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Vitamin D Lowers Uterine Fibroids Risk

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Women who have adequate levels of vitamin D are less likely to develop uterine fibroids, finds study. Fibroids, also known as uterine leiomyomata, are noncancerous tumors of the uterus. Fibroids often result in pain and bleeding in premenopausal women, and are the leading cause of hysterectomy in the United States. The study of 1,036 women, aged 35-49, living in the Washington, D.C., area from 1996 to 1999, was led by Donna Baird, Ph.D., ...

Cataract

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Cataract is clouding of the lens of the eye. It usually affects both eyes, but almost always one eye is affected earlier than the other.

Health Insurance Options

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Employer based health insurance originated during World War II, with the wage controls - companies needed to attract quality workers, said Dr. John Rugge, chief executive officer of Hudson Headwaters Health Network. "And what transpired was that employers liked that benefit, it served them well, and the insurance companies really liked it," Rugge said Thursday at a public forum on health care reform. "And so most every president since that time has said, 'How ...

Denial of Health Care is Appalling

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Medical treatment is a human right, it should be accessible to all American families, without the U.S businesses being forced to pay employee families - the government should take onus for them. When Gov. Tomblin should agree to expand Medicaid under Obamacare as would make no sense to refuse. Under Obamacare families earning up to 138%of the federal poverty level would be covered under Medicaid. In West Virginia this would mean providing ...

Happiness Linked With Having More Sex: Study

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A recent study finds that people who have higher levels of sexual frequency report higher levels of happiness. That's one finding of Tim Wadsworth, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, who recently published the results of a study of how sexual frequency corresponds with happiness. As has been well documented with income, the happiness linked with having more sex can rise or fall depending on how individuals ...

Western-style Diet Leads to Early Death

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Sticking to Western-style diet (fried and sweet food, processed and red meat, refined grains, and high-fat dairy products) could lead people to age poorly and die earlier, say researchers. "The impact of diet on specific age-related diseases has been studied extensively, but few investigations have adopted a more holistic approach to determine the association of diet with overall health at older ages," lead investigator Tasnime Akbaraly, PhD, Inserm, Montpellier, ...

Urine Test Identifies Babies at Most Risk of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

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Abnormal levels of gut bacteria can be determined from urine samples of premature babies before the onset of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), states research. Increased level of Firmicutes or Enterobacteriaceae, and lacked the iPropionibacterium/i found in healthy babies. NEC is a common but devastating problem of premature babies - affecting about 10% of infants born at under 29 weeks, about a third will die. To find out what the difference is between ...

Eat Poultry Despite Bird Flu, Urge China Media

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Chinese state media urged people to keep chicken and help revive the poultry industry after the H7N9 bird flu virus began infecting humans. Altogether 61 people have been confirmed as infected and 14 have died in the two weeks since Chinese authorities said they found the strain in humans for the first time. "The public should somewhat restrain their anxieties to avoid this becoming a disaster for the whole poultry industry," the Global Times said ...

Vulvar Cancer

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Vulvar cancer is a rare cancer that can occur at any age. Vulvar squamous cell carcinoma is the most common type. HPV infection increases the risk of Vulvar cancer.

Start-up Firm Creates Application That Informs People Of Choked Traffic Within A 25-20km Radius

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The creators of the programme said that the start-up firm AmidRay Technologies, has launched a community Android application "Blockout Traffic", which informs people of choked traffic within a 25-30 km radius. This is being billed as the country's "first free-and-easy traffic mobile application" for those on the move. AmidRay Technologies is a start-up firm incubated at Technopark and Startup Village, Kochi, by four youngsters. The application ...

Effects on Radiofrequency Treatment in Heat Lesion Size

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To deliver radiofrequency (RF) treatment, changing the parameters greatly affects the size of the resulting heat lesion. The researchers reported this in a study expected to deliver greater precision and more treatment options in interventional pain management. Results were presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. "This is the most comprehensive study of radiofrequency heat lesion size for pain management to date," ...

First Breast Milk Bank Set Up in Udaipur

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In northwestern India, a mother's milk bank catering to needy infants free of cost has been set up for the first time, say officials. The bank, inaugurated in Rajasthan's Udaipur city, will provide "safe and pasteurised human milk" to children whose mothers are unable to feed them, the chief operations officer of the bank, R. K. Agarwal, told AFP. It is believed to be the first such centre in north India, Agarwal said. Others operate in the south ...

Weight Gain Associated With Heart Disease

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An increase in weight in women damages the heart, similar to that experienced with increasing age, according to a study published in iBMC Medicine/i. Researchers from the University of Oxford studied 1.2 million women over a period of 9 years on an average to study the influence of body mass index on risk of heart disease. The women did not suffer from prior heart disease. The researchers found that small increases ...

Beetroot Juice Helps Lower Blood Pressure

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Daily intake of beetroot juice could help reduce blood pressure, says study. People with high blood pressure who drank about 8 ounces of beetroot juice experienced a decrease in blood pressure of about 10 mm Hg. But the preliminary findings don't yet suggest that supplementing your diet with beetroot juice benefits your health, researchers said. "Our hope is that increasing one's intake of vegetables with a high dietary nitrate content, ...

Cocoa Does a World of Good to Prevent Alzheimer's

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Scientists have said that cocoa in chocolate has protective effects from neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The benefits are achieved as antioxidants in cocoa stimulate crucial pathways at the cellular and molecular level. This is because cocoa stops brain cells from dying at both the cellular and molecular level. The research found that cocoa activates a neuro-protective pathway which has a direct effect in preventing the death ...

