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Brain of Cocaine Addicts Smaller In Size

... The study showed no correlation between amygdala size and duration of cocaine addiction. However, cocaine addicts experiencing the highest levels of drug craving also had the smallest amygdalas. In conclusion researchers say the study suggests that, when the opportunity presents itself, some people just...

Nanocells cancer combination therapy acts as chemotherapy as well as anti-angiogenic drug

...r bed due to their large size," he elucidated. The size of the nanocell plays a crucial role. While the 200 nanometre size of the nanocell prevents it from coming out of the blood vessel into organs, at the site of tumour i...

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

... risk of having the disease, nor does their family size // have any affect on the incidence of multiple sclerosis. Studies suggest that both environmental and genetic factors have a role in MS. Previous research has reported a higher risk of MS in offspring of small families and those with early birth-or...

Genetic Cause For Farsightedness Discovered

...d cornea, the eye's outermost layer, are of normal size and shape.Eyes with nanophthalmos still work quite well, despite these complications. But the disease's secondary complications later in life, including glaucoma or detached retina, are far more severe and can lead to complete blindness. One such pa...

The Link Between Caffeine Drinks And Obesity

...ying that the study is limited by its small sample size and the fact that the subjects were all young women. Hence they call for further research, to look into the long term effects of combined caffeine and sugar on sedentary people's health....

Obesity Can Be Caused By Consumption Of Energy Drinks

...ises the study's limitations with its small sample size and the fact the subjects were all young women, but says its results are important as this area has not been explored before. "There has been a great deal of research about sugar and obesity, but not the synergy between drinks and fat stores. This s...

More About The Coffee Bean Than Just A Heavenly Taste and Smell

...he combined basis of both antioxidants per serving size and frequency of consumption. Other popular antioxidant sources such as tea, milk, chocolate, bananas, dry beans, corn and cranberries has been outranked by this wonder bean. While the findings would seem to encourage people to go out and drink ...

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

...organ transplants, and help experts to predict the size of any future vCJD epidemic. About 180 people worldwide have died from variant Creutzfeldt-Jackobson disease, which is linked to eating mad cow disease infected meat. Scientists warn there could be many more deaths in the coming decades because the d...

Have You Ever Wondered Why Male And Female Voices Differ?

... about a person's appearance, including their sex, size and age. It is much more complex than most people ...plex than the male voice due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between women and men and also due to women having greater n...

Cardiac bypass seems to be favoring men more than women

... found that even after accounting for smaller body size and known risk factors for poor outcomes -- such as age, hypertension, and diabetes -- women were still more likely to die after CABG than men, reports the health portal Med Page Today. Researchers say factors that may help to explain the poor outco...

Human Brain Continues To Evolve And Grow

...teristic of human evolution -- the growth of brain size and complexity -- is likely still going on," "Meanwhile, our environment and the skills we need to survive in it are changing ... I would expect the human brain, which has done well by us so far, will continue to adapt to those changes," added Lah...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...ned in such a way that they possess both the right size to gain entry into cells and also the right structure to carry other therapeutic strands of RNA inside with them, where they are able to halt viral growth or cancer's progress. RNA or ribonucleic acid has immense promise as a therapeutic agent agai...

Scientists Concerned Over Increasing Malfunction Of Heart Devices

...s that made the devices smaller - they are now the size of a stopwatch - while their computer memory was increased and their power maintained, it said. Scott Gottlieb, the FDA's deputy commissioner for policy, said the study's results and other agency data are disturbing, although the devices remain life...

Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology

...ruction of extremely small machines from nanometer size units that are about 10-9 meter or one billionth o..., manipulation and modification of these nanometer size particles however require complex instrumentation. The parallel advancements taking place in the fie...

Eye Diseases Diagnosed Through Genetical Testing

...rious forms of RP. Researchers note that while the size of the chip currently limit the ability to array all known RP genes, larger platforms are likely to be available soon. Source: Newswise...

Device For Improving Bone Mass In Osteoporosis

... of standing on an oscillating platform, about the size and shape of a bathroom scale, can do as much for bone density as longer bouts of more typical weight-bearing exercise. Users stand on the platform while it produces small, barely perceptible vibrations that mimic what muscle cells do during common ...

Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer

.... The results are so exciting because of the sheer size of the trial and the fact that it demonstrated 100 per cent efficacy." The Department of Health said, "We have met the company and it has shared with us the latest information on the development of this vaccine....

Acute Toxicity Of Nano-Scale Zinc Powder: Severe Renal Damage And Anemia

...mice were gastrointestinally administered with two size particles, nanoscale zinc (N-Zn) and microscale zinc (M-Zn) powder, while one group mice treated with sodium carboxy methyl cellulose was used as the control. The symptoms and mortality after zinc powder treatment were recorded. The effects of part...

Herbal remedies to be tested by Zambia for AIDS treatment

...Trust. More clinical trials with adequate sample size would be needed before the herbal remedies can be used for treatment. Anything that would serve to boost the immune system or anything that would improve the general health is to be welcomed according to people who are optimistic about a treatment fo...

Female Twins Have More To Share Than Just The Similarity: Risk Of Early Menopause

...n twins would probably pave way for predicting the size of the egg pool and determining the age of menopause in the years to come....

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