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Olympic Village: 70,000 Condoms Already Used

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A newspaper report has revealed that some 70,000 condoms have been used so far in the behind the scenes romps at the 2012 Olympic Games. Organizers packed a record number of free contraceptives into dispensers around venues to satisfy the Olympians' notorious sex drives but even that stockpile has started to run out. "70,000 have gone. Some dispensers were filled daily," the Daily Star quoted an Olympic Village worker as saying. "The Games ...

Lamb Curry That Promotes Good Sleep Cooked by Anglo Indian Chef

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Media reports indicate that an Anglo Indian chef has claimed to have created a lamb curry that will help people sleep. Gurpareet Bains, the chef and TV presenter who made his name in 2009 after creating a "cancer-fighting" curry, claims his lamb masala produces similar effects to sleeping pills, the Daily Express reported. The spicy dish contains an oil that is said to produce "intoxicating" effects. The dish appears in his latest cook ...

New Screening Method for Hard-to-Diagnose Prostate Cancer

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A new prostate cancer screening method that uses the combined power of a novel drug therapy and changes in PSA levels over time has been developed by researchers. This method identifies men with a high PSA who are more likely to have aggressive prostate cancer despite negative biopsies. The new study by researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, published in the iJournal of Urology/i, shows that PSA can be a much more effective ...

Survival Rates Do Not Improve by Spending More on Trauma Care

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The cost of treating trauma patients in the western United States is 33 percent higher than the bill in the Northeast, but survival rates are the same, a large-scale review of national patient records reveals. Overall, treatment costs were lower in the Northeast than anywhere in the United States. The findings by Johns Hopkins researchers, published in iThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/i, suggest that skyrocketing health care costs could ...

Widespread Anger Over 'Child-Friendly Real Cash' Gambling App on Facebook

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A new Facebook app that allow players to gamble with real money has sparked widespread anger among Christian groups in Britain, who say its cartoon branding breaches rules designed to protect children. Bingo Friendzy, which has been developed by the British online gambling company Gamesys, allows players to stake cash in 90 bingo and slot machine games. The app is marketed with cartoon graphics featuring characters that have been compared to those ...

Two Apples a Day Reduces Heart Disease Risk in Women

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Researchers at the University of Florida wanted to see if eating the equivalent of two apples each day could significantly reduce the risk for heart disease. 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away' is an old saying. And scientists did proved the adage true! These researchers discovered that apples have the ability to reduce the levels of cholesterol especially the 'bad' cholesterol, which can clog arteries and bring about life threatening ...

Worms to Unearth Cancer Drug Targets

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Researchers have used nematode worms to reverse certain important traits associated with cancer cells. This discovery is published in the August 2012 issue of the Genetics Society of America's journal iGENETICS/i. "Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide," said David S. Fay, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Molecular Biology Department at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. "We hope that by carrying out basic genetic research ...

Dengue Cases Confirmed in Bengal

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80 cases of dengue have been reported in West Bengal. "So far there are 80 patients who have been confirmed as suffering from dengue. We are keeping a close watch on the situation," director of health services B.R. Satpathy told IANS. According to Satpathy, 64 of these are from Kolkata, 14 from North 24 Parganas district and two from other parts of the state. For the last few days, several people from in and around Kolkata have been admitted to several ...

Sulphuric Acid Formation Linked to Climate Change

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The formation of sulphuric acid impacts our climate and health, reveals study. The study led by Roy "Lee" Mauldin III, research associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department, charts a previously unknown chemical pathway for the formation of sulphuric acid, which can trigger both increased acid rain and cloud formation as well as harmful respiratory effects on humans. "Sulphuric acid plays an essential role ...

Efficiency of Drug Therapy in Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Review

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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) along with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is termed as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) or obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS). There are repeated episodes of collapse of upper airway (UA) during sleep. The cardinal clinical symptoms of sleep apnea are snoring and significant obesity. Another common symptom is large neck circumference (42 cm in men). The occurrence of OSA is 3 percent ...

Fruit Fly Chromosomes 'Improve Understanding of Evolution and Fertility': Study

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Studies done by a geneticist on a common fruit fly sheds new light on relations between evolution and fertility. Drosophila melanogaster is an organism that has provided science with an enormous treasure-trove of genetic information. "My research focuses on the evolution of sex and in gamete function," Timothy Karr, from Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, said. "I focus primarily on the sperm side of the sexual equation. ...

