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Link Between Dementia and Anesthesia Falsified
2 Year Old S. Korean Toddler Gets First Windpipe Transplant
Expanding Medicaid Shows No Improvement in Physical Health
Correlation Between How an Object Looks and How It Feels
Self-affirmation Boosts Problem-solving Skills
1,900 Mln Yrs Ago, Earth Might Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs
Microscopic Protein Packages Improves Efficacy of Tumor-killing Enzyme
US Debate Over an Immigration Reform
Cervical Cancer Mortality Rate 10 Times Higher in Kenya
Scientists Discover New Target for Personalized Cancer Therapy
Top Ten Foods to Boost Your Mood - Slideshow
Scientists Identify Gene Mutations Associated With Nearsightedness
Coronary Artery Calcium Buildup Increases Heart Attack Risk
Kashmir Haunted by the Fear of Fake Drugs
Alcoholic Women Less Likely to Take Multivitamins
Americans Get 13 Percent of Daily Calories from Added Sugar, Suggests Study
China: 900 Held for Meat-related Crimes
Genome Analysis Uncovers the Origin of Turtles
Leech Therapy Relieves Arthritis, Chronic Headaches and More
Chili Peppers may Aid Millions of Migraine Sufferers
New Drug, Sofosbuvir, Found Very Efficient in Treating Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Scientists Discover Ebola's Secret Weapon
Medicaid-insured Children Have Limited Access to Dermatologists: Study
Genetic Links in Aggressive Cancers Identified

Link Between Dementia and Anesthesia Falsified

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A new research from Mayo Clinic revealed that elderly patients who receive anesthesia are not more likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease than other seniors. The study analyzed thousands of patients using the Rochester Epidemiology Project -- which allows researchers access to medical records of nearly all residents of Olmsted County, Minn. -- and found that receiving general anesthesia for procedures after age 45 is not a risk factor for developing dementia. The ...

2 Year Old S. Korean Toddler Gets First Windpipe Transplant

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A South Korean-Canadian toddler was successfully given a life-saving windpipe transplant made from plastic fibers and some of her own stem cells, by an international team of surgeons. Hannah Warren, 2, was born without a trachea and is now the youngest person to ever receive a bio-engineered organ, after an operation in the United States. She had spent her life in an intensive care unit in Seoul, with a feeding tube keeping her alive. Doctors had initially ...

Expanding Medicaid Shows No Improvement in Physical Health

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At the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, new findings show that Medicaid coverage had no detectable effect on the prevalence of diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure. But substantially reduced depression, nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditures, and increased the diagnosis of diabetes and the use of diabetes medication among low-income adults. The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is the first use of a randomized controlled ...

Correlation Between How an Object Looks and How It Feels

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Normal vision is essentially a spatial sense that often relies upon movement and touch during and after development, there is often a correlation between how an object feels and how it looks. Moreover, as a child's senses develop, there is cross-referencing between the various senses. Indeed, where the links between the senses are not made, there may be developmental problems or delays. This should be taken into consideration when training new users ...

Self-affirmation Boosts Problem-solving Skills

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According to a research, if chronic stress is weighing down your problem-solving skills, self-affirmation may give your skills a boost. The research got published in the open access journal iPLOS ONE/i by David Creswell and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University. Previous studies have shown that self-affirmation exercises can reduce acute stress, but the link between these improvements and chronic stress-related effects was unknown. In the current ...

1,900 Mln Yrs Ago, Earth Might Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs

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From rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils has given the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like. The fossils, preserved in Gunflint chert, capture ancient microbes in the act of feasting on a cyanobacterium-like fossil called Gunflintia - with the perforated sheaths of Gunflintia being the discarded leftovers of this early meal. A team, led by Dr ...

Microscopic Protein Packages Improves Efficacy of Tumor-killing Enzyme

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For delivering tumor cell-killing enzymes, scientists have devised a method in a way that protects the enzyme until it can do its work inside the cell. In their study in imBio/i (Regd) , the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, researchers assembled microscopic protein packages that can deliver an enzyme called PEIII to the insides of cells. By attaching a protein called ubiquitin to the enzyme, they were able to protect it from degradation ...

US Debate Over an Immigration Reform

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In search of a better life in United States, most of the local men have already trekked down the mountain and left the rural hamlet of Los Huesos in central Mexico. So for the elderly, the women and the children who remain in this village of around 60 families, the debate over an immigration reform now taking place many hundreds of miles away north of the border hits close to home. Migration will be among the top issues when US President Barack Obama ...

Cervical Cancer Mortality Rate 10 Times Higher in Kenya

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Cervical cancer mortality rate faced by women in Kenya is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening. Higher screening coverage helps increase rates of detection of cervical lesions ...

Scientists Discover New Target for Personalized Cancer Therapy

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A novel method developed by scientists was found to disrupt the tumor growth signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a new treatment for breast, colon, melanoma and other cancers. The research team has pinpointed the cancer abnormality to a mutation in a gene called PIK3CA that results in a mutant protein, which may be an early cancer switch. By disrupting the mutated signaling pathway, the Case Western Reserve team, led by John Wang, PhD, inhibited the ...

Top Ten Foods to Boost Your Mood - Slideshow

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Do you feel gloomy and depressed for no reason? What if you can beat the blues by just eating the right kind of food! Read on to know more about mood boosting food.

