Topic: health - on March 1, 2007 at 5:25:00 PM CET
91 year-old man does 1,002 push-ups in one sitting
Jiang, a former painter who will be 91 this year, has not seen a doctor in 25 years. He said his secret for longevity and health is exercise. He was in poor health before his retirement, and he started exercising regularly at age 66. By 80, Jiang could run 30 kilometers in four hours.
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Topic: health - on February 18, 2007 at 12:54:00 PM CET
Viagra used to save baby's life
Viagra has been used by doctors on Tyneside as a last resort to save the life of a premature baby.
Lewis Goodfellow was born at 24 weeks weighing just 1lb 8oz. One of his lungs had failed and not enough oxygen was able to get into his bloodstream.
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Topic: health - on February 16, 2007 at 11:47:00 AM CET
Human brain can make new cells: study
New evidence shows that the human brain can manufacture fresh brain cells, researchers say in a study that may lead to better ways to treat brain damage and disease.
Scientists had known that other animals, such as rats and mice, make new brain cells throughout their lives and there had been indirect evidence that humans beings can, too.
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Topic: health - on February 14, 2007 at 3:19:00 PM CET
A giant moonbeam reflector may shine away depression
In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert,15 miles west of Tucson, the depressed and ailing come to bathe in the gentle blue-white beam of Richard Chapin’s 50-foot-tall moonlight collector.
Chapin, the founder of a lucrative Arizona swap meet, has spent the past four years and $2 million of his personal fortune building the world’s first and only therapeutic moonbeam catcher, a 30-ton array of mirrors called the Interstellar Light Collector. Although he has no medical training, Chapin is convinced that his invention can help people conquer depression, arthritis and even some types of cancer.
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Topic: health - on February 14, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM CET
8 Diseases That Give You Superhuman Powers
Brain Diseases I Wish I Had
Photographic memory Tertiary Neurosyphilis Synesthesia Savantism without major autistic impairments. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIPA) Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS) Hypergraphia
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Topic: health - on February 10, 2007 at 12:19:00 PM CET
Deadly Animals That Just Might Save Your Life.
Sure, you know these five creatures as stinging, biting merchants of death. But isn’t it time we put aside our differences and embrace the positive?
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Topic: health - on February 10, 2007 at 11:40:00 AM CET
No sleep means no new brain cells
Missing out on sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new cells, a study has suggested.
The work on rats, by a team from Princeton University found a lack of sleep affected the hippocampus, a brain region involved in forming memories.
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Topic: health - on February 8, 2007 at 11:53:00 PM CET
Website shows you how your job is killing you
Think your job is killing you? A humorous Web site set up by an online recruiting firm shows you exactly how bad things are.
"Age-o-Matic" lets you load a photograph, answer a few multiple-choice questions and then shows you the results on the same personal photograph, which is digitally altered to include bald pates, wrinkles and gray skin.
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Topic: health - on February 8, 2007 at 3:00:00 PM CET
the art of quitting
TheArtOfQuitting.com is a creative platform for still-smokers. It’s a place where you can find and share the inspiration to quit. Because to keep smoking is easy, but to quit and stay that way is an art. Submit your quit-smoking statement. Do it to motivate yourself and to inspire others.
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Topic: health - on February 3, 2007 at 3:52:00 PM CET
Shrimp Bandages Save Soldiers
After a long search for a better way to stop extreme bleeding, the U.S. Army has purchased more than 400,000 bandages made from chitosan, a polysaccharide extracted from the exoskeletons of Icelandic shrimp.
Before deciding on the $10 million HemCon purchase last year, the Army tested fibrin bandages, collagen sponges and nanoporous ceramic powder.
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Topic: health - on January 28, 2007 at 3:34:00 PM CET
Clendening Library - Medical and natural history images & texts
This exhibit displays hundreds of images from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800. They are organized by theme: diagnostics, human body, imaging, instruments, physician-patient culture, portraits, public health, reproduction, reproduction instruments, therapeutics. The Clendening Library encourages educational use of the images at no charge.
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Topic: health - on January 17, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
4D camera
The new 4D scan us ses the same frequency of sound waves w as in a normal ultrasound. But the sound waves are directed from many more angles, producing a 'real-time' video of the foetus as it moves and allowing scientists to say the images are in four dimensions.
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