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- Scientists Introduce Disease-blocking Bacteria into Mosquitoes
- Symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water
- Late Margaret Thatcher Voted No.1 Prime Minister of Britain Till Date
- Odisha Hikes Retirement Age of 873 Doctors by Five Years
- You can 'See' the Flavor
- China's Bird Flu Spreads Farther
- WHO, Unicef's Global Action Plan to End Child Deaths
- Bone Marrow Grafts may Help Low-Back Pain Patients
- Increase in Lung Cancer Risk Post Exposure to Asbestos, Asbestosis and Smoking
- Healthy People are More Attentive
- Interferons may Induce Persistent Infections
- Weight Loss Surgery may Affect Genes too
- HPV may also Trigger Lung Cancer
- New Gel Helps Ease Arthritic Pain
- Get Rid of Bacteria to Prevent Stomach Cancer
- Global Warming Will Cause Starvation of Millions in Africa and Asia by 2050, Warns Report
- Study Shows How Obesity and Heart Disease Lead to High Blood Pressure
- Severity of Sleep Apnea is Influenced by Race: Study
- Philippines Health Department Warns Against E-cigarette Use
- First Human Case of H7N9 Bird Flu Reported in Beijing
- Researchers Shed Light on Use of Opioids on Sickle Cell Disease Patients
- Scientists Develop New Antibiotic Drug That Targets Weaknesses in Bacteria
- Two Year Old Children can Understand Basic Grammar: Research
- Indian Surrogate Mothers' Industry is Booming
- Early Signs of Harmful Drug Reactions can be Spotted by Mining Information Contained in Clinical Notes
- Pre-Surgical Use of Dexmedetomidine Reduced Remifentanil-Induced Hyperalgesia
- Got Baby Milk? Chinese Dealers Strip Shelves Worldwide
- French Senate Adopts Gay Marriage Law
- Manmohan Singh Says Poverty is India's Greatest Problem
- Obesity in Marmosets Linked to Early Introduction of Solid Foods
- Health Ministry to Promote Traditional Indian Systems of Medicine Abroad
- New Drugs Possible Via GUMBOS Technology
- Phase 1 Clinical Trial Reveals Positive Data for BIND Theraputics' Drug for Solid Tumors
- Baby With Fluid Inside Skull may be Left to Die Due to Poverty
- FDA Panel to Review New Avandia Results
- Excessive Usage of Social Media may Harm Marriage
- Oz Mum Deliberately Gave Chemo Drugs to Daughter to Rake in Donations
- Eating Raw Fruits may Not Lower Blood Pressure
| Scientists Introduce Disease-blocking Bacteria into Mosquitoes Posted:  According to scientists, a new technique that introduces disease-blocking bacteria into mosquitoes may help halt the spread of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and potentially malaria. When infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, mosquitoes are unable to spread viruses such as dengue, a disease which kills round 40,000 people each year with no vaccines or specific treatments currently available. However, the bacteria has been difficult to spread ... |
| Symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water Posted:  After eliminating arsenic as a useful tool for homicide, now science faces challenges in doing the same for natural sources of this fabled old "inheritance powder". This contaminates water supplies and food, threatening more than 35 million people worldwide. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a popular book documenting arsenic's horrific history as a poison highlighted that situation at a far-ranging symposium on arsenic here today during the 245th National Meeting ... |
| Late Margaret Thatcher Voted No.1 Prime Minister of Britain Till Date Posted:  A new poll has found that late Margaret Thatcher has been voted Britain's No. 1 Prime Minister. The Sun Poll found that more than a quarter of all those surveyed hailed her as Britain's most popular PM since World War Two. An overwhelming 28 percent of people opted for Maggie as 'the greatest' out of 13 Prime Ministers Britain have had since 1945. Asked how they rated Thatcher's performance from 1979 to 1990, 52 percent of all those questioned ... |
| Odisha Hikes Retirement Age of 873 Doctors by Five Years Posted:  An official said that Odisha has hiked the retirement age of 873 doctors working in three of its government-run medical college and hospitals by five years to cover the shortfall in numbers. The doctors at the medical college and hospitals in Burla in Sambalpur district, Berhampur in Ganjam district and at Cuttack, a district headquarters town, will now retire at the age of 65 instead of 60. The move would benefit 873 doctors, a senior official of the ... |
| Posted:  Claiming that people can actually see the flavor of foods, a scientist states that the eyes have a powerful role, and can outweigh the power of the tongue and the nose. Speaking at the 245th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, Terry E. Acree, Ph.D described how people sometimes "see" flavors in foods and beverages before actually tasting them. "Years ago, taste was a table with ... |
| China's Bird Flu Spreads Farther Posted:  H7N9 bird flu virus, which was earlier limited to China, has now spread to a new province, the media reports. "Two new cases were reported in central China's Henan province on Sunday," the Xinhua state news agency said. Until Saturday, when one case was reported in the capital of Beijing, all other instances had occurred in the eastern city of Shanghai and nearby Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces hundreds of miles (kilometres) away. Altogether ... |
