News articles tagged with 'physiology'
Nanoparticles increase survival after blood loss
— 23 Feb 2011 17:10 | HealthIn an advance that could improve battlefield and trauma care, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have used tiny particles called nanoparticles to…
Scientists climb Mt. Everest to explain how hearts adapt and recover from low oxygen
— 1 Feb 2011 21:30 | HealthFrom the highest mountaintop comes a new research report in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) that gets to the bottom of what happens to the hearts of people when exposed to…
Radiologists play key role in teaching physiology to medical students
— 1 Feb 2011 19:54 | HealthIn order for medical students to ultimately provide quality patient care medical schools should turn to radiologists to help them teach physiology, one of the core disciplines of medicine,…
The importance of making a good first impression in the classroom
— 10 Dec 2010 20:09 | HealthA study of how medical students evaluate their professors is illustrating the critical importance of making a good first impression…
Positive psychological changes from meditation training linked to cellular health
— 4 Nov 2010 13:54 | HealthPositive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with greater telomerase activity, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis,…
Heat acclimation benefits athletic performance
— 26 Oct 2010 12:56 | HealthTurning up the heat might be the best thing for athletes competing in cool weather, according to a new study by human physiology researchers at the University of Oregon…
A sing-song way to a cure for speech disorder
— 5 Oct 2010 03:46 | HealthHindustani singing, a North Indian traditional style of singing, and classical singing, such as the music of Puccini, Mozart and Wagner, vary greatly in technique and sound. Now, speech-language…
Macrophages: The 'defence' cells that help throughout the body
— 26 Aug 2010 19:10 | HealthThe term 'macrophage' conjures images of a hungry white blood cell gobbling invading bacteria. However, macrophages do much more than that: Not only do they act as antimicrobial warriors,…
Genetics underlie formation of body's back-up bypass vessels
— 20 Aug 2010 10:54 | HealthResearchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have uncovered the genetic architecture controlling the growth of the collateral circulation - the…
Teachers can close gender gap in classroom leadership during medical school
— 29 Jul 2010 11:40 | HealthHalf of U.S. first-year medical students are female, yet a new UCLA study shows that they volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male counterparts.…