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Peru Now Gets Its Own Clean Drinking Water

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A billboard outside the Peruvian capital reads: Drinkable water for anyone who wants some in this arid village. Even more intriguingly, the fresh, pure water on offer along a busy road in this dusty town some 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Lima, has been extracted, as if by magic, from the humid air. Within the enormous, raised, double-paneled billboard inviting all takers is concealed a tube, wires and mechanical equipment that draws the water from ...

Brain Repair may be Aided by Environmental Enrichment

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Increase in Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality Due to Estrogen and Progestin Use

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An increase in breast cancer incidence has now been linked to the use of estrogen and progestin. In addition, prognosis is similar for both users and nonusers of combined hormone therapy, suggesting that mortality from breast cancer may be higher for hormone therapy users as well, according to a study published March 29 in the iJournal of the National Cancer Institute/i. In the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized trial, estrogen plus progestin was associated ...

New Light Shed on Methylation

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New research by UC Davis and University of British Columbia has now revealed important aspects about methylation, a process that controls gene expression. Working with placentas, the team discovered that 37 percent of the placental genome has regions of lower methylation, called partially methylated domains (PMDs), in which gene expression is turned off. This differs from most human tissues, in which 70 percent of the genome is highly methylated. While PMDs have ...

Scientists Engineer First Caffeine-addicted Bacteria

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First caffeine-addicted bacteria developed in lab may help combat water pollution, say scientists. They described bacteria being "addicted" to caffeine in a way that promises practical uses ranging from decontamination of wastewater to bioproduction of medications for asthma. Jeffrey E. Barrick and colleagues noted that caffeine and related chemical compounds have become important water pollutants due to widespread use in coffee, soda pop, ...

Dark Circles - Beauty Tips

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Dark circles make you look haggard and run down, take off 15 minutes daily for under eye care - you will look alert and fresh.

Brain Scans Help Predict Criminal Behavior

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Neuroimaging data was found to predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend following release from prison, states study. The paper, which is to be published in the iProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/i, studied impulsive and antisocial behavior and centered on the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that deals with regulating behavior and impulsivity. The study demonstrated that inmates with relatively ...

Tailored Weight-loss Programmes Aid People With Mental Illness

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People with serious mental illness can achieve significant weight loss with the help of a behavioural weight-loss intervention. A new John Hopkins research proves that serious mental illness is not a barrier to successful weight-loss. A programme that focuses on simple messages and goals and involves regular exercises can help the mentally challenged to stay healthy and lose weight. Despite the knowledge that persons with serious mental illness, such ...

Another 250 Hotels in Rio by 2016

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By 2016, Rio is expected to have an additional 250 hotels totalling upto 20,000 rooms, when it hosts the summer Olympics. "For the 2016 Olympics, we need an extra 12,000 rooms in Rio," ABIH-RJ President Alfredo Lopes told a press conference. Thanks to tax incentives provided by City Hall, the sector "has invested (Dollar) 1.5 billion in construction of new hotels," he noted. "We'll jump from 30,000 rooms today to 50,000 in 2016." For next year's football ...

Surgical Menopause may Up Risk of Stroke, Alzheimer's Disease

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Women who lose estrogen from surgical menopause had a decline in cognitive function and dementia, say researchers. "This is what the clinical studies indicate and our animal studies looking at the underlying mechanisms back this up," said Brann, corresponding author of the study in the journal iBrain/i. "We wanted to find out why that is occurring. We suspect it's due to the premature loss of estrogen." In an effort to mimic what occurs in ...

Pakistani Politicians to Increase Their Budget on Health and Education

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After the UN report that revealed a low health and education budget in the developing countries, Pakistani politicians promise to increase their budget on the same in a campaign trial. The 2013 report ranked Pakistan 146 out of 187 countries on a human development index, equal to Bangladesh and just ahead of Angola and Myanmar. "Pakistan has one of the lowest investments in terms of education and health -- it spends 0.8 percent of its GDP on health and ...

New Anti-smoking Offensive Launched

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A hard-hitting offensive aimed at reducing the number of smokers across the country has been launched by US health officials. The new campaign encourages smokers to kick the habit with a series of adverts spotlighting the wrenching personal stories of individuals battling smoking-related illnesses or diseases. "This campaign is saving lives and saving dollars by giving people the facts about smoking in an easy-to-understand way that encourages quitting," ...

Nelson Mandela in Good Spirits, Says Presidency

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Nelson Mandela is in good spirits after recovering from lung infection, said the South African presidency. "Mandela enjoyed a full breakfast this morning, and the doctor reported that he is making steady progress," Xinhua quoted a statement from the presidency as stating and adding that he "remains under the treatment and observation". The 94-year-old was admitted to hospital just before Wednesday midnight due to recurrence of his lung infection. ...

Kids With Sleep Apnea Have Greater Risk of Behavioral Problems

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Sleep apnea - a form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) has been associated with an increased risk of ADHD-like behavioral problems in children as well as other adaptive and learning problems. "This study provides some helpful information for medical professionals consulting with parents about treatment options for children with SDB that, although it may remit, there are considerable behavioral risks associated with continued SDB," said Michelle Perfect, PhD, ...