Scientists Identify Gene Mutations Associated With Nearsightedness

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Mutations in a gene that are associated with a severe form of nearsightedness have been discovered by scientists. Nearsightedness - also known as myopia - is the most common human eye disease in the world. It occurs if the eye is too long or the cornea has too much curvature, which keeps light entering the eye from focusing correctly. High-grade myopia, a more severe form of nearsightedness, affects up to two percent of Americans and is especially ...

Coronary Artery Calcium Buildup Increases Heart Attack Risk

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A buildup of coronary artery calcium was found to increase the risk of heart attack and death from heart disease, shows study. The study found that patients with increasing accumulations of coronary artery calcium were more than six times more likely to suffer from a heart attack or die from heart disease than patients who didn't have increasing accumulations. The study, conducted at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) and five ...

Kashmir Haunted by the Fear of Fake Drugs

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An allegation over the wrongful purchase of antibiotics by a government-appointed committee in Jammu and Kashmir, has now started creating fear in the imagination of the public in the Valley. But is the issue being blown out of proportion? The alleged scam initially surfaced after a government-appointed committee's order worth Rs.800,000 for the Maxizin 625 antibiotic, a combination of amoxycillin and clavenate, tested fake in laboratory analysis. Now the Doctors ...

Alcoholic Women Less Likely to Take Multivitamins

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A new link has been found between the use of multivitamins and alcohol consumption before pregnancy, which sheds light on the importance of education about its use, particularly among women. The study was published online this month in iAlcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research/i. Researchers examined data collected from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's multiple-state Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) of more than 100,000 ...

Americans Get 13 Percent of Daily Calories from Added Sugar, Suggests Study

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American adults consume 13 percent of calories from added sweeteners, says new study. The report suggests that if you are like most adults, you're probably eating, or drinking, too many "added sugars" in the form of sugar, honey, maple syrup, and high fructose corn syrup, the New York Daily News reported. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics examined survey data from thousands ...

China: 900 Held for Meat-related Crimes

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In China, a total of 904 people have been arrested for crimes such as producing fake beef and mutton made from rat and fox, says the ministry of public security. Since Jan 25, police have uncovered a total of 382 cases involving meat-related offences, and seized more than 20,000 tonnes of illegal products, Xinhua cited the ministry as saying. The crimes also included production of water-injected meat, use of chemicals while processing products, ...

Genome Analysis Uncovers the Origin of Turtles

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The genome sequencing of the soft-shell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) and the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has now been completed by researchers. These achievements shed new light on the origin of turtles and applied the classical evo-devo model to explain the developmental process of their unique body plan. The evolution of turtles is an enigma in science. Their distinct body design-with a sharp beak and protective hard shell has changed very ...

Leech Therapy Relieves Arthritis, Chronic Headaches and More

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Leech therapy helps provide relief to many patients suffering from different illnesses. Dr. Nassir Hakeem said patients are reacting positively to the leech therapy. Leech therapy is applied on skin diseases, arthritis, chronic headaches and sinusitis. The saliva of leeches contains many bioactive substances, which can prove helpful for patients. Sayed Ishfaq said his mother had been undergoing allopathic, unani treatment for ...

Chili Peppers may Aid Millions of Migraine Sufferers

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There appears to be a link between how the skin reacts when rubbed with chili oil and what happens in the brain during a migraine. This fact is being dived into by researchers at the world's largest biotechnology company, Amgen Inc. so as to produce the debilitating headache's painful symptoms. Migraine is a common form of headache where the pain can be so severe that ones' daily activities can be hampered severely. Migraine headaches are thought ...

New Drug, Sofosbuvir, Found Very Efficient in Treating Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

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Sofosbuvir, a drug developed by Gilead Sciences, has been proven to be very effective in treating various subtypes of chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection; the drug is currently in its phase III clinical trials. Researchers conducted two open label trials to compare the efficacy of the new drug with the current treatment regimen of ribavirin and peginterferon alfa-2a. Patients enrolled in the study were not treated previously for HCV infection and ...

Scientists Discover Ebola's Secret Weapon

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The mechanism behind one of the Ebola virus' most dangerous attributes has been identified by scientists. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists determined that Ebola short-circuits the immune system using proteins that work together to shut down cellular signaling related to interferon. Disruption of this activity, the researchers found, allows Ebola to prevent the full development of dendritic cells that would otherwise trigger an immune ...

Medicaid-insured Children Have Limited Access to Dermatologists: Study

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Medicaid-insured children with eczema do not have access to dermatologists, shows study. "This is a complex problem and a major health disparity in our country," said Elaine Siegfried, M.D., professor of pediatrics at SLU and the principal investigator of the study. "Thirty percent of all children seen in primary care offices have a skin problem. It's an everyday issue." SLU researchers found that only 19 percent of all dermatologists in 13 metropolitan ...

Genetic Links in Aggressive Cancers Identified

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Some of the most aggressive forms of cancer have genetic similarities, find new studies. The new research -- one study focused on a form of leukemia, in the New England Journal of Medicine, and a second on endometrial cancer, in Nature -- could offer a pathway to new, more effective treatments. The new findings challenge the previous approach of classifying tumors based on the body part where they are first observed, and add fuel to the growing trend of differentiating ...