Osteoarthritis Prevented by Stem Cells

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Promising stem cell treatment to prevent osteoarthritis has been discovered by Duke researchers. Injuring a joint greatly raises the odds of getting a form of osteoarthritis called post-traumatic arthritis, or PTA. There are no therapies yet that modify or slow the progression of arthritis after injury. Researchers at Duke University Health System have found a very promising therapeutic approach to PTA using a type of stem cell, called mesenchymal ...

2,000 People Sicken in Philippines Relief Centres

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About 2,000 people fall ill at flood relief centres in Philippines, say sources. They have complained of infection, fever, skin diseases and diarrhoea, Xinhua quoted Health Secretary Enrique Ona as saying. The centres are located in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog. Ona said steps were taken to supply safe drinking water, ensure clean toilet facilities and proper waste disposal at the centres. Metro Manila and nearby ...

Migraines are Not Associated With Cognitive Decline: Study

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According to a recent study, migraines not linked to cognitive decline. This study is published online by the iBritish Medical Journal/i (iBMJ/i) on August 8, 2012. "Previous studies on migraines and cognitive decline were small and unable to identify a link between the two. Our study was large enough to draw the conclusion that migraines, while painful, are not strongly linked to cognitive decline," explained Pamela Rist ScD, a research fellow in ...

Expert Says Obese Americans May Be Pushed Toward Unhealthy Decisions

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Margo Wootan, Director of Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says obese adult Americans are being pushed toward unhealthy choices without even realizing it. With more than one third of adult Americans considered to be obese, and 12.5 million children and adolescents likely to become obese adults, Wootan describes a combination of environmental factors at work in the growing obesity epidemic. As a result of these negative influences, maintaining ...

Aspirin Lowers Cancer Morality

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Aspirin reduces the overall cancer mortality, say researchers. The study has been August 10 in the iJournal of the National Cancer Institute/i. A recent pooled analysis of randomized trials looking at the effects of daily aspirin use as a preventive measure for vascular events found a significant decrease in overall cancer mortality, of 37%, during a 5-year follow-up analysis, and 15% during a ten-year follow-up. Despite this finding, the effects of long-term ...

Sensitive Immigrant Health Law Modified

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Spain modifies a controversial plan to deny healthcare to undocumented immigrants, say sources. Under new legislation, foreigners living in Spain without residency permits were to be denied treatment at public hospitals unless they were under 18, pregnant, or in case of an accident or other medical emergency. The law tightened the rules for immigrants to get the national health card that entitles them to treatment. Previously they could get the ...

Want Abs Like Jessica Ennis? New 'Magic Patch' Claims to Give You Similar Abs

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Maker of a new 'magic patch' claims that you may now have a stomach as well-defined as Jessica Ennis's without putting in hours of training. Ennis won gold for Britain in the heptathlon event at the 2012 London Olympic Games on Saturday, but it's her super-toned stomach that has everyone talking. The 26-year-old athlete's abs was voted the most desirable in Britain in a recent poll. The makers of the Comfort Zone body strategist + abdomen ...

Want Your Resume To Click? Check Out These Six Magical Tips

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Six magical tips to overhaul one's resume to bag the much-wanted job has been revealed by an American career expert. Ellen Gordon Reeves, author of 'Can I Wear My Nosering to the Interview', insists that its important to get rid of certain useless phrases to make sure that the resume is more frequently picked up. Reeves suggests that information like 'skills' should either be incorporated into the resume itself or backed-up with specifics. She also ...

Global Warming Most Likely Caused Recent Extreme Summers

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NASA scientists have found that Earth's land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century. A new statistical analysis revealed this information. James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York and colleagues examined the role of global warming in recent high profile heat waves, such as those in Texas and Oklahoma in the summer of 2011 and in Moscow in ...

UK Architect Envisions a 'See-Through' House Built Entirely from Glass

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A UK architect has come up with a unique design of a see through house made entirely from glass. Carlo Santambrogio, who has released artistic impressions of his project, plans to build the entire house with 7mm thick glass. In one of the pictures, the architect has shown his Concept Home in a secluded winter woodland The home is available at Santambrogio 's London Portland Street showroom, and the images are currently being used to showcase ...

All Possible Risks to Patients Not Disclosed By Doctors Before Treatment

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Most informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when. It doesn't involve stand-offs over whether a particular risk ought to have been disclosed. According to international experts writing in this week's iPLOS Medicine/i, doctors may "routinely underestimate the importance of a small set of risks that vex patients" Increasingly, doctors are expected to advise and empower patients to make rational choices by sharing information that ...