| WHO, Unicef's Global Action Plan to End Child Deaths Posted:  WHO and Unicef unite to form a Global Action Plan as an effort to end two major preventable killer diseases, pneumonia and diarrhoea. In India, pneumonia accounts for 23 percent and diarrhoea accounts for 12 percent of under-five (age) child deaths. The report, which includes up-to-date strategies and makes recommendations to various countries on interventions needed to reduce child deaths significantly, was released Friday. It also includes an example ... |
| Bone Marrow Grafts may Help Low-Back Pain Patients Posted:  New study suggests that bio-cellular grafts used by surgeons to repair damaged tissues may help treat low-back pain. However, not all sufferers responded equally to the novel therapy. Results reported today at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine ranged from complete pain relief to no improvement. The procedure involved injecting a concentrated form of bone-marrow cellular aspirate into lumbar discs in patients with clinical and objective ... |
| Increase in Lung Cancer Risk Post Exposure to Asbestos, Asbestosis and Smoking Posted:  The risk of lung cancer increases drastically with asbestos exposure, asbestosis and smoking, and cessation of smoking post asbestos exposure can cut down its risk significantly. "The interactions between asbestos exposure, asbestosis and smoking, and their influence on lung cancer risk are incompletely understood," said lead author Steven B. Markowitz, MD DrPH, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the School of Earth (and) Environmental Sciences ... |
| Healthy People are More Attentive Posted:  People who practise sports have better cognitive performances than those with bad physical health, researchers say. More specifically, the results of this research indicate that the former have a better sustained attention span (they react more rapidly to an external stimulus introduced randomly while carrying out a monotonous task). Their autonomic nervous system also appears to work better when dealing with cognitive loads over a longer time period. ... |
| Interferons may Induce Persistent Infections Posted:  Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a new finding that may help clear persistent infection, which is observed in diseases like AIDS, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The study, reported in the April 12, 2013 issue of the journal iScience/i, focused on the activity of the body's type 1 interferon (IFN-I) proteins. Since its discovery over 50 years ago, IFN-I has been believed to be an especially powerful antiviral agent that marshals the ... |
| Weight Loss Surgery may Affect Genes too Posted:  Gastric bypass surgery is efficient at reducing the body weight of individuals in a very short span. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the surgery also leads to early remission of type 2 diabetes in the vast majority of patients. Researchers report online April 11 in iCell Reports/i, published by Cell Press, the discovery of gene-expression alterations in individuals who underwent the surgery compared with obese individuals who did not. "We provide evidence ... |
| HPV may also Trigger Lung Cancer Posted:  A new research now suggests that a common virus, already known to cause cervical, head and neck cancers may also trigger lung cancer in some cases. Examining tissue samples from lung cancer patients, the researchers found that nearly 6% showed signs they may have been driven by a strain of human papillomavirus (HPV) known to cause cancer. If HPV indeed plays a role in lung cancer in some patients, the next step is to better understand those tumors so ... |
| New Gel Helps Ease Arthritic Pain Posted:  A new gel called 'Flexiseq' has now been developed, and claims to relieve arthritic pain, restore mobility and protect against further damage when rubbed on the affected area twice a day. And because the gel is not a drug, it reportedly has no side-effects like stomach complaints or heart problems that some treatments can cause. Research leader Professor Philip Conaghan, of the University of Leeds, told the Daily Express that most people with osteoarthritis ... |
| Get Rid of Bacteria to Prevent Stomach Cancer Posted:  Australian Nobel laureate Robin Warren said get rid of bacteria and improve public health to prevent stomach cancer. Warren, who discovered the link between stomach bacterium H. pylori and ulcer and stomach cancer, said: "Improve public health. Get rid of bacteria from the stomach. Infection rate in Australia is now 20 percent. Now it is only one in five people; 50 years ago it was 50 percent. In third world countries its almost a hundred percent," Warren told ... |
| Global Warming Will Cause Starvation of Millions in Africa and Asia by 2050, Warns Report Posted:  Extreme temperature may cause starvation of millions of people in Africa and Asia by 2050, warns new report. A report has warned that people in Africa and Asia could also become destitute as staple more than double in price by 2050 as a result of extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will transform the way the world farms. As food experts gather at two major conferences to discuss how to feed the nine billion people expected to be alive ... |
| Study Shows How Obesity and Heart Disease Lead to High Blood Pressure Posted:  Scientists have discovered a protein that acts as a communication hub for controlling blood pressure, and suggested that abnormal activation of this protein may be a mechanism that links heart disease and obesity to high blood pressure. "Our study identifies the protein called mTORC1 in the hypothalamus as a key player in the control of blood pressure. Targeting mTORC1 pathways may, therefore, be a promising strategy for the management of cardiovascular risk ... |
