News tagged with shaking hands
Discovery of New Treatment for Hand Disorder Affecting Millions Shown Promising
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Department of Orthopaedics at Stony Brook University Medical Center have developed an injectable form of the enzyme, collagenase, that significantly improves outcomes of ...
Harvard survey: Swine flu in, affection out
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Thanks to swine flu, there's a little less hugging and kissing in the United States.
Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico
Apr 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. ...
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Preventing colds: Washing your hands is more effective than taking vitamins
Oct 09, 2008 |
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The days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping, and the cold and flu season is beginning. Many people have started taking vitamin C tablets as a precautionary measure. But research has shown that vitamin supplements ...
Scientists produce illusion of body-swapping
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Cognitive neuroscientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The findings are published in the online, ...
Brain-damaged children often have cold feet
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Many wheelchair-using children with neurological disorders have much colder hands and feet than other children, and most receive no special help even though they have had these problems for a long time, is revealed in at ...
Creating Music With Your Cell Phone
Nov 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you own a cell phone, then new software created by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology director Gil Weinberg and his students will allow you to be the next composer and performer of ...
Is the person next to you washing their hands with soap?
Oct 14, 2009 |
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People are more likely to wash their hands when they have been shamed into it, according to a study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Chronically Sweaty Hands? Surgery May Help
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Everyone sweats to some degree during exercise or other exerting activities. But for some people, profuse sweating is a constant that can quickly impact quality-of-life, according to University of Cincinnati ...
If you don't want to fall ill this Christmas, then share a festive kiss but don't shake hands
Dec 19, 2007 |
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We've all heard people say 'I won't kiss you, I've got a cold'. But a report just published warns that we may be far more at risk of passing on an infection by shaking someone's hand than in sharing a kiss.
Stereotactic radiosurgery as effective in eliminating Parkinson's disease tremors as other treatments but less invasive
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) offers a less invasive way to eliminate tremors caused by Parkinson's disease and essential tremor than deep brain stimulation (DBS) and radiofrequency (RF) treatments, and is as effective, ...
Doctors and patients poorly informed about herpes
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Family doctors and patients with herpes are poorly informed about the viral infection, indicate the results of an online survey, published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Badge sensor alerts health-care workers of need to wash hands
Sep 16, 2009 |
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A wireless, credit-card-sized sensor that can detect whether health care workers have properly washed their hands upon entering a patient's room is being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The ...
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