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Adult Stem Cells from Human Intestinal Tissue Isolated

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For the first time, scientists have isolated adult stem cells from human intestinal tissue. The accomplishment provides a much-needed resource for scientists eager to uncover the true mechanisms of human stem cell biology. It also enables them to explore new tactics to treat inflammatory bowel disease or to ameliorate the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, which often damage the gut. "Not having these cells to study has been a significant ...

Bulgaria Arranges Prayer and Counselling to Stop Suicides

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Free psychological counselling and prayer organisations for all faiths is now been organised by Bulgaria with a view to stop suicides that have swept the country. Religious leaders from the Christian Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches, as well as Muslim and Jewish leaders, agreed Thursday to hold prayers all over the country this weekend following an initiative by President Rosen Plevneliev. Earlier in the week, the health ministry ...

Tonal Languages Tone The Brain for Musical Training

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Non-musicians speaking tonal languages like Cantonese may have a better ear for understanding musical notes, researchers say. Tonal languages, found mainly in Asia, Africa and South America, have an abundance of high and low pitch patterns as part of speech. In these languages, differences in pitch can alter the meaning of a word. Vietnamese, for example, has eleven different vowel sounds and six different tones. Cantonese also has an intricate six-tone system, ...

Effective Interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Over a million adults are exposed to traumatic events every year. Shortly after exposure many experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) such as flashbacks, emotional numbing and difficulty sleeping. Despite this high rate of exposure, little is known about the effectiveness of treatments aimed at preventing and relieving posttraumatic stress symptoms that adults may experience after such events, according to researchers at the RTI-UNC Evidence-based ...

Mass Poultry Slaughter in China

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Mass slaughter of poultry was done at a market by the authorities in Shanghai after the H7N9 bird flu virus claimed the lives of five people. The new strain of the bird flu virus was detected in samples of pigeon, sparking the closure of the market, Xinhua news agency reported. The cull started as experts were attempting to determine how the strain came to infect humans. The total number of confirmed cases now stands at 14, including six ...

Domestic Workers Will Now Have the Same Rights as Salaried Workers in Brazil

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A new amendment to Brazil's constitution will now grant domestic workers, which are more than six million in number, the same rights as salaried workers. The amendment states that domestic employees, which include personal drivers and home-health aides for the elderly, should work a maximum 44 hours a week, with bonuses for overtime and a special rate for night work. The new rules affect some 6.5 million domestic workers, 6.1 million of whom were women, ...

Depression More Likely to Hit College Athletes Than Retired Athletes

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Depression levels were found to be significantly higher in current athletes as compared to former college athletes, shown in a survey. The finding published in iSports Health/i suggests the need for more research to understand depression among college athletes. "We expected to see a significant increase in depression once athletes graduated, but by comparison it appears the stress of intercollegiate athletics may be more significant than we and others anticipated," ...

50pc Workers Suffer Stress, Says Research

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Every day half of British workers feel stress in their jobs, states recent research. One in five workers is too rushed to take a single lunch break during the week, the report said. The study found that bosses do not care about their health as it is no longer a priority in a tough economic climate, the Daily Express reported. The study conducted by the British Heart Foundation found that many workers are desk-bound, with a fifth having ...

Iceland: World's Friendliest Country

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Iceland has been voted as the most welcoming holiday destination in the world, find poll results. Despite its cold weather, visitors to Iceland will not receive a chilly reception - the country was named the world's friendliest, followed by New Zealand and Morocco. In the list of 140 countries ranked by the World Economic Forum, Australia was beaten by countries such as Yemen, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. According to the ...

Blue Colored Skin and Mucus Membranes

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Bluish discoloration of skin and mucous membranes indicates cyanosis. Cyanosis is clinically important, as it is a physical sign for various blood, heart and lung disorders.

Compulsory Treatment Orders Fail to Reduce Psychotic Patient Readmission Rates

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The ethics and effectiveness of Community treatment orders (CTOs) has always been a subject of intense international debate. The first UK-based scientific trial evaluating its effectiveness finds that CTOs fail to cut hospital readmission rates in mental health patients; they rather curtail patients' liberty. A community treatment order allows an eligible patient with psychosis to leave the hospital and get treated in the community. Patients ...

Cell Therapy may be the Next 'Medicine'

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Drugs made from engineered proteins, antibodies and smaller chemicals make it clear today that one day, treating patients with cells will become common. They outlined their vision of cell-based therapeutics as a "third pillar of medicine" in an article published online April 3 in iScience Translational Medicine/i. "Today, biomedical science sits on the cusp of a revolution: the use of human and microbial cells as therapeutic entities," said Wendell Lim, PhD, ...

Cholesterol 'Rafts' May Now Help Treat Cancer

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Nucleic acids like DNA, siRNA and miRNA, if pass through our cell membrane, they can reprogram cancer cells. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal iTherapeutic Delivery/i shows that cholesterol "rafts" can shepherd genetic payloads into cancer cells. "There are many promising therapeutic applications for nucleic acids, but because they can't diffuse across cell membranes on their own, delivery to cancer cells has been a ...

New Findings in Mitochondrial Biology

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The importance of the protein MTERF1 that scientists had is now changed, all thanks to the new findings in mitochondrial biology. For the first time, Max Planck researcher Mugen Terzioglu and her colleagues in Germany and Sweden investigated in vivo what was up to now only explored in cell culture. Using the mouse as a model organism, she made a surprising discovery: MTERF1 does after all not play the key role in mitochondrial transcription and translation that was hitherto ...

