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Neil Armstrong Recovering After Heart Bypass Surgery, Say Sources

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Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon is recovering after undergoing a heart bypass surgery. Armstrong, 82, had surgery to relieve four blocked coronary arteries. NASA administrator Charles Bolden wished the 'true American hero' a quick recovery, the BBC reports "Neil's pioneering spirit will surely serve him well in this challenging time," Bolden said in a statement. As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong ...

Study Says 1 In 3 Women Suffer Post-Traumatic Stress After Childbirth

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Post-traumatic stress disorder affects one in three new mothers, states study. Prof. Rael Strous of Tel Aviv University has found that approximately one third of all post-partum women exhibit some symptoms of PTSD, and a smaller percentage develop full-blown PTSD following the ordeal of labor. Natural birth is a major cause of post-traumatic stress, according to the study. Of those women who developed post-traumatic symptoms, 80 percent ...

Fitness Levels in Adolescence Determined by Childhood BMI

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The importance of ensuring that your child is physically active and not obese has been reiterated in a recently published study. The study found that fitness during later life is determined by body weight right from childhood. Childhood obesity is a major problem affecting children all over the world. The easy availability and high intake of junk food coupled with a sedentary life spent in front of the television are major contributing factors. ...

Smart Drug to Beat Arthritis

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New smart pill developed by a scientist uses patient's own body to beat crippling arthritis. The "smart" drug not only helps relieve the devastating joint inflammation, which leaves sufferers in daily agony, but researchers also say it has no side-effects, the Daily Express reported. Dr Ulrich Flogel's powerful medication, which uses patients' own body to fight the disease naturally, offers new hope for hundreds of thousands of people struck down ...

Active Video Games can Lead to More Exercise: Study

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Exergames play key role in getting people to be more active, reveals study. Michigan State University's Wei Peng reviewed published research of studies of these games and says that most of the AVGs provide only "light-to-moderate" intensity physical activity. And that, she says, is not nearly as good as what she calls "real-life exercise." "For those not engaging in real-life exercise, this may be a good step toward this," said Peng, ...

Effectiveness of Observation for Localized Prostate Cancer

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Prostate cancer is the commonest cause of death among men above 75 years of age. Prostate gland is present around the urethra and carries urine out of the body. It constitutes an integral part of male reproductive system. Some of the high risk factors of prostate cancer are family history of prostate cancer among brothers and father, men above 6o years of age, excessive intake of alcohol, painters, farmers, people eating too much fat, etc. Surgery ...

Time Zone Shift Boosts Illness Risk for Elite Athletes

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Elite athletes face a higher risk of illness if they travel across more than five time zones to get a competition, reveals study. The researchers tracked the daily health of 259 elite rugby players competing in the 2010 Super 14 Rugby Tournament. In this annual tournament, 14 teams from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand compete over 16 weeks (February to May) at venues in all three countries, and in time zones varying from 2 to 11 hours' difference ...

Natural Birth, Not C-section, Triggers Brain-boosting Proteins in Babies

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A protein in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood is activated by vaginal birth, a study found. The new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers also found that this protein expression is impaired in the brains of offspring delivered by caesarean section (C-sections). These findings are published in the August issue of iPLoS ONE/i by a team of researchers led by Tamas Horvath, the Jean and David W. Wallace Professor ...

Gum Disease Common and Severe in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

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A study found gum disease is four times as common among patients with the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis as it is among their healthy peers, and it is also more severe. The small study is published online in the iAnnals of the Rheumatic Diseases/i. The researchers base their findings on 91 adults with confirmed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a comparison group of 93 healthy people, matched for age and sex. All participants were non-smokers, ...

Risk Factor for Lupus Discovered

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Exposure to staph bacteria could be a risk factor for lupus - a chronic inflammatory disease, say researchers. Staphylococcus aureus, is a germ commonly found on the skin or in the nose, sometimes causing infections. In the Mayo study, mice were exposed to low doses of a protein found in staph and developed a lupus-like disease, with kidney disease and autoantibodies like those found in the blood of lupus patients. The findings are published online this month ...

