http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope. http://www.physorg.com/news177058708.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:20:02 EST news177058708 Ten of thousands of patients suffer chronic pain as a result of operations, and this continues even after the wounds caused by the operation have healed. Researchers from the MIRA research institute - the University of Twente`s Research Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine - have now developed a portable system that can be used to measure patients` sensitivity to pain. The readings show which patients are likely to suffer chronic post-operative pain. http://www.physorg.com/news176661909.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:45:41 EST news176661909 Despite recent advances in anti-inflammatory therapy, many rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients continue to suffer from pain. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Arthritis Research & Therapy found that inflammation is associated with heightened pain sensitivity at joint sites, whereas increased sleep problems are associated with heightened pain sensitivity at both joint and non-joint sites. http://www.physorg.com/news176016053.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:50:03 EST news176016053 New research released today is affirming a long-held maxim: you are what you eat - and, more to the point, what you eat has a profound influence on the brain. The findings offer insight into the neurobiological factors behind the obesity epidemic in the United States and other developed countries. The findings exposed changes in brain chemistry due to diet and weight gain, and were reported at Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting. http://www.physorg.com/news175266300.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:01 EST news175266300 Scientists at Georgia State University have uncovered the mechanisms of how pain in infancy alters how the brain processes pain in adulthood. http://www.physorg.com/news173105138.html Medicine & Health Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:57:45 EST news173105138 In a one-two punch, a familiar diabetes drug reduced tumors faster and prolonged remission in mice longer than chemotherapy alone by targeting cancer stem cells, Harvard Medical School researchers reported in the September 14 online first edition of Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news172146603.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:30:46 EST news172146603 A moderate aerobic exercise program, without weight loss, can improve insulin sensitivity in both lean and obese sedentary adolescents, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that permits glucose to enter cells to be used for energy or stored for future use by the body. http://www.physorg.com/news171046994.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:03:26 EST news171046994 Nikon has taken the bull by the horns in order to drag consumer products out of a sink-hole for the holidays. Nikon is in the process of introducing the first combined digital camera and built-in projector. The slump-breaker, NikonCoolpix S1000pj will hit European markets now and make its way to North America in September--"God willing and the creek don't rise." http://www.physorg.com/news168797271.html Electronics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:08:02 EST news168797271 Although visceral hypersensitivity is considered a hallmark feature of IBS, conflicting evidence exists regarding somatic hypersensitivity in this patient population. Several investigators have found no evidence for heightened somatic pain sensitivity in IBS patients. Also, others have reported similar cold presser pain tolerance in IBS patients and controls. http://www.physorg.com/news167476283.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:11:44 EST news167476283 A cellular protein that may prevent nerve cells from dying also helps to improve insulin action and lower blood glucose levels, according to a study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in collaboration with scientists at University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.physorg.com/news167458070.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:08:30 EST news167458070 Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) scientists have identified five genetic biomarkers that could help lead to improved treatments, with fewer side-effects, for patients with diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news164363419.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:30:01 EST news164363419 Research conducted under the direction of Melinda Sothern, PhD, Professor and Director of Health Promotion at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, showing early signs of diabetes in healthy children as young as seven years old will be presented at the American Diabetes Association 2009 Annual Scientific Session Meeting in New Orleans. Dr. Sothern's group is the first to document previously unknown markers for obesity, heart disease and diabetes, collectively called the Metabolic Syndrome, in children this young. http://www.physorg.com/news163677107.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:52:27 EST news163677107 (PhysOrg.com) -- Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch? http://www.physorg.com/news163266028.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:41:39 EST news163266028 (PhysOrg.com) -- People who feel pressure to look attractive are more fearful of being rejected because of their appearance than are their peers, according to a new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Kent. http://www.physorg.com/news162666854.