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Schizophrenia impairs body language comprehension

...the tape, were visible as they moved. Based on the speed and pattern of the bright dots, individuals without schizophrenia and healthy volunteers were asked to determine if the motion depicted joy or sadness, for example. The study found that individuals with schizophrenia could not accurately decipher the...

A New Study Discredits The Myth Of Sexual Intercourse Late In Pregnancy Speeds Labour & Delivery

...elieve the ‘old wives’ tale’ that intercourse will speed up labour but according to the current study data, the theory would not hold water medically. He also explained that the current study would not support the belief to engage in sexual activity either. The researchers explained that among the 93 wom...

Air Pollution in Tamil Nadu is a Cause of Concern for Environmentalists

... control the environment ministry at the centre to speed up the standards setting process and strengthen enforcement,' said Nizamudeen, referring to the DMK-led government that took office last month. An air sample from the open garbage burning site in Perungudi, on the city's outskirts and positioned a...

Epidural Mistakes Proves To Be Fatal Blunders

... during labor. Intravenous drips are also given to speed up contractions and maintain blood pressure. But these two drugs get muddled up resulting in a lot of confusion. Professor David Cousins, head of safe medication practice said that NPSA would take all necessary action to prevent wrong-route errors. ...

Precautious Measure Help Tolerate Nausea In Patients

...of self-motion. The drum was rotated at a constant speed for 16 minutes, unless participants asked that it be stopped early. While the drum was rotating, an intercom system was used to ask participants about symptoms of nausea and motion sickness, including warmth, dizziness and drowsiness. Based on the ...

Growth Hormone Stimulant Packs Healthy Aging

...und they have lost grip strength and their walking speed slowed down. If the hormone level is high as in youngsters, the muscle too, whereas in aged adults the muscle mass is low as the hormone. Merriam said but after taking the drug, which proves to improve physical function they were able to walk s...

Euthanasia : ‘Merciful’ Terminatin

'Should the physician ever speed the end and so reduce the patient's suffering? No. Custom, tradition, experience, social sanction, law//, and religion are unanimous in this, and rightly so. Euthanasia would be a long step backward in civilization.'- Richard A. Kern, 1951 Euthanasi...

Alarming Rise of Diabetes in Rural India - Survey Reports

...nstitute explained that ‘These results confirm the speed with which health transition is occurring in even quite rural areas of India. The growth of conditions like diabetes is going to drive a huge increase in heart disease and stroke in regions that are not well equipped to deal with these diseases,’ he ...

Mild Intoxication Limit ‘Attention Span’ - Study Fins

... you may be so focused on paying attention to your speed so as not to get pulled over, that you completely miss seeing the pedestrian that walks directly in front of your car.’ Source: Eurekaert...

Researchers have Identified the Gene that Spreads Skin Cancer

...ning skin cancer, //using a technique they say can speed the discovery of hard-to-find cancer genes. A team of scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, led by Lynda Chin, MD, report that the gene, NEDD9, is abnormally abundant in more than a third of melanomas that have metastasized, but not in prima...

Cell Survival Depends on Chromosome Integrity

...es to accelerate hypothesis-driven research and to speed development of new hypotheses. The Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways of Lysine Modification at Hopkins dissects signaling networks and pathways by developing and applying genetic and computational approaches, proteomics technologies, mas...

New Cell Lines Cuts Down the Cost and Time in the Production of Flu Vaccine

.... Growing virus in cell culture could dramatically speed up vaccine production. For the past 50 years, flu vaccines have been made by injecting 11-day-old fertilized chicken eggs with a flu virus strain. The virus grows in the eggs and is then killed and purified to make the vaccine. Each egg is injected w...

Joint Center for Molecular Modeling Instituted by Burnham Institute for Medical Research & UC San Diego

...nstitute for Medical Research is creating tools to speed up the understanding of information gathered// from the human genome project. Rich with $2.1 million funding available to them over a three year period, this consortium, under the name Joint Center for Molecular Modeling, will seek to provide adequat...

Aggresive Therapy Needed for Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries

... by two systems: the sympathetic nervous system to speed it up and the parasympathetic nervous system to slow it down, says Dr. Gyanendra K. Sharma, noninvasive cardiologist and study co-author. With a cervical spinal cord injury, the influence of the sympathetic nervous system – called the fight or fli...

New Laparoscopic Surgery to Correct Vaginal Vault Prolapse Is Effectual Than the Conventional Surgery

...vault prolapse. This technique involves a robot to speed up the process and to simplify its technically difficult aspects, such as the wrist strain involved in tying a large number of knots. The investigators analyzed the results of the surgery for 21 of the women who were 12 or more months post-surgery. ...

The Lurking Tsunami: Are We Ready?

... of no consequence, but on heading landward, their speed diminishes as they assume gigantic proportions to conserve the total energy. They unleash their fury on reaching the land, and destroy everything within their reach. The Tsunami normally occurs in the Pacific Ocean, and Hawaii, a pacific island, is...

Malaria Truths Discovered By Einstein Researchers

...ust issue of Nature Methods, “should substantially speed up research efforts to bring malaria under control,” according to Dr. David Fidock, senior author of the paper and an associate professor of microbiology & immunology at Einstein. Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite, Plasmodium, which is t...

Google-Like Model Used To Diagnose Suspicious Breast Masses Quickly

... masses. But this process is slow. // In order to speed up the process, researchers from Duke University a...f accuracy while performing faster analysis. Such speed and efficiency will be important as such image databases rapidly grow larger and more complex. Know...

Innovation Needed In The Field Of Diagnostics: Nair

...ust five seconds. "It is a high resolution, high speed scanner. It is capable of giving accurate images of even the smallest coronary arteries," he said....

Novel Approach Assists in Locating Leads for Drug Discovery

...unds in chemical libraries, which will enhance the speed with which data can be utilized to investigate biological procedures, which will support the identification of leads for drug discovery. "We are excited by the power of this approach, developed through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, to generat...

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