MEDICINE & HEALTH

A Decoder to Turn Brain Activity Into Speech

Technology could in effect give voice back to people with conditions such as Parkinson’s For people who have lost their voice through paralysis and conditions such as throat cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease, there may just be hope to regain what they've lost.

Number of Women Who Are Not Physically Active is Growing at an Alarming Rate

An estimate of 9 million women in the United States alone are not active, research shows A national survey taken from more than 19 million women in the United States with cardiovascular disease shows that half of them do not do enough physical activity and the number of women who are not active have grown over the last 10 years.

EndoPil: The Holy Grail in Weight-Control?

Researchers in Singapore have developed EndoPil, a self-inflating weight-control pill that overcomes the limitations associated with endoscopically administered intragastric balloons.

Mediterranean Diet Could Possibly Curb Obesity

Monkeys show a new way of properly dieting. In a study on crab-eating macaques, a team of researchers at Wake Forest University found that the primates on a humanlike Mediterranean diet chose not to eat all the food available to them and maintained a normal weight; by comparison, the animals on a Western diet ate far more than they needed and gained weight; the study also provided the first experimental evidence that a Mediterranean diet protects against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, compared with a Western diet.

Smelling Begins On the Tongue, Not the Brain, Study Says

The human taste cells contain many vital molecules known to be present in olfactory receptors The functional olfactory receptors, the sensors that detect odors in the nose, are also present in human taste cells found on the tongue, according to a report by scientists from the Monell Center.

Keep Your Cats Indoors For Its Safety and Yours

Pet cats that are allowed outdoors can be infected with parasites and pathogens Pet cats that are allowed to go out of the house are likely to become infected with parasites or pathogens about three times more than those that are confined inside the house as reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

How Do We Estimate Time?

People are unconsciously aware of time they spend in doing certain activities. This is how this happens.
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