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- Health Insurance Exchange in Ohio Still Ambiguous
- Health Minister Says Nearly One Percent Children Diabetic
- Widening Health Cover in India
- People with Metabolic Syndrome and Heart Disease can Eat Eggs
- New Therapy for Liver Fibrosis Discovered
- Vaginal Discharge - Symptom Evaluation
- Shirodhara
- Simple Rules to Long Life Revealed
- New Genetic Links to Juvenile Arthritis Identified
- Arm-lift Surgery Gains Appeal
- Sibling Psychology: Driving Force Behind Boston Marathon Attack
- Tart Cherries Reduce Stroke Risk
- Personality Helps Fishes Survive
- Pakistan's Begging Business
- Inhibiting Enzymes in the Cell may Prevent Cancer Cell Division and Growth
- Earth's Surface Temperature Linked to Shift in Atmospheric CO2
- Medical Interns Spend Very Little Time at Patient Bedside
- Scripts Help Novice Instructors Teach Pediatric CPR to Healthcare Providers
- Patient Centered Medical Home Promotes Health
- Targeted Screening for Hepatitis C is Cost-effective: Research
- Cancer's Biggest Foe
- Natural Selection Keeps Up
- World's Second-most Famous Amnesiac Recalled by Neuroscientists
- Study Demonstrates Accuracy of NASH Diagnosis
- Anti-Smoking Ads With Strong Arguments Trigger Brain Activity
- Atrophy Associated With Multiple Sclerosis in Brain
- Roadside Drug Testing Brought Closer By Breath Study
- Outcomes of Use of Beta-blockers Around Time of Surgery for Higher-risk Patients Examined By Study
- New Research Finds That Microwave Imaging can See How Well Treatment is Progressing
- Health-care Worker Visits Increase Hepatitis B Screening Rates for Hmong Americans: Researchers
- Researchers are Attempting To Decode Touch
- New Agent Might Control Breast-cancer Growth and Spread: Study
- New Factor That may Contribute to Skin Ageing
- Office Kitchens may be Dirtier Than Toilets
- How Human Immune System Responds to Stress in Space
- Muscular Dystrophy Research Aided by 'Light'
- Lung Cancer Patients Who Carry Specific HER2 Mutations may Benefit from Certain Anti-HER2 Treatments
- Dinner Tab at (Dollar) 36,750 at Chef's Auction
- Russia's Failure to Move Away from Soviet-Era Psychiatric Care Exposed by Fire Deaths
- Central Province of Hunan in China Records First Case of H7N9 Bird Flu
- Dutch Queen-To-Be is Elegance Personified
- Clues to Making Vaccine for Infant Respiratory Illness
- Scientists Find Missing Link in Parkinson's Disease
| Health Insurance Exchange in Ohio Still Ambiguous Posted:  Ohio will enroll hundreds of thousands citizens for health care in their health care exchange. By 1supst/sup October the federal government will prepare the health care exchange in Ohio and 33 other states - which opted for federally run or partnership exchanges. According to the federal government it will spend (Dollar) 54 million of public-health funds - of which Ohio's share is (Dollar) 2.26 million, to hire 'insurance navigators' from nonprofit groups - to educate ... |
| Health Minister Says Nearly One Percent Children Diabetic Posted:  A recent survey conducted by the government has found that more than than one percent of children suffer from diabetes, says Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azad, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, said that under the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke, a study was conducted on 92,047 school children in Nainital (Uttarakhand), Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh), and Bhilwara (Rajasthan). "According ... |
| Widening Health Cover in India Posted:  The inflation in medical costs and lack of insurance cover are big fears for India, though with Health Insurance Regulations which will standardize the products to a certain extent to reduce uncertainty and problems in settlements. With health insurance, a much needed respite is offered in cases of medical emergencies - where room costs, doctor's fees, medicines and services add up. Health Insurance offers General Insurance companies good growth potentials ... |
| People with Metabolic Syndrome and Heart Disease can Eat Eggs Posted:  Whole eggs can be a part of healthy diet even in those with metabolic syndrome or heart disease, according to new studies presented at the Experimental Biology (EB) 2013 conference. What is the role of diet and nutrition in overall health? Scientists from around the world are sharing their research findings on this very important aspect of life at the Experimental Biology meet in Boston. And many of the papers are about whether high risk groups, including metabolic ... |
| New Therapy for Liver Fibrosis Discovered Posted:  Calcipotriol - a synthetic form of vitamin D could be used as a potential new treatment for liver disease, say scientists. Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. In industrialized countries, the main causes of liver injury leading to fibrosis include chronic hepatitis virus infection, excess alcohol consumption and, increasingly, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis ... |