| Severity of Sleep Apnea is Influenced by Race: Study Posted:  Obstructive sleep apnea severity is higher in African-American men in certain age ranges, finds new study. "The results show that in certain age groups, after correcting for other demographic factors, the severity of sleep apnea as measured by the apnea-hypopnea index is higher in African-American males than Caucasian males," said James Rowley, PhD, the study's senior investigator, professor of medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit ... |
| Philippines Health Department Warns Against E-cigarette Use Posted:  Saying the tobacco substitute could turn children into smokers, the Philippine health department warned the public against electronic cigarettes. E-cigarettes have been gaining favour among Filipinos as higher tobacco taxes make smoking more expensive. Food and Drug Administration director-general Kenneth Hartigan-Go disputed what he said were claims by vendors that electronic cigarettes helped smokers kick the habit. "Wittingly or unwittingly, ... |
| First Human Case of H7N9 Bird Flu Reported in Beijing Posted:  ... |
| Researchers Shed Light on Use of Opioids on Sickle Cell Disease Patients Posted:  At Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), researchers sought to shed light on the biopsychosocial and spiritual effects of taking prescribed opioids to treat noncancer pain. Such questions have received little examination and impact the challenging decision of when and how to use opioids, the study authors wrote in a scientific poster presented today at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. They found that taking opioids had many and ... |
| Scientists Develop New Antibiotic Drug That Targets Weaknesses in Bacteria Posted:  At the Rockefeller University and Astex Pharmaceuticals, scientists have developed a new antibiotic. This antibiotic has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria including drug-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs, in mice. The antibiotic, Epimerox, targets weaknesses in bacteria that have long been exploited by viruses that attack them, known as phage, and has even been shown to protect animals from fatal ... |
| Two Year Old Children can Understand Basic Grammar: Research Posted:  A new study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that children as young as 2 can understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults. The study also applied the same statistical analysis on data from one of the most famous animal language-acquisition experiments - Project Nim - and showed that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was taught sign language over the course of many years, never grasped rules like those in ... |
| Indian Surrogate Mothers' Industry is Booming Posted:  Thousands of childless foreign couples are looking for a low-cost, legally simple route to parenthood in the Asian sub-continent, making surrogacy a booming industry in India. For some couples surrogacy is their only chance to having a child. Each year hundreds of Americans go to India for the service. According to CBS News, though the surrogacy business is booming in India it is however unregulated. The desperation of many poor surrogate ... |
| Posted:  A Stanford University School of Medicine study has found that mining the records of routine interactions between patients and their care providers can detect drug side effects a couple of years before any official alert. The study, led by Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, will be published online April 10 in iNature Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics/i. This approach is a step forward in mining patient-based information, ... |
| Pre-Surgical Use of Dexmedetomidine Reduced Remifentanil-Induced Hyperalgesia Posted:  New research has indicated that co-treatment with dexmedetomidine alleviated symptoms in surgical patients who demonstrated heightened pain sensitivity, or hyperalgesia, induced by high doses of a synthetic opioid. Study investigators, who presented their results today at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, concluded that dexmedetomidine may be a new and effective treatment option for opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH). OIH ... |
| Got Baby Milk? Chinese Dealers Strip Shelves Worldwide Posted:  Networks of baby formula traffickers are shipping milk powder to Chinese parents who fear local products are not safe. Chinese parents haunted by scandals involving poisoned baby milk will pay premium prices -- three or four times as much as domestic brands -- for formula from Europe, where stores are limiting sales in the wake of the shortages. Even the Chinese buyers are complaining. "Its getting harder to find milk powder, for each box I have to walk ... |
| French Senate Adopts Gay Marriage Law Posted:  A landmark bill granting homosexual couples the right to marry and adopt has been approved by France's upper house Senate. The vote came after a heated debate and mass protests from conservatives and religious groups. The vote, by a show of hands, puts the bill on track to become law within weeks following a second reading in the lower house National Assembly to approve several technical amendments introduced in the Senate. The ruling Socialists said ... |
