Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
...ruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice that ordinary citizens can use when faced by such threats. Specifically, the two scientists address the following questions: whether it is worth citizens' time to stock supplies needed for a home shelter, how urgently should one seek shelter foll...Making sense of the world through a cochlear implant
... published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In an ordinary setting, where background noise is minimal and a person's speech is clear, it is mainly the left and right temporal lobes that are involved in interpreting speech. However, the researchers have found that when hearing is impaired by background noise,...85th General Session, International Association for Dental Research
...d you know that osteoporosis can be detected using ordinary dental x-rays? that theres a new way to cure canker sores? ...that scientists are getting closer to creating tissues to augment or replace injured, defective, or diseased body parts? These are but a few of the thousands of pieces of information whic...'Mindless Eating' is a nourishing read
...gs" We may not eat much of the fried chicken in an ordinary restaurant, he suggests, but make it a place with reservations, a tablecloth, background music and a menu title like "Grandma's Special Recipe Southern-Style Chicken a la Brian" and we will fall for it like a ton of Twinkies. We tend to eat more than...T-ray breakthrough could make detecting disease far easier
... in their work the researchers found that although ordinary metal wire would not guide T-rays very well, if a series of tiny grooves was cut into the wire, it would do so much more effectively. If such a corrugated metal wire is then tapered to a point it becomes possible to very efficiently transport radiati...Health effects of 'functional foods' featured during four-day symposium, Sept. 10-13
...developed a newly patented process that transforms ordinary flour into flour with enhanced levels of antioxidants -- compounds that have been shown by others to fight cancer and heart disease. The process works by enzymatically modifying grains to make their natural antioxidants more available to the body, sa...New bird flu drug promises to beat the problem of resistance
...ce in one in six children treated with Tamiflu for ordinary forms of flu. Although acting upon the same target on the influenza virus as existing treatments, the new drug molecules being developed are specific for a part of the virus that is unable to mutate (change), which means it should be impossible for...Identifying medical proxy should be part of routine medical care
...een asked to identify a surrogate in the course of ordinary medical care. When asked if they would want to name a proxy for health care "now," that is, if their doctor asked them to at this particular time, more than 85 percent answered "yes." Lipkin said that identifying a proxy for health care as part of ...Memory loss affects more of the brain than previously thought
... mild memory impairment and is often confused with ordinary age-related forgetfulness. The researchers used 4-Tesla fMRI, which has a very strong magnetic field, to observe the brain activity of 20 elderly patients with amnestic MCI and 20 age-matched controls with no memory impairment during a memory task th...Cholesterol-lowering drugs may be useful in an influenza pandemic
...10 days, and this would not have a major impact on ordinary production and sales levels by the manufacturers." Further research on statins as treatment and prophylaxis for pandemic influenza, including laboratory studies and clinical trials, is crucial, Dr. Fedson said, concluding in his article that statins ...Many cleaners, air fresheners may pose health risks when used indoors
...d in a 230-square-foot room with ventilation at an ordinary level which provided approximately one air change ...ported, is that when people use the products under ordinary circumstances, their exposure to ethylene-based glycol ethers, formaldehyde and fine particles will ...New treatment allow patients to return to pre-injury activity
...athon runners and athletes in many other sports to ordinary citizens." "I have since expanded the treatment successfully to include tendonopathy of the elbow and for plantar fascitis and several other sites. It may have value in treating some shoulder tendonpathies but further studies are needed," said Dr. Wo...The corporate sponsored creation of disease - Press Release from PLoS Medicine
...fferent forms of disease mongering: Aspects of ordinary life, such as sexuality, are being medicalized and turned into illnesses. Joel Lexchin (University of Toronto) argues that Pfizer marketed Viagra not just for treating erectile dysfunction due to medical problems like diabetes, but as a drug that "...An affordable future for eye tracking in sight
...tionality, though at a lower performance, using an ordinary Web cam and ambient light. But the project plans to do more. Currently eye-tracking systems are tied to proprietary software, which means that every new application must be written for a particular piece of controlling software. COGAIN wants to creat...Purdue chemical-analysis method promises fast results
...long established in modern laboratories. But while ordinary mass spectrometry is both time- and labor-intensiv...able the direct chemical analysis of objects in an ordinary environment, will appear in the Friday (March 17) issue of the journal Science. The paper was writte...How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?
...for the disease. In addition to the yearly toll of ordinary influenza (as many as 36,000 annual fatalities in ...be especially vulnerable to influenza, whether the ordinary annual variety or deadlier types. The researchers will study how such patients' vaccine responses ch...Latest research shows how mantrams can even tackle post-traumatic stress disorder
...ur study were encouraged to use the mantram during ordinary and relaxing times, so that they associated it with a calming effect when they needed to use it during times of turmoil" she explains. "Easwaran advises that people use it when they need it and use it when they don't!" Most of the volunteers from so...Stress and emotions can negatively effect heart health
...lings of sadness or emptiness, loss of interest in ordinary or pleasurable activities, reduced energy, and eating and sleep disorders are just a few of depression's many warning signs. If they persist for more than two weeks, discuss these issues with your heart doctor. It may be that a psychologist working i...BRCA1 gene found to inhibit two sex hormones, not just one
...dometriun and cervix. It also has implications for ordinary cancers that arise because a normal BRCA1 gene is under-expressed, said the study's principal investigator, Eliot Rosen, MD, PhD, professor of oncology, cell biology, and radiation medicine at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. For example, h...... way to check people who may have the illness, for ordinary people the effects and treatment are largely the same, whether a person gets the flu, RSV, the common cold, or another respiratory ailment. Feel crummy. Rest, drink lots of fluids, and if you suspect the flu, call a doctor immediately, because flu ca...