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‘Fingerprints’ to Track Common Infections in Childrn

...he results from the chip and get the analysis back via the Internet, for example. “Pediatricians understand that this could change the way we do things,” said Dr. Ramilo, who leads pediatric infectious disease research at UT Southwestern and Children’s. It could also prove useful for identifying pre...

New Reason to Hit the Gym: Fighting Memory Loss

...finding is significant because it was accomplished via the first-ever observation of neurogenesis, the growth of neurons, within a living brain. Using an MRI imaging technique developed at Columbia, the researchers were able to identify neurogenesis within the dentate gyrus region following exercise. Pre...

The First Commercially Available Brain Computer Interface

...pplication like spelling devices can be integrated via an Application Programming. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

...al infectious disease spread from person-to-person via the faecal-oral route. In recent years enhanced vaccination efforts have been led by world health bodies like WHO to eradicate polio globally, but the trends in Indian states like Bihar are disturbing. Polio remains endemic in just four countries...

Mothers of Rebellious Teens- Blame It on THP

...tists say that the steroid THP acts on brain cells via molecular doorways known as receptors. Scientists have found that the mechanism normally used by the brain to calm itself down in stressful situations appears to work in the opposite way in teenagers, making them actually more anxious. When the ...

Scent of a Rose may Give More Than Pleasure

... The rose scents were continued in timed bursts, via fitted face masks during sleep. Several tests later the next day, it was seen that in almost all the subjects, their powers of memory were increased to 97 percent, an increase of 15 percent. According to scientists, the hippocampus region of the ...

Researchers Discover New Molecular Path to Fight Autoimmune Diseases

...ago. Li discovered that the FOXP3 protein works via a complex set of enzymes. One set of those enzymes are called histone deacetylases, or HDACs. These enzymes are linked to the FOXP3 protein in association with another set of enzymes called histone acetyl transferases that modify the FOXP3 proteins. ...

Want a Healthy Colon? Eat a Rainbow!

...ified milk, and eggs. o Vitamin D may be obtained via vitamin D3 supplements; many calcium supplements also contain Vitamin D3. Folic Acid o Folic acid (folate) is an essential B vitamin, and may reduce your risk of colorectal cancer. o It’s easy to incorporate folic acid into your diet. Try adding ...

Turmoil Over Turkey

Tons of poultry made its way to the food chain via the Bernard Matthews plant, which was infected with the lethal H5N1 strain// of bird flu in early February this year. The Public health minister Caroline Flint reiterated that almost 850 tons of turkey had to pass through the plant situated in Hol...

Simple Act of Brushing Your Teeth can Trigger an Epileptic Fit, Say Experts

... brushing their teeth. The lesions were discovered via MRI scans of the brain. The seizures were confirmed by video monitoring and found to occur when people brushed the sides of their mouths, and caused their faces to jerk and twitch. One patient salivated vigorously while another couldn't let go of...

Oxygen Treatment To Cardiac Patients Questioned

...This condition is countered by giving extra oxygen via face mask. But in general, all cardiac patients are given oxygen irrespective of their need of the same. Professor Beasley drew attention to the fact that a controlled trial of oxygen treatment in the first 24 hrs after the heart attack was done wa...

Certain Drug Treatment Associated With Orofacial Clefts

...rly prenatal logbooks, retrospective maternal data via a self-reported questionnaire, and home visits to non-responding mothers. An increased risk for isolated CL/P was found in cases born to mothers treated with amoxicillin, phenytoin, oxprenolol, and thiethylperazine during the second and third month...

Routine Oxygen Administration in Heart Attack Victims, Challenged

...ctice in most hospitals to give oxygen to patients via a facemask, in order to reduce the workload on a heart after it suffers an attack. Yet the New Zealand researcher, Professor Richard Beasley, from New Zealand’s Medical Research Institute says it’s high time this ‘clinical dogma ‘ was challenged. W...

Outpatient Treatment Kills Benign Bone Tumors Nonsurgically With Heat

...n (RFA), heat is delivered directly into the tumor via a probe that is inserted through the skin using CT, MR and/or ultrasound imaging for guidance. From the tip of the needle, radiofrequency energy is transmitted into the targeted tissue where it produces heat and kills the tumor. RFA is a nonsurgical,...

Technology Changes in Glucose Monitoring Implants

...of glucose levels. These are conveyed to a monitor via sensing from the implanted device. Yet, says Applied Data, technology is yet to replace the old-fashioned finger prick method. Problems with the current devices include 'sensor drift' as well as limited life span of the device. Technologists are ...

Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

...virus is passed on through infected blood and also via other contaminated body fluids putting drug users and people having unprotected sex most at risk. The virus attacks the liver and can cause liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure and death. The warning follows a study, which identified the ri...

Alarming Trend in Prescription Drug Abuse

...nable the illicit drug peddler to push these drugs via internet, courier service and mails. According to Philip O. Emafo, President of Narcotics Control Board, the drugs that are available through such routes bring more harm than benefit to the patient. He also quoted the report from WHO which says that ...

Omega-3 Again Linked to Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk

...so been linked to a reduction in colorectal cancer via a similar mechanism. The new research investigated the link between the fatty acid concentrations in the blood of 178 men with colorectal cancer (cases) and 282 healthy controls free from cancer. The controls were matched by age and smoking habits...

South-East Asia Flooded With Spurious Drugs

... similar to heroin network from China to Hong Kong via Thailand. JYT...

Home-going Delayed for Miracle Baby

...tologists// round the world when she was delivered via C-section at just less than 22 weeks, and in spite of all odds, survived. The tiny tot who was around the length of a ball point pen when born and weighed less than 10 ounces has now progressed to 4 pounds and for her mother, Sonja Taylor, that’s ...

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