| Manmohan Singh Says Poverty is India's Greatest Problem Posted:  Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that social evils associated with poverty cannot be dealt with effectively in a short period of time. Dr. Singh said the Indian Government is making very conscious efforts to raise the level of living by a policy of sustained growth of 7 to 8 percent per annum for the last decade. Dr. Singh, who was addressing a joint media conference along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said that his government is committed ... |
| Obesity in Marmosets Linked to Early Introduction of Solid Foods Posted:  Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have found that baby marmoset monkeys that began eating solid food earlier than their peers were significantly more likely to be obese at 1 year of age. This early life obesity resulted in metabolic damage such as insulin resistance and poor blood sugar control, a companion study showed. Marmosets on track for obesity appeared to ... |
| Health Ministry to Promote Traditional Indian Systems of Medicine Abroad Posted:  An official confirmed that the health ministry has signed agreements and set up research facilities to collaborate with international universities as part of an initiative to promote traditional Indian systems of medicine abroad. The department of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) has been making efforts to promote Indian systems of medicine abroad, a health ministry official said Wednesday. Among initiatives taken ... |
| New Drugs Possible Via GUMBOS Technology Posted:  Researchers are finding new uses for existing technologies including potential new drug development. Mention a breakthrough involving "gumbo" technology in this city, and people think of a new twist on The Local Dish, the stew that's the quintessence of southern Louisiana cooking. But scientific presentations at a meeting of the world's largest scientific society this week are focusing on what may be an advance in developing GUMBOS-based materials with far-reaching ... |
| Phase 1 Clinical Trial Reveals Positive Data for BIND Theraputics' Drug for Solid Tumors Posted:  Presenting the data at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2013 Annual Meeting, biopharmaceutical company BIND Therapeutics revealed that phase 1 clinical data for BIND-014, the company's leading drug candidate, have been positive. Clinical investigators presented the Phase 1 results with BIND-014, its targeted docetaxel Accurin, in 28 heavily-pretreated patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors. In the study, BIND-014 was shown to be generally ... |
| Baby With Fluid Inside Skull may be Left to Die Due to Poverty Posted:  An 18-month old baby girl from a rural village in Tripura is suffering from a condition that has caused a massive swelling of fluid inside her skull. The baby could die as her father cannot afford the cost of her treatment. Roona Begum from Jirania village is suffering from a condition known as hydrocephalus which requires surgery to release the buildup of cerebrospinal fluid inside the skull. However her father, Abdul Rahman earns less than Rs 150 ( (Dollar) 2.50) ... |
| FDA Panel to Review New Avandia Results Posted:  The US Food and Drug Administration revealed it will constitute a panel of independent experts to review the results of a new analysis which re-examines the risk of heart defects posed by GlaxoSmithKline's blockbuster drug Avandia. The drug was severely restricted in 2010 after a number of studies found that it increased the risk of heart attacks. However a GSK commissioned reanalysis of a study, called RECORD, by researchers at Duke University found no 'statistically ... |
| Excessive Usage of Social Media may Harm Marriage Posted:  Increased use of social media to communicate with your partner may damage your relationship, especially if you are married, a new study conducted by researchers at University of Oxford reveals. The researchers looked into how 'media multiplexity', the ability to communicate via several communications channels, affected relationships. According to the theory, the number of media channels used to communicate, the frequency with which they are used and the strength of ... |
| Oz Mum Deliberately Gave Chemo Drugs to Daughter to Rake in Donations Posted:  A 22-year old mother in Brisbane, Australia, is being accused of deliberately poisoning her 4-year old daughter with chemotherapy drugs in order to get cash through donations raised from public. The mother created a Facebook page, which has over 7,000 followers, where she posted pictures of the girl lying prostrate in a hospital bed, covered in bruises and without her hair. She bought the drugs from the internet and visited the hospital on a number of occasions ... |
| Eating Raw Fruits may Not Lower Blood Pressure Posted:  Contrary to findings of previous studies, eating raw fruits does not lower blood pressure, a new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals. Researchers at Imperial College London School of Public Health analyzed results of a previous study involving over 4,600 middle aged men and women from UK, US, Japan and China. The participants had their blood pressure measured and also were able to recall what they had eaten in the last two ... |
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