Though researchers have been proposing for a very long time that comets contain vast amounts of water, this was never conclusively proven until only recently. A team of experts managed to get definite proof that the liquid can be found within these space wanderers. Importantly, the debate that raged on in the interna... |
6 April 2011
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In movies, before starting surgery, doctors' typical line is to ask anesthesiologists to 'put the patient to sleep', but actually, general anesthesia has nothing to do with sleep, being much closer to a state of coma.Luckily, a new review article appearing in the December 30 issue of New England Journa... |
30 December 2010
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Facilitated communication is the name given to a procedure in which a comatose patient, or someone who is otherwise significantly impaired, guides their hand over a touchscreen keyboard to type a message, while their hand is being held by someone else. This method came under increased criticism lately, when the case ... |
26 November 2009
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The leader of the Catholic Church announced in a recent press release that he had asked a conference of Catholic priests and doctors to come to a consensus regarding the issue of death, one that would also incorporate the latest scientific discoveries and medical techniques. The main topic was deep coma, when patient... |
8 November 2008
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A new medical experiment aimed at increasing the awareness level comatose patients are in showed promising results after 26-year-old Josh Villa, who suffered terrible brain damage in a car accident in 2005, started exhibiting consciousness symptoms after a number of therapy sessions, carried out with a device called ... |
16 October 2008
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Belgian doctors discovered that some comatose patients develop the same "pain matrix" in the brain as healthy individuals do when subjected to pain stimuli. This gives further justification to medics administering painkillers to patients previously believed to have had no functioning pain receptors. Caregivers have b... |
8 October 2008
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Five months after reaching perihelion, Holmes comet produces its second ever observed and recorded outburst in history. The comet has enhanced its brightness about one million times in only a few weeks. Discovered in 1893 by British astronomer Edwin Holmes during a similar outburst, the comet is about 3.3 kilometers ... |
6 November 2007
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