Road Accident Victims Now Benefit Cashless Treatment

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ICICI Lombard and The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways team up together and offer cashless treatment for accident victims on the Gurgaon-Jaipur highway. According to the plan, the ministry has signed an MoU with the insurance company to launch a pilot project for cashless treatment of road accident victims on the Gurgaon-Jaipur stretch of National Highway (NH) 8. "The idea is that no one may be deprived of immediate treatment for want of money for ...

EEG Identifies Seizures in Hospital Patients

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Electroencephalogram (EEG) is an quick and efficient way to measure and record electrical activity in the brain, say scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. The research, which focused on patients who had been given an EEG after being admitted to the hospital for symptoms such as AMS and spells, appears on March 27 in iMayo Clinic Proceedings/i. "We have demonstrated a surprisingly high frequency of seizures - more than 7 percent ...

New Insights into Alcohol Addiction

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Recent study conducted by scientists shed light on why some people are more susceptible to alcohol addiction than others. Jeff Weiner, who directs the Translational Studies on Early-Life Stress and Vulnerability to Alcohol Addiction project at Wake Forest Baptist, and colleagues used an animal model to look at the early stages of the addiction process and focused on how individual animals responded towards alcohol. Weiner said that their findings ...

Plant Based Foods Contain DNA Damaging Toxins

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Harmful effects of flavorings on the DNA of cells is now being studied in a paired group of food chemistry and cancer biology. They found that liquid smoke flavoring, black and green teas and coffee activated the highest levels of a well-known, cancer-linked gene called p53. The p53 gene becomes activated when DNA is damaged. Its gene product makes repair proteins that mend DNA. The higher the level of DNA damage, the more p53 becomes activated. "We ...

South Africa to Follow India, China to Make Life-Saving Medications Affordable

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Doctors Without Borders explains that the South African government should follow the lead of its BRICS peers to make life-saving medications affordable. Speaking in Johannesburg, MSF South Africa media liaison officer Kate Ribet said other BRICS countries have fulfilled the commitments they made in July 2011 to enact public health safeguards spelled out in World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. "Decisive moves by Brazil, India and China have saved hundreds ...

Monounsaturated Fats Cut Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

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Intake of canola oil and high-oleic canola oils was found to lower abdominal fat, scientists also found that certain vegetable oils reduces metabolic syndrome risk, which affects about one in three U.S. adults and one in five Canadian adults. "The monounsaturated fats in these vegetable oils appear to reduce abdominal fat, which in turn may decrease metabolic syndrome risk factors," said Penny Kris-Etherton, Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, Penn State. In ...

High Food Prices = Obesity, World Bank

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World Bank emphasises on the food prices pushing the world's poorest people towards 'undernutrition' and obesity. "Unhealthy food tends to be cheaper than healthy ones, like junk food in developed countries," said Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group's vice president for poverty reduction and economic management. "When poor people with some disposable income in developing countries try to cope with high and increasingly volatile food prices, they also tend ...

Study Says No Link Between Autism, Many Vaccines

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A recent study conducted by scientists dispelled the fears of about one third of American parents that giving a series of vaccines to kids may be associated with autism. Even though children are receiving more vaccines today than they did in the 1990s, there is no link between "too many vaccines too soon" and autism, said the study in the Journal of Pediatrics. About one in 10 US parents refuse or delay vaccinations for their children because they ...

Mothers Pregnant With Male Child are More Likely to Receive Better Prenatal Care in India

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Many women in India become victims of sex discrimination even before they step into this world; right in their mother's womb reveals a study. Researchers from Michigan State University and University of California analyzed the national health-survey data of more than 30,000 Indians and found that expecting women carrying a male child are more likely to receive better prenatal care during their pregnancy. Though revealing the sex of an unborn child and ...

Mothers Face Hundreds of Questions Every Day by Their Little Ones

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A recent survey by the online retailer littlewoods shows how mothers are showered with more than two hundred questions every single day by their little kids. Around 1000 mothers with children aged between two and ten years old were surveyed about the daily routine with their kids. It was found that every day right from breakfast at around 7.19 a.m. till night 7.59 p.m. young kids test their mom's knowledge and of course patience by asking an average of 288 queries. ...

Acne Treating Drug, Zanatane, Launched in US Market by Dr Reddy's Laboratories

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Drug firm Dr Reddy's Laboratories has received the approval from USFDA for its drug Zanatane capsules and has launched the drug in the US market. The capsules available in the strengths of 10 mg, 20 mg and 40 mg and in boxes of 30 are used to treat severe form of acne namely, severe recalcitrant nodular acne. The capsules are generic version of Accutane (Isotretinoin Capsules USP) of Hoffman- La Roche Inc. This launch has hiked the value ...

New Model Has Been Designed to Predict Final Menstrual Period

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Researchers from University of California Los Angeles, have proposed a new method to determine the final menstrual period in women. As women approach their menopause, they are at an increased risk of bone loss and other health conditions. Previous researches have suggested that starting prevention treatment at least a year prior to the final menses could remarkably reduce the risk of bone fracture. Lead author, Dr. Gail Greendale and team gathered information ...

Birds With Fewer Offspring Live Longer, Says Study

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A recent study on birds has claimed that there is a strong correlation between reproduction and lifespan. Researchers from The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, had conducted the study on barnacle geese, which live longer. They measured the telomere length in the birds twice in two years. Telomeres are the protective caps found at the end of chromosomes. Length of the telomeres is used to measure age and predict life expectancy. The telomere length reduces gradually ...