* Establish a rhythm; go to bed at about the same time and get up at the same time every morning (including your day off). If you regulate your sleep schedule and avoid taking naps during the day, you should eventually find yourself getting sleepy around your usual bedtime and waking up only when you want to in the morning. * Limit your time spent in bed to time spent sleeping (and maybe having sex :-)). If you use your bed to do wakeful things like reading, watching TV, or getting...

* Drinks with electrolytes are your best bet for getting rid of a hangover. Gatorade is the perfect anti hangover drink and it helps to replenish the sodium, potassium, and chloride (electrolytes) levels in your body. Water just isn't enough. But make sure the Gatorade is at room temperature, not cold. Cold liquids make it harder for your body to absorb things. * Tums and Alkaseltzer are good for hangover relief. The remaining electrolytes you're missing because of dehydration are...

A handicap is used in golf to measure how golfers can play at an even field. This considers differing abilities and skills level and providing these golfers the opportunity to play against each other ensuring that variables are kept fair. Follow the steps below, identify your golf handicap and work on improving your performance. 1. Take note of your scores. Track this by keeping record of your stats. You need to get the scores of the previous five rounds that you...

A new method of using light and sound to detect circulating tumor cells could provide an early warning and allow the disease to be treated at an earlier stage. The photoacoustic melanoma detection device shines laser light into blood cell samples that possibly include cancer cells. The melanin inside the cancer cells absorb the light, which causes a high frequency acoustic response detected by sensors in the photoacoustic flow meter. This allows the cancer cells to be immediately...

A tiny new wireless sensor placed on a tooth will be able to monitor bacteria and transmit the data to an external sensor. The prototype sensor will be created by printing graphene onto water soluble silk, which will allow it to be transferred to the surfaces of biological materials. A resonator coil on the sensor will function as an antenna to allow wireless communication and provide power. The ability to detect bacterial contamination quickly will help to reduce the...

Researchers have discovered a new protein that regulates the development of brown fat, which could lead to new methods of controlling obesity. The protein, called BMP8B, controls brown fat by regulating its heat producing activity, which could make it ideal for creating new weight control therapies. In research, brown fat cells treated with BMP8B responded strongly to nervous system activation, and mice treated with BMP8B lost more weight than non-treated mice. This is due to the...

The bone press is designed to simplify the process of performing spinal fusions. The bone press quickly separates bone from liquid during surgery, creating a semi-dry and graft-ready material for use during fusion procedures. The two-step method includes the collection of bone tissue and blood during the procedure followed by manually deploying the press to suction away the fluid, creating a 10 cubic centimeter bone patty ready for grafting. The bone press can also be used...

Sunken chest, or pectus excavatum, affects about one in 500 people, usually boys. Traditional methods for treating sunken chest work well but tend to cause tremendous pain, and some children have become addicted to pain killers as result. A new technique using magnets to treat sunken chest syndrome could eliminate the need for painful and invasive surgery. The treatment involves inserting a magnet just under the skin at the base of the concave area. This magnet works in...

The idea is to develop software that will allow trauma surgeons to virtually plan how to best approach bone fracture surgeries and osteotomies used to treat bone deformities. The software will let surgeons analyze bone fragments and virtually reassemble them in a variety of ways. Suitable implants for the specific region will be suggested automatically, and the implant information will be overlaid directly on the image.

A new diagnostic method could allow doctors to diagnose neural diseases by examining a patient's eyes. The method will work by identifying the amyloid proteins, which gather in the eye as well as the brain and serve as markers for several different, though related, degenerative brain diseases. To identify the different amyloids, thereby diagnosing the specific disorder, the fluorescent probes will be created. They will change color depending upon which amyloid they will come in...