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Quiz on Leukemia
Somali Ex-pirates Seek Jobs
Pre-Ordering Lunch Encourages Healthy Eating Habits
Violent Video Games Blunt Physical and Psychological Activity in Teens
Cure for Gray Hair, Coming Soon
Doctors Say Vital Organs of Sarabjit Singh Were Not Present in His Body
Equal Death Rates for Out-Of-Hours Emergencies and Working Hours Emergencies
Vitamin C may Head Off Lung Problems in Babies
High Protein Diet May Not be Very Effective in Reducing Body Weight and Risk of Heart Disease
Study Confirms the Efficacy of Everolimus in Overcoming Resistant Breast Cancer
Blind People have Better Memory Skills than Those with Sight
New Analysis to Predict Efficacy of Breast Cancer Treatment
New Visualization Technique to Capture Bio-metals and Molecules Simultaneously
'Slippery Slope' Fears for Legal Euthanasia of Sick Babies Proved Groundless
Eating Junk Food While Pregnant may Cause Junk Food Addiction in the Baby
Shorter Hospital Stay for Infants Suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Genes Predict the Success of Weight-loss Surgery
Synthetic Agents Weaken HIV Infection
Scientists Discover Potential Novel Treatment for Influenza
Mutation Driving Pediatric Brain Tumors Identified
Link Between Hypertension and Better Quality of Life Identified
US Regulator Says Caffeine in Kids' Foods 'Dangerous'

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Making up for 2.9% of all cancers, Leukemia is a serious condition. Do you know all about it? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Somali Ex-pirates Seek Jobs

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Literature has compelled us to expect of pirates as a man with an eye-patch, a cutlass, hook and a parrot. Instead, Mohamed Abdi Hassan, one of Somalia's -- if not the world's -- most notorious pirate chiefs, appears far more businessman than sea bandit, as he explains why he now wants to end the murderous hijacking of ships. Hassan, better known as "Afweyne" or "Big Mouth", whose men once terrorised vast stretches of the Indian Ocean -- generating millions ...

Pre-Ordering Lunch Encourages Healthy Eating Habits

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It is well known that buying food when one is hungry is a total recipe for a disaster. When we are hungry, we can be especially sensitive to sights and smells of foods that will satiate, but may lack in nutrient content. What if we could make our meal choices when we are full, and not anticipating the feeling of satiation we all enjoy? Would we make healthier choices? Researchers at the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs (B.E.N. Center) set ...

Violent Video Games Blunt Physical and Psychological Activity in Teens

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High exposure to violent video games in teenagers have revealed blunted physical and psychological responses. The journal is published by a target="_blank" href="http:www.lww.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/topCategories_11851_-1_12551"Lippincott Williams (and) Wilkins/a, a part of a target="_blank" href="http:www.wolterskluwerhealth.com/pages/welcome.aspx"Wolters Kluwer Health/a. "High versus low experience of violent gaming seems to be related to different ...

Cure for Gray Hair, Coming Soon

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People who are going gray develop oxidative stress via the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle which causes the hair to bleach itself, the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide can be remedied with a new treatment developed by researchers described as a topical, UVB-activated compound called PC-KUS. What's more, the study also shows that the same treatment works for the skin condition, vitiligo. "To date, it is beyond any doubt that the sudden ...

Doctors Say Vital Organs of Sarabjit Singh Were Not Present in His Body

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Doctors, who conducted an autopsy on Sarabjit Singh have said that the vital organs were not present in his body. Guramjeet Rai, a doctor, said that he did not find Sarabjit's stomach, heart, kidneys and gall bladder. "Stomach was not in the body, I am not saying, missing. It was not present in the body at the time of the autopsy. Gall bladder, third one is heart and both the kidneys," he said. Rai further said that he would be ...

Equal Death Rates for Out-Of-Hours Emergencies and Working Hours Emergencies

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A new research shows that children admitted to intensive care units in out-of-hours emergencies are not at a greater risk of dying as compared to children admitted during working hours. However, mortality rates are significantly higher in the winter, even after taking into account added health risks for children in the colder months. The study, published by researchers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester in the iJournal of Pediatrics/i, ...

Vitamin C may Head Off Lung Problems in Babies

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Intake of vitamin C during pregnancy was found to improve newborn's lung function and prevent wheezing in babies born to pregnant smokers, shows study. "Vitamin C is a simple, safe and inexpensive treatment that may decrease the impact of smoking during pregnancy on childhood respiratory health," said lead author Cynthia T. McEvoy, MD, MCR, FAAP, associate professor of pediatrics at Oregon Health (and) Science University (OHSU) Doernbecher Children's Hospital. The ...

High Protein Diet May Not be Very Effective in Reducing Body Weight and Risk of Heart Disease

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A high protein diet may not have any significant benefits in reducing obesity, heart diseases or blood sugar levels, suggests study. This opposes the results of various previous short-term studies. The recent study published in the BioMed Central Nutrition Journal, aimed at identifying the long-term benefits of low protein diet and high protein diet in reducing body weight and risk of heart disease. Researchers systematically reviewed ...

Study Confirms the Efficacy of Everolimus in Overcoming Resistant Breast Cancer

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A new study to determine the efficacy of cancer drug everolimus in overcoming resistance breast cancer has left researchers contemplating a puzzle. The study showed a statistically non-significant benefit in clinical response rates for some patients with early breast cancer when everolimus was added to treatment with trastuzumab. Yet the results suggest this benefit is achieved independently of the molecular pathways researchers expected would be involved.Prof Mario ...

Blind People have Better Memory Skills than Those with Sight

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Congenitally blind people are whizzes at memory skills, according to a study published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research. Michael Proulx from the Department of Psychology, the University of Bath, who investigates fundamental issues in cognition through the study of multiple sensory modalities, and his colleagues found that individuals with no visual experience had the most superior memory skills. Earlier research on remembering word ...

New Analysis to Predict Efficacy of Breast Cancer Treatment

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A new analysis may help better determine which women with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer are at a risk of recurrence, and which ones benefit from endocrine treatment. The promising new findings will likely benefit the many women with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer whose cancer recurs more than five years after diagnosis, researchers told the 5th IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The IMPAKT meeting presents cutting ...

New Visualization Technique to Capture Bio-metals and Molecules Simultaneously

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Capturing the interaction of metal elements and molecules in the body has always been tough. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan have developed a new molecular imaging technology that enables them to visualize bio-metals and bio-molecules simultaneously in a live mouse. This new technology will enable researchers to study the complex interactions between metal elements and molecules in living organisms. Metal elements such ...

'Slippery Slope' Fears for Legal Euthanasia of Sick Babies Proved Groundless

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Fears that legalising euthanasia for sick newborn babies would initiate the start of a 'slippery slope' leading to its abuse has now been proved groundless. The Groningen Protocol, which was devised to help doctors curb the suffering of very sick newborns and identify the situations in which euthanasia might be appropriate, was introduced in 2005 in The Netherlands. Its development was triggered by the case of a baby girl with excruciatingly painful ...

Eating Junk Food While Pregnant may Cause Junk Food Addiction in the Baby

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Mothers who eat high fat, high sugar diet during pregnancy have already programmed their babies to be addicted to junk food by the time they are weaned, according to a study from the University of Adelaide. In their study with laboratory rats, Dr Beverly Muhlhausler, Postdoctoral Fellow in the University's FOODplus Research Centre, and her colleagues, found that a junk food diet during pregnancy and lactation desensitized the mesolimbic reward ...

Shorter Hospital Stay for Infants Suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

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A new study shows that variations in genes associated among infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome was associated with a shorter lenght of hospital stay and lesser treatment. Jonathan M. Davis, M.D., of The Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, presented the findings of the study at a iJAMA/i media briefing. "In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in opioid use during pregnancy, estimated to affect ...

Genes Predict the Success of Weight-loss Surgery

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Scientists have discovered a gene variant that helps predict the amount of weight loss after gastric bypass surgery. The findings explain why the success of gastric bypass surgery varies so widely and could help clinicians identify those who would benefit the most from this type of surgery. "Surgery is the most effective therapy for severe obesity, but these procedures are invasive, and not all patients get the same degree of benefit," senior study ...

Synthetic Agents Weaken HIV Infection

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Inspite of drug therapy, HIV has a tendency to hide certain types of cells, which then reproduce and give rise to chronic inflammation. Now, researchers at Temple University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Center for Substance Abuse Research (CSAR) have discovered that synthetic anti-inflammatory substances distantly related to the active ingredient of marijuana might be able to take the punch out of HIV while inside one ...

Scientists Discover Potential Novel Treatment for Influenza

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A new experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing death from the virus, show preclinical studies. University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers found that a drug called Eritoran could protect mice from death after they have been infected with a lethal dose of influenza virus. The potential value of this drug as single therapy or in combination with antivirals is further supported by previous research that found ...

Mutation Driving Pediatric Brain Tumors Identified

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A