Eye :: Eye muscles – go-getters of the anatomical world
The eye, often called the window to the soul, may become a window to the mysteries of muscular dystrophy, a debilitating muscle disease that often leads to death in early adulthood.
Sleep
SIDS :: Understanding human breathing disorders
CMU researcher Jon Kelty is interested in learning about the electrical connections in the brain that control a gasp and other breathing patterns in hopes of better understanding a host of human breathing disorders, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Sleep :: Understanding function of sleep to remain healthy
Sleep remains one of the big mysteries in biology. All animals sleep, and people who are deprived of sleep suffer physically, emotionally and intellectually. But nobody knows how sleep restores the brain.
Life :: Working in shifts shortens life span
Working in shifts throughout the day instead of a normal day job could shorten your life span, an Indian study has found.
Sinusitis :: Serena Williams and Vicks, DayQuil & NyQuil will help relieve your sinus symptoms
Tennis legend and Olympic gold medalist Serena Williams has a new doubles partner — she’s teamed up with Vicks DayQuil Sinus and NyQuil Sinus products to announce the launch of the “Vicks Sinus Send-Off” national sweepstakes and to relieve sinus suffering so consumers can get on with their day and get the sleep they need.
Hay Fever :: Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
Employers can blame hay fever for the loss of millions of hours of work productivity this spring. A new study of nearly 600 people with hay fever symptoms, including sneezing, watery eyes and runny and itchy noses, found that workers missed an hour of work per week during peak hay fever season.
Autism :: Army research mission focused on autism
?”Children are like snowflakes, each one different, each one needing a different biomedical intervention,” said Shelley Reynolds of Unlocking Autism. ?”What makes treating autism difficult is that each combination to unlock each person affected is so unique.” As a result of advocacy efforts, the U.S. Congress provided $7.5 million in appropriations directed to the Department of Defense to initiate the Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program in 2007.
Malaria :: On Africa Malaria Day, UNICEF says world must help curb spread of disease
To mark Africa Malaria Day, UNICEF today urged the international community to reverse the spread of malaria, a disease that kills one person on the continent every 30 seconds and cripples so many of its youth.
Sleep :: Sleep strengthens your memory
Sleep not only protects memories from outside interferences, but also helps strengthen them, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology?s 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 ? May 5, 2007.
Depression :: Symptoms of depression associated with development of diabetes in older adults
Older adults who have had symptoms of depression?whether those symptoms occurred once, increased or remained steady over a 10-year period?may be more likely to develop diabetes than those without depressive symptoms, according to a report in the April 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.