Each year, thousands of people have their eyesight saved by cornea transplants. To make sure that these transplanted corneas are healthy, eye banks usually require that donated corneas come from people in good health and no older than 65. But now a new study suggests that corneas from people as old as 75 can transplant as well as younger ones.
Older Corneas Can Make Good Transplants
Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Exhaust Smoke on Health
Exhaust Smoke Increase Pressure to Human Brain
Toxicology research in University Zuyd, Dutch has discovered that short exposure to vehicle exhaust smoke is enough to increase the pressure to the human brain.
The research output has shown that fine particles (nanoparticles) in exhaust smoke which were being inhaled will cause changes to the brain activity.
The study was carried out by monitoring the brain activity of two groups of volunteers exposed to either clean air or exhaust smoke for an hour using electroencephalograph (EEG) equipment.
SMART – The New Asthma Management System
Cough. Wheezing. Chest feels tight. Breathing difficulty. These are some of the symptoms often explained by Mrs. Jeanne (not her real name) and many other asthma sufferers – sometimes everyday results of poor asthma control.
For Mrs. Jeanne and millions others who already have asthma, these symptoms has become usual and tend to rise only uncontrolled properly.
Asthma is a state where there is chronic inflammation to respiratory tract. When exposed to some allergy causes, respiratory tract swells and narrows, causing asthma phenomenon.
Gene Causes 'Itchy' Human?
Nature in several earlier edition expose, gene has become the cause of somebody scratching their body which feel itchy especially when other people make him/her angry.
The test mice which have been used in that experiment, which have no involved gene, found to not scratch their body in the same situation.
“It is an interesting discovery because itchiness is a common phenomenon. And clinically, it is also a big problem. But, nobody knows, which gene did involved for that sensation.
Can Become Fat Because of Friends, Couple; Study Shows
Blame your friends if you are fat. That is the conclusion that been made by a team of researchers in The New England Journal of Medicine that obesity – like as influenza is communicable from a person to another – is a phenomenon that can spread quickly like a virus.
Obesity could lead to
many health problems.
Individual social network such as buddies at work or kindred at the home can influence excess body weight risk.
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