Tag: "simplest" at medical news

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...ase of pain . Scientists studying one of natures simplest organisms have helped to unravel the structure of a key molecule that controls pain in humans.The findings published in the top scientific journal Nature could rapidly advance research into the next generation of painkillers for relief of chronic c...

Common BP Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy

...F-beta blocks muscle regeneration and repair. "The simplest things can injure muscle," explains Cohn, an assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at Hopkins. "Running a mile down the street causes microscopic tears in leg muscles, which normally go unnoticed because muscles are so efficient at repairin...

Americans’ Concern for Skin Infections, Flu, Spreads Across the Countr

...h contaminated surfaces. Proper handwashing is the simplest and most effective way to prevent these infections from spreading. According to SDA’s recent survey, most Americans are aware of the numerous benefits of clean hands. A full 90 percent of respondents believe that handwashing can help reduce the spr...

Lesser Calories for Longer Life

...e of diseases like diabetes and heart disease. The simplest way to positively affect them all is to slow down aging.” Source-Medinia NLA...

Super Chow, Laced With Semi-Synthetic Vitamin E, Inhibited Spread of Cancer

...as potent anti-cancer properties when given in the simplest way possible - as a dietary supplement. “We tried other ways of delivering different forms of the synthetic vitamin, such as by force feeding and injections, but found that one form, alpha-TEA, was more effective when incorporated into food, and th...

Computer Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation Devices Way of the Future

After experiencing a stroke or brain injury, the simplest movements like putting one foot in front of the other or lifting an arm to open a door can be daunting for patients.// Computer-assisted devices can now offer patients an alternative to traditional physical rehabilitation and medical treatment. A sm...

Scientist Move A Step Closer To Treating Genetic Obesity

... is obese. At the same time, taking it down to the simplest level is how you identify specific problems." The melanocortin-4 receptor's link to obesity was first reported in 1997 when scientists discovered that a mouse missing the protein that turns on the receptor was obese, ate more than other mice and ha...

Dental Hygiene Found Wanting In Children Of Poorer Communities In Scotland

...the target. Dr Lamb said, “We do know one of the simplest and most efficient and cost-effective ways of improving oral health in children would be to put fluoride in the water. The BDA's policy is to support water fluoridation, which is targeted at communities which are most in need of it, but following con...

Clues To Identify Psychological Seizures

...e physically, socially and financially.” In the simplest of the three studies, researchers reviewed videos of 208 people whose seizures were monitored at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. They found that 50 out of 52 people with psychological nonepileptic seizures closed their eyes during seizu...

WHO, UNICEF Issue New Guidelines For Oral Rehydration Salts

...ea without unnecessary hospitalization. ORS is the simplest way of keeping a child alive during episodes of acute diarrhea and replenishing the fast-depleting electrolytes and fluids. WHO is the only organization that has standardized the formula for ORS and keeps updating it constantly. WHO and UNICEF jointl...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

...; getting smoking out of youth rated movies is the simplest and least expensive thing that can be done to reduce adolescent smoking”, said Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF". Perhaps, this review settles the controversial debate regarding the ill effec...

Fundamentals Are The Key In Loosing Weight

...e exercise. This, say the experts, is probably the simplest and most effective approach to weight loss. Source: Mayo Clinic Women's Health...

Fundamentals are the key in loosing weight

...e exercise. This, say the experts, is probably the simplest and most effective approach to weight loss. Source: Mayo Clinic Women's Healt...

Blood Test To Detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease/Mad Cow Disease

...ical symptoms appear.” A blood test would be the simplest way to screen donors and keep infected meat from entering the human food chain, but the prion concentration in blood is too small for it to be detected. So, the researchers have taken a different approach of using a biochemical techniques to amplify ...

New therapy improves quality of life for cancer

...ard to get the energy together to perform even the simplest everyday tasks. A new treatment, epoetin alfa, mimics haemoglobin and has just been tested in a group of patients by Cancer Research UK scientists at the University of Sussex. Some of the patients received injections of the drug, some a placebo inj...

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