New study counts the economic cost of persistent pain in Australia
...l interference to their daily lives that can be so extreme that it can sometimes result in suicidal thoughts or actions, said Dr Bennett. Professor Cousins said there has been an explosion of knowledge about persistent pain and its treatment over the past 10 years, yet it remains under-treated or untreated...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...l therapy. She is also studying children with more extreme forms of brain damage, including those that undergo a hemispherectomy, a neurosurgical procedure to treat seizures in which an entire half of the brain is removed. The initial findings are quite promising, showing that these children can adapt in the...WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
...in the harsh environment (low- or zero visibility, extreme heat, deafening noise) of an active building fire, to locate and retrieve wounded soldiers in urban battlefields, or to aid and recover miners trapped by explosions or cave-ins. Keynote speakers at the workshop included Charles Dickinson, deputy as...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...ases in muscle enzymes apparently related to their extreme physical exercise. Four patients complained of muscle pain but had no elevated muscle enzymes, Hutten said. During the average 4.5 years of follow-up, no serious clinical or laboratory adverse events were reported, as well as any untoward effects o...European heat waves double in length since 1880
...ence that western Europe's climate has become more extreme and confirm a previously hypothesized increase in the variance of daily summer temperatures since the 19th century. The study adds evidence that heat waves, such as the devastating 2003 event in western Europe, are a likely sign of global warming; ...Floods and fires across Europe captured from space
Highlighting the extreme weather conditions hitting Europe, space sensors aboard ESAs Envisat satellite have detected the worst floodwaters to hit Britain for 60 years and deadly fires raging through southern Europe. Heavy rains caused the River Thames to burst its banks o...Do people listen to heat warnings?
...l reported 3,442 deaths resulting from exposure to extreme heat. Heat is a stealth killer, says Dr. Scott Sheridan, Kent State associate professor in geography. Funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, Sheridan recently conducted a study on how effectively heat warning systems have been implement...Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
...um Development Goal One (MDG1): radically reducing extreme poverty and hunger. The MDGs were developed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 to set measurable goals and targets for a range of pressing global problems, including poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and ...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
...pport the Millennium Villages, which aims to fight extreme poverty and related challenges such as disease, hunger and lack of access to water and sanitation though scientifically sound and sustainable interventions. A third of the gift will be devoted to supporting the oral health program. Chronic diseases...Reduced greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid dangerous increases in heat stress
...s staggering. Rare events become the norm, and the extreme events of the future are unprecedented in their severity." A 2003 heat wave led to 15,000 deaths in France and almost 3,000 in Italy. The researchers found that global warming causes summer temperatures to dramatically exceed the range that was cor...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...nnel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island in the extreme north of Canada, and help steer the expedition to safer ice conditions modifying their route to shore further to the east. "I noticed in satellite radar images that the Arctic Arc expedition was heading straight into very difficult and dangerous i...Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
... a massive accumulation of fat in the liver and an extreme increase in circulating lipids. A second study by Maratos-Flier and colleagues published in the June 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physiology further elucidates the unique metabolic changes that occur with the consumption of a ketogenic die...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...hose who used steroids were more likely to turn to extreme weight-loss techniques, including vomiting and laxative use. Anabolic steroids are body-shaping agents and cause a loss in body fat and an increase in lean tissue; therefore, their association with unhealthy weight loss practices was not surprising, ...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...ight. Girls who used steroids were more likely try extreme weight-loss techniques, such as vomiting and laxative use. Adolescent girls reporting anabolic steroid use had significantly more other health-harming behaviors, Elliot explained, They were much more likely to use other unhealthy substances, inclu...Herb shows potential to reduce cancer-related fatigue
... of Clinical Oncology. Many cancer patients face extreme fatigue after diagnosis and during treatment. Getting more sleep or rest often does not relieve the fatigue, nor is it related to activity levels. Other than exercise, there isnt a good solution available for these patients. We hope that Wisconsin ...Huge waves from 1 storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart
...products, as shown in the animation above. "The extreme swell systems originated from the same storm, which moved rapidly and had two main strong wind periods," Chapron said. "As illustrated in the animation, the resulting waves were organised into two main swell systems that followed each other across th...Scientists find war vets' hand dexterity determines susceptibility to PTSD
... stress disorder (PTSD). Combat veterans with an extreme level of mixed handedness are nearly twice as like...icine. The study also found that veterans with extreme mixed handedness and high combat exposure were nearly five times more likely to have PTSD than those...African-Americans perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive and valuable
African Americans appear to perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive or valuable acc... place values on various states of health, such as extreme pain, unconscious, and imminent death. "It was found that race was a significant predictor for th...Violent sleep disorder linked to a form of dementia
...aborators have discovered a correlation between an extreme form of sleep disorder and eventual onset of parkinsonism or dementia. The findings appear in the current issue of the journal Brain http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/ . Clinical observations and pathology studies, as well as research in animal mode......nds." A larger wave period correlates to a more extreme wind event. The one that hit Saint Pierre, Reunion Island, had a 19-second range and initially originated from very intense storm winds on 8 May. Approaching the coastline, the wave system slows down and individual waves increase to reach at least...