Want to ace that next test? Try taking a mid-afternoon siesta.
While the findings are preliminary, new research raises the prospect that sleep, specifically a lengthy afternoon nap, prepares the brain to remember things. Think of it as similar to rebooting a computer to get it to work more smoothly.
“Sleep is not just for the body. [...]
Since 2007, Southwest Medical Corporation has partnered with a local Tulsa ministry to bring relief to a Haitian Island off the coast of Port Au Prince, called La Gonave. While the church has built a school, hospital and feeding stations, and also drilled wells for fresh water, it has been our privilege to supply [...]
Last year, Southwest Medical donated a large shipment of medical equipment to a Haitian island hospital off the coast of Port-au-Prince. A team of doctors from the United States travels to the hospital to perform operations and procedures to an island that otherwise receives no medical care. A medical team actually flew down last week, [...]
A set of identical twins were born in different decades last week after being born on opposite sides of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Baby Marcello was delivered by Caesarian minutes before midnight in 2009. His brother Stephano was born moments later — in 2010.
Juan Velasco, the twins’ father, said it would be fun for [...]
The world’s largest 20-meter long ambulance car, capable of carrying up to 100 patients, has started to operate in Dubai.
The car worth more than $1.6 million was ordered by the emirate’s health authorities in Germany.
The ambulance is planned to be used in emergency cases, when a large number of people would need to be provided [...]
This was the top story in the morning news, published by the London Times.
The complete genetic codes of two human cancers have been mapped for the first time. The move could herald a medical revolution in which every tumor can be targeted with personalized therapy.
The exhaustive genetic maps, which catalogue every DNA mutation found in [...]
Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation’s capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify.
“A whole new doorway of hope opened,” says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer who traveled halfway across [...]
President Barack Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find.
The White House on Wednesday painted the spending — part of the $787 billion stimulus bill the president championed during his first days in office — as a way to add jobs to a [...]
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MELBOURNE, Australia — A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue.
It is too early to know whether the two-year-old girls, [...]