may play a role in schizophrenia. The team analyzed brain tissue from dead schizophrenia pati...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...so to carry that out in their leisure activities," she said. Scientists have pursued a variety of approaches toward an ear-fortifying pill. In 1994, for example, Israeli researchers reported that magnesium supplements helped military recruits avoid hearing loss over two months of noisy basic training. T...

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