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Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection

...otitis media, is an inflammation of the middle ear space that can cause pain, fever, irritability, lack of appetite and vomiting. The middle ear is the space just before the eardrum. About half of all children carry the bacteria that cause acute otitis media...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

...r was idling for more than an hour in the enclosed space and the engine got deprived of sufficient levels of oxygen needed for proper combustion. Inefficient combustion and lack of proper ventilation caused lethal levels of CO to accumulate in the garage. The air-conditioning system sucked much of the d...

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Spread of Respiratory Infections in Hospitals

...outbreak. It is very important to provide adequate space in hospital wards and implement effective infection control measures in order to avoid cross-contamination in hospitals.” Unfortunately, the authors note, it is a common practice for hospitals to increase the number of hospital beds inside a ward t...

Playing Video Games Could Improve Eyesight

...r ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space compared to 10 non-gamers given the same test. Most aspects of vision have to do with the size of one's eye and the thickness and shape of the cornea and lens. But some visual defects are neural in nature, said Bevelier, author of the new study o...

You may Be Risking Fatal Blood Clots Even While Reading This

...e passengers traveling coach often do not have the space or opportunity to stretch enough to reduce the risk of blood clotting. The study, which covered 62 patients aged under 65 who were admitted to hospital with blood clots, found that 34 per cent of patients admitted to hospital with blood clots had b...

Neck Pain Treatment Safer Without Significant Risk of Paralysis

...s risk by injecting the steroids into the epidural space in the neck, allowing the drug to spread up and do...ween the C7 and T1 vertebrae, the largest epidural space in the neck, and injects a small amount of medication. The medication then spreads up and down the s...

More Americans Suffer from Vertebral Compression Fractures

... are made and a probe is placed into the vertebral space where the fracture is located. The bone is drilled and one balloon (called a bone tamp) is inserted on each side. The two balloons are then inflated with contrast medium (which are visualized using image guidance x-rays) until they expand to the desi...

Inner-ear Volume Study Leads to Higher Surgery Success Rates

...rates of patching eardrum holes based on volume or space measurements in the ear. Holes result from either injury or prior ear problems, such as ear tubes. Perforated eardrums can predispose the ear to infection or result in hearing loss. “Until this study, there were no clear guidelines as to when kid...

Better Management can Reduce Emergency Room Waiting Times

...s, a plan has been initiated to effectively manage space in the emergency rooms in hospitals. A "bed site manager" is newly designated in the hospital, whose job will be to manage beds for patients who need to be shifted from emergency care. According to Michele Lahey, a chief operating officer with Capi...

Advertisements Telecast During Sexy Programmes are Most Often Forgotten

...ertisers do not spend their money well if they buy space during programmes with high sexual content. A second, less surprising, finding was that men recalled the brand of products whose adverts contained sexual images, than they did if the adverts were sex-free. Women on the other hand were actively put ...

Kids Living Near Parks Less Likely to Be Overweight

...rweight. They also looked at the amount of green space and the number of food outlets such as fast food r...archers says it's difficult to directly link green space and children's weight. He says socioeconomic factors also play a part in children's activity levels....

A Wedding Gift That Helps Save Lives

...crosoft Word template with the message above and a space for guests’ names or a personal greeting. Printing can then be done on any paper from a home or office. "Guests will be touched you have chosen to make a gift in their honor and delighted it will support the most advanced cancer research and patie...

Convict Felled by Legionnaires

... small particles to splay into the air for a short space of time where it could be inhaled, and we will be looking into whether that happened and how it could be prevented”, says Dr. Richard Smithson, an expert at the Western Health and Social Services Board. The discovery comes six months after a simila...

Exercise Has No Effect on Knee OA: Study

...ies that suggested that exercise may prevent joint space loss, the study did not find this to be the case. ... Kellgren and Lawrence scale), by looking at joint space loss, which is thought to indicate cartilage loss, and also by examining symptoms. The authors concl...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...lation, as the rules of the game demanded. Sharing space with people who were dissimilar, invoked the smoldering demons of pride, prejudice, discrimination and racial intolerance, resulting in the reality show getting too ‘real’ for comfort. What is the basis of this unsavory loathe, exclusive to the H...

The Food Pyramid Guide Enters Supermarkets

...hington –Nearly 2000 stores in 17 states will make space for a new entrant, The Food Pyramid Guide, purported to be a guidance to people to buy the right kind of food. //The novel rainbow-colored food pyramid which essentially follows the federal dietary guidelines is one of the strategies by the U.S gover...

Indian Students Thrilled to Talk to Sunita Williams

...ct with the astronauts. "I am very happy. We saw space live. I just cannot explain the experience," said ...iala student, had a query on future settlements in space and the growing terror threat on earth. Sunita, who is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, in her an...

Snake Like Robots Designed to Assist Surgeons

... fingers are too large to work in a small confined space within the body. We can help by building tools that act like inhumanly small and highly dexterous hands." One promising example is the team's snakelike robot. Currently, a doctor performing throat surgery must insert and manually manipulate long inf...

New MRI Technique Measures Intracranial Pressure in Brain Disorder

...in brain injury, because in the restricted cranial space it increases pressure and reduces blood perfusion,...vidual's ability to tolerate swelling or any other space occupying processes." Source-Newswise...

Andhra Wants Withdrawal of Warning Signal from ‘Beedi’ Packes

...g statutory warning in words on 20 per cent of the space rather than the skull and bones mark. Buoyed by the massive victory of their president K. Chandrasekhara Rao in the recent by-election to Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat, Telangana Rashatra Samiti members stormed the well of the House as soon as it met ...

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