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The World's Best Wine Waiter Crowned in Japan

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The end of a three-day competition in Japan having entrants from all around the globe marked the crowning of the world's best wine waiter. Paolo Basso, from Switzerland, was hoisted into the air as judges in Tokyo awarded him first place in a ceremony in front of several thousand spectators that was carried live on Japanese national television. "Thank you very much to everybody, it is a very important moment for me," he said after receiving the gold ...

New 'Intelligent' Micro Chip That Curbs Appetite

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A new 'intelligent' microchip that can effectively suppress appetite has now been designed by scientists from UK. Animal trials of the electronic implant are about to begin and its makers have said that it could provide a more effective alternative to weight-loss surgery. Its makers said that the human trials of the implant could begin within three years. The groundbreaking work led by Prof Chris Toumazou and Prof Sir Stephen Bloom of Imperial ...

Guwahati Holds a Film Festival for Kids

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A two-day film festival for children was held in Guwahati recently, with a view to make films a medium of moulding the young children of tomorrow. The festival was jointly organized by the Assam State Film Finance and Development Corporation Limited and the Children's Film Society of India. Films based on various social and cultural themes were shown to leave a lasting impression on children's' minds. Launched at the Anuradha Cine Complex ...

Scientists Discover Driving Force Behind Prostate Cancer

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The existence of a cancer inducing DNA re-alignment in stem cells taken from human prostate cancers has been identified by researchers. Professor Norman Maitland, Director of the YCR Cancer Research Unit, University of York, said that this discovery has marked a fundamental shift in our understanding of how solid cancers start. He asserted that in blood cancers like leukaemia, DNA is rearranged during an event known as chromosomal translocation, ...

Diabetes Drug Delays Ageing in Worms

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In worms, a type 2 diabetes drug slows down the ageing process, states study. Following a calorie-restricted diet has been shown to improve health in later life and extend lifespan in a number of animals, ranging from the simple worm to rhesus monkeys. The type 2 diabetes drug metformin has been found to have similar effects in animals but until now it was not clear exactly how the drug delays the ageing process. Researchers supported by the Wellcome ...

New Test Helps in Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer

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Metabolomic analysis - a new diagnostic test could be a safe and easy screening method to detect pancreatic cancer, say researchers. The researchers examined the utility of metabolomic analysis as a diagnostic method for pancreatic cancer and then validated the new approach. Masaru Yoshida, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor and chief of the Division of Metabolomics Research at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in Kobe, Japan, said that ...

Home Hot Water Temperatures Remain a Burn Hazard for Young and Elderly: Researchers

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A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health warns that home hot water heater temperatures are too high. Despite the adoption of voluntary standards by manufacturers to preset hot water heater temperature settings below the recommended safety standard of 120F, temperatures remain dangerously high for a significant proportion of homes, presenting a scald hazard for young children and the elderly. The report is published in the ...

Scientists Explain How Cells and Cell Fragments Move in Electric Fields

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Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have found that like tiny crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields - but in opposite directions. Their results, published April 8 in the journal iCurrent Biology/i, could ultimately lead to new ways to heal wounds and deliver stem cell therapies. When cells crawl into wounded flesh to heal it, they follow an electric field. In healthy tissue ...

Dietary Influences Tied to Changes in Gene Expression and Physiology By UMMS Scientists

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You just can't resist a tiny piece of chocolate cake sometimes. Sometimes even the most health-conscious eaters find themselves indulging in junk foods from time to time. New research by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) raises the striking possibility that even small amounts of these occasional indulgences may produce significant changes in gene expression that could negatively impact physiology and health. A pair ...

Study Examines Whether We Should Trust Our Intuition

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A study reports that when rats were challenged with a series of perceptual decision problems, their performance was just as good when they decided rapidly as when they took a much longer time to respond. The study was led by Zachary Mainen, Director of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, and published today (March 28th) in the scientific journal, iNeuron/i. Despite being encouraged to slow down and try harder, the subjects of this study achieved their maximum performance ...

The Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Explained By Researchers

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According to three studies, considerable opportunity exists to improve interventions and outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older adults. The studies were published in the recent online issue of iNeuroRehabilitation/i by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. An Exploration of Clinical Dementia Phenotypes Among Individuals With and Without Traumatic Brain Injury Some evidence suggests that a history of TBI ...

Scientists: Combinations of Estrogen-mimicking Chemicals Found to Strongly Distort Hormone Action

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Scientists have been concerned about chemicals in the environment that mimic the estrogens found in the body for many years. Researchers have found links between these "xenoestrogens" and such problems as decreased sperm viability, ovarian dysfunction, neurodevelopmental deficits and obesity in many different studies. But experimental limitations have prevented them from exploring one of the most serious questions posed by exposure to xenoestrogens: what happens when - as ...