| Vaginal Discharge - Symptom Evaluation Posted:  Vaginal discharge varies in amount, consistency, colour and smell among women. A sudden change in the type of discharge signifies a problem. |
| Posted:  In Ayurveda "Shirodhara" is a treatment which totally relaxes the nervous system. For a person who is under mental stress, it lowers the metabolic rate and establishes a blissful feeling, and a person undergoing the therapy is fully refreshed and rejuvenated. The Literal Meaning of Shirodhara: "Shiro" in Sanskrit means head and "Dhara" means flow - the flow of oil on the head means shirodhara. This treatment works at both the physical ... |
| Simple Rules to Long Life Revealed Posted:  Seven golden rules revealed in a recent study can protect you against a string of killer diseases and add years to your life. Following seven golden rules not only cut the risk of dying from cancer by 20 per cent, it also slashed risks of lung disease by half and heart attacks by 44 per cent, the study of nearly 380,000 people by scientists at Imperial College London found. The researchers noted that those who stick closely to the rules, which ... |
| New Genetic Links to Juvenile Arthritis Identified Posted:  Recent study has increased the number of genes linked to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) from three to seventeen. Published April 21, the study involves an international research team that analyzed 2,816 JIA cases recruited from more than 40 pediatric rheumatology clinics. It was the largest collaborative patient population of JIA to date, including patient DNA samples from across the United States, Germany and United Kingdom, according to Susan Thompson, ... |
| Posted:  In the United States, plastic surgery to remove excess fat and skin on the upper arms has gained appeal, say experts. More than 15,000 US women had the procedure known as arm lifts, or brachioplasty, done last year, at a cost of (Dollar) 61 million nationwide, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The surgery is most popular among women over 40, but a few hundred men had the operation last year. "Women are paying more attention ... |
| Sibling Psychology: Driving Force Behind Boston Marathon Attack Posted:  According to a recent study Boston bombers were influenced by sibling psychology. The brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who have been the chief suspects for the Boston bombings are not the only siblings who have committed crimes together in history, the CBS News reports. According to the report, the attacks on September 11, 2001 had also been prompted by the three brothers, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, and Mohammed Atef, where ... |
| Tart Cherries Reduce Stroke Risk Posted:  Tart cherries were found to reduce the risk of stroke, finds new study. A class of drugs called PPAR agonists that help regulate fat and glucose was considered promising by doctors who prescribed them for patients with metabolic syndrome - a collection of risk factors linked to heart disease and type 2. However, studies have shown the long-term use of these drugs can also increase stroke risk, which has prevented many from securing FDA approval. ... |
| Personality Helps Fishes Survive Posted:  A new study has revealed that when devoid of resources, personality traits like aggression could be more helpful in helping fishes survive. The study - by scientists at the University of Exeter and Texas A and M University - found that small fish were able to do well in contests for food against larger fish if they were aggressive. Dr Alastair Wilson from Biosciences at the University of Exeter said that their research suggests that personality can have ... |
| Posted:  The crude sight of malnutritioned and disabled children begging for hours a day on the stress of Pakistan is a grim reminder of the millions of people who live lives in poverty. Yet malnourished members of the underclass have to collect not just enough spare change to feed themselves, but to pay off police and gang bosses. Investigators say begging has turned into an organised business with mafia controlling key locations where they deploy their own ... |
| Inhibiting Enzymes in the Cell may Prevent Cancer Cell Division and Growth Posted:  According to researchers at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, blocking certain enzymes in the cell may prevent cancer cell division and growth. The discovery is published in the April 25, 2013 issue of the journal iMolecular Cell/i. In order to divide, a cell needs to create copies of its genetic material to provide to the new cells, called the "daughter" cells. Several enzymes in the cells, ... |
