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Dolphin-assisted Childbirth: New Trend Among Expectant Couples

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Dolphin-assisted childbirth is trending among some expectant mothers, claiming it is a more natural, relaxing way to deliver a baby. Adam and Heather Barrington, a North Carolina couple expecting their baby to be delivered in July, have traveled to Hawaii to plan a dolphin-assisted birth at the Sirius Institute. "It is about reconnecting as humans with the dolphins so we can coexist in this world together and learn from one another," Heather ...

Probiotics can Alter Brain Function

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Probiotics can affect brain function in humans, say UCLA researchers. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an emotion-recognition task. The study was conducted by scientists with UCLA's Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress ...

World Multiple Sclerosis Day - 2013

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World Multiple Sclerosis Day (WMSD) is celebrated each year, since 2009, on the 29supth/sup of May. The purpose of the day is to "raise awareness of MS as a global issue and raise funds to support the work of the global MS movement including MS research." WMSD is observed in at least 47 countries the world over. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disorder that affects the nervous system. In people who have MS, the myelin sheath surrounding ...

First Drug Targets in Childhood Genetic Tumor Disorder Identified

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Two mutations central to the development of infantile myofibromatosis (IM) have been discovered by scientists. Infantile myofibromatosis (IM) is a disorder characterized by multiple tumors involving the skin, bone, and soft tissue. The findings, published in the iAmerican Journal of Human Genetics/i, may lead to new treatment options for this debilitating disease, for which the only current treatment option is repeated surgical removal of the tumors. IM ...

Are Doctors Biased Against Obese Patients?

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Research finds that two out of five medical students have a subconscious bias against obese people. This suggests that many obese people may not be getting proper health care. The new study from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center indicates medical fraternity to have a prejudice against obese patients, albeit at a subconscious level. The study published online in the Journal of Academic Medicine reveals that over one-third of medical students had ...

Aspirin Proves Life-saving for Child With Pneumococcal Meningitis

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Robert Airey, from Oxfordshire, was found to be suffering from pneumococcal meningitis and respiratory failure when he was just 9 months old. This was a deadly infection which caused his brain to swell up. The boy experienced a miraculous recovery after doctors used an unconventional therapy, aspirin which saved his life. He had suffered a series of minor strokes and had to be rushed to Southampton Children's Hospital. Doctors were not hopeful of a cure, yet ...

Mothers With Post-natal Depression in North Island can Take Their Baby Along to Hospital

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The much-needed assistance for North Island mothers with post-natal depression is round the corner after many years of discomfort in leaving children behind while availing care at the hospital. In many years, this will perhaps be the first time that new mothers will be permitted to take the baby to hospital with them to avail treatment at hospitals. This was possible in South Island hospitals and not in North Island ones. According to health minister, Tony Ryall, ...

Reduced Neuroplasticity of Depressed Brains Inhibit Learning and Memory

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Researchers found that the brains of depressed people portray a lowered ability to adapt to their environment due to reduced neuroplasticity. The study showed the link between depression and neuroplasticity which affects areas concerned with memory and learning. "We have demonstrated plasticity is reduced when you're depressed," said lead researcher, Professor Colleen Loo, from the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. Scientists ...

Action Against Obesity Urged by WHO

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The UN's health agency has urged action against growing obesity crisis, proposing an action plan that includes taxing unhealthy snacks and rules against marketing junk food to children. Once considered only a problem in high-income countries like the United States, where nearly 70 percent of the adult population is overweight, obesity is now growing fastest in developing nations in Africa and Latin America, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). As ...

Amazing Clip of Patient Playing Guitar During a Brain Surgery

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A recent video posted by UCLA Health in Los Angeles is a remarkable footage of a patient, Brad Carter, undergoing a brain operation to fit a pacemaker to remedy a neurological disorder. A victim of neurological disorder since 2006, he suffered from twitches and tremors. The video clip taken with a Smartphone using the Vine app shows Mr. Carter greeting his parents during the surgery and singing and playing his guitar to check if the pacemaker works. This ...

Female Anti-Polio Worker Shot Dead in Pakistan

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Gunmen shot dead a female anti-polio worker in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on vaccination teams, police said. The two attackers on a motorbike opened fire on the team as they went to administer polio drops on the edge of the city of Peshawar, near the restive Khyber tribal region where the military has been battling homegrown insurgents with links to the Taliban. "One lady worker was killed and another wounded ...