Women Suffering from Hot Flashes Sleep Feel Better With Routine Physical Activity

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A study has revealed that higher levels of routine daily physical activity may be the more important key to a better night's sleep for many women who have hot flashes or night sweats. Researchers at the Pittsburgh site of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) focused on women with hot flashes or night sweats and also drew the distinction between leisure time and household activity. The 27 white and 25 African American women in the study, ...

Swedish Company Designs Fashionable Collar That Doubles into Bike Helmet on Impact

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A bicycle helmet, which is built into a fashionably large collar that is worn around the neck was developed by a Swedish company. The Hovding contains an airbag which blows up to form an inflatable hood around the cyclists head, News.com.au reported. According to their website, the airbag is created with ultra-strong nylon fabric that won't get destroyed when scraped against asphalt and only takes .1 second to inflate. The mechanism is triggered ...

Garbage Disposal System Designed for India By US-based Indian

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Three waste disposal units that "match architecture and road systems" of India were designed and patented by a US-based Indian engineer. "We have got narrow streets and alleys. Our disposal system should match the architecture and road systems. It is only partly happening," Ganga Narayan Ghosh told IANS on the sidelines of a media conference here Thursday. "I have studied the system for over 30 years and have designed and patented three containers that ...

Study: Smartphones are Americans' New Best Friend

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A Facebook-sponsored study showed that US smartphone owners tend to be connected from the instant they rise until they fall sleep and revel in every minute of it. "Smartphones, coupled with rich applications and mobile data services, allow us to connect with our family, friends and community from the moment we wake up until the end of our day," IDC researchers said in the report released this week. "Rather than feeling overwhelmed by it, we enjoy and ...

Nuke Crisis Hit Fukushima Products Now Radioactive Free Reveals Study Tour

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The nuclear disaster that hit Japan's Fukushima Prefecture over two years ago appears now to be gradually receding into the past. The disaster forced over 160,000 residents to evacuate. Key officials are saying that daily essentials such as rice, vegetables and other products are free of radioactive substance. To prove this, a recent study tour of Fukushima was organised by HIS, Japan's biggest travel agency. The tour included a visit to a 10,000-hectare ...

Researchers Explain Why Post-menopausal Women Put on More Abdominal Fat

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Men tend to carry it on their stomachs, while women usually carry excess fat in their hips and thighs. But after menopause, things start to change: many women's fat storage patterns start to resemble those of men. This indicates that there is a link between estrogen and body fat storage. By examining the fat storage process at a cellular level, Sylvia Santosa, assistant professor in Concordia University's Department of Exercise Science ...

Mum Suffered Fatal Heart Attack After Being Told Baby was Stillborn

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A 29-year old mother with a rare condition suffered a fatal heart attack after being told that her first child was stillborn. An inquest into the death of Lindsay Clift revealed that she was suffering from a rare condition, known as amniotic fluid embolism, which affects one in 200,000 mothers. Lindsay collapsed in a delivery suite at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton after being told that her newborn baby, Katy May was still born. Appearing as ...

App Turns IPhone into a Hearing Aid

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Researchers at University of Essex have developed a new app that can turn your iPhone into a hearing aid. The app, known as BioAid, is free to download and works with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. There are six fixed settings that the user can select to address their particular type of hearing loss with each of the settings four fine-tuning sub-settings which allows the user to target the specific frequencies that they have difficulty hearing. The ...

Increase Observed in the Number of Dating Sites for People With STDs

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Dating websites cater to almost every section of the society and a new survey reveals that such websites for people with sexually transmitted diseases are rising in popularity. According to New York Daily News, some of the more popular websites include STD Soulmates, STDMatch and Positive Singles which allows people with STDs to perform basic functions such as filtering potential dates by age, gender and location. But another special menu also allows the ...

J (and) D's Foods Introduces Bacon-Flavored Condoms

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Having come out with bacon flavored shaving cream; J (and) D's Foods are now taking their love for bacon to another level, by offering bacon flavored condoms. Writing in a statement, the American food company claimed that it was the 'most anticipated product of the summer', citing a study which showed '10 out of 10 people prefer the smell of Bacon to coconut.' The company added that there are also plans to bring out bacon flavored sunscreen, lip balm, envelopes ...

Chinese Herbs Linked to Reduced Incidence of Hot Flashes

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Researchers in Hong Kong suggest that taking Chinese herbs could reduce hot flashes among post-menopausal women by as much as 62 percent. According to the study, conducted by researchers at University of Hong Kong, taking herbal mix called Er-xian decoction (EXD) reduced the daily symptoms of hot flashes by 62 percent compared to taking a placebo, which reduced the hot flashes by 52 percent. One of the researchers who worked on the study, Yao Tong, said that ...

New Vaccine Design That can Help Development of Effective Drugs Against HIV and Other Similar Viruses Developed

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A team of American researchers has developed a new technique for vaccine design that can help researchers in their fight against HIV and other fast mutating viruses. The report, which appears March 28, 2013, in iScience Express/i, the early online edition of the journal iScience/i, offers a step toward solving what has been one of the central problems of modern vaccine design: how to stimulate the immune system to produce the right kind of antibody response ...