| Earth's Surface Temperature Linked to Shift in Atmospheric CO2 Posted:  Further evidence is being provided by new test results that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked. Nearly thirty-four million years ago, the Earth underwent a transformation from a warm and high-carbon dioxide "greenhouse" state to a lower-CO2, variable climate of the modern "icehouse" world. Massive ice sheets grew across the Antarctic continent, major animal groups shifted, and ocean ... |
| Medical Interns Spend Very Little Time at Patient Bedside Posted:  According to a new Johns Hopkins study, medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer. The study closely followed first-year residents at Baltimore's two large academic medical centers. Indeed, the study found, interns spent nearly as much time walking (7 percent) as they did caring for patients at the bedside. Compared with similar time-tracking studies ... |
| Scripts Help Novice Instructors Teach Pediatric CPR to Healthcare Providers Posted:  Novice instructors use new, low-tech teaching techniques to improve training for healthcare providers in performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on children who suffer cardiac arrest. Researchers in a large multicenter study say their findings hold the potential to standardize and upgrade life support training by hundreds of thousands of instructors around the world. "In the U.S. alone, over 8,000 children a year have a cardiac arrest, but providers ... |
| Patient Centered Medical Home Promotes Health Posted:  Physicians are proposing that current pediatric guidelines and practices could be implemented within a Patient Centered Medical Home model to address social determinants of health. The physicians are from the Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). The article, published in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i (iJAMA/i), also suggests that these guidelines ... |
| Targeted Screening for Hepatitis C is Cost-effective: Research Posted:  At the University of Cincinnati, researchers have found that targeted screening for populations with a higher estimated prevalence for hepatitis C may be cost-effective. These findings, published in the April 24, 2013, online edition of the journal iClinical Infectious Diseases/i, indicate that targeted screening for chronic hepatitis C virus infection is cost-effective when the prevalence of hepatitis C in a population exceeds 0.84 percent (84/10,000). The ... |
| Posted:  Cancer cells are known for causing trouble, mostly because they multiply recklessly, don't seem to die, and metastasize to different places where they don't belong . One protein that keeps healthy cells from behaving this way is a tumor suppressor named p53. This protein stops potentially precancerous cells from dividing and induces suicide in those that are damaged beyond repair. Not surprisingly, p53's critical function is disrupted in most cancers. In the April ... |
| Posted:  In many places around the globe, people are living longer, and having fewer children. But that's not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia, published in the Cell Press journal iCurrent Biology/i on April 25, shows that this modern-day "demographic transition" may lead women to be taller and slimmer, too. "This is a reminder that declines in mortality rates do not necessarily mean that evolution stops, but that it changes," says Ian Rickard of Durham ... |
| World's Second-most Famous Amnesiac Recalled by Neuroscientists Posted:  For the first time, neuroscientists have described in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain. Principal investigator Larry R. Squire, PhD, professor in the departments of Neurosciences, Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran Affairs San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) - with colleagues at UC Davis and ... |
| Study Demonstrates Accuracy of NASH Diagnosis Posted:  ulliAt the International Liver CongressTM 2013, a Chinese study presented has demonstrated the accuracy of a non-invasive test for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) diagnosis. liNon Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease (NAFLD) comprises two groups of patients; one group withsimple steatosis which is relatively benign and one group with NASH which may progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Up to now the only means of distinguishing the two was to perform ... |
| Anti-Smoking Ads With Strong Arguments Trigger Brain Activity Posted:  For the first time, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of the Pennsylvania has shown an association between cognition and brain activity in response to content and format in televised ads and behavior. Researchers have shown that an area of the brain that initiates behavioral changes had greater activation in smokers who watched anti-smoking ads with strong arguments versus those with weaker ones, and irrespective of flashy elements, like ... |
