Parkinson

London, February 15: Scientists from Keele University in Staffordshire have found a way of using intense light to detect the early stages of Parkinson's disease in the brains of sufferers.

Dr Joanna Collingwood disclosed that the researchers have been using a synchrotron or Diamond Light Source (DLS) at Harwell, Oxford shire, to observe the iron levels in an individual brain cells, which are an indicator of the disease.

London, February 6 : In an attempt to educate people against dementia the British government is urging managers and employers to watch out for the early signs of dementia among their

The new Dementia Strategy for England, which sets out a range of proposals on how to educate people about degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, was published by the government on Feb. 3. The report also claims that dementia which affects some 700,000 people in the United Kingdom is set to double to 1.4 million over the next thirty years.

Auckland, New Zealand, January 20: The French say, 'Les yeux sont le miroir de l'dme (The eyes are the mirror of the soul). But, now researchers has devised a new system, known as op

The OCT can scan the retina in a non-invasive manner by reflecting light in the same manner just like an ultrasound, but here it bounces the light off the tissue instead of sound waves. One beam of light is fired at the retina and another at a reference mirror simultaneously, and then the distances and brightnesses of the two reflections are analyzed.