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Implants In The Ear Is Effective Against All Types Of Hearing Loss

...g in both ears. The patients’ ability to interpret sounds and speech was measured before and after cochlear implant surgery. Patients with residual hearing in one or both ears prior to surgery scored significantly higher on the speech perception tests following surgery, even when the implanted ear was prof...

Have You Ever Wondered Why Male And Female Voices Differ?

...s brain is activated, which analyses the different sounds in order to `read′ the voice and determine the auditory face. When men hear a male voice the part of the brain that processes the information is towards the back of the brain and is colloquially known as the `mind’s eye′. This is the part of the bra...

Isolated Sleep Paralysis In Patients With Anxiety Disorders

...ressure on the chest, and hearing footsteps or odd sounds commonly accompany the paralysis. These experiences may cause fear and be interpreted as a supernatural experience in a culturally-distinct manner. Rates of isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) are elevated in individuals with panic disorder and particular...

Genetically modified bacteria to combat HIV

...his which enhances the body's defenses against HIV sounds like a great idea. "Clearly there are many steps to be completed in the development and clinical testing of the product, and there may be special safety concerns over unexpected side effects due to deliberately colonizing the gastrointes...

New Test Can Detect Breast Cancer 8 Years Earlier

... cellular changes long before a lesion is detected sounds like a great idea, but what if a woman gets an abnormal reading? OB-GYN Dr. Bryan Jick says women might end up with a lot of unnecessary intervention. He's also concerned women with a normal result might get a false sense of security and skip their...

Stress Levels Determine Problem-Solving Abilities Of An Individual

.... If a movie could impair the performance, then it sounds horrifying indeed to think about a similar real life situation. The first study involved 12 participants, six men and six women. Those who watched the first 20 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan," struggled with cognitive flexibility when compared to ...

High Decibel Levels Raise Heart Disease Risk

...taking steps to reduce environmental and workplace sounds could be beneficial to the health in the long run....

Bio-engineered rice fortified with iron boost women health

...ty and the lead author of the study,"Although this sounds like a modest increase, it means that instead of 50 percent of women getting adequate iron, 71 percent of the women who consumed the biofortified rice, while eating a traditional Philippine diet, met the estimated average requirement for iron,"."The ...

Early Intervention Required For The Hearing Impaired

...h ears in India, but she is now able to respond to sounds after completing her first year as result of a successful cochlear implant when she was only eight months old//.Sonam's parents detected their daughter's shortcoming when she was three months old. But they did not lose heart and were fast to act. And...

Festive Tip For Wine Shoppers

...t. One of the more popular red wines, 'pinot noir' sounds more elegant than simply calling it 'burgundy' or 'Spaetburgunder' in Germany. It's the same with the popular 'pinot grigio', a term which more strongly evokes vacations in southern Europe than simply saying white wine or in German 'grauer burgunder...

Genuine Laughter Is The Best Medicine!

...ven million years ago. They believe human laughter sounds more like a wild primate call than language. Between four and two million years ago, this laughter evolved as a reaction to non-serious social incongruity, such as when one human ancestor would hear another loudly pass gas while the individuals fel...

Exposure to Grating, Noise, Music Can Cause Tumors Leading To Deafness

... participants were quizzed about their exposure to sounds from motors, machinery and even screaming children. It was found that the source of a sound also played a part in the risk factor of developing this non-cancerous or non-malignant tumor. People like teachers who were exposed to screaming children and...

A Wristwatch For Detecting Malaria

...wice during the day and twice at night. An alarm sounds if the parasite count is above 50, before the first symptoms appear. According to Lubbe, at that point an antidote in the form of tablets should be consumed and, within 48 hours, all traces of malaria are eliminated from the body. Malaria is the si...

Research Undertaken To Unravel the Baby Mind

...adult world is a complicated collection of sights, sounds and smells. // Hence research is going on as to understand how they cope up with it. Lead investigator Dr Sylvain Sirois said that BabyLab are set to investigate how babies learn and also about their neurological development. He says that learnin...

Pink Reveals Her Drug Past

...er and known drug user Pete Doherty. She said: "It sounds like it is his way to be rock and roll. That is sad. "It is not a good place to be but I do understand it. I hope he finds what he is looking for." Pete’s girl friend and famous model Kate Moss was also earlier in news regarding her drug past. She ...

Snorers, Tattoo Wearers Out From Chinese Army

...oduced by the Army. //"Given that chronic snorers' sounds disturb the life of others, a new regulation ... has been added," the Beijing Times newspaper quoted army official Li Chunming as saying. The People's Liberation Army is the world's strongest standing force with 2.3 million soldiers. It has also dec...

Aspirin to Prevent Deafness caused by Antibiotics

...tiny hairs in the inner ear whose job is to detect sounds at different frequencies. Researchers found that aspirin did not decrease the action of the antibiotic although some stomach problems were reported in a few patients. The Sha team still considers the benefits to outweigh the risks. ...

Detection of Hearing Problems in the Early Life Is Very Important

... the hearing test can show the brain’s response to sounds or even the activity of the sound-detecting hair cells deep within the ear. Cynthia C. Morton, a professor of obstetrics, gynaecology and reproductive physiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a co-author says that few of the parents ...

A Device To Alert Women To Take Pill

... If the pill has not been taken, a series of extra sounds or vibration alerts will start. If these alerts are still ignored, the device, which remembers the exact day in the cycle the last pill was taken, advises users whether to take the missed pill, to skip it and move on to the next one or start a new pi...

Gene For Dyslexia Identified

'Nearer, my Dog, to thee?' - sounds odd?But it is a dyslexic's mode of writing where letters in words are often reversed.// The learning disability, dyslexia, has a genetic component, according to German researchers. And finding the causative gene could opens up ways for treatment....

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