Measured -- The time it takes us to find the words we need

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Multitasking may be Achilles heel for hepatitis C

Medicine & Health / Research

3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hepatitis C, a formidable virus that affects 130 million people worldwide, is nursing some pretty impressive bruises. By knocking out sections and subsections of one of its proteins, scientists reveal weak ...

Multiple health concerns surface as winter, vitamin D deficiences arrive

Medicine & Health / Health

8 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 3

A string of recent discoveries about the multiple health benefits of vitamin D has renewed interest in this multi-purpose nutrient, increased awareness of the huge numbers of people who are deficient in it, spurred research ...

Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

9 hours ago | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Alzheimer's disease is caused by the build-up of a brain peptide called amyloid-beta. That's why eliminating the protein has been the focus of almost all drug research pursuing a cure for the devastating neurodegenerative ...

Gene therapy improves vision

Medicine & Health / Research

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German scientist Paul Ehrlich found what he coined the "magic bullet" in the early 20th century upon developing the world’s first effective treatment of syphilis.