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Deterioration Occurs More Rapidly In Women With Alzheimer's Than Men

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Women suffering from Alzheimer's deteriorate more rapidly than men, even when both are apparently at the same stage of the disease, finds a study. Women sufferers were found to show greater loss of their mental faculties than men, which suggests that men's brains are better at coping with the ravages of the disease. Men with Alzheimer's consistently outperformed women sufferers in detailed tests of memory and even verbal ability - in which, among healthy ...

New Study Helps Pancreatic Cancer Patients Make Hard Choices

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Choices of patients with pancreatic cancer made easier with recent study. This raises a tough question: should patients who know they are going to die soon spend a substantial amount of what little time they have left undergoing aggressive and difficult treatment - treatment likely to bring them only a brief period of additional life? "It's about balancing quality and quantity of life, really," said Dr. Casey Boyd, a University of Texas Medical ...

Govt Denies Permission to 80 Ayurveda Colleges To Admit Students

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Eighty Ayurveda colleges were denied permission by the government to admit students for the year 2012-13 because they lacked infrastructural facilities. "Of 261 Ayurveda colleges in the country, till Aug 22, 161 colleges have been permitted to admit students. Eighty colleges were denied permission," S. Gandhiselvan, minister of state for health and family welfare, told the Lok Sabha in a written reply. "There are a total of 261 colleges teaching the ...

17 Chinese Hospitalized After Eating Beef

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Seventeen people fell ill after they consume beef sold by an unlicensed butcher in central China's Hunan province. The incident took place Thursday in Zhuzhou city's Tianyuan district, Xinhua reported. The hospitalized patients were still under observation but none of the cases were critical, the government said. "Neither the cattle nor the beef underwent quarantine checks. Nor was the seller authorized by market regulators to sell the beef," ...

Pimples and Acne - Beauty Tips

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Pimples are the bane of adolescence, due to hormonal disturbances? Foods, skincare, lifestyle all play an important role. There are some natural cures which have to be regularly followed for results.

620,000 Condoms Recalled in Brazil

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Olla, one of the largest condom manufacturers in Brazil, recalled 620,000 condoms from the market due to possible defect in quality control that could compromise their security. "The recall is a preventive measure since a possible lapse in quality has been identified that could make the product unfit for use," Olla, one of the biggest condom manufacturers in the country, said in a communique. The manufacturer said that the items with possible defects ...

Drinking Green Tea May Help You To Quit Smoking

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Drinking green tea may help smokers to kick the habit, according to Chinese researchers. A recent study titled 'A Revolutionary Approach for the Cessation of Smoking', published in Science China Life Sciences, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, cites how researchers used custom-developed cigarettes with components of green tea as filters in a bid to treat addiction to smoking. Phinse Philip, a lecturer in the Community Oncology Division of the Malabar ...

New Drugs Discovery may be Accelerated by 'Immortal Chemist'

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Northwestern University scientists were able to connect 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one giant computer network-a chemical Google on steroids. This "immortal chemist" will never retire and take away its knowledge but instead will continue to learn, grow and share. A decade in the making, the software optimizes syntheses of drug molecules and other important compounds, combines long (and expensive) syntheses of compounds into shorter and ...

Haryana Sits on National Human Rights Commission Reminder

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Despite a reminder from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Haryana government has failed to provide monetary relief to 288 students who took ill in May last after the midday meal in two government schools. "The National Human Rights Commission had recommended that Haryana pay Rs.25,000 to each of the students who fell sick after the midday meal. It also suggested action against errant health officials. However, the state is yet to send its action ...

Brain Wiring Gave Humans Edge Over Chimps: Study

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A new study says that it wasn't a bigger brain but a more sophisticated wiring that gave humans the edge to evolve beyond their closest cousins, the chimps. Human and chimp brains are anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and the human brain begin? A University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) study pinpoints the unique human patterns of gene activity in the brain ...

U-M Team Warns US for Risks Losing Out to Asia in Medical Research

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Medical research helps to save many lives, suffering and dollars - while also creating jobs and economic activity. The United States has long led the world, with hundreds of thousands of jobs and marketable discoveries generated by government research funding every year. Top students from around the world come here for training -- and often stay to help fuel medical innovation. Now, warns a team of researchers in the iNew England Journal of Medicine/i, ...

Scots Kids At Risk From Boozing Parents

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93,000 youngsters are adversely affected by their parent's alcohol misuse, says the new figures showed by the Scottish Government. The review given by Children 1supst/sup, one of Scotland's leading child welfare charities, adds that children are potentially at the risks of emotional psychological and verbal abuse due to their parent's "problematic use" use of alcohol. The charity is urging people to take more responsibility through 'Wish I Wasn't here ...

Signs of Schizophrenia are Averted With A Little Training

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Animals that literally have holes in their brains can behave as normal adults if they've had the benefit of a little cognitive training in adolescence. That's according to new work in the August 23 iNeuron/i, a Cell Press publication, featuring an animal model of schizophrenia, where rats with particular neonatal brain injuries develop schizophrenia-like symptoms. "The brain can be loaded with all sorts of problems," said Andre Fenton of New York ...

