Exercise is a tough thing for many people to pick up quickly. It can be an exhausting experience that leaves you sore and drained of energy. You then just feel worse than before. Many will give up on an exercise platform for this very reason, but this will just make their previous problems worse. If […]
A US expert says that patients can be encouraged to exercise with the help of a hospital bed that folds down at one end to place its occupant onto a treadmill.
Charles Filipi, a surgeon at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, has even created a design for such a bed.
He thinks that “exercise beds” can prove […]
People are deeply confused about what causes cancer and the most effective means of prevention, with many favouring more fruit rather than cutting down alcohol, a new study said on Wednesday.
“Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimising the […]
People are deeply confused about what causes cancer and the most effective means of prevention, with many favouring more fruit rather than cutting down alcohol, a new study said on Wednesday.
“Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimising the […]
A top Indian hospital where 49 babies died in clinical trials that took place at the facility said Tuesday that the drugs used in the tests were “safe,” according to a report.
But the hospital, the state-run All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, said it was conducting an in-house inquiry into the trials, which started in the […]
Researchers have explained how turbines are a life-threatening hazard for bats, attributing the reason for the death of the flying mammals to internal hemorrhaging consistent with trauma from the sudden drop in air pressure at turbine blades.
Power-generating wind turbines have long been recognized as a potentially life-threatening hazard for birds. But at most wind facilities, […]
Stroke and injury sufferers may now rely upon a novel technology a scientist at Portsmouth University for fast recovery — virtual reality treadmill.
Wendy Powell claims that has basically written a piece of software that can trick patients into believing that they are moving more slowly than they actually are, encouraging them to move faster.
The researcher […]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have identified the structures of a protein key to Alzheimer’’s disease that may lead to development of new drugs.
Two kinds of proteins amyloid and tau are key to Alzheimer’s disease.
With the help of new computer-based technique, researchers Collin M. Stultz, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Electrical […]
Preeclampsia, which produces high blood pressure and other problems in 5 percent of pregnancies, can significantly increase the risk of kidney failure decades later, Norwegian researchers reported on Wednesday.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, verifies something that doctors have suspected for years. Preeclampsia is also suspected of increasing the risk of […]
When Sean Miller was 14, a virus left him paralyzed for about a year. Depression, he says, was much worse.“I would have taken paralysis any day over depression,” Miller said of his last of several depressive episodes, which left him fearful, anxious and suicidal for most of his late 30s and unable to find relief […]