Peristomal skin disorders and injuries are common complications that affect people living with an ostomy.
ConvaTec Moldable Technology ™ skin barriers help prevent problems and improve patient peristomal skin ostomy
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Feb 16 2012
Bipedal posture likely to be adopted to give an advantage in the fight against
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Feb 05 2012
The idea is not new to the fighting and violence played a role in making the passage of human ancestors walked on all fours to walking on two legs. But the new study shows the advantage of the carrier physically fight from a vertical position, two-legged posture.
Scans show that is not only to help us get our bearings
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Jan 31 2012
Dr. Thomas Wolbers, University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, said: Touch plays a role in our understanding of spatial awareness in the same way we rely on our sense of sight three-dimensional model to understand the feeling. There is no reason why the other senses, such as sound, would not even [...]
Exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy may increase the risk of autism, study suggests
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Jan 19 2012
Previous studies have shown that abnormalities in the levels of serotonin and serotonin pathways may play a role in autism. Collectively, these studies suggest the possibility that prenatal exposure SSRIs may act directly on brain development, perhaps fetuses with abnormalities in genes related to serotonin selective, Croen said. He added that the physiological changes related [...]
Melanoma victim’s story is also a new public service advertising campaign
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Jan 18 2012
‘Stories like Jaime put a face on the statistics of a serious person dies of melanoma every hour,’ said William D. James dermatologist, doctor, FAAD, president of the American Academy of Dermatology. ‘In tanning acquired by exposure to UV radiation to the outside or the inside is simply not worth the risk.’
Keys to keep your body and golf game, other
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Jan 16 2012
- Keep a regular exercise program to maintain as much strength as good as possible.
Treadmill Brain reconnects after stroke
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Jan 10 2012
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center compared 37 patients who performed a “progressive treadmill therapy, repetitive task”, with 34 patients who did stretching. The patients had chronic hemiparesis, a weakness in one part of the body, at least six months after a stroke. The patients had completed all conventional [...]
CEA-Leti and development partners Tracer injections for the diagnosis of cancer and the operation
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Jan 02 2012
CEA-Leti has announced that four French partners are developing an injection of tracer, which can provide both nuclear imaging in the preoperative evaluation of tumor ablation and the optical imaging or biopsy.
Dominated peptide reveals clues about the causes of Alzheimer’s disease
Posted in Healthcare by admin - Dec 27 2011
Published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, and the results demonstrate the potential value of 43 A as a biomarker for the diagnosis of AD and suggest a potential role of new approaches to prevent AD-causing amyloidosis, promising hope for AD patients around the world.