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New device could cut chemotherapy deaths

...ll and molecular biologist with extensive research experience in gastrointestinal cancers and stem cells in the gastrointestinal tract. Dr Perera has also been working with the University's Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology to make the fibres more sterile so they cannot be attacked by harmful bacteria....

With cochlear implants, earlier use leads to better speech

... Nicholas JG, Geers AE. Effects of early auditory experience on the spoken language of deaf children at 3 years of age. Ear and Hearing 2006;27(3):286-289. ...

Spray-on skin relieves emotional trauma for child burn victims

...ogical damage of burns. "Children with burns can experience emotional difficulties as a result of physical disfigurement. This product can help alleviate these difficulties and help with a patient's overall recovery and rehabilitation," he said. ...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

...cording to the ACG, more than 60 million Americans experience heartburn at least once a month and estimates are that more than 15 million suffer from it daily. For the great majority of those sufferers, Gerson's recent findings could free them from the bonds of dietary self-denial. She is considering doing stud...

Honey helps problem wounds

...ity of Bonn have been clocking up largely positive experience with what is known as medihoney. Even chronic woun...dorf, Homburg and Berlin they now want to test the experience gained in a large-scale study, as objective data on the curative properties of honey are thin on the...

U of M study examines kidney stone prevention in astronauts

...mber was roughly equivalent to what a person would experience running on Earth. Monga found that the non-exercising study participants had higher levels of urinary calcium than the exercising group, and thus had a greater risk of developing kidney stones. Additionally, many astronauts do not drink enough water...

Queensland scientists identify molecule that links both sides of the brain

...e hemisphere, people can suffer from epilepsy, and experience some degree of mental retardation. "Our study is the first to identify a growth molecule that guides young nerves away from the corpus callosum and towards their targets in the opposite hemisphere," Dr Cooper said. "We have shown that the Ryk rec...

Long-term changes in experience cause neurons to sprout new long-lasting connections

...earchers induced a long-term change in the sensory experience of mice by trimming the animals' whiskers, selecti...xcited to find that after this long-term change in experience there were many new spines that were large, robust and "persistent," meaning that they remained over...

Patients and their doctors have different perceptions about HIV and its treatment

...logue is needed to ensure a satisfactory treatment experience for people living with HIV/AIDS." ...

Survivors of childhood polio do well decades later as they age

...xperiencing childhood polio, most survivors do not experience declines greater than expected in their elderly counterparts, but rather experience only modest increased weakness which may be commensurate with normal aging. "Other researchers hav...

Gene expression becomes heterogeneous with age in humans and rats

...data available to researchers, scientists will now experience improved opportunities to answer age-old questions about the nature of aging. ...

Heart has enough oxygen to survive hypothermia, CPR crucial

...he rats in the five-hour group were more likely to experience fatal heart failure during rewarming. The issue ...our group, which were significantly more likely to experience heart failure during rewarming, experienced substantial lowering of cardiac output and other cardiac...

Breaks in hibernation help fight bugs

...t thrive at very low temperatures, so when animals experience a particularly cold winter, these breaks wouldn't be crucial. But if the animals were exposed to certain pathogens that thrive at low temperatures, like some E. coli, the animals would still have to regularly break their hibernation to ensure pro...

Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision

...Dana and his team were already aware from clinical experience that the epithelium most likely played a role in suppressing blood vessel growth on the cornea, having witnessed blood vessels develop on corneas stripped of their epithelial layers. They began to theorize that the large amounts of VEGFR-3, in this...

Blood test predicts success of quitting smoking using the nicotine patch

...ich smokers using the nicotine patch are likely to experience the least amount of cravings and have the highest probability of success in quitting cigarettes, according to the results of a study in the June issus of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The blood test, which is a measure of ...

First-ever genomic test predicts which lung cancer patients need chemotherapy to live

...y-stage patients who appear to be at low risk will experience a recurrent tumor. "Until now, there simply has...cent of early-stage lung cancer patients who would experience a recurrence," Potti said. "Now, with our test, we can say with confidence that we can identify this...

Scientists identify protein with a crucial role in cell death

...hers together: Bart De Strooper, who has extensive experience in Alzheimer research and is thus also interested in the causes of Parkinson's disease, and Luca Scorrano, who specializes in the functioning and effect of mitochondria. They set out to study PARL, a protein thought to interact with Presenilin, one o...

Lost in thought: Brain research

...specifically when we are aware both of the sensory experience and of ourselves as the observers of this experience. When we are so occupied with the outside world as to "forget ourselves," only local, sensory-specific systems seem to be needed. ...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...y of Warwick's plant research arm who already have experience of butterfly farming through their University spin out company - Warwick Insect Technologies Ltd. They will undertake a biodiversity survey of the butterfly community and their host plants within the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Cons...

Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience

...reliably occasion what's called a primary mystical experience that may lead to positive changes in a person. It'...tablished psychological scales. One third said the experience was the single most spiritually significant of their lifetimes; and more than two-thirds rated it am...

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