Saturday, December 5, 2015

Health Research: New insights on how to improve face transplants ♦ Patient mood can impact medical procedure results ♦ Quick thinkers are charismatic

Engineers develop potential treatment for whooping cough Engineers are making progress on a potential Whooping Cough treatment for vulnerable infants. In preclinical testing conducted on animals, the team demonstrated that their antibodies work as a prophylaxis to provide short-term immunity and as a treatment to accelerate recovery.
Quick thinkers are charismatic Charisma may rely on quick thinking, according to new research. The research shows that people who were able to respond more quickly to general knowledge questions and visual tasks were perceived as more charismatic by their friends, independently of IQ and other personality traits
New insights on how to improve face transplants Over 30 face transplants have been performed to date, but little is known about the long-term outcomes of recipients. A new study reveals that faces, when transplanted, change their appearance based on the bone structure of the recipient, and they seem to age at an accelerated rate
Patient mood can impact medical procedure results Feeling high levels of distress, fear and hostility prior to undergoing an angioplasty or other interventional radiology procedure may lead to a poor outcome.♦

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