| Atrophy Associated With Multiple Sclerosis in Brain Posted:  According to a new study, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of atrophy in an important area of the brain are an accurate predictor of multiple sclerosis (MS). The study got published online in the journal iRadiology/i. According to the researchers, these atrophy measurements offer an improvement over current methods for evaluating patients at risk for MS. MS develops as the body's immune system attacks and damages myelin, the protective ... |
| Roadside Drug Testing Brought Closer By Breath Study Posted:  Further evidence that illegal drugs can be detected in the breath, opening up the possibility of a roadside breathalyzer test to detect substances such as cocaine, amphetamines and icannabis/i were provided by a group of researchers. Using a simple, commercially available breath sampler, the researchers have successfully identified a range of 12 substances in the breath of 40 patients recruited from a drug emergency clinic in Stockholm. Their findings ... |
| Outcomes of Use of Beta-blockers Around Time of Surgery for Higher-risk Patients Examined By Study Posted:  According to a study in the April 24 issue of iJAMA/i, patients at elevated cardiac risk who were treated with beta-blockers on the day of or following noncardiac, nonvascular surgery had significantly lower rates of 30-day mortality and cardiac illness. "The effectiveness and safety of perioperative beta-blockade [the process of inhibiting beta-receptor activity] for patients undergoing noncardiac surgery remains controversial. Class I recommendations in ... |
| New Research Finds That Microwave Imaging can See How Well Treatment is Progressing Posted:  New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal iBreast Cancer Research/i finds that microwave imaging can be used to monitor how well treatment for breast cancer is working. Microwave tomography was able to distinguish between breast cancer, benign growths, and normal tissue. Eight women with breast cancer were treated with chemotherapy until surgery, as part of their normal therapy. During treatment, magnetic resonance image was supplemented ... |
| Health-care Worker Visits Increase Hepatitis B Screening Rates for Hmong Americans: Researchers Posted:  UC Davis researchers in the first study of its kind have found that lay health workers increased screening rates for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and knowledge about the disease among a group of Asian Americans, known as the Hmong. The study appears online today in iCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers (and) Prevention/i. Hmong Americans, who originate from the mountainous areas of Laos, are at elevated risk for chronic hepatitis B - the major risk factor for liver cancer. ... |
| Researchers are Attempting To Decode Touch Posted:  The sensory representations within our brain help us know the world. The electrical activation of neural cells, the code that contains the information that is constantly processed by the brain performs such 'reconstructions.' If we wish to understand what are the rules followed by the representation of the world inside the brain we have to comprehend how electrical activation is linked to the sensory experience. For this reason, a team of researchers including ... |
| New Agent Might Control Breast-cancer Growth and Spread: Study Posted:  A new study led by researchers suggests that an unusual experimental drug can reduce breast-cancer aggressiveness, reverse resistance to the drug fulvestrant and perhaps improve the effectiveness of other breast-cancer drugs. The researchers are from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James). The findings of the laboratory and animal study, published in the ... |
| New Factor That may Contribute to Skin Ageing Posted:  A new study reveals evidences that longwave ultraviolet radiation may induce the formation of a protein that could result in premature skin ageing. The findings demonstrate that aspects of photoaging, the process of skin aging by chronic exposure to ultraviolet radiation, could be linked to genetic factors that accelerate the aging process when induced by the environment. The study, published in the iJournal of Investigative Dermatology/i, was led by BUSM co-authors ... |
| Office Kitchens may be Dirtier Than Toilets Posted:  People living on food from office canteens, here's an eye-opener. A study has found most of the kitchens at the workplace are dangerously dirty, to the point that they could cause illness. The study has revealed that half of surfaces in workplace kitchens are contaminated by dangerously high levels of coliforms -- the bacteria present in faeces which can lead to outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease, Daily Mail reported. The swab results, carried out ... |