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 May 2009 18:15:44 EST news162666854 ESO's Very Large Telescope, Europe's flagship facility for ground-based astronomy, has been equipped with the first of its second generation instruments: X-shooter. It can record the entire spectrum of a celestial object in one shot -- from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared -- with high sensitivity. This unique new instrument will be particularly useful for the study of distant exploding objects called gamma-ray bursts. http://www.physorg.com/news162550823.html Space & Earth Tue, 26 May 2009 10:00:56 EST news162550823 An exercise program that burns a lot of calories reduced cardiac risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation in overweight coronary patients, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news161278408.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 16:35:48 EST news161278408 Moderate calorie restriction causes temporal changes in the liver and skeletal muscle metabolism, whereas moderate weight loss affects muscle, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. In addition, researchers found that short-term calorie restriction (CR) with a low-carbohydrate diet caused a greater change in liver fat content and metabolic function than short-term CR with a high-carbohydrate diet. http://www.physorg.com/news160675334.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 17:02:42 EST news160675334 Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a way to maintain the pain-killing qualities of morphine over an extended period of time, thus providing a solution for the problem of having to administer increasing dosages of the drug in order to retain its effectiveness. http://www.physorg.com/news160047933.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:46:10 EST news160047933 Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in today's Nature Neuroscience. http://www.physorg.com/news157558426.html Medicine & Health Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:14:25 EST news157558426 A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, demonstrates that stimulus-reward pairing can elicit visual learning in adults, even without awareness of the stimulus presentation or reward contingencies. http://www.physorg.com/news155994784.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:53:44 EST news155994784 A new study shows for the first time that a microRNA-based diagnostic test can objectively identify squamous lung cancer with 96% sensitivity, according to Harvey Pass, M.D. of the NYU Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center, one of the authors of the study published on-line ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://www.physorg.com/news155892724.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:33:05 EST news155892724 With obesity reaching epidemic levels, researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are studying a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight control centers of the brain. http://www.physorg.com/news155843941.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:59:53 EST news155843941 (PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. The researchers made the discovery using a new technique for decoding data from functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI. The findings are a significant step forward in understanding how we perceive, process and remember visual information. http://www.physorg.com/news154186809.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:41:06 EST news154186809 Developed to sniff out extraterrestrial life on other planets, a portable device known as the Mars Organic Analyzer (MOA) is taking on a new role in detecting air pollutants on Earth. Researchers in California report the development of a modified MOA able to detect polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), potentially carcinogenic molecules from cigarette smoke and wood smoke, volcanic ash, and other sources. The report appeared in the Jan. 15 issue of ACS` semi-monthly journal Analytical Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news153071899.html Chemistry Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:59:15 EST news153071899 A Northwestern University-led research team reports that insulin, by shielding memory-forming synapses from harm, may slow or prevent the damage and memory loss caused by toxic proteins in Alzheimer's disease. http://www.physorg.com/news152818063.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:28:15 EST news152818063 Abnormal heart rhythms - arrhythmias - are killers. They strike without warning, causing sudden cardiac death, which accounts for about 10 percent of all deaths in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news151775019.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:45:24 EST news151775019 The contrast sensitivity of persons with different visual acuity capabilities is experimentally analyzed. Test subjects observe a cathode ray tube monitor in a darkroom environment to determine their visual contrast sensitivity to red-green and blue-yellow color fields with varying luminance levels. Results showed clear differences. Findings are significant to many important applications in image processing technology. http://www.physorg.com/news148735256.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:20:56 EST news148735256 Expression of the microtubule-binding protein Tau is not a reliable means of selecting breast cancer patients for adjuvant paclitaxel chemotherapy, according to research led by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. http://www.physorg.com/news148453038.html Medicine & Health Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:57:18 EST news148453038 Screening for colorectal cancer detects four out of ten cancers and should be carefully designed to be more effective, according to a study published today on bmj.com. http://www.physorg.com/news146473215.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:00:15 EST news146473215 A study conducted on hundreds of rats could help us understand how the brain identifies specific sounds in a noisy environment. The investigation, soon to be published in the journal Brain, was conducted by Alex Martin of the Université de Montréal Department of Psychology. http://www.physorg.com/news146231125.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:45:25 EST news146231125