Health

Worldwide, 37 million people are infected with HIV. New research suggests that early treatment given to children born with the disease may help them control it in later life, without the need for daily medication in the form of antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Dyslexia is characterized by trouble reading, despite normal or above average intelligence. Problems may include difficulties in spelling or pronouncing words, reading quickly, writing words and understanding what one reads. Galexia is an interactive game app for smartphones that notably improves the reading and writing ability of children with dyslexia.

There seems no end of applications for 3D printing – ranging from house building to medicine, it’s certainly shaping into a seriously flexible technology. Now, scientists have developed a 3D printed heart which they hope will eventually help some of the 26 million people worldwide suffering from a variety of cardiac conditions. There is a shortage of donor hearts and as such, there is a real demand for a functional artificial heart.

In ancient times and up until the late 1800s a popular theory was that infectious disease was caused by miasmas, foul vapors emitted by rotting material.

Many of us know that we work better under pressure – when no deadline is set we can coast along or become distracted by other tasks, but as soon as that deadline is looming we turn the anxiety over missing it to our advantage, using it as a powerful motivational tool to get the task completed on time. This is known as ‘anxiety motivation’ and can increase performance, helping us reach our goals or feel satisfied in our jobs.

Worldwide, the number of people suffering from depression is startling. Every year, it affects over 300 million people, with around 800,000 of those committing suicide. Whilst our environment and experiences certainly play a role, our genes also have a central part to play. As a result, a team from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, led by Dr.

A truth that helped make the science fiction of The Matrix compelling is that the conscious mind does not directly perceive the world, but instead depends on the reports of sensory neurons to know what is going on around it.

People who are especially open to different experiences tend to be curious, creative and enjoy exploring both the world and potential possibilities around them. Whilst this personality trait is not terribly well understood, psychologists studying these sorts of differences in our personalities have been focusing on finding out whether there is a relationship between personality traits such as openness, and our basic visual perception of the world around us.

Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. and colleagues recently reported a way to unmask a class of cancer cells responsible for about 4% of all cancers. New treatments may help as many as 60,000 patients a year in the US.

According to the National Diabetes Statistics Report 2014, more than 8 million people in the United States are undiagnosed sufferers of diabetes. Another one million people have glaucoma and are unaware of it.

With a billion dollar industry in its name and taking healthcare leaps ahead, medical implants, which are typically biological tissues coated with biomedical material, are known to improve the quality of lives of many. Additionally, it has been seen that 3D printing has enhanced the design and implantation of some of these devices.

Low-frequency noise (LFN) has important effects on our health, including vertigo, disturbed sleep, stress; hypertension and heart rhythm disorders. Sounds audible to the human ear are in the frequency range of 20 – 20,000 Hz. At either end of this spectrum, the sounds are barely audible.