Proof of Extra Terrestrial Life may Lie in Our Genes

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Researchers suggest that the presence of alien life may be decoded through the messages stored in the cells of our bodies. Vladimir I. shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan, and Maxim A. Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, have hypothesized that an intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code would be a mathematical and semantic message that cannot be accounted for by Darwinian evolution, the Discovery News reported. They ...

Obesity Ups Risk of Kidney Disease

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Being obese in early adulthood may double the risk of chronic kidney disease in older age, reveals study. Larger waist-to-hip ratios ("apple-shaped" bodies) during middle age are also linked with chronic kidney disease at age 60 to 64 years. The findings emphasize the importance of excess weight as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Because many populations across the globe continue to gain excess weight, Richard Silverwood, ...

Salt - To Add or Not To?

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Can't resist the bag of salted chips? Here are reasons you should, and ways you can make it easier to lower your salt consumption. Read on Salt is one of the basic component and nutritional necessity of the body. A deficiency of this important substance (though rarely found) can be dangerous, and can create electrolyte imbalance which can lead to many other health problems. It is for this very reason that dehydrated people are advised to replenish ...

Study Says Brain Stimulation may Treat Cocaine Addiction

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Stimulating a sleep brain region in cocaine addict rats can wipe away cocaine addiction, a technique that should also work in humans, scientists said Wednesday. A team in the United States trained rats to "self-administer"cocaine by pressing two levers. After several weeks of training, the rats were given a mild foot shock whenever self-administering, causing 70 percent of them to give up the drug, the researchers wrote in the journal Nature. But ...

Cut Salt, Add Potassium to Reduce Stroke, Heart Disease Risk

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Cutting salt and increasing the levels of potassium can have major health benefits, say studies published in BMJ. Such a strategy will save millions of lives every year from heart disease and stroke, say experts. Much evidence shows that reducing salt intake lowers blood pressure and thereby reduces the risk of stroke and heart disease. Less is known about the potential benefits of increasing potassium intake, but lower potassium consumption has ...

Former Head Girl Succumbs to Severe Eating Disorder

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A former head girl of Heathfield School in Ascot, Berkshire, succumbed to severe form of eating disorder and overdose of laxatives. Georgia Willson-Pemberton was highly intelligent and gold medal winner of British youth skiing competition and had appeared in the high society magazine Tatler. As a head girl, she had earned 29,000-a-year. In 2008, Georgia's parents noticed severe weight loss and from then on, she had been sent to several residential clinics. ...

Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis May be Heightened With Low Testosterone Levels

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In a recent study published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Disease, researchers suggest that low levels of sex hormone, testosterone, in men may indicate a heightened risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis later in life. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden identified men with rheumatoid arthritis from a large health survey called the, which tracked the health of more than 33,000 people from 1974. They were able to analyze the blood samples of 104 ...

Researchers are Working on Developing Biodegradable Implants to Treat Bone Fractures

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Researchers from University of the Basque Country are working on developing biodegradable implants made from plastic polymers and bioglass to treat severely fractured bones. Currently metal implants are used to help bone regeneration in fractures. Usually a second operation is required to remove the implants once the bones are repaired. The biodegradable implants eliminate the need for second operation, as the designed implants would gradually degrade ...

Missing Wisdom Teeth May be Due to Childhood Dental Anesthesia

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Researchers from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine have found that children who received dental anesthesia in their gums between the ages of two and six were more likely not to develop wisdom teeth as they grow up. The investigators analyzed the dental records of 220 patients who had received dental anesthesia between the ages of two and six and found that kids who had received anesthesia were 4.3 times more likely to have no wisdom tooth development compared ...

Change in Cognitive Function Following Physical, Mental Activity in Older Adults Examined By Study

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According to a report, a randomized controlled trial finds that 12 weeks of physical plus mental activity in inactive older adults with cognitive complaints was associated with significant improvement in cognitive function but there was no difference between intervention and control groups. The report was published Online First by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, a JAMA Network publication. An epidemic of dementia worldwide is anticipated during the next 40 years ...

Study: Newly Approved Blood Thinner may Increase Susceptibility to Some Viral Infections

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A study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina indicates that a newly approved blood thinner that blocks a key component of the human blood clotting system may increase the risk and severity of certain viral infections, including flu and myocarditis, a viral infection of the heart and a significant cause of sudden death in children and young adults. For the past 50 years, people with the heartbeat irregularity, atrial fibrillation, and others at ...

Personalized Brain Mapping Technique Preserves Function Following Brain Tumor Surgery: Research

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Important pathways in the brain can be visualized by neurosurgeons using an imaging technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), to better adapt brain tumor surgeries and preserve language, visual and motor function while removing cancerous tissue. In the latest issue of iNeurosurgical Focus/i, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania review research showing that this ability to visualize relevant white matter tracts ...

Promise in Restoring Near Vision Without Glasses Shown By New Technique

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Most people have age-related declines in near vision (presbyopia) by middle age and require bifocals or reading glasses. According to a study, an emerging technique called hyperopic orthokeratology (OK) may provide a new alternative for restoring near vision without the need for glasses. The study titled "Refractive Changes from Hyperopic Orthokeratology Monovision in Presbyopes", is appearing in the April issue of iOptometry and Vision Science/i/a, official ...

Brain Cancer Treatment Using Genetic Material from Bone Marrow Cells Discovered By Researchers

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Neurological researchers have discovered a novel approach for treatment of tumor in a a first-of-its-kind experiment using microvesicles generated from mesenchymal bone marrow cells (MSCs) to treat cancer. The researchers are from the Henry Ford Hospital. Specifically, the research team found that introducing genetic material produced by MSCs, significantly reduced a particularly resistant form of malignant brain tumor in living lab rats. "This is the first foray ...

Chinese Man Dies of H7N9 Bird Flu

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