Cannot tell Brad Pitt from George Clooney on the same magazine page? Well, you may be suffering from a rare condition called ‘face blindness’, which scientists claim results from a lack of connections in a brain area responsible for recognising faces.Called prosopagnosia, face blindness takes two forms: acquired and inherited.
Cibu Thomas, a neuroscientist who led [...]
Whenever someone was put behind the bars, everyone could hint what the reasons could have been for such an act. The accused either had been responsible for a theft, rape, murder or any other anti-social activity that one could think about.
Have you heard of a man being jailed for having transmitted micro-organisms like chlamydia and [...]
lthough a study commissioned by the Health Ministry has indicated that injection practices in the country as appalling, Union Health minister Ambumani Ramadoss has not found time to meet the inventor of a WHO-approved safe syringe who has been trying for three years to do so.”I have been trying to meet Dr Ramadoss for the [...]
As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
A new study, released Tuesday exclusively to The Associated Press, puts the total at $218 billion last year - the first comprehensive estimate of the financial toll [...]
A television ad created by opponents of a ballot measure that would allow embryonic stem-cell research in Michigan likens such work to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
The ad, which began running Tuesday in the Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw areas, shows newspaper headlines and other references to the Tuskegee study.
In the study by the U.S. Public [...]
A new research shows that 40 percent of women report sexual problems.
The research is couducted by Dr. Jan Shifren, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Vincent Menopause Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, both in Boston.
The report says, 12 percent of 83 million U.S. women [...]
People hearing the devastating news that they have cancer have trouble remembering the details of the conversation with their doctor.
And, those who have the worst prognosis are likely to remember even less, a new study found.
Reporting in the Nov. 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the Netherlands [...]
A study on monkeys has shed new light on blindsight, a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is, even when they are unable to see it.
Professor Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi Yoshida, who led the study at the National Institute for Physiological [...]
Transplanting a new line of stem cells into rat models of Lou Gehrig’s disease, that ends in fatality, slows down neuron loss and extends life, a new study has found.
Also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease afflicts nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
The new work supports the hypothesis that [...]
If you smoke and you’re pregnant or planning to become pregnant, it’s especially important to kick the habit now. The toxic chemicals inhaled when you smoke are easily passed to the unborn baby.
The American Pregnancy Association offers these suggestions to help you stop smoking during pregnancy:
Make a list of all of [...]