The science of tickling (ourselves) is no laughing matter, Queen's psychologist says
...cts that a tap will occur and sensory cancellation takes place even though the active finger fails to deliver the tap. "If sensory cancellation were postdictive and based on an analysis of sensory events after the tap, we would not expect cancellation in the catch trials," he explains. "The brain is consta...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
...he message I gave was not unique, but sometimes it takes something like a training session to really help supervisors do what they know is best." And in fact, this study showed that nurses who worked for supervisors who received this training showed steep drops in their levels of insomnia in the four week...End-of-life wishes vary among racial and ethnic groups, and between genders, study finds
... All Arab participants indicated that the family takes care of someone who is dying, and many noted that the whole neighborhood is involved when someone is dying. Arabs "try desperately not to go in a nursing home," the study says. Many of the Arabs in the study also indicated that they do not want heroi......anced disease (eGFR 30-60), will track the time it takes eGFR to drop by 50 percent, the need for kidney failure treatment, and patient deaths. PKD affects an estimated 500,000 people, about 90 percent of whom have ADPKD. In 2003, 23,000 people with cystic kidney disease (mostly PKD) received dialysis or...Penn to test new thermal energy procedure to reduce asthmatic symptoms
...itical Care Division at HUP. "The procedure itself takes only about an hour to complete and no general anesthesia is used. This is done on an outpatient basis as a bronchoscopic procedure, with conscious sedation (in which a tube is placed through the mouth or nose and positioned into the lungs). There is ...Weight loss improves bladder control in women with prediabetes
...olating condition that impairs quality of life and takes a psychological toll on many women. For women at risk for type 2 diabetes, losing a modest amount of weight is likely to alleviate incontinence, especially stress incontinence," said Leroy Nyberg, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Institute of Diabetes a...Study finds nerve damage in previously mysterious chronic pain syndrome
... "The fact that CRPS-I now has an identified cause takes it out of the realm of so-called 'psychosomatic illness.' One of the great frustrations facing CRPS-I patients has been the lack of an explanation for their symptoms. Many people are skeptical of their motivations, and some physicians are reluctant ...Australian medicine again recognised in Australian of the Year
...s quite normal in medical research, where it often takes more than 10 years to bring a medicine from molecule to market." As Professor Frazer said after being named Queensland state finalist in December: "It's a great honour and we need more science heroes, although I feel almost embarrassed to be selected...When we say the wrong thing...repairing the message
...ssage, said the researchers. What actions a person takes also depends upon the relationship--how intimate it is, how much the two people like each other and how much authority the receiver has over the message deliverer. In an intimate relationship, people tend to use justification but not always concessi...Flow technique could simplify targeting cancer therapy
...low-up treatment decisions," said Nunez. "What now takes weeks or months, with results sometimes coming too late to be useful in treatment decisions, could be done in a matter of hours for a fraction of the current cost."...Landmark hypertension study launches extensive physician and patient education program
... and Treatment of High Blood Pressure). "It often takes years for the results of major studies to become part of standard health care," notes NHLBI director Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD. "The results of ALLHAT and the clinical guidelines could have an enormous impact on the health of millions of Americans. We a...Researchers study multi-purpose drug
... the syndrome are at increased risk for CAD, which takes 500,000 lives per year, according to the American Heart Association. By further worsening disease in coronary arteries, smoking puts 47 million Americans at even greater risk....Scientists develop potential pandemic influenza vaccine in mice
...n harvesting, purifying, and killing the virus. It takes at least 6 months to make a conventional egg-derived vaccine and scientists estimate that 4 billion fertilised eggs would be needed to produce enough pandemic vaccine for 1.2 billion people worldwide at high-risk. However, in the event of a pandemic...All placebos not created alike
...e physiological responses to placebos. A new study takes placebo investigations out of the lab and into a c...othing was administered to cause them. This study takes the first step away from examining the placebo effect as a generalized phenomenon to one investigati...Workshop on telemedicine for Africa
... Infrastructure Partnership. This initiative also takes into account the African Union Infrastructures and Energy Programme and considers that the African Union, in the framework of the Developing Telecommunication and ICT Policy and Infrastructure, has initiated and is supporting and facilitating a numbe...... to be sensed through spacing: Since whisking only takes place in the horizontal plane, the researchers concluded that information about the vertical dimensions of an object is mapped out in the vertical placement of the whiskers, which are arranged grid-like on either side of the snout. In addition to fi...Unique vascular dysfunction in women's heart disease described in major journal supplement
...attacks is often considered a "man's disease," it takes the lives of more women than men each year. In fact, in 2000, about 60,000 more women than men died from cardiovascular disease. Now research finds that women's disease is actually very different from that typically found in men, with a variety of co...... type of emulsion dubbed WOW, for water-oil-water, takes a page from living cells, which employ a fatty membrane to keep the inside and outside environments separate. The oily layer surrounding each miniscule water droplet acts as a barrier, keeping genes, proteins and other materials contained. Alternatel...One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital
...women face much longer delays, both in the time it takes them to get to the hospital and in receiving treatment and being admitted when they arrive. "Women need to be much more aware of the risks they face from heart attacks and the importance of seeking prompt treatment." The team's previous paper, publis......type as a predictor of death from AIDS, which also takes into account viral load, the Hopkins team found that having viral subtype D made a person with HIV likely to die more rapidly compared to a person with subtype A. Ten percent of those infected with subtype D died within three years, while none with ...