TV sets falling onto young children are causing an increasing number of severe neck and head injuries. The team looked at 29 studies from seven countries analyzing TV-related head and neck injuries. The paper was published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.
One of the world’s most in-demand anaesthetics can now be produced on the spot, thanks to the thermos-flask sized device that recently won Flinders University inventor Professor Colin Raston an Ig Nobel prize.
Researchers report that if you are generally positive about life and inspires others too to lead a happy life, chances are that you harbor a special set of brain connections not found in people with negative thoughts. The paper appeared in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
A new study says that the work and achievements of men tend to be evaluated as more creative than similar work and achievements produced by women. The study was published in the journal Psychological Science.
Researchers from Georgia State University reports that monkeys perceive visual illusions in the same way as apes and humans see them in their daily life. The findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
Researchers have found that having suicidal thoughts need not necessarily depression it could be obstructive sleep apnea, (OSA), which is a common sleep disorder. The findings appeared in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
New research by scientists at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital finds that infants can be protected from getting asthma if they acquire four types of gut bacteria by three months of age. More than 300 families from across Canada participated in this research through the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study.
Researchers from Stockholm University, in international collaboration with UK and Japan, has reached a breakthrough in understanding how fructose is transported into our cells. This could be a potential benefit for the development of novel treatments against some forms of cancer, obesity and diabetes. The results are published as an article in the scientific journal Nature.
WHO cautioned that "indiscriminate" use of antibiotics is increasingly leading to resistance to medicines and treatment failure even as it asked India and South East Asian nations to "urgently" address this threat to public health.
Short and high intensity exercise can reduce an adolescent's risk of developing a heart condition, revealed a new study by researcher Alan Barker and his University of Exeter team. The researchers observed that performing eight to ten minutes of high intensity interval exercise thrice a week can improve important markers of cardiovascular health. The study is published in the Journal American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
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