Health Problems Archives - Page 171 of 189

05/01/2018

Scientists map key brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections for voluntary movement

Researchers trying to help people suffering from paralysis after a spinal cord injury or stroke mapped critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve

05/01/2018

Lightning carries potential danger to people with deep brain stimulators

Patients receiving deep brain stimulation are warned that their neurostimulators (also known as implantable pulse generators, or IPGs) may dysfunction

04/30/2018

Risk factors developed after loss of spouse could increase likelihood of ‘dying of a broken heart’

Widowed individuals are more likely to exhibit risk factors linked to cardiovascular illness and death in the three-month period following

04/30/2018

Fertility rates no different for women with epilepsy

Until now, if a female patient with epilepsy asked about her chances for becoming pregnant and having a healthy baby,

04/30/2018

Scientist develops protein mimic to help injured lungs breathe

The material could be used to synthesize a film that coats the inner surface of lungs, possibly leading to better,

04/30/2018

Man vs. machine?

The ‘deep learning’ computers in Anant Madabhushi’s diagnostic imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University routinely defeat their human counterparts

04/30/2018

A simple, reliable system for calculating the lactate threshold in athletes

The lactate threshold is regarded as a tremendously useful physiological variable calculating the performance of endurance athletes and prescribing their

04/28/2018

Drug test spurs frank talk between hypertension patients and doctors

There’s an irony at the heart of the treatment of high blood pressure. The malady itself often has no symptoms,

04/27/2018

Spoonful of sugar helps infection detection

More than 500,000 devices such as prosthetic valves, pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators are implanted into cardiac patients every year in

04/27/2018

Why that cigarette, chocolate bar, or new handbag feels so good—how pleasure affects our brain

Every day we make a range of choices in the pursuit of pleasure: we do things that make us feel