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Visually impaired prefer specially enhanced TV

A scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI) found that increasing the contrast of details of certain sizes made television watching more enjoyable to the visually impaired. // The U.S. study provides information that could help develop an electronic device to help millions suffering eye diseases. People who may benefit from such a device include those suffering from macular deg...

Hospitals to Equip Themselves with ER Especially For Psychiatric Patients

Hospitals are setting aside part of their Emergency department to also handle mentally ill patients. There is a great increase in the psychiatric patients turning towards emergency care. //But the emergency departments are not well equipped to tackle the psychiatric patients. These patients end up facing serious consequences because of lack of proper medical care available to...

Muscles May Need Estrogen to Regain Strength, Especially as Women Age

It is believed that menopause plays a role in the loss of muscle mass as women age. Inactivity also can result in an accelerated loss of muscle //mass and strength in aging women. Now, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher studied the effect of inactivity combined with the loss of estrogen and was surprised by the results. "It was not a lifestyle link; it was an estrogen link,"...

Heart Rhythms Swing Precariously to Emotion, especially Anger

Heart rhythms can swing perilously when we are angry, even igniting life and death situations, to reveal scientists after studying nearly 1000 cardiac patients//. With the help of special instruments, called implantable cardioverter defibrillators, inserted near the heart, doctors studied the connection between emotions and heart rhythms in a group suffering heart disease. ICD’s are e...

Specially Treated Prawns for Seafood Allergy Sufferers

Chinese scientists will soon be able to provide ‘safe prawns’ for seafood allergy sufferers. Those who are allergic to seafoods// can consume these prawns without the fear of an adverse reaction. Researchers have taken a promising step towards removing from prawns the proteins that cause an allergic response without resorting to genetic manipulation, reports Lisa Richards in Chemistry &...

Specially Developed Proteins Could Help Resist Ageing

Strengthening food with specially developed proteins could make our bodies more resistant to the ageing process, according// to a study. Steaks and chicken fillets laced with some rare 'isotope-enhanced' proteins could strengthen cells and protect them against oxidation – oxidation is considered a major cause of ageing. In small-scale studies, Mikhail Shchepinov, a former Ox...

20-year Study Shows Significant Rise in Childhood Obesity, Especially Among Girls

Four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 30 than they were 20 years ago and //ten-year-olds are five times more likely, according to research published in the April issue of Acta Paediactrica. Swedish researchers who studied BMI figures for more than a thousand children over two decades discovered that obesity levels had risen signific...