Every Couch Potato's 'Fit' Dream Might Soon be Realized by Revolutionary 'Pill'

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Soon, a pill that tricks the body into thinking it is exercising - without even moving a muscle could be created by researchers. Experts have found that manipulating hormone-producing cells in the brain can control blood sugar levels. For the study, the researchers studied the hormone glucagon, which raises blood sugar levels to fuel activity. They also discovered that it works in an opposite way to insulin, which reduces blood sugar, the ...

Young Smokers Encouraged to Heed Health Warnings By Plain Packaging of Cigarettes

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New research published online shows that plain packaging may help to draw the attention of some adolescent smokers to the health warnings on the package. The research was published online in the scientific journal iAddiction/i. Plain packaging requires cigarettes to be packaged in standard packages without attractive designs and imagery. If so, this may in turn deter young smokers from continuing to smoke. Researchers asked eighty-seven teenage secondary school ...

Genetic Analyses Reveal Novel Mutations as Causes of Startle Disease: Study

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Genetic mutations that play important roles in the condition commonly referred to as startle disease were identified by two studies published in the iJournal of Biological Chemistry/i. Startle disease is characterized by an exaggerated response to noise and touch, which can interfere with breathing, cause catastrophic falls and even result in death. The newly identified genetic mutations affect how the signaling molecule glycine, which is responsible for sending ...

Human Gene Therapy Journal Describes Method to Prevent Rejection of Disease-Fighting Proteins

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A major obstacle to the successful use of gene therapy to cure a range of life-threatening diseases is the body's natural reaction to reject replacement proteins. A novel method that uses the body's own immune cells to induce tolerance to a specific protein was shown to suppress the rejection response, as described in an article in iHuman Gene Therapy/i, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available free online at the iHuman ...

Rising Debate On Whether Young Men Should be Vaccinated Against Human Papilloma Virus

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Young women are recommended to be vaccinated against human papilloma virus (HPV) so as to protect them from HPV infection and cervical cancer. A topic of debate that is rising steadily in the medical community is whether you men should get HPV immunization. A timely review of the literature published in iViral Immunology/i, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, explores whether HPV vaccination of young men is warranted and cost effective. The ...

Food Hypersensitivity and Otolaryngologic Conditions in Young Children: Study

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A causative relationship to otolaryngic symptoms is shown by cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA) which difficult to diagnose in young children. A new study suggests an elimination diet may help manage such conditions in children under two and reduce the need for more serious upper airway tests and interventions. The study can be found in the August journal, iOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery/i. "Early recognition of CMPA in association with upper airway disease ...

Clinical Trial Results Encourage Effort in Reversing Type 1 Diabetes

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A phase I clinical trial has confirmed that use of a generic vaccine to raise levels of an immune system modulator can cause the death of autoimmune cells targeting the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas and temporarily restore insulin secretion in human patients with type 1 diabetes. Results of the study - led by Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Immunobiology Laboratory - are being published in the open-access journal iPLOS ...

Differences Exist in Stocks of Essential Antidotes at UK Hospitals

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There is "substantial variation" in the stocks of essential antidotes used to treat various types of life threatening poisoning incidents in UK acute hospitals, finds research published online in iEmergency Medicine Journal/i. National guidance produced jointly by the National Poisons Information Service and the College of Emergency Medicine in 2008 recommends the stocking of 29 antidotes at every hospital with an emergency care department or inpatient beds ...

Status of Russian Language Elevated in Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Wednesday signed a controversial bill elevating the status of Russian despite warnings the move would be highly polarising in the traditionally bilingual country. "Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed the law on 'the foundations of the state language policy'," his office said in a statement. The law boosts the status of Russian but stops short of making it a second state language and follows clashes triggered ...

Billions of Neurons Arranged in Complex Circuits in the Brain

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The brain has billions of neurons, arranged in complex circuits that allow us to perceive the world, control our movements and make decisions. Deciphering those circuits is critical to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurological disorders. MIT neuroscientists have now taken a major step toward that goal. In a new paper appearing in the Aug. 9 issue of iNature/i, they report that two major classes of brain cells repress neural activity ...

