Archive: 05/14/2012
Clean hands and keyboards cut health risks
(Medical Xpress) -- Using simple ethanol-based hand sanitisers and regular cleaning with ethanol wipes can dramatically reduce bacteria on shared computer keyboards.
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Can you exercise away your diabetes symptoms?
In this story writer Jenny Hall talks with Greg Wells about the relationship between type 2 diabetes and exercise.
Diabetes
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Let there be light: It's good for our brains
(Medical Xpress) -- Swiss scientists have proven that light intensity influences our cognitive performance and how alert we feel, and that these positive effects last until early evening.
Neuroscience
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Umbilical cord can save lives
(Medical Xpress) -- The umbilical cord is of great importance to the health of newborns, even after they’ve left the womb. If it is left in place for a while after birth, the risk of iron deficiency drops ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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Delivering better ways of preventing stillbirth
(Medical Xpress) -- Despite recent dramatic reductions in cot death rates in the UK, and the development of sophisticated screening for Down’s syndrome, preventing stillbirth is proving tougher to tackle. ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
May 14, 2012 |
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Smart material can heal bone
How do get something to grow out of nothing? This is what the polymer chemistry team at the Department of Chemistry at Ångström Laboratory is discovering at great speed. Their findings mean that ...
Medical research
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Expectant mothers' saliva tells stories of stress
This weekend, many mothers-to-be celebrated Mother's Day, a welcome relief from the inherent stresses of pregnancy.
Pediatrics
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Thinking about health as an investor might
(Medical Xpress) -- A “proof-of-concept” study applying financial portfolio theory to U.S. biomedical research funding shows that the nation’s health might gain the largest benefit by increasing ...
Health
May 14, 2012 |
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New way to protect eyes from strong light damage
(Medical Xpress) -- Treating eyes with gentle infra-red light can help prevent the damage caused by subsequent exposure to bright light, new scientific research has found.
Ophthalmology
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Looks matter more than reputation when it comes to trusting people with our money
(Medical Xpress) -- Our decisions to trust people with our money are based more on how they look then how they behave, according to new research from the University of Warwick.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 14, 2012 |
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Genetic test identifies eye cancer tumors likely to spread
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a genetic test that can accurately predict whether the most common form of eye cancer will spread to ...
Ophthalmology
May 14, 2012 |
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Gambling not an addiction say University of Sydney researchers
Many people talk of problem gambling as an 'addiction' but work coming out of the University of Sydney's Gambling Treatment Clinic suggests that this may not be the case.
Addiction
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Brain oscillations reveal that our senses do not experience the world continuously
(Medical Xpress) -- It has long been suspected that humans do not experience the world continuously, but rather in rapid snapshots.
Neuroscience
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New discovery in Alzheimer's protein puzzle
(Medical Xpress) -- A medical research team at the University of Alberta has made two related discoveries that could shed more light on Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
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Groundbreaking discovery of mutation causing genetic disorder in humans
Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), in collaboration with doctors and scientists in Jordan, Turkey, Switzerland and USA, have identified the genetic cause of a birth defect known as Hamamy syndrome. ...
Genetics
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