Lawson Researchers Sings the Baby Blues

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The impact of bipolar disorder during pregnancy has been a hot issue among research community. Now, a new study from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University is sorting out the debate and calling for more targeted, prospective research. Bipolar disorder is characterized by depression, hypomania, or mania. It is most common among women, and its episodes are often concentrated during the height of the reproductive years. Bipolar ...

Bangladesh Ancient City Threatened by Brick 'Recycling'

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Abdus Sattar built his house in Mahasthangarh village in norhtern Bangladesh from materials which once laid foundations of one of the world's oldest and greatest city. "I just shovelled into the ground, got these bricks and used them in my new house," Sattar, 38, said. "All three rooms of the house were made of the old bricks we found here within the village boundary." Mahasthangarh sits on what was once the ancient city of Pundranagar, built 2,500 years ...

Unhappy Employees Get Chance to Rant About Office on New Website

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NakedOffice, a new website provides opportunity to unhappy workers to anonymously review about their employers and providing behind-the-scene glimpse of the inner workings of Australian companies. "This company has one of the most frustrating, dysfunctional work environments I have ever encountered. Employee initiative is actively discouraged," the Age quoted one worker of Dick Smith Electronics as writing. "'Long-standing problems go unrecognised and ...

Cauliflower, Cabbage Can Control Cancer

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A recent research has further analyzed the method by which a crucial component present in certain vegetables fight deadly diseases. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower and cabbage are a group of vegetables that are rich in minerals, fiber, vitamins and disease-fighting phytochemicals. These veggies have, for long, been known for their cancer-fighting properties. Earlier studies have revealed that the key component in these vegetables, known ...

Income, Screen Time Fuel Kids Soda Intake

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Children from low-income neighbourhoods and who spend more time in front of a television are more likely to consume sugary soda and juice, finds study. Researchers from the University of Alberta's faculties of Physical Education and Recreation, School of Public Health and Medicine and Dentistry surveyed parents to assess the dietary habits of 1,800 preschoolers in the Edmonton region as part of a larger study on diet, physical activity and obesity. Researchers ...

Optimal Treatment for Most Common Infection After Organ Transplantation Revealed

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According to a recent study, waiting to treat the commonest viral infections in transplant recipients until they reach a certain threshold is better than prophylactically treating all recipients. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common infection in organ transplant recipients, who are susceptible to infections in general because they must take immunosuppressive medications long term. CMV infections can cause increased risks of other infections, ...

Batman Wants to Help Sick Kids

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Baltimore's Caped Crusader is on a mission to make sick children feel better. Clad in a heavy leather and neoprene Batsuit, the Baltimore man drove up on a recent day to the orthopedic wing of the east coast city's Sinai hospital in a slick Batmobile -- a perfect replica of the Hollywood one. Excitement bubbled over just inside the entrance, where kids in wheelchairs, parents and medical personnel were eagerly watching the Dark Knight arrive. In ...

Researchers Identify New Approach to Fight Viral Illnesses

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A novel approach to the development of universal treatments for viral illnesses such as common cold, meningitis, encephalitis has been devised by UC Irvine microbiologists. The UCI researchers, working with Dutch colleagues, found that certain RNA viruses hijack a key DNA repair activity of human cells to produce the genetic material necessary for them to multiply. For many years, scientists have known that viruses rely on functions provided by ...

NIH Researchers Find Possible Cause of Immune Deficiency Cases in Asia: Study

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A study led by National Institutes of Health investigators has identified an antibody that compromises the immune systems of HIV-negative people, making them susceptible to nontuberculous mycobacteria. In this study conducted at hospitals in Thailand and Taiwan, the researchers found that the majority of study participants with opportunistic infections made an antibody against interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), a cell-signaling molecule thought to play a major role in ...

Scientists Show How River Blindness Worm Thrives

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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that the worm which causes River Blindness survives by using a bacterium to provide energy, as well as help 'trick' the body's immune system in fighting infections. River Blindness affects 37 million people, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, causing intense itching of the skin, visual impairment and in severe cases, irreversible blindness. It is caused by a parasitic worm that is transmitted by blood-feeding blackflies, ...

Training for Australian General Practitioners to Spend Less Time With Peds Patients

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Training sessions for Australian doctors to spend significantly less time consulting with pediatric patients than with adults, according to a new study published in the journal Australian Family Physician. The study found that the proportion of longer consultations - more than 20 minutes -- for children was significantly less than that for adults and seniors among general practice registrars, says Gary Freed, M.D., M.P.H., the lead author on the study and Australian-American ...

Australian State Mulls Cigarette Sales Ban for a 'Tobacco-free Generation'

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An Australian state was considering a ban on cigarette sales to anyone who was born after the year 2000 in an initiative that would see a "tobacco-free generation". The small island of Tasmania has been asked to support the novel scheme under a motion unanimously approved by the state's upper house late on Tuesday. "This would mean that we would have a generation of people not exposed to tobacco products," Legislative Council member Ivan Dean told the ...