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Food tastes stronger when you're hungry
People on diets should be forgiven for moaning that chocolate tastes better when you're hungry. Just missing breakfast makes you more sensitive to sweet and salty tastes, according to research to be published next week in BMC Neuroscience.
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Researchers receive $9.2 million for heart failure studies
With a $9.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and New York Medical College seek to understand what goes wrong with the heart's power system during heart failure. When the program is completed in five years, the researchers hope to take the knowledge gained from their laboratory studies and use it to begin human studies to test drugs that may help the heart beat stronger in patients suffering from heart failure.
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Women with diabetes at high risk of mental decline
Women with diabetes have worse mental (cognitive) function and suffer greater cognitive decline than women without diabetes, warn researchers. Cognitive decline is an intermediate stage between normal ageing and dementia.
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Corporate downsizing may pose severe health risks
Corporate downsizing (reduction in personnel) may increase sickness absence and the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in employees who keep their jobs, shows new research from Finland. more
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Cochlear implants in both ears help deaf localize sound, hear speech in noisy backgrounds
In the United States alone, about 13,000 adults and nearly 10,000 children have received a cochlear implant, an electronic device that stimulates the hearing nerve in people with severe to profound hearing loss who can derive little or no benefit from hearing aids. more
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New screening tool may help identify children with auditory processing disorder
One professor of otolaryngology states that “auditory processing disorder (APD) is to the ear as dyslexia is to the eye.” In other words, children with APD can hear, but a problem exists in the brain process of translating sound into understandable speech. No one knows the true number of children affected by this disorder.
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Limited form of throat surgery may be more effective at correcting sleep apnea disorder than invasive alternatives
A relatively limited form of throat surgery may be more effective at correcting a common sleep disorder than more invasive alternatives. Researchers from Taipei's Chang Gung Memorial Hospital achieved an 82% success rate when they operated on sleep apnea patients.
The research, which was only based on 55 patients, is published in the journal Archives of Otolaryngology. more
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