One Week of Speech Therapy may Reorganize Brain: Study

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In a recent study it was found that just one week of speech therapy can reorganize brain and reduce stuttering. The Chinese study gives researchers new insights into the role of different brain regions in stuttering, which affects about one percent of adults. The study involved 28 people with stuttering and 13 people who did not stutter. Fifteen of the people with stuttering received a week of therapy with three sessions per day. The other stutterers ...

New Deal to Fight AIDS in South Africa Signed

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Hillary Clinton signs a new deal supporting efforts to fight AIDS in South Africa. "South Africa and the entire region has a brighter and healthier and more secure future," she said while visiting a clinic in the Cape Town township of Delft. "Even as we take a moment to say 'well done', we cannot make the mistake of thinking that our job is done," she said. "The disease is still very dangerous." The United States has spent (Dollar) 3.2 billion ...

Effective Vaccine Against Deadly Virus Developed

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Researchers have developed a highly effective vaccine against the deadly Nipah virus. The results of their study, "A Hendra virus G glycoprotein subunit vaccine protects African green monkeys from Nipah virus challenge," will appear in iScience Translational Medicine/i online. The research team members are a collaborative group of investigators from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Bethesda, Maryland; the University of Texas ...

Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

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A gene known to be involved in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder has been discovered by researchers. Investigators at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, which reported the first positive results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of PTSD, suggested that variations in the retinoid-related orphan receptor alpha (RORA) gene are linked to the development of PTSD. PTSD ...

Study Says Boys Appear to be More Vulnerable Than Girls to the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos

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Recent study establishes a link between prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos and deficits in working memory and IQ at age 7. Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health found that, at age 7, boys had greater difficulty with working memory, a key component of IQ, than girls with similar exposures. On the plus side, having nurturing parents improved working memory, especially in boys, although it did not ...

2-Drug Combination to Fight Cocaine Addiction

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Combination of two drugs has shown promise as a potential therapy to fight cocaine addiction, say researchers. In laboratory experiments at The Scripps Research Institute, the potential therapy, which combines low doses of the drug naltrexone with the drug buprenorphine, made laboratory rats less likely to take cocaine compulsively-a standard preclinical test that generally comes before human trials. While the two-drug combination would have to ...

Iron, Vitamins Could Boost Physical Fitness in Adolescents

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Adolescence is an important time for growing and choosing foods rich in iron and vitamins and adopting a regular exercise regimen can boost physical fitness in adults. Unfortunately, several studies have shown that adolescents' intake of important nutrients, as well as their performance on standard physical fitness tests, has fallen in recent years. Because nutrition and fitness are intertwined-for example, iron forms part of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to ...

Tai Chi Helps COPD Sufferers

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Tai Chi improves exercise capacity in people diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), states study. The research, which was published online today (XX August 2012) ahead of print in the iEuropean Respiratory Journal/i, suggests that this form of exercise can improve exercise capacity and quality of life in people with COPD and may be as beneficial as pulmonary rehabilitation. It is well known that moderate forms of exercise ...

Vaccine Against Nipah Virus Proves Successful in Animal Study

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A vaccine against Nipah virus has been successfully tested in monkeys by scientists. The virus emerged in 1998 during a large outbreak of infection and disease among pigs and pig farmers in Southeast Asia. This latest advance builds upon earlier work by the scientists, who found that the same vaccine can protect cats from Nipah virus and ferrets and horses from the closely related Hendra virus. Both viruses have a high fatality rate in humans-more than ...

Most Young US Adults Expect Marriage to Last a Lifetime: Study

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A study released Wednesday reveals eighty-six percent of young adults in the United States expect their marriages to last a lifetime, even though half of all marriages end in divorce. The Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults also found that 57 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 feel it is wrong for two people to have sex if they are not emotionally involved with each other. And 73 percent of the 1,029 respondents from across the United States who ...

