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...n can interfere with the ability to eat, drink, or speak and impair the sufferers quality of life. Licorice has been used for over 4000 years as a healing agent. The medicinal capabilities of licorice root (Glycyrrhiza) extract (GX) have been established by long-term clinical use and, most recently, b...Navigating legal minefields of drug industry addressed at UH talk
...w firm of Abraham, Watkins, Sorrels & Friend, will speak on "The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Law" at noon, Tuesday, April 3 in room 128 of Science & Research Building Two. Part of the "Today's Health" lecture series, the event is free and open to the public. Agosto's talk will address developments...UCLA study finds severe shortage of Latino dentists
...ime. IMPACT: Latino dentists are likely to both speak Spanish and English, and to practice in areas with heavy Latino populations. As a result, there will be fewer dentists to serve this population. Also, the shortfall during that period was so large that a dramatic increase would not make up the differ...USC study identifies factors attributed to later stage cancer diagnosis
...sures the percentage of the population who do not speak English well, uses public transportation, percentage who are below the poverty level and other measures were correlated with the percentage of cancers diagnosed at a later stage. "Community leaders and health advocates should consider making more ...NeuroArm: Navigating the future of surgery
...rs and engineers are good at what they do but they speak different languages," Greer says. "Translating surgical requirements into technical terms can be a challenge." When the project began, engineers from MDA traveled to Calgary and worked with surgeons for several weeks to define the requirements necess...Eye muscles -- those go-getters of the anatomical world
...causing the eyes to bulge out. Dr. Goldberg will speak on Eye muscle motor units: a petite illumination. His laboratory investigates the motor neurons of the brainstem which are involved in tongue and eye movements. (When a doctor asks a patient to follow his or her finger, the patients brainstem functi...Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
...exists regarding how pediatricians can effectively speak to their patients about secondhand smoke-related issues, according to an article in the May issue of The Journal of Pediatrics. Part of the issue is teaching medical residents (physicians in training) to advise smoking parents at every patient vis...A self-fulfilling prophecy in bleeding stroke?
...as soon as possible. At the same time, they should speak with the patient's doctors about end-of-life options if the aggressive treatment doesn't appear to be improving the patient's outlook after a day or more. ...Food and drink, and what it says about us
...ised. More than 20 postgraduate researchers will speak on topics including hunting in Roman Britain, how food reached the Roman frontier, what was sold in the grocery shops of Roman Pompeii and Ostia, the use of stimulants in ancient societies, feasting in Mycenae and the Aegean, food storage and product...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...ked to respond only when they hear a woman's voice speak a word in the chosen category. The task taxes attention even more when subjects are asked to respond to a woman's voice speaking a 'target' word in one ear at the same time a man's voice is speaking words in the other. The MRI scanner records acti...Disadvantaged TB patients urgently need social support to make medical treatment more effective
...r cent were seeking asylum and 16 per cent did not speak English as their first language. More than a third anticipated problems taking their medicine and 30 per cent had no-one to remind them, suggesting a lack of social support. 48 per cent were admitted to hospital during their treatment, with ...A pioneering system allows autistic children to communicate with their environment
...ith cerebral palsy as well as by adults who cannot speak for several reasons (heart attack, thrombosis, etc.)....Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...the strong observational epidemiological evidence, speak to the potential of folate as a chemopreventive agent, if taken early. Unfortunately, primary prevention trials that start in childhood would be lengthy, expensive, and logistically nearly impossible." "The results of the clinical trial by Cole et ...Meningitis: effectiveness of preventive vaccination demonstrated
...of cases in subsequent epidemics. These results speak in favour of adopting a strategy of routine vaccination using this vaccine whenever no other vaccine is available in order to prevent meningococcus meningitis epidemics in this region of Africa. However, a conjugated vaccine which should be sold at...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...gs about it may be more convincing. "Our results speak to the power of real world experience," says Carr. "Abstractions, literature, handouts are all great. But in the end, I think people respond more to visceral, emotional factors." Carr and Khodyakov based their analyses on data from the Wisconsin Lo...University research wins royal accolade
...Saul Tendler, Head of The School of Pharmacy, will speak at the event. Professor Tendler said: The Queens Award acknowledges that the School of Pharmacy at The University of Nottingham is enhancing significantly the development of new medicines. This is an achievement of which we are all extremely proud...Global warming's threat to New York region and how to avoid severe consequences
...land use changes in the NYC metropolitan area. To speak further with Dr. Kinney on these issues, please contact Stephanie Berger at the Mailman School of Public Health, 212-305-4372 or sb2247@columbia.edu......ociation for Psychological Science, these findings speak not only to the level of autistic intelligence but to the nature of autistic intelligence. While it is probably true that autistics possess extraordinary perceptual skills, and that they use unique cognitive pathways for problem solving, their intell...... but the aphasia remained and the woman could only speak and understand single words or short sentences. These symptoms got worse at the end of October 2006, and electroencephalography (EEG) indicated she had epilepsy, which was treated with levetiracetam. Her speech improved to the point where she could a...