This Week's Top 10 Viewed Stories

·         1. Treating Tremors With An Ultrasound
Millions of Americans suffer from tremors. Patients with constant shaking can have trouble with some of life’s everyday activities. Things like eating and drinking or holding a pen to write, are almost impossible. Now, learn about a breakthrough procedure that could help some patients get a steady hand.

·         2. Expensive Egos & Narcissism
Narcissism is a personality trait that is defined by an inflated sense of grandiosity, self-importance, and overestimations of uniqueness. A University of Michigan psychologist, Sara Konrath, was quoted as saying in a recent study published in PLoS One, "Narcissistic men may be paying a high price in terms of their physical health, in addition to the psychological cost to their relationships." The study shows that the level of narcissism is rising in the United States and tends to be more prevalent in men.

·         3. Halting Esophageal Cancer in its Tracks with Sugar
Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett's dysplasia, making it much easier to detect and remove these cells before they develop into esophageal cancer.

·         4. Understanding Chronic Pain
Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Exactly how this pain persists is still unknown, and treatment has been largely ineffective. But a new research is helping doctors understand the pain and fix it!

·         5. Autistic Children Have Different Guts (2nd week)
An interesting observation has been made that many autistic children have a different kind of bacteria in their intestinal tract than non-autistic children do.

·         6. New Colonoscopy Device (2nd week)
In the next twelve months, 150, 000 people will be told they have colorectal cancer and 50,000 will die from it. The worst part is most of these deaths could have been prevented if the cancer would have been detected sooner. Now, a new camera is giving doctors a better view to detect cancer before it becomes a killer.

·         7. New Heart Attack Warning System
It’s like having a crystal ball implanted in your chest. Researchers have developed a new early warning system that could save you from one of the leading killers of men and women.

·         8. Exercise Games Improve Adult Brains
Virtual reality exercise games could be linked to higher cognitive benefits for adults who are older. A new study finds virtual reality exercise otherwise known as "exergames" combines computer enhanced environments and features of interactive videogames to provide more cognitive benefits than traditional exercise for adults who are between 59 and 99 years old.

·         9. Stem Cell Therapy Reverses Diabetes (2nd week)
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires daily injections of insulin to regulate the patient's blood glucose levels.

·         10. TGIF! Turning Grease Into Fuel (2nd week)
The combination of the winter months and a bad economy makes it tough for many families to heat their homes, but one young teen has created a program that uses cooking oil to heat homes.

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