New Substances a Lot More Powerful in Destroying Chemical Warfare Agents

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In an advance that could be used in masks to protect against nerve gas, scientists are reporting development of proteins that are up to 15,000 times more effective than their natural counterpart in destroying chemical warfare agents. Their report appears in ACS' journal iBiochemistry/i. Frank Raushel, David Barondeau and colleagues explain that a soil bacterium makes a protein called phosphotriesterase (PTE), which is an enzyme that detoxifies some pesticides ...

Early Human Ancestors Did Consume a Varied Diet

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An international team of researchers, including Professor Francis Thackeray, Director of the Institute for Human Evolution at Wits University, will be publishing their latest research on what our early ancestors ate. The paper titled Evidence for diet but not landscape use in South African early hominins was authored by Vincent Balter from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France; Jose' Braga from the Universite de Toulouse Paul Sabatier in Toulouse in France; ...

Athletes Train and Relax in Alternative Village

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On the other side of London from the frenzy and commotion of the Olympic Park, a hundred competitors are training and relaxing in a more chilled-out, alternative Athletes' Village. Largely from China, Japan and South Africa, they have snubbed the free accommodation on the park in Stratford, east London, opting instead to stay in a leafy university campus more than an hour away, where the vibe is calmer. St Mary's University College in Twickenham, west ...

Cell Phone Radiation Standards Needs Review

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The US Congress Government Accountabilaity Office (GAO), called on the federal regulators on Tuesday to revise rules that measure the amount of radiation from mobile phones. The year-long review by the office, done at the urging of lawmakers, did not suggest that cellphone use causes cancer. But it was critical of the way the Federal Communications Commission had managed its standards, noting that the rules, which had not changed since 1996, lagged ...

Enhancing Federal Match Funds for States Improves Enrollment of Kids in Health-care Programs

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Significantly more children get health insurance coverage after increases in federal matching funds to states for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to new research from the University of Michigan. The research, published Monday in the journal iHealth Affairs,/i showed that a 10-percentage-point increase in the federal match for Medicaid and CHIP, similar to the increase that occurred with the American Reinvestment and Recovery ...

Two Perfect Teeth Found in Eye Tumor in Indian Woman

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23-year-old Nagabhushanam Siva had a bulging tumor near her left eye. Surgeons at a Chennai hospital, who operated on it were shocked to find two fully formed teeth within the tumor called as a teratoma. "I was born with an abnormal left eye and it continued to swell over the years. My family was too scared to send me to a doctor. And during the last few years it has grown much bigger. I had blurred vision so eventually I consulted a doctor for help," Nagabhushanam ...

Role of Working Memory Capacity in Both Mathematical and Creative Problem Solving

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Our working memory capacity is decidedly finite - it reflects our ability to focus and control attention and strongly influences our ability to solve problems. In a new study, Jennifer Wiley and Andrew Jarosz of the University of Illinois at Chicago have explored the role of working memory capacity in both mathematical and creative problem solving. Converging evidence from many psychological science studies suggests that high working memory capacity ...

Diabetes Risk Attributed to Statins Exaggerated?

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A new study published in the journal The Lancet reveals that the risk of diabetes posed by cholesterol lowering drugs, or statins, has been exaggerated and the cardiovascular benefits of such drugs outweigh any such risks. The study was conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital who found that while statins did increase the risk of diabetes in users, it was only among those who were already deemed to be at a high risk of developing the condition. ...

Older People Able to Banish Negative Emotions More Quickly Than Younger Ones

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Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have found that older people are happier and are able to banish negative emotions quicker than their younger peers. The finding is contrary to popular belief that older people morose due to worsening of their cognitive functioning and physical health. The researchers said that one of the reasons for older people being happier was because they avoided situations or things that were likely to upset them. ...

Risk of Allergic Disease High If Parent of Same Sex Suffers from It

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A new study conducted by a team of British researchers has found that the risk of developing allergic diseases, such as asthma, is high in an individual if a parent of the same sex has the allergy. More than 1,450 patients were observed from birth for over a period of 23 years by researchers at Southampton General Hospital who found that the risk of asthma in boys rose by two times if the fathers also suffered from the same condition while the risk of asthma in girls ...

Red Meat Consumption Linked to Bowel Cancer

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Eating red meat could be harmful to your health after a new study found that the presence of high levels of iron in red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. The study was conducted by researchers at Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow who found a link between high iron intake and a gene called APC which increased the risk of bowel cancer by two or three times. Stating that high iron intake alone did not increase the risk of bowel cancer, ...