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Best Foods That Aid Digestion - Slideshow

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Herbs and spices in our kitchen are the best age old digestive aids and have stomach-soothing properties. They have long been recognized for their digestive stimulant action.

Video Game to Study Fish Behavior

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A new, simple video game has been developed by Princeton University researchers to study the behavior of fish. The simple game, which is based on the type of prey favoured by the predatory bluegill sunfish, featured red dots that moved and swarmed in different ways against a translucent screen. When they projected the game into a fish tank, they found that the fish were less likely to try to attack the dots when they moved in a group formation. ...

Heal those Heels: Naturally

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Lounging on the beach or when you are wearing sandals are times you want those ungainly and painful cracks and fissures on the heels of your feet to vanish. They need care and pampering.

Exercisers Likelier to Survive Heart Attack: Study

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People who suffer a cardiac arrest during exercise are three times more likely to survive than couch potatoes, reveals study. It found almost half of victims who were exercising at the time they had a cardiac arrest survived, compared with 15 per cent of those who were not. They said that it may be because exercising victims were generally fitter than the rest - but also indicated that survival rates could be aided by the fact that those who collapsed ...

Alzheimer's Disease Affects Women More Rapidly Than Men: Study

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According to a recent study, Alzheimer's disease hits women more severely than men. Researchers from the University of Hertfordshire discovered that men with Alzheimer's consistently performed better than their women counterparts, across the five cognitive areas they examined. Most remarkably, the verbal skills of women with Alzheimer's are worse when compared to men with the disease, the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology reports. ...

Study Says Eating Disorders 'May be Genetic'

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Researchers have identified a genetic link for eating disorders. Professor Howard Steiger from McGill University, Montreal revealed the discovery in epigenetics last week, which explains how adverse development can cause mental health problems. "'The science of epigenetics is relatively new. Epigenetics helps explain how adverse development, stress, malnutrition and other influences can affect development of mental-health problems - including eating ...

Study Says Wind Plays Key Role in Polluting Cities

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Wind patterns known as fluid flows, circulating exhaust particles, diesel fumes, chemical residues, ozone and dust play key role in polluting cities, states study. The latest findings suggest that these polluting particles, rather than scattering randomly, prefer to accumulate in specific regions of the urban environment and even form coherent structures. The results can be used to generate maps of well and poorly mixed regions and highlight ...

Genetic Disease Related to Vitamin B12 Deficiency Discovered

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Researchers have discovered a novel genetic disease associated with vitamin B12 deficiency. Researchers have identified a gene that is vital to the transport of vitamin into the cells of the body. This new discovery is expected to help doctors better diagnose this rare genetic disorder and open the door to new treatments. Vitamin B12 is essential to human health but some people have inherited conditions that leave them unable to process vitamin ...

Twitter Energises US Election Campaign

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Twitter and other social media are being used by candidates to energize supporters, raise funds and shift the focus of the public debate for what some call the nation's first "social election" in November. Twitter has the potential "to sway the national narrative," said Zach Green, head of the media consultancy 140Elect, which advises candidates on how to use Twitter. Because Twitter democratizes the delivery of information, tweets can help a candidate ...

Beer-brewing Dutch Try Making Wine

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For centuries beer-brewing Netherlands has been snubbed as a good place to plant vineyards and make decent wines -- until now. Thanks to new cross-breed grape varieties, mainly from Germany, the Dutch wine industry is blooming on the back of these new and hardier cultivars, as they are known, enabling it to increase vineyard capacity more than six-fold in the last eight years. "These (new) varieties resist mildew diseases better, their grapes ripen ...

'Postman' Reconnects Split Families in Inter-korea

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In a small and cramped office of the South Korean capital, an 80-year-old man displays letters postmarked "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" in pale red ink. The imprints with North Korea's official name testify to Kim Kyung-Jae's success in reconnecting some of the tens of thousands of family members separated for decades by the world's last Cold War frontier. There are no civilian mail or phone connections across the closely guarded inter-Korean ...

209 Dengue Cases in Bengal

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209 cases of dengue were reported so far in West Bengal, Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharjee said here Friday. "Today (Friday) we had held review meeting about the status of dengue in the state. Right now there are 209 confirmed cases of dengue in the state," Bhattacharjee told IANS. When the endemic first came to the fore in the second week of August, the number of confirmed cases was 80. On Thursday, a senior health ...

How Body Temperature Can Reset the Biological Clock?

