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Big and Bright

...weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the connection between foetal growth and brain development....

Complementary and Alternative medicine

...to 20 years on. There were, however, some dramatic shifts in the popularity of various therapies. In the 1960s, diet-based programmes and self-help were in the ascendant, in the '70s it was biofeedback, energy healing and herbs. The '80s showed an increase in massage and naturopathy, while in the '90s, arom...

Obesity a global problem

...of poor people in developing countries. Now, rapid shifts in urbanisation, technology, food processing and even leisure time in developing countries are causing a rise in obesity levels. Paradoxically, childhood malnutrition and stunted growth may be found hand-in-hand with adult obesity in many places. Th...

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

...weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the connection between foetal growth and brain development....

Dealing with personality disorders

...ore effective than placebos in treating rapid mood shifts in women with borderline personality disorder. This study , which included 38 non-schizophrenic, non-bipolar women with borderline// personality disorder between the ages of 19 and 51 was conducted by researchers from various universities in Netherla...

Genetic mutation to the 'fountain of youth' discovered

...an author of the study said that this key mutation shifts the site at which mitochondrial DNA starts to replicate, and perhaps that may accelerate its replication, allowing the individual to replace damaged molecules faster....

Risk Of Schizophrenia due to Gene Variation

...epressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes shifts in a person's mood, with spurts of high energy and elation alternating with longer periods of fatigue and deep sadness. It affects about one percent of adults, usually beginning in late adolescence.// In a series of experiments the researchers found ...

Working in shifts may cause damage to your health

...oyees,// researchers had found out that working in shifts can be damaging to one’s health. When people wor...ut of the situation is to avoid frequent change of shifts to allow the body clock to settle down. However the scientists also feel that there may not be a bla...

Scientists Developed Cheap Way To Assess Sleep

...hysiological behaviors will show relatively abrupt shifts – a occurring over minutes – between both stable and unstable sleep, but the stable stage clearly dominates. But in a variety of disease states, the spectrogram shows that an unstable sleep pattern is predominant, and among patients with severe cases...

Premature birth linked with pregnant women on night shift

... of North Carolina reveal that women working night shifts have higher incidence of premature delivery. //This links an external factor like night shift with movements in the uterus.The study shows that this factor can influence premature delivery by 50%. The study studies and analysed the working conditio...

New Computerized Imaging Systems Help In Better Dental Treatment Planning

...er new frontiers, and as the paradigm in dentistry shifts from landmarks, lines, distances and angles to surfaces, areas and volumes. Orthodontists are beginning to appreciate the advantages that the third dimension gives to clinical diagnosis, treatment planning and patient education." Contact: Susan Grif...

Uninsured People Turn To Free Clinics.

...k full time and the rest work part time working in shifts with two or three jobs. It’s not a necessity that if you are working, you are assured a health insurance like in the case of Luis Moreira who is working in a full time job for a decade but doesn’t possess a health insurance because it is very expensi...

Man's Transition from Foragers to Agriculturalist Led to Increase in Birth Rates

...dwide increase in birth rate. When assessing the shifts in the demographic pattern prior and after agriculture was discovered in Europe there was a sudden increase of 20-30% over 500 to 700 years, in the proportion of immature skeletons. Bocquet-Appel and Stephan Naji in their new study about Current An...

Mood Stabilizing drugs for Bipolar disorder

...der or Manic-depressive illness is due to dramatic shifts in mood for high energy to sadness and very sadness with hopeless with periods of normal mood which affects the normal functioning and activity of the body which leads to bad learning capacity and can also lead to severe depression and suicide. ...

Surgeon Attempts to Create A Surgical Hernia Feat

...d professionals and support staff working in three shifts in the newly opened hospital. The surgeries took place in five theatres and 70 beds in the hospital had been exclusively reserved for the patients who underwent the surgery. Some doctors when contacted about his record and asked to comment said: ...

Research Undertaken To Unravel the Baby Mind

...lace in the brain in the first year of life, which shifts control of babies' behavior to the cortex. Then when the baby grows a lot happens between five and six months of age. In this period they want to further analyze everything from babies' perceptual learning to their temperament. In the experiment...

Gamble for money, but casino workers gamble with their health!

...ive or threatening to staff. It also wants 12-hour shifts scrapped, and regular and longer rest breaks. As per an industry source, highly surprised at the findings, said: "Generally, casinos have a very tight security policy, particularly when it comes to who they let through the door in the first place."...

Alcohol Intake During Pregnancy Is Bad For The Baby’s Hear

...yl. The captain of the Exxon Valdez was working in shifts and also under the influence of alcohol and was unable to maintain a normal, necessary performance. With Chernobyl, the shift-work schedules were inappropriate and, at the time that the accident happened, poor mental and physical performances contrib...

Long Hours of Sleep Increases the Risk of Parkinson's disease

... It said that those who work in the rotating night shifts appear to have a lower risk of the disease. This is because the author says that rotating night shifts disrupts circadian rhythms and may have a wide range of physiologic, psychological and social effect...

Rural Poor are Better off Than Slum Dwellers: UN Report

...rt released Saturday //. As the locus of poverty shifts from rural areas to urban centres, UN-HABITAT's "State of the World's Cities" report provides concrete data to reveal that the world's one billion slum dwellers are more likely to die earlier, experience more hunger and disease, attain less education...

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