| How Human Immune System Responds to Stress in Space Posted:  Results of study on biological samples from space shuttle Atlantis for nearly two years, have shed light on how the human immune system responds to stress and assaults while in space - and maybe here on Earth. Weakening of the immune system associated with spaceflight is an area that needs a thorough investigation," said Marti Jett, director of the Integrative Systems Biology Program at the U.S. Army Medical Command. "Astronauts subjected to microgravity ... |
| Muscular Dystrophy Research Aided by 'Light' Posted:  Scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine have now created a mouse model of muscular dystrophy, in which the degenerating muscle gives off visible light. The observed luminescence occurs only in damaged muscle tissue and in direct proportion to cumulative damage sustained in that tissue, permitting precise monitoring of the disease's progress in the mice, the researchers say. While this technique cannot be used in humans, it paves the ... |
| Lung Cancer Patients Who Carry Specific HER2 Mutations may Benefit from Certain Anti-HER2 Treatments Posted:  New study suggest that anti-HER2 treatments, like the widely used breast cancer agent trastuzumab (Herceptin), have anti-cancer effects in a small subset of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring specific HER2 protein mutations. The retrospective study was conducted in Europe. Although genetic changes cause tumor cells to make too much of the HER2 protein in up to 20% of lung cancers, mutations in the HER2 gene occur in only 1-2% of ... |
| Dinner Tab at (Dollar) 36,750 at Chef's Auction Posted:  In order to have dinner for four with famed chef Ferran Adria, an Asian gourmet has dished out (Dollar) 36,750 at a New York auction. The dizzy tab contributed to a (Dollar) 913,605 sale at Sotheby's late Friday that was based on the revolutionary Catalan cook's stellar wine collection, which he sold along with kitchen gear, two years after shuttering his Michelin three-star elBulli restaurant near Barcelona. A first half of the auction was held at Sotheby's in Hong ... |
| Russia's Failure to Move Away from Soviet-Era Psychiatric Care Exposed by Fire Deaths Posted:  Over 36 mentally ill patients died in Russia following a fire at a dilapidated wooden psychiatric facility, underlining the presence of the old Soviet system of punitive psychiatry used against political dissidents Two staff and 36 patients -- apparently too sedated or disorientated to escape from their mass dormitory with barred windows -- perished in the fire that broke out on Friday. In the wake of the tragedy, Russia's national rights ombudsman Valery ... |
| Central Province of Hunan in China Records First Case of H7N9 Bird Flu Posted:  The new strain of bird flu virus, H7N9, is quickly spreading to other parts of China with Chinese health officials confirming that it has now spread to the central province of Hunan. A 64-year-old woman in Shaoyang City, who developed a fever four days after coming into contact with poultry, was confirmed to have the virus, the Xinhua state news agency reported. It follows the first confirmed cases in the eastern province of Jiangxi on Thursday and the ... |
| Dutch Queen-To-Be is Elegance Personified Posted:  Dutch queen-to-be Maxima was born to step into royal shoes say designers familiar with the top-to-toe tastes of the classy woman. Valentino remains the Argentine-born princess' favourite couturier for special occasions, and according to Grazia magazine that is where she will get her outfit for Tuesday, when she becomes queen consort at the enthronement of her husband, Netherlands crown prince Willem-Alexander. The Italian stylist also designed her 2002 ... |
| Clues to Making Vaccine for Infant Respiratory Illness Posted:  Researchers have taken a step closer to developing a vaccine for a common childhood disease thanks to an atomic-level snapshot of a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) protein bound to a human antibody. The findings, by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, define the vulnerable shape of a critical RSV component called the fusion glycoprotein./span/spanbr /The NIAID scientists ... |
| Scientists Find Missing Link in Parkinson's Disease Posted:  The missing link between the damage to the body's cellular power plants and Parkinson's disease, which is also linked with some forms of heart failure, has been discovered by Washington University School of Medicine researchers. These cellular power plants are called mitochondria. They manufacture the energy the cell requires to perform its many duties. And while heart and brain tissue may seem entirely different in form and function, one vital characteristic they ... |
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