Author of New Breast Cancer Study Opines on Findings of Increased Risk

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The author of a new study that has been published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Dr Rowan Chlebowski from Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute has issued a new statement regarding the findings of the largest ever study of hormonal therapy in post menopausal women conducted by the Women's Health Initiative. The study Dr. Chlebowski authored reported that estrogen plus progestin use is linked with increased breast cancer incidence. In addition, ...

Delhi Government to Build 12 New Hospitals in the City

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New Delhi Health Minister A K Walia revealed that the government will be building 12 new hospitals in the capital city with total bed strength of 2,900. "The process to start the construction of hospitals in Dwarka (750 beds), Vikaspuri (200 beds), Madipur (200 beds), Jawlapuri (200 beds), Ambedkar Nagar (200 beds) and Sarita Vihar (100 beds) has been initiated. The formalities are underway for the remaining six hospitals," Walia said. He speaking while ...

Smoking as Soon as You Get Up Increases Risk of Lung and Oral Cancers

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People who tend to start smoking as soon as they get up in the morning have an increased risk of developing lung and oral cancers, a new study conducted by Penn State researchers reveals. "We found that smokers who consume cigarettes immediately after waking have higher levels of NNAL -- a metabolite of the tobacco-specific carcinogen NNK -- in their blood than smokers who refrain from smoking a half hour or more after waking, regardless of how many cigarettes they ...

Cubans Get Used to Eating Fish

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People in Cuba are holding their noses and getting used to eating farm-raised tilapia and catfish. "By nature Cubans reject fish, as they are used to eating pork or other meat, when they can," said Eduardo Diaz, head of the state fisheries research agency. Indeed, one of Cuba's national dishes -- with the wonderful name of 'ropa vieja,' or old clothes -- is a sort of shredded and stewed beef with a tomato-based sauce, served on rice. Diaz ...

Nearly Half of Sports Related Brain Injuries in Youngsters Caused by Playing Ice Hockey

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A new study conducted by researchers at St Michael's Hospital reveals that nearly half of all the traumatic brain injuries among children and youth playing organized sports who require a trip to an emergency department in Canada are caused among ice hockey players. The results are part of a first-of-its-kind study led by Dr. Michael Cusimano that looked at causes of sports-related brain injuries in Canadian youth and also uncovered some prevention tactics that ...

Medicaid Expansion in Pennsylvania Could Generate (Dollar) 2 Billion in Revenue to the State

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A new study conducted by RAND Corporation suggests that more than 340,000 residents could take advantage of health insurance and the state exchequer could be boosted by over (Dollar) 2 billion every year if Medicaid is expanded in Pennsylvania under the Affordable Care Act. The increased federal spending on health care in Pennsylvania would provide a (Dollar) 3 billion boost in economic activity and sustain more than 35,000 jobs, according to the analysis. But the expansion ...

Research Sheds Light on HIV Antibodies That are Worth the Wait

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One promising strategy for an effective vaccine against HIV-1 focuses on designer antibodies that have much broader potency than most specific antibodies. These broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can handle the high mutation rate of HIV particles that makes normal, very specific antibodies useless within a short space of time. A study published by Cell Press on March 28th in the journal iCell/i reveals surprising mutations in these antibodies that are crucial ...

Researchers Find Over 80 Mutations During Their Search for Cancer-Causing DNA Errors

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Researchers have identified more than 80 tiny mutations that increase risk of cancers following the biggest ever search of the human genome for cancer-causing DNA errors. The results, which double the number of known genetic alterations linked to breast, ovarian and prostate cancer, were unveiled in a dozen scientific papers published in journals in Europe and the United States. The three hormone-related cancers are diagnosed in over 2.5 million people ...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Identify New Gene That Increases Risk of Ovarian Cancer

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A new gene, known as HNF1B, which increases a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer has been identified by researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, a new study published in the journal Nature Communications reveals. The study is one of 13 papers to be published simultaneously in five journals by the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS), an international research collaboration involving investigators from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, ...

Educated Patients Provide Healthier Food Items to Children

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Parents who are educated tend to provide healthy foods with fewer fats and lower sugar levels to their children, a new study reveals. An international group of experts from eight European countries have analysed the relation between parents' levels of education and the frequency with which their children eat food linked to overweight. The Identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants (IDEFICS) ...

Risk of C. Diff Infection High Among Patients Who Use Antihistamines to Treat Stomach Acid

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A new study conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic reveals that the risk of Clostridium difficile infection, which is a common cause for diarrhea, is high among patients who are prescribed antihistamines to suppress stomach acid. The study focused on histamine 2 receptor antagonists. The researchers found no significant risk for people taking over-the-counter antihistamine drugs, however. The findings appear in the online journal iPLOS ONE/i. Researchers ...