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Hamster's Shows How Our Brains May Recognize Other Individuals

...hy and social anxiety disorders. Johnston's team uses hamsters to study recognition because their brains are strikingly similar to ours. "They are more sophisticated than you might think," he noted. Although hamsters recognize individuals by smell, whereas humans use largely sight and sound, Johnston ...

AIDS Funding Grants Dependant on Tracking Patients' Names Efficiently

...IDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, that mainly uses codes, said “some people will be driven away from the system if we cannot guarantee confidentiality. It may be the very people you want to most engage in testing and the health care. ...

Beauty in birds’ got to do a lot with Bird flu

...gainst its diseases. Thus it seems that the female uses the forehead spot as a health indicator. When she chooses males with a large forehead spots, she takes not only the healthiest males but also the ones with the best immune defence against future virus infections." The male collared flycatcher can c...

Inhalers for Kids Was Approved By the FDA

... Flovent HFA is a reformulation of Flovent that uses the more environmentally friendly hydrofluoroalkane instead of chlorofluorocarbon to propel the medication out of the canister. It is an inhaled corticosteroid that prevent airway blockage due to inflammation due to asthma. The medication initia...

Alternate ways to produce HAS from tobacco plants

...icultural engineer has developed a technique which uses plastidial transformation which results in the production// of Human serum albumin (HSA) from tobacco plants. HSA is an intravenous protein most commonly used in the world for therapeutic needs. It is mainly used to stabilize blood volume and to av...

Cancer Patient to Appeal to SC, Demanding Right to Use Marijuana

...Angel Raich, a patient afflicted with brain tumor, uses marijuana frequently to alleviate her pain and bolster her appetite. She suffers from scoliosis (curvature of the spine), chronic nausea and other ailments. It was her case that brought the up the marijuana issue back to the surface. ‘She'd probably ...

India On The Road To Become 'Open Defecation Free'

...since 2001 there has been a constant growth on the uses of toilets. "The growth in the use of toilets from 22 percent in 2001 to 38 percent of the population in 2006 (till February) is an encouraging sign." Announced M.P Prasad Singh. "The government has raised the grant for construction of household ...

Internet Based Tool, BGEM To Help In Study Of Brain Development

...f Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) in turn uses the images. The institution hopes to document the expression of all these genes. The extensive support from the Bioinformatics Department at St. Jude’s has played a crucial role in the BGEM’s success. Bioinformatics refers to the use of IT gadgets ...

Revolutionary Pill Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer

...e progesterone in it. The revolutionary new Pill uses a class of compounds known as the Progesterone Receptor Modulators (PRMs). These PRMs prevent the secretion of progesterone, which helps to maintain pregnancy. As it neither contains estrogen nor progesterone but rather blocks the production of th...

Passive Immunotherapy Could Prevent Avian Flu from Affecting Humans

...avian influenza in humans. Passive immunotherapy uses antibodies from horses. Purified antibodies to the H5N1 strain of avian influenza are derived from horses were used against mice and it proved effective in preventing the disease. The researchers reported their findings in the journal of Respiratory...

Jets Can Now Be Propelled By Coal-based Fuel

...esses under investigation by Schobert. The process uses light cycle oil – a petroleum byproduct -- and coal-derived refined chemical oil -- a byproduct of the coke industry. The researchers mix the two components and add hydrogen. When distilled, jet fuel comes off as a distillate. The process can be carr...

Unchecked Cellular Repair Pathway Causes Liver Cancer

...also increased, "If the liver is injured badly, it uses some of the same mechanisms to repair itself as a fetus uses in growing a liver," Diehl said. The study is to appear in the April 4, 2006, issue of Carcinogenesi...

Neurofeedback to Cure ADHD

...le starts to drift down. Dr. James Sendelbach, who uses neurofeedback in his practice, explains that the brain is taught what is to be done. Brody has 40-minute neurofeedback sessions, twice a week. Dr. Sendelbach says that this has to be developed over a period of time and then one can see positive resul...

Vital Facts of Short Term Diets - Catch The Vitamin Behind An Ample Waist!

... the blood stream that also indicates how the body uses the fat as fuel, both during exercise and at rest. Bonnie Beezhold, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Carol Johnston enabled a presentation on the impact of vitamin C depletion on a short-term diet. 20 obese men and women, intending to g...

Virus Causing Kaposi's Sarcoma Discovered

... how the molecule xCT is a major gateway that KSHV uses to enter human cells. The molecule may also play a role in the development of Kaposi's sarcoma and other syndromes associated with the virus. The natural function of xCT in the body is to transport molecules necessary for protecting against stress ...

Battery power from viruses in the pipeline

MIT scientists have developed a technology that uses the construction abilities of tiny viruses to build "nanowire" structures which function as in very thin lithium-ion batteries.// MIT Professors Angela Belcher, Paula Hammond and Yet-Ming Chiang have by simply manipulating a few genes within commo...

Technology Can Help Fight Health Care Costs

...ch Medical Centre, which opened in September 2004, uses the electronic patient record system. It was also one of the first hospitals to implement the Siemens Sorian system, a sophisticated new hospital information system that records and maintains information electronically. With the new system the clinic...

Burning Fat, the Laser Way

...at and skin samples. The mode of action is that it uses the laser uses the free electron to heat up the fat and melt it down. The melted fat is then broken down further in...

Shock Wave Therapy Increase The Risk Of Diabetes

...f stones in both kidneys. Shock wave lithotripsy uses shock waves to break up an impassable kidney stone into smaller, sandlike pieces which can be passed spontaneously, usually within a month. The patient and the lithotriptor that emits the shock waves are placed in a water bath. Water allows easier co...

Cervical Procedures Increase Risk Of Pregnancy Complications

...hese cells. The technique, referred to as ablation uses laser to kill the cells. Yet another technique called as Cold knife conisation involves removal of a cone-shaped wedge of tissue around the abnormal cells, using a scalpel (blade). This can also be done using laser and is referred to as Laser conisat...

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