items tagged with Medicine
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-13 07:41:39
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-11 01:40:04
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calls made on cell phones do not affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said on Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart devices misfire
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-03-08 16:23:46
By studying differences in people living on and off the group of islands called Kuna, researchers found that people who regularly drank cocoa rich in flavonoids had less chance of having dementia, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-03-08 16:05:11
Clozapine (Clozaril), olanzapine (Zyprexa), and risperidone (Risperdal) are atypical antipsychotic drugs used to control psychotic behavior in humans. Based on studies conducted on laboratory mice, researchers have found that these three drugs increase appetite.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-03-07 03:01:01
The first ever plant/human hybrid is to be approved for commercial scale cultivation. According to reports, the US authorities have given preliminary approval for the crop to be grown on a 3,000 acre plot in Kansas.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-01 03:44:38
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People with schizophrenia cannot hear false notes in music as well as healthy people do, and often cannot make out important tones that convey meaning in speech, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-01 03:41:57
VIENNA (Reuters) - Counterfeit medicines, some of them sold over the Internet, are swamping unregulated markets in developing nations with sometimes fatal results, the U.N. drug control watchdog said on Thursday.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-24 10:19:24
According to a NASA official, NASA has previously written a detailed set of procedures for dealing with suicidal or psychotic astronauts while in space.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-02-23 08:53:31
According to three recent medical studies, stents—small mesh tubes used to keep bodily vessels open—inserted into clogged brain arteries may work better than currently used medical drugs and have fewer negative side effects.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-02-21 02:12:02
Healthcare is one of the markets where tablet computing is having an impact, and Intel and its partner Motion Computing are trying to kick things along.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-21 01:59:09
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists intrigued by the fact that multiple sclerosis can slip into remission when women are pregnant said on Tuesday a pregnancy-related hormone may offer great promise for treating the neurological disease.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-02-20 23:47:55
While Tablet PCs are finally becoming more popular with consumers, the vertical healthcare market is ideally suited. So, is Intel telling hospitals to take a few tablets and it’ll all be better in the morning?
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-20 04:55:45
CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - Playing video games appears to help surgeons with skills that truly count: how well they operate using a precise technique, a study said on Monday.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-02-19 21:56:04
A new paper from a team of medical researchers claims that research shows playing video games will help surgeons become more skilled and make fewer mistakes, No this is not April 1 and this is not a hoax.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-02-19 03:29:30
Research shows that there are. According to Dr Dharma Singh Khalsa, president and medical director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation International in Tucson, Arizona and author of Brain Longevity (1997), Meditation as Medicine (2002), and Food as Medicine (2004), "your brain needs three different kinds of exercise to thrive best". These are mental exercise, aerobic physical exercise, and mind/body exercises.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-02-17 08:17:39
An ‘Amphibian Ark’ is being proposed to save the world’s frogs who are under attack by the chytrid fungus with huge numbers already wiped out around the globe.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-15 06:07:58
PARIS (Reuters) - Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-02-13 14:38:05
Researchers have recently announced that at least three daytime naps each week—each lasting thirty minutes or longer—may help to reduce the risk of dying from a heart attack.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-13 02:29:35
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Mobile phones are being harnessed to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa under a new $10-million scheme announced on Tuesday with the backing of leading companies and the U.S. government.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-13 01:52:04
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Could some people have a little immunity to the H5N1 bird flu virus? One study in mice published on Monday suggests it is, in theory, possible.
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