Poor people are less likely to take part in clinical trials for new cancer drugs, which can make it harder to develop treatments, according to a new study.
“Cancer clinical trials are how we move the field forward. As a result of patients not participating in clinical trials, it takes a lot longer and it’s much more expensive to develop new therapies,” said Dr. Dawn Hershman, who worked on the study.
There’s actually a wealth of research on what works when it comes to giving your brain a workout. Here are 9 simple steps you can take to strengthen your memory every day:
1. Change your font
Making text slightly harder to read is actually good for the brain, according to one study. You can do this by changing the font on your computer, adding bold or italics, or moving a page away from your face so the text appears smaller. In fact, there are any number of ways to achieve the effect, says study co-author Daniel Oppenheimer, associate professor of psychology at Princeton University. But don’t make the task too difficult, cautions Oppenheimer. “That would be detrimental rather than helpful,” he says.
2. Learn ballroom dancing
Learning something new–be it a new language or taking a cooking class–is generally good for your brain. But learning formal couples dancing, it turns out, is especially good.
“Not only is it physical, it’s learned dance moves,” says Dawn Buse, a health psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. “You have to think as you go, change and be flexible. If you stretch the body at the same time, it’s a bonus.”
3. Switch hands
Many stroke survivors who suffer paralysis have to learn how to use the previously non-dominant side of their body for everyday tasks like writing. This helps create new neural networks. But even non-stroke survivors can benefit from the practice. “Brush your teeth with your left hand, buckle your belt with your left hand, eat cereal,” says Buse. “These novel activities are stimulating novel parts of the brain.”
The U.S. health regulator warned that taking a widely prescribed insomnia drug at night may impair driving and alertness the next morning, and recommended the bedtime dose be lowered. New data showed that levels of the drug zolpidem may be high enough to impair alertness in some patients the morning after using it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on its website.
The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health table judges world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world’s top 50 universities for clinical and health subjects employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
Top 50 clinical, pre-clinical and health universities (2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings)
Here you can see the complete listing of Top Medical Universities in the world (including renowned medical schools, medical college, medical university, ans so on)
“Alcohol can help heart attack victims live longer”, reports The Daily Telegraph. The study was carried out by researchers from Harvard Medical School and other research centres in the US. Read the full story and research findings >>
This story is based on research that looked at just over 1,800 male health professionals who had a first heart attack while taking part in a large 20-year study.
Over the course of the study, those who drank an average between 10 to 29.9g of alcohol daily (between about 1-4 UK units) in the period before and after their heart attack had a reduced risk of death from any cause or from cardiovascular causes compared to non-drinkers.
Current UK advice is that men should regularly drink no more than 3-4 units of alcohol a day (regularly meaning drinking this amount every day or most days of the week).
Did you know that on average, an individual “EATS” 3,496 liters of water each day! This is due to both visible and hidden water resources that we consume everyday. If you are still cracking your head to find out how we got that huge 3.5 thousand liter number, then check out this amazing info-graphic on diet and water consumption to find out how >>
Needless to say, an understanding of our water consumption can help us provide a solution to one of our most pressing problems:
making sure there is enough water for everybody on the planet.
Let’s enjoy a water sensible diet!
The British Heart Foundation is urging people to forget “mouth-to-mouth” and to concentrate on chest compressions when performing CPR, specially for those who are untrained and don;t know how to give the “kiss of life”.
Ellen Mason, who is a senior cardiac nurse with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) emcourages people to learn how to do a simple CPR, which can save the lives of those who have a suddem cardiac arrest. As she mentions, “The kiss of life can often be daunting for untrained bystanders who want to help when someone has collapsed with a cardiac arrest”
Below you can watch a simple step by step guide on CPR steps. This how to perform CPR without “mouth-to-mouth kissing” video is beneficial to teach you how to perform a CPR first aid on a patient.
You don’t necessarily need a professional CPR course, CPR Training, or cpr certification to help someone with a cardiac/heart arrest. All you need to do is to learn this simple guide which can help you save another human’s lives.
A video posted on New Scientist can help you find out whether you’ve got an Eagle Eye or not! Watch the video below and find out by yourself.
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The vidoe has been created by Kevin O’Reagan and his colleague at Paris Descartes University, France.
You’ll probably wonder how you may not notice an obvious change in this video. The researchers discuss that un-noticing this change could be an example of our blindness to certain slow changes, as humans tend to first focus their attention on the most interesting elements of a scene.
Could you identify the change in the video the first time?
“A researcher must be young in mind, charming, faithful, honest, hard-working, and should have the art to respect and appreciate others.”
This is an excerpt of our interview with Dr. KB Ashok, who celebrated an outstanding hat trick in 2011 by winning 3 Awards in the IOMC 2011 Conference. He won 3 different awards in IOMC 2011 conference, namely, the Most Active Confernce Students Board Member Award, Best Presenter Award of Conference Day 4, and one of the Best Reviewer Awards.
In the third series of IOMC Blog posts to introduce the Award Winners of the IOMC 2011 Conference, please enjoy our friendly talk with Dr. K.B. Ashok, below:
In the second series of IOMC Blog posts to introduce the Award Winners of the IOMC 2011 Conference, we are pleased to have with us Dr. Haris Habib, who has eagerly answered all our questions. Dr. Haris Habib was one of the Award Winners of IOMC 2011 Conference who won the Best Presenter Award for the Day 2 of the conference.
Dr. Habib encourages young researchers not to be scared of their mistakes as they can learn from the mistakes and improve their research in a learning process. You can read the full interview below.
