Medical terms (category)

Until relatively recently, the understanding of what caused hearing loss with aging was not not good. However, in the last decade researchers have gained some some important understanding of what causes our hearing to go as we turn gray. While there is still much to learn, some of the knowledge can be be put to use right away to try to make our golden years just a little less lonely.

Little known yeast infection cure reveals permanent yeast infection treatment

Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it.

While many people have come to know that getting a higher education offers more opportunities in life, medical research over the last several decades has also determined that better education leads to better health from reduced risk of disease. In this list are 10 medical conditions for which the risk is reduced for those who have some level of higher education.

Loss of mobility can be damaging not only to the overall quality of life but also to a your mental well-being.

Despite colon cancer being the second or third largest cancer killer in "Westernized": nations, it is also one of the easiest to prevent through lifestyle choices and proactive screening programs. As a cancer that develops slowly, there are numerous opportunities for the condition to be discovered while in the phase where it is 90% treatable. Still, these life saving screenings take place far too infrequently.

An e-memory is a type of interactive external personal memory. In a decade, it will be used to capture, store and find all of one’s past experiences, or those of others who have been immortalized. The e-memory machine is part of a network that preserves data, a familiar example of which might be sports broadcasts. This is built by digitizing previous stuff, logging life/health/notes/stories, and using it privately or possibly in business; a list of ten kinds of startups is provided. Biosensors and environmental links round out applications for health, education, work and security, e.g. involving clusters of relationships over time, or perfect historical knowledge. Science now includes Gray’s paradigm of source materials in addition to observation, theory and simulation, where the model shapes understanding, This book is a type of presentation; videos are another. Other examples are large wallsavers or MyCyberTwin personas...

Though for many years, the prevailing wisdom of the medical profession was that those with rheumatoid arthritis should minimize physical activity, in more recent years, the benefits of exercise to those with the condition have been recognized. In fact, for those with RA, exercise is very important to the maintenance of health and to slowing the progression of the disease.