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Software System to Improve the Function of Retinal Implants

...purpose, clinicians open the eye ball and attach a thin foil at the retina. Small protruding contacts reach neurons, which form the ganglion cell layer of the retina. These electrical stimulation contacts feed camera signals into the optic nerve. The camera may be attached to a frame of glasses and transm...

Eating Polluted Fish can Increase the Risk of Diabetes

...more likely to suffer from insulin resistance that thin people whose blood was polluted. However, those who were overweight but did not have the chemicals in their blood were no more likely to have been insulin resistant, the study found, as reported in the New Scientist said. Source-IANS...

Heat Wave Sweeps Chhattisgarh

...o remain indoors while government offices recorded thin attendance. The metrological department has forecast a further rise in heat this week with daytime temperatures at 45 degrees Celsius while night temperatures stay around 39 degrees Celsius. "Normally, in the first half of April, temperature rema...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

... semiconductors mounted on a rubbery membrane with thin pieces of gold. Even when stretched, the circuits maintained their ability to conduct electricity. Research on the flexible membranes also is likely to contribute to the longstanding challenge of connecting electronic devices to the human nervous s...

Gels, Wax or Paste: New Styling Products for Men's Hair

...ed shine, says Dalichow. Gel also fails men with thin hair. "Their gelled hair just crumples. They just look as if they have wet hair even though what they want is to accentuate what they have." Source-IANS/M...

Spain Launches Movement Against Skinny Fashion Models

... the Spanish capital Madrid decided to replace the thin beauty ideal with that of curvy "real" women, it w...ision by Madrid's top fashion show to exclude very thin models has been imitated by shows in Milan, London, New York and the Spanish cities of Barcelona and...

Alberta's Mental Health Act Welcomed

.... They feel that this is tantamount to treading on thin ice as there is a possibility of breaching human rights here. Laurie Blakeman, the Liberal health critic felt that the government should not use this legislation to abandon their social responsibility towards mentally ill patients. He also added th...

Surgeons Skilled in Playing Video Games are Good at Simulated Surgery

...aining curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery," the authors conclude. "Video games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons." Source-Eurekalert...

Indian Models are a Healthy Lot

...real women. I prefer a full-bodied model to a reed thin one." Fashion designer Manish Arora also dismiss...t they have to be slim. The designers may not want thin models but the erratic schedules and cut throat competition forces the models to lose whatever littl...

Spanish Fashion Show Rejects Five Models as too Thin

...ow was the first in the world to exclude extremely thin models in a bid to reduce slimming disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Source-IANS...

Carbon Nanoneedles For Drug Delivery

... a structural advantage in that they are extremely thin but very long, offering a large surface area on which to graft the required drug. This again offers an improvement over liposome drug delivery, and also allows the amount of drug loaded onto the nanotube to be regulated. Kostarelos observed that d...

Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation

...e facial features found in classical CdLS, such as thin eyebrows that join together, long eyelashes, thin lips and excessive body hair. “In many of these patients, an experienced clinician might recogniz...

Surgery Can Improve Vision for People With Drooping Eyelids

...with aging. The skin around your eyes is naturally thin and delicate. Over time, the eyelids typically stretch, the muscles weaken and fat tends to gather over and under the eyes. The result is sagging eyelids that can affect vision and produce a tired appearance -- no matter how much you rest. The con...

Fashion Industry Takes Its Toll on Young Models

... - are having a critical eye cast on them. "How thin is too thin - and how thin is potentially fatal?" is the question on many lips. The death from anorexia of Br...

Gene Behind Lincoln’s Diseas

...e "puts stress on neurons," Bastiani says. Yet the thin axons do not break. In the new study, the Utah biologists used mutant nematode worms lacking beta spectrin. The study focused on how the protein's absence affected axons, which carry nerve signals away from the nerve cell "body" and toward the syna...

'Families' - Doesn’t Cause Anorexia Nervos

...on. "We often hear that societal pressures to be thin cause many young women and men to develop an eating disorder. Many individuals in our culture, for a number of reasons, are concerned with their weight and diet. Yet less than half of 1 percent of all women develop anorexia nervosa, which indicates t...

Advantage, Obese Men!!

... attacks, they were able to recuperate better than thin men. This is said to be due to the presence of fat reserves in their body which is helping them fight their ailment especially at a time when their heart is pumping at a slower pace. Gregg Fonarow who is leading this research disclosed that nutrien...

Aspirin Saves Life Even in Cancer Patients

... practice for cancer patients. Because aspirin can thin blood and cancer patients experience low platelet counts and abnormal clotting, physicians view aspirin as a relative contraindication. Given that blood platelets are responsible for the clotting process, physicians do not eagerly prescribe aspirin a...

Victoria Beckham Explains Weight Loss

...ed her weight loss saying that she manages to stay thin and it is not due to any eating disorder//. Victoria, married to former England football captain David Beckham, insists that she eats healthy food. People.com quoted her as saying: "I eat really healthy, I love Japanese food, lots of fish, any so...

Intestinal Bacteria Blamed for Rotund Figures

... more energy from the same helping of food that a thin person, owing to the presence of the helpful bacteria. The excess energy if not actively dissipated gets converted to padding around the waist! The researchers conducted a controlled test in experimental mice .When the mice were given extra helpin...

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