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Studies find out that numerous daily variations in the body can be driven by local oscillators present within our cells and can regulate the body temperature. These circadian (or daily) variations can be driven by local oscillators present within our cells or by systemic signals controlled by the master pacemaker, located in the brain. Ueli Schibler, professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, unveils a molecular mechanism by which body temperature ...

Junk Food Laws Help Combat Childhood Obesity

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Laws in the US to strictly curb sale of junk food and sweetened drinks in schools may help to control childhood obesity, according to a recent study. The results were announced after the first large national look at the effectiveness of state laws regarding the sale of junk food and drinks over a period of time. Obesity experts praised the political efforts to enforce this law and face the opposition of the food-processing companies who rely to a large extent ...

Learning One of Cancer's Tricks: Study

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A new study shows how a tumor can turn into a ravenous monster, needing plentiful supplies of amino acids and nucleotides in order to keep growing and survive under harsh conditions. How such tumors meet these burgeoning demands has not been fully understood. Now chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown for the first time that a specific sugar, known as GlcNAc ("glick-nack"), plays a key role in keeping the cancerous monsters "fed." ...

Govt. Plans to Install Mobile Radiation Detection Systems in Police Vehicles

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The Central Government has decided for equipment of the police vehicles of selected police stations with mobile radiation detection systems with the help of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). The Radiation Detection Systems installed in a mobile platform will have the capability to search and detect 'gamma emitting radionuclides'. The mobile radiation detection vehicles are intended to help the police forces to detect any inadvertent presence of ...

New Insights into Salt Transport in the Kidney: Study

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Sodium chloride or salt, is vital for the organism, and the kidneys play a crucial role in the regulation of sodium balance. However, the underlying mechanisms of sodium balance are not yet completely understood. Researchers of the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin and the University of Kiel have now deciphered the function of a gene in the kidney and have thus gained new insights into this complex ...

Children at Risk from Rural Water Supplies, Says University Of East Anglia

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A research done by the University of East Anglia research shows children at risk from rural water supplies. Children drinking from around half the UK's private water supplies are almost five times more likely to pick up stomach infections - according to research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Research published today in the journal iPLOS ONE/i shows children under 10 who drink from contaminated supplies are suffering around five bouts ...

Books can Keep You Healthy: Study

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Books act as a tonic for the brain, states study. Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield suggests that reading helps to expand attention spans in kids. "Stories have a beginning, a middle and an end - a structure that encourages our brains to think in sequence, to link cause, effect and significance," she says. "It is essential to learn this skill as a small child, while the brain has more plasticity, which is why it's so important for parents to read ...

Nutrition Tied to Improved Sperm DNA Quality

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In older men, intake of micronutrients is strongly associated with improved sperm DNA quality, finds study. In an analysis of 80 healthy male volunteers between 22 and 80 years of age, the scientists found that men older than 44 who consumed the most vitamin C had 20 percent less sperm DNA damage compared to men older than 44 who consumed the least vitamin C. The same was true for vitamin E, zinc, and folate. "It appears that consuming more micronutrients ...

Antidiabetic GLP-1 Analogs May Benefit Schizophrenia Patients With Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain

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Scientists from Denmark suggested that GLP-1 analogs used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes may also have potential significant and sustained weight loss effects in schizophrenia patients with antipsychotic-induced weight gain. Schizophrenia, a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder affecting approximately 0.5 percent of people globally, is treated these days with second generation anti-psychotic medication such as olanzapine, risperidone, ...

New Device to Remove Blood Clots from Brain

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A new device developed by researchers removes clots from the brain. In a recent clinical trial, the SOLITAIRE Flow Restoration Device, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration this March, outperformed the standard treatment. SOLITAIRE is among an entirely new generation of devices designed to remove blood clots from blocked brain arteries. It has a self-expanding, stent-like design, and once inserted into a blocked artery using a thin ...

Genomic Variant That Increases Risk of Some Brain Tumors Discovered

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Researchers have identified the genomic variant that ups risk of certain types of brain tumors. The study was jointly led by geneticists Margaret Wrensch, PhD, and John Wiencke, PhD, professors in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF, and Robert Jenkins, MD, PhD, professor of Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Division of Laboratory Genetics at the Mayo Clinic. The findings, published on August 26, ...

Neil Armstrong Dies at 82

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Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon died at the age of 82, reveal sources. "We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures," Xinhua quoted the family as saying in a statement Saturday. The statement did not say where Armstrong died. Armstrong landed on the moon July 20, 1969 by taking the Apollo 11 spacecraft. He is best ...