Healthy Food Choices in Employees from All Backgrounds Improved by Color-coded Labels

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Success of a program designed to encourage more healthful food choices through simple color-coded labels and the positioning of items in display cases was met equally. This was encouraged in a large hospital cafeteria. In an article appearing in iAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine/i, a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report that the interventions worked equally well across all racial and ethnic groups and educational levels. ...

Diabetes Diagnostic Thresholds Find Racial Differences

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New research says that healthcare providers should take into account differences among racial groups when using hemoglobin A1C levels to diagnose and monitor diabetes. The research is from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In a study published Aug. 7 in the iAnnals of Internal Medicine/i, researchers analyzed National Health and Nutrition Survey data from 2005 to 2008 to examine the association between hemoglobin A1C levels in black and white adults and ...

Revelation of The Genetic Cause Behind a Severe Skeletal Disease in Brazilian Terrier Puppies

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The genetics research group led by Professor Hannes Lohi has in collaboration discovered the cause of a life-threatening skeletal disorder affecting Brazilian Terriers. Professor Hannes Lohi who is based at the University of Helsinki and the Folkhalsan Research Center, collaborated with Adjunct Professor Kirsi Sainio's research group. The disease is caused by a mutation in the GUSB gene. Malfunction of the GUSB gene has previously been linked to a severe skeletal disorder ...

Obesity Underestimated By Mothers And Children in China

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According to Penn State health policy researchers, childhood obesity is on the rise in China, and children and parents there tend to underestimate body weight. "Because many overweight Chinese children underestimate their weight, they are less likely to do anything to improve their diet or exercise patterns," said Nengliang Yao, graduate student in health policy and administration. "If they don't make changes, they are likely to be obese and have a lot of health ...

Pointing Way to New Prostate Cancer Drug Targets Is Vanderbilt Research

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Researchers have found two proteins that act in opposing directions - one that promotes cancer and one that suppresses cancer - regulate the same set of genes in prostate cancer. The researchers are from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The findings, reported recently in the iJournal of Clinical Investigation/i, point toward potential drug targets and prognostic markers for prostate cancer. "We are trying to understand the molecular genetics ...

Teens Who Count Their Blessings Have Better Emotional Health

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It is important to help teenagers count their blessings and feel contented for all that they have, as such positive feelings go a long way in promoting sound emotional health. Researchers said that the very act of expressing gratitude for what one has, instills a positive attitude towards life and uplifts the happiness quotient. This optimistic attitude gives teenagers hope of a bright future and boosts academic performance. Not only that, it improves their ...

Hope for Young Women Offered by Nigerian School

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Offering hope of a better life, for a group of young women who fled abusive marriages that for some prove inescapable, are the clattering sewing machines at this northern Nigeria school. In Nigeria's deeply impoverished north, which has some of the worst gender disparities in the world, millions of girls who never learned to read or write are pushed into marriage in their early teens, a recent study said. The Tattalli Free School in the city of Kaduna ...

Greece Wishes For a ray of hope

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Greeks seem more interested in finding out if there will be light at the end of their dismal economic, eight years after hosting the Olympic Games in the country where they were born. They have less concern about what is happening at the London Olympics. "There's no interest like in the past, that's for sure," wrote Kathimerini columnist Giannis Koukoulas. "Perhaps because we don't expect much medal-wise. Probably because there are so many everyday problems which ...

Lazy Nations of the World

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A global study conducted by Lancet has found that people in Britain, Saudi Arabia, UAE and South Africa are really a lazy lot. The study found that in The UK, 63.3% of the population is inactive, making it one of the most inactive countries in the world. Nearly 40% of the population in North America was found to be inactive. Further, 52.45 % of the population of South Africa is inactive and Bhutan is no better, with 52.3% of the population doing precious little. ...

