Putting a price on procrastination - CNN.com
David Laibson knows that when he procrastinates, mere deadlines are not always enough to get him going. So, when this Harvard economics professor collaborates on a major project, he’ll sometimes promise to deliver a finished product by a certain date — or else pay his co-authors $500.
How much money would you be willing to forfeit [...]
Scientists: True love can last a lifetime - CNN.com
Love’s first blush fading? Lost that loving feeling? Love is not all around?
Scientists have used brain scans to study how long love lasts between couples.
Scientists have used brain scans to study how long love lasts between couples.
Sick of cliches?
Take heart, scientists have discovered that people can have a love that lasts a lifetime.
Using brain scans, [...]
Water Works: Hyatt’s New Disinfectant/Cleaner Comes from the Tap - BusinessWeek
Used to be that the maids and janitors at the Hyatt Regency Chicago cleaned the giant hotel with industrial-strength chemicals like maids and janitors do almost everywhere. Now they scrub it down with water, and the place is no more germy or grimy than it was before. The new cleansers are also cheaper. And get [...]
Life Sciences
In research that likely has implications for creating intelligent hearing aids, researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. It is the only known example of an [...]
Regrowing a fingertip cut off in an accident
Regrowing a fingertip cut off in an accident sounds like something from a futuristic movie. But with innovative technology developed by the U.S. Army, such regrowth is possible today.
This remotely controlled robot, called BEAR, could help remove injured soldiers from battlefields.
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This research project and a hundred [...]
Cardiac catheterization
Cardiac catheterization is a test to check the heart and coronary arteries. It is used to check blood flow in the coronary arteries, blood flow and blood pressure in the chambers of the heart, find out how well the heart valves work, and check for problems in how the [...]
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is done to go around a portion of an artery that has been narrowed or blocked by plaque buildup (atherosclerosis).
The blocked portion of the artery is bypassed using a blood vessel taken from elsewhere in the body (usually the chest or leg). Blood [...]
angioplasty procedure
Angioplasty is a procedure done to open a partially blocked blood vessel so that blood can flow through it more easily. It is most often done on arteries that deliver blood to the heart (coronary arteries) when they are narrowed by plaque buildup (atherosclerosis) or blood clots.
During the angioplasty [...]
cholesterol levels
Your total cholesterol level is important but the levels of your lipoproteins, including LDL, HDL, and triglycerides, help your doctor make decisions about whether you need treatment for high cholesterol. Your doctor will also take into account your overall health and your risk [...]
Dimentia can be cause of death
New research suggests that medical officials often fail to record severe dementia as a cause of death in patients with the condition.
This finding not only points to a lack of knowledge about how dementia — a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease — can be a deadly illness, it suggests that deaths due to Alzheimer’s and dementia [...]
Brain injury - foriegn accent
A brain injury can be devastating: It can leave you blind, deaf, and even paralyzed. In the grand scheme of things, ending up with a different voice with an unfamiliar accent as a result of brain injury may seem minor. But Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) can be distressing too, because our voice, like our face, [...]
Cure for Obesity
The simplest and the most basic principle is to reduce food intake, especially the fat content, and increasing physical activity. Increasing physical activity alone is not an easy way to lose weight unless one combines it with a reduction of fat intake. Physical activity includes walking, jogging, swimming, cycling, aerobics or any other household activity such [...]
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Facts about Tobacco
Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced. 50% of all deaths from lung disease are linked to tobacco.
There are more than one billion smokers in the world.
Globally, use of tobacco products is increasing, although it is decreasing in high-income countries.
Almost half of the world’s children breathe air [...]
Side effects of Viagra
Thirty months after its launch in the United States, Sildenafil (sold under brand name Viagra in America) has finally received the government’s green signal to enter the Indian market (sold various brand names e.g. Penegra, Edegra, etc.). Unfortunately the media created unnecessary hype, and hope, by selectively focussing on the advantages of this drug in [...]