Are People Able to Keep Up a Regular Cooking and Exercising Regime?

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Doing both cooking and exercising on a regular basis may not work out in the long run, as adults in America found that spending too much time on either of these activities could lead to compromising one of them totally. The research also showed how 10-minutes of additional time spent in food preparation are linked to reduced chances of exercising. This research is applicable to both men and women, irrespective of whether they are single or married. Parents too shared ...

Can Men Read Women's Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions by Looking into Their Eyes?

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A new study has pointed out that men may fall short in understanding women's emotions and feelings as portrayed in the eyes of women. Men just cannot seem to understand what is going on in the minds of women by viewing their eyes, the research found. On the contrary, men were able to understand male feelings from the eyes of men. "As men were more involved in hunting and territory fights, it would have been important for them to be able to predict and foresee the ...

Abuse Faced By Students Doing Anthropological Fieldwork Reported By Survey

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It appears that college athletes are not the only ones who sometimes suffer at the hands of higher ups. A new report brings to light a more hidden and pernicious problem - the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of students in the field of biological anthropology working in field studies far from home. The report is based on an online survey and telephone interviews that, in a period of less than two months, elicited accounts of abuse from dozens of women ...

MR Images Taken During the Systole Phase Improve Diagnoses of Scars on the Heart: Study

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A new study finds that MR images taken when the ventricles of the heart relax and fill with blood and then when the ventricles contract and eject blood to the rest of the body provide a more complete picture of the extent of myocardial scar in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Detection of scar is important because it helps identify patients who are at higher risk of a fatal event, said Dr. James Fernandez, the first author of the study. The standard ...

Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Brought to Underserved Area of Uganda By New Breast Imaging Algorithm

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In an underserved region of Uganda, radiologists are a step closer to implementing a program for diagnosing and treating women with palpable breast masses. The program combines a unique diagnostic algorithm along with targeted community outreach, said medical student Chris Duncan working with the organization Imaging the World. Imaging the World, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing diagnostic imaging to underserved areas around the world, has multiple ...

Study Finds That New Bird Flu Strain Adapts to Mammals, Humans

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A genetic analysis of the avian flu virus responsible for at least nine human deaths in China portrays a virus evolving to adapt to human cells. This is raising concern about its potential to spark a new global flu pandemic. The collaborative study, conducted by a group led by Masato Tashiro of the Influenza Virus Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, ...

Temple Researchers Discover Clues to Heart Disease in Unexpected Places

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A major factor in the advance of heart disease is the death of heart tissue. A team of scientists at Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Center for Translational Medicine think that this process could be prevented with new medicines. Now, the researchers are one step closer to achieving that goal, thanks to their discovery of a key molecule in an unexpected place in heart cells - mitochondria, tiny energy factories that house the controls capable of setting off cells' ...

Researchers Find New Web-Based Tools to Enhance Recruitment and Prescreening for Clinical Pain Trials

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New ways to use existing Internet tools to recruit more study participants for clinical pain trials and to increase the likelihood that they will remain throughout the study period are being suggested by researchers. An innovative website allowed recruiters to reach out broadly to target and recruit potential subjects and to avoid many of the common difficulties of pain research, according to results presented today at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain ...

Researcher Used ALBA Synchrotron for First Time as a Microscope to Determine Protein Structure

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A team led by David Reverter has determined for the first time the three-dimensional structure of a protein pair: LC8 and Nek9. The researcher is from the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) of the UAB. Depending on whether or not they bind, Nek9 ensures that the chromosomes group and separate correctly during cell division. By analysing the 3D structure, these scientists have discovered a new mechanism that interferes with the protein binding and ...

New Class of Cancer Drugs Safe and Effective Found By TGen-Scottsdale Healthcare Clinical Trial

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The Scottsdale Healthcare's Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) reported the safety and preliminary efficacy of a new class of tumor fighting drugs. Early results from the phase I, first in-human study of an RNA interference (RNAi) drug were announced during the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2013, April 6-10, in Washington, D.C. The drug, TKM-080301 (also known ...

Paving Way for Long-sought Treatments for Liver Disease Is A New Genetic Screen

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One million deaths around the world each year are caused due to chronic liver failure which happens to be a major health problem. A study published April 11th by Cell Press in the journal iCell/i reveals a new type of screen for identifying genes that promote liver repair in mouse models of both acute and chronic liver disease. The study shows that the MKK4 gene could be a promising therapeutic target to enhance liver regeneration and provides a blueprint for future studies ...

Circadian Rhythm And Its Effects On Our Body

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From regulating when plants open their flowers to foiling people when they try to beat jet lag, circadian rhythms keep time for all living things. Day-night cycles are controlled through ancient biological mechanisms, evolutionarily speaking, so in essence, a human has the same internal clock as a fly does. These circadian clocks govern daily rhythms through genes that synchronize molecular pathways that promote or repress protein production, influencing a multitude ...

US Digital public Library Brings American Culture Online

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For those looking for American cultural information online, a new "digital public library" set to launch this month aims to provide an alternative to Google. Visitors will be able to view, for example, letters penned by George Washington, a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, and ambrotype and daguerreotype images of Abraham Lincoln. The Digital Public Library of America site dp.la will launch April 18 with ...