'Ethnic Chic' Being Reinvented by India

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Young designers have re-embraced their Indian heritage with jumpsuits inspired by sari drapes, urban dresses in tribal cloth and digitally printed lehenga skirts. All this and more can be found at Mumbai's latest fashion week. In a country that has struggled at times to find its way in the global sartorial stakes, a renewed pride in ethnic traditions has been sauntering down the catwalk. "People have realised the whole point of Indian fashion is its ...

Don't Want to Be Tagged As a 'Psychopath'? Have a Facebook Account

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You can apparently be considered a 'psychopath' if you have better things to do in your life than posting new statuses, or uploading pictures on social networking sites like Facebook. Facebook has become such an important aspect in people's lives, that increasing number of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites, could be insane. German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused ...

Secrets Behind Dickens' Books Unlocked By New Technique

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For the first time, a new digital technology has enabled people to see the previously unseen passages from Charles Dickens' manuscripts. The technique, which removes his crossings-out and corrections, allows researchers to discover how the author shaped and reshaped his prose. The Victoria and Albert Museum pilot study focused on his Christmas story, 'The Chimes', using technology that was developed by Ian Christie-Miller, a former visiting research ...

Identification Of Culprit Behind Chemotherapy Resistance in Cancer

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A protein that enables cancer cells to grow, invade tissues and eventually resist chemotherapy and has lethal consequences for patients was found by researchers. A team of scientists led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered a key factor that drives this drug resistance - information that ultimately may be used to improve the effectiveness of therapy and buy precious time for patients with advanced cancer. "Cancer cells inside the ...

Automated Emergency Braking System Would Help In Reducing Accidents

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Automated Emergency Braking system has been hailed as the "next big thing" in vehicle safety since the introduction of the seat belt. The system makes a car automatically brake when the driver fails to respond to impending danger. Australia's vehicle crash testing authority said that the new technology could save 250 lives each year and reduce the financial cost of our national road toll by 5 billion dollars annually. "AEB can probably be considered ...

Doctors Find Forceps from Past Surgery in Man's Body

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An emergency surgery was performed on a British man after doctors had accidentally left a pair of eight-inch long forceps inside his body during an appendix operation. As a medical practice, doctors generally take a count of all the surgical tools before and after the operation to check if anything is missing. And if the count doesn't tally, an x-ray of the full body is done. In the present case, they scanned the patient's abdomen but did not do a full x-ray. Authorities ...

Information About Charitable Causes Not Shared Among People With Large Network of Friends on Facebook

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A new research has revealed that those who have a large network of friends on social media networks like facebook may not wish to share information about charitable causes. Economist Professor Kimberley Scharf, from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick, believes that when people have more number of friends on their network, they are less likely to spread information about charitable causes. Most often, if the ...

Learning Achievement With and Without Stress

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In a recent study it was found that stressed and non-stressed persons use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in the iJournal of Neuroscience/i. Non-stressed individuals applied a deliberate learning strategy, while stressed subjects relied more on their gut feeling. "These results demonstrate for the first time ...

Certain Blood Pressure Meds can Up Lip Cancer Risk

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Some of the known risks of lip cancer are use of tobacco and alcohol consumption. But what people may not know is, certain blood pressure medications can up the risk of lip cancer. According to a recent study, some well-known photosensitizing antihypertensive drugs elevate the risk of lip cancer. Dr. Gary D. Friedman of the division of research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland Calif., and his colleagues, have written "Lip cancer is rare, and ...

Hospital Infections Better Treated with New Non-toxic Disinfectant

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A study reports new disinfectant, Akwaton, works at extremely low concentrations and could be used in healthcare settings to help control persistent hospital-acquired infections such as iClostridium difficile/i. The study is reported online in the iJournal of Medical Microbiology/i. Researchers from the Universite de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg, Canada tested the new compound, Akwaton, against bacterial spores that attach to surfaces and are difficult to ...