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Small Implant To Check On Cancer

...tion in to the tumor. For doctors, it is an uphill task to find out about the appropriate dose of a cancer drug or its efficacy. Microscopic nanoparticles made out of iron oxide and coated with a sugar called dextran are being used in the project undertaken by a team from Massachusetts Institute of Tech...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

... a short time while the subjects completed a maths task that involved comparing two digits, one larger in physical size than the other and the other larger numerically. For example, the subjects compared a 2 and a 4. The 2 was in a larger font than the 4 and subjects had to decide which digit was numerica...

Survey Points To Lack Of Knowledge On HIV Status

...that they are infected. Hence it becomes an uphill task to identify them. Michel Roger, the co-author of this study calls this group who are unaware about their HIV status as ‘walking transmission bombs’. Around 40 million people are affected by this disease across the globe and around 60,000 are infec...

Autism a Complicated Genetic Problem

...ves with autism.Scientists have a long and arduous task ahead in both identifying what triggers off autism and coming up with appropriate therapy, it is stated....

Brain’s "Default Mode" Awry in Schizophreni

...hy subjects. The group performed a straightforward task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging in which they were asked to detect an infrequent target sound within a series of standard and novel sounds. In the healthy subjects, the default mode network resonated slowly and regularly as obs...

MRSA Threats Due to Overcrowding

...if the hospitals are crowded, it becomes an uphill task to keep patients clean and isolate them. This also increases the rate of nosocomial infections. Countering this argument, spokesman from Department of Health said MRSA infections are under control. He also added that one million patients are being ...

Kerala Sees Medical Tourism Soaring

...e Investment Consulting Research Agency (ICRA) the task of preparing a report on Kerala's potential in medical tourism, the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and other factors. The report is expected to be ready soon. E.M. Najeeb, executive director of KIMS Hospital here, said the need of the h...

Same Areas of the Brain Prepare for and Respond to a Stimulus, Say Experts

...t hand if the disk appeared on the right. The hard task was manually incompatible, so that if the disk appeared on the left, they were to push the buttons using their right hand and vice-versa. Sometimes a visual cue prompted them that they were about to perform the hard or the easy task, sometimes it did...

Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation

...g gene or an endpoint gene. "That’s the daunting task of cancer biologists,” he said. “Now that we've sequenced the human genome, we have to make sense out of the thousands of genes that are expressed in cancer at the same time.” This research was supported by grants from the Georgia Cancer Coalition ...

Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists

...trolling dengue viruses was becoming a "formidable task for every country, not only for developing countries" because of rapidly expanding urbanisation and international travel. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed

...ue is a sovereign country, with a government whose task is to lay down the policies to be followed", he insisted. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

...w a target and how well one can pay attention to a task together help to pinpoint risk factors related to schizophrenia. “I was able to integrate several threads of work that I had been developing over the prior 15 or 20 years,” he said. “I proposed the study in a way that tied together several methodol...

Sexualization Linked to Mental Health Problems in Girls and Women

...d toward girls. Sexualization was defined by the task force as occurring when a person's value comes onl...op a healthy sexual self-image. According to the task force report, parents can play a major role in contributing to the sexualization of their daughters ...

Genetic Test for Type II Diabetes Moves Closer

...his technology can generate big leaps forward. The task now is to study the genes identified in our work more intensively, to understand more fully the disease processes involved, devise therapies for those affected and to try to prevent future cases." Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRM...

Cochlear Implants in Both Ears Enables Better Hearing

...ng to its picture. In addition to completing the task while wearing both implants, the children were asked to remove the microphone and other external parts of one, rendering them deaf again in that ear.'That turns out to be an interesting experience, because they don't like to remove an implant,' says ...

Reading Hidden Intentions in Brain

...t during the delay between the subjects' choice of task and execution of the task, it was possible to deco...onally distinct neural substrates were involved in task preparation and execution. Decoding of intentions was most robust when activity patterns in the medi...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

...-tenth of an inch, the robot helps to complete the task so the brain relearns what it’s like to make the full movement.” In the UCI study, each patient, average age 63, received 15 two-hour therapy sessions, spread over three weeks, designed to improve their ability to grasp and release objects. All wor...

New Guidelines for VHD

... chair of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) task force responsible for the VHD guidelines and head ...them. Professor Eberhard Standl, co-chair of the task force for the diabetes and CVD guidelines, chair of the Diabetes Research Institute in Munich and pr...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

...somal DNA available to scientists. The ambitious task for this study was to gather samples, prepare them, amplify the bacteria creating colonies of each single species of bacteria present in the skin samples. Then Dr. Gao used established tools—primers—to pick out the species-specific genetic regions in...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...dren (average age 12 to 13) while they performed a task repeatedly; each time they did the task, they won or lost 10 cents. The task was frustrating because the children often lost money. The researchers found that while both the ...

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