Great (taste) expectations: Study shows brain anticipates taste, shifts gears
As the prism of our senses, the human brain has ways of refracting sensory input in defiance of reality. This is seen, for example, in the placebo effect, when simple sugar pills or inert salves taken by unwitting subjects are seen to ease pain or have some other beneficial physiological effect. How the brain processes this faked input and prompts the body to respond is largely a mystery o...Patients More Willing To Use Self-Injectable HIV Therapy Than Anticipated
Recent study shows that HIV patients are more willing to consider and use self-injectable therapy than many physicians anticipate // . Initial results from the OpenMind study, the largest behavioural study to look at both patients' and physicians' perceptions of HIV care in treatment-experienced patients, were revealed today at EACS. The findings are anticipated to help physi...Rise In Waterborne And Malaria Cases Anticipated In Britain
The incidence of waterborne diseases and food poisoning cases is anticipated to rise in Britain, this summer. An increase in the number of malaria cases is also likely. // The incidence of salmonella // cases is hoped to soar particularly, as people would opt for more barbecues during summer. Cryptosporidium induced malaria may also be seen when there is an associated heavy rain....Gum Disease Affects Diabetic Children Earlier Than Anticipated
Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center have found that the lethal impact of diabetes can affect the gums much earlier than anticipated. Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health and Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center also collaborated in this study, which// appears in the February issue of Diabetes Care. "Our research illustrates that programs to prevent and treat p...Global Emission of CO2 Rising Three Fold Than Anticipated
Global emissions of carbon dioxide are increasing three times faster than previously thought, and the bulk of the rise coming from developing countries , a new study by a an international team of scientists from the US, Britain, France and Australia has found. According to the study, carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing by three per cent a year this decade, compared to a 1....