Stress, Multitasking Make Women Prone to Mental Health Problems

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A recent insight has revealed that women are more prone to suffering mental health issues as compared to men. Women are nearly 75% more likely than men to suffer from anxiety disorders. The good part is women are likely to report it than men. The study showed that men tend to report substance misuse disorders rather than other forms of mental health issues. "It could simply be that people have stereotypes about anxiety and that it's more socially acceptable ...

Organic Cosmetics Can Safely Make You Look Beautiful

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Cosmetics with harsh chemicals can be harmful to the skin. Organic Harvest has launched a line of Organic cosmetics that are free from harmful chemicals like parabens and phthalates, among others. No animal ingredients are used in these products nor are they tested on animals, said a statement. In the first phase, Organic Harvest will launch 20 products including face wash, scrub, toner, cream, hair care products and much more. Be it dandruff, hairfall ...

Smartphone Turns Smarter With New App to Spot Toxins and Bacteria

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P align=justifySmartphones are getting smarter by the day and are having people hooked for its multiple benefits via new applications. A recent application by researchers from the University of Illinois can really turn your Smartphone into a walking laboratory. This application uses the phone's in-built camera and processing power to act as a biosensor to spot bacteria, proteins, toxins and other organisms. Such a system could be a boon to researchers ...

Promising Trial Vaccine in China to Prevent Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease

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A trial vaccine has provided significant protection against a virus that can cause potentially deadly hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in children, researchers in China said Wednesday. In the final testing phase, the vaccine proved 90 percent effective, providing protection for at least 12 months against HFMD caused by the enterovirus 71 (EV71), said a study published in The Lancet. Since it was discovered in 1969, EV71 has caused major outbreaks ...

Good Parenting Nurtures Good Genes and Lowers Power of Dangerous Ones

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Parenting the right way can make all the difference to a child's growth and now we have research to back this well-known theory.Good parenting can go a long way in enabling good physical and emotional health in children. Though it may sound cliched, there is a world of truth in this statement. Nurture can go a long way in correcting some of the genetic anomalies and in this respect good parenting helps protect children against the effects of bad genes. Researchers ...

Talking Therapy Works Better to Treat Depression

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A study by international researchers published in this week's iPLOS Medicine/i shows treatments for depression that don't involve antidepressant drugs but rather focus on different forms of talking therapy, known as psychotherapeutic interventions are all beneficial, with no one form of therapy being better than the others. These findings are important as they suggest that patients with depression should discuss different forms of non-drug therapy with their ...

If You Don't Want to Die Avoid Weekend Surgery

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People who undergo weekend non-emergency surgery in English public hospitals have 82 percent higher chance of dying within a month than those treated on a Monday, recent research shows. The odds stacked up for every successive day of the week, with the death risk from Friday surgery 44 percent higher than Monday, said a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Lower weekend staffing levels may be to blame, according to the researchers who ...

When Doctors and Patients Share in Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up: Study

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Doctors and patients have been encouraged to share decision making since the 1980's. Proponents argue that this approach promotes doctor-patient communication, enhances patient satisfaction, improves health outcomes, and even may lower cost. Yet, a hospital-based study found that patients who want to participate in their medical decisions end up spending more time in the hospital and raising costs of their hospital stay by an average of (Dollar) 865. The findings, ...

Preventive Dentist Visits May Not Help Save on Kids' Teeth Costs: Research

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Taking children to the dentist for regular preventive check-ups will lead to fewer pricy restorative procedures like filling a cavity, this might seem like logical thinking. But new findings from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) published online in iPediatrics/i show the opposite. According to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, it is recommended that children see a pediatric dentist as soon as their first tooth appears in order to prevent ...

Sick Workers Pay Price for Chinese Growth: Experts

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Around 200 men set out from Shuangxi's rural idyll to build China's infrastructure and skyscrapers. Now lung disease from dust has killed a quarter of them and 100 more are waiting to die. Back home amid rice paddies and forested hills, Xu Zuoqing walks outside and his face contorts in pain from the effort. As he struggles to breathe, his wife rushes over a stool so he can recuperate. "It's like my lungs are being choked. My chest feels so tight," says ...

A 'Lost Generation' In The Making Is Taking Place In Spain

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Paloma Fernandez has joined the swelling ranks of Spain's "lost generation" that can't find work in a grinding recession, despite having a bachelor's degree, five years of professional experience and speaking three languages. The 28-year-old, who has a degree in translation, lost her job of four years at the justice ministry in December 2011 and as of last month she lost the right to collect unemployment benefits. Since losing her job she has sent out ...

Confed Cup Bans 'Brazil's Vuvuzela'

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Organizers said that the "caxirola", Brazil's percussion answer to South Africa's plastic vuvuzela horn, will be banned at next month's Confederations Cup for security reasons. "Fans will not be allowed in stadiums with musical instruments and that includes the caxirola," said Medeiros Hilario, the official on the Cup's Organizing Committee who is in charge of security. "We will apply this measure during friendly games, then during the Confederations ...

First Same-sex Marriage March Held by Croatia

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The first ever same-sex marriage march in staunchly Catholic and largely conservative Croatia, saw the participation of some 400 people. Croatia is set to join the European Union on July 1. "We seek protection of our basic human rights. Our families are not inferior," gay rights activist Sanja Juras told the crowd. "We expect from the government some concrete actions: right to marriage and common-law marriage," she said. The participants ...

Bike Share Service Launched By New York City

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Ten months behind schedule, New York City on Monday launched what aims to be one of the world's biggest bike share programs, following in the path already taken by Paris, Montreal, London and Barcelona. New Yorkers will now be able to move around on the 6,000 blue "Citi Bikes" distributed among 333 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn -- the first phase of a network that is supposed to grow to 10,000 bikes at 600 stations. Light traffic because of the ...

Survey: Women Consider Pets To Be Better Listeners

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Action Against Cervical Cancer Sought By 70 Nations

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Stakeholders from more than 70 countries came together to seek an urgent call for action against cervical cancer as it is projected to kill nearly half a million women by 2030. The landmark announcement, made at the global forum on cervical cancer prevention here, called for universal access to cervical cancer prevention, which would rewrite the future for millions of girls and women living in some of the poorest countries in the world. The global forum ...

Want A Method To Cure Acne Without Elaborate Face Packs? Read On To Know More

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You can clear off acne from your face with the help of face packs made from a concoction of natural ingredients. Single ingredients like unprocessed honey, toothpaste and vinegar can also do the job well. Vedika Trivedi, a professional from Jawed Habib's hair and beauty salon chain, explains how to use them effectively: Raw honey: Apply unprocessed honey directly on the affected area. Its antiseptic properties will help to get rid of acne soon. Vinegar: ...

Study: Kids With Type 2 Diabetes at Greater Risk of Developing Heart, Kidney Problems

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A new study has found that children who develop Type 2 diabetes are at high risk to develop heart, kidney and eye problems faster and at a higher rate than people who acquire Type 2 diabetes as adults. "Once these kids have Type 2 diabetes, they seem to be at very high risk for early complications when compared to adults," Jane Lynch, M.D., professor of pediatric endocrinology in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, ...

Why Anxiety is Bad During Interviews ?

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A recent study from the University of Guelph Ontario, Canada, has found that anxious people perform badly during job interviews and men are affected much more than women. Those who are anxious can experience difficulty speaking, and have some trouble thinking of answers and this may negatively impact hiring outcomes, the study found. The study showed that anxious men and women scored much lower in interview scores as compared to their more-confident counterparts. ...

Simple Test can Prevent Adverse Reaction to New Drugs and Cosmetics

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Researchers at Newcastle University in Britain have developed a simple lab based skin test which can predict adverse reactions to drugs, cosmetics and household chemicals. It uses real human skin and immune cells to show any reaction such as a rash or blistering indicating a wider immune response within the body. The development is timely as it offers a reliable alternative for the cosmetic industry as a ban on the sale of any cosmetic product tested ...

Modification of Drug Possession Law Linked With Increase in Unintentional Marijuana Ingestion Among Children

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A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics reveals that modification of drug enforcement laws for possession of marijuana in Colorado has led to a rise in unintentional marijuana ingestion by children. Several states and Washington, D.C. have enacted laws to decriminalize medical marijuana and two states, Colorado and Washington, have passed amendments to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. In late 2009, the Justice Department issued a policy instructing ...

Doctors Unwilling to Discuss Difficult Prognosis With End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients

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A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center suggests that doctors who treat patients for kidney failure are unwilling to discuss a difficult prognosis, leading to their patients having distorted expectations of their outcomes. "Our study suggests that we may not be serving these patients as well as we could. These missed opportunities and misperceptions may actually be influencing patients'' goals of care," ...

New Guidelines on Use of Blood Thinners During Surgery Published

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The American Academy of Neurology has published new guidelines on blood thinners in the journal Neurology that could help people to make the decision on whether to continue taking them during surgery or other medical procedures. People who have had a stroke often take blood thinners such as aspirin or warfarin to prevent another stroke. Blood thinners, or anticlotting drugs, are also used to prevent a first stroke in people with atrial fibrillation, an irregular ...

Having a Say in Medical Care Process Increases Patients' Costs and Hospital Stay

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A new study involving more than 22,000 patients at the University of Chicago Medical Center and which has been published in the online edition of JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that patients who opted to participate in the decision making process regarding their care had longer length of stay and higher hospitalization costs compared to others. Hyo Jung Tak, Ph.D., and colleagues examined the relationship between patient preferences for participation in medical ...

Signature Problems Detected in Down Syndrome Neurons Grown from Stem Cells

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Previous research has highlighted that Down syndrome, the most common genetic form of intellectual disability, results from an extra copy of one chromosome, but the reason for the occurrence of this chromosome has puzzled scientists. In new research published this week, Anita Bhattacharyya, a neuroscientist at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reports on brain cells that were grown from skin cells of individuals with Down syndrome. "Even ...

Beauty Salon Chain Offers Solution to Skin and Hair Care Problems This Summer

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One of country's leading beauty salon chains has come up with solutions to a number of skin and hair problems common during the scorching heat of the summer. Naturals Family Salon, one of the country's known chain of salons, has come up with a host of summer special skin and hair treatments and services: Body Bright: It offers complete body treatment designed to brighten the skin. Radiant Face Therapy: It is designed to detoxify skin. ...

End-Stage Heart Failure: Event Free Survival Improved by 50 Percent by Levosimendan

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Results of the LevoRep Study presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2013 suggest that ambulatory levosimendan can improve event free survival by over 50 percent compared to placebo. In a second study, the third generation mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) BAY 94-8862 showed improved potassium and kidney tolerance in heart failure patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Heart Failure 2013 is the main annual meeting of the Heart Failure ...

Way in Which the Brain Decides Decoded

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Research indicates that decisions on whether to "stay" or to "go" are supported by a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Neuroscientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have now identified key circuit elements that contribute to such decisions in the ACC. CSHL Associate Professor Adam Kepecs and his team have linked specific brain cell types to a particular behavior pattern in mice - a "stay or go" pattern called foraging ...

South Koreans Willing to Try Out Radical Plastic Surgeries That Require Months of Painful Recovery

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Radical procedures in plastic surgery that often requires moths of painful recovery are gaining popularity among South Koreans who are moving ahead of standard eye or nose jobs. A stream of celebrities boast on TV shows how it gave them a "new life," while advertisements extolling its cosmetic benefits are everywhere from street billboards to subway stations, magazines and popular Internet sites. But there's nothing really "cosmetic" about double-jaw ...

Academic Performance of Students Not Affected by Reading from Print or Digital Books

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A new study carried out by a doctoral student at the Indiana State University suggests that the performance of a student in a test is not affected whether he reads from a digital book or a printed one. Jim Johnson, who also is director of instructional and information technology services in the Bayh College of Education, surveyed more than 200 students. Half of the students used an iPad2 to read a textbook chapter while the other half of the students ...

Ways to Manage Workaholics

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Researchers at Florida State University have come up with new guidelines that can help you manage workaholics in a better manner and ensure that they stay healthy and effective on their job. Workaholics tend to live in extremes, with great job satisfaction and creativity on the one hand and high levels of frustration and exhaustion on the other hand. Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in Florida State's College of Business, ...

Tips for a Soft and Hair Free Skin for Those Who Want to Shave

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One of Britain's leading beauty therapists has given tips for getting a smooth, soft and hair free skin for those who want to opt for the easy way of shaving instead of going through a waxing procedure. Femalefirst.co.uk shares expert beauty tips from Nathalie Eleni, beauty therapist, Venus (and) Braun, on how to get the perfect shave: 1.Take a shower before you shave to remove natural oils, perspiration and hydrate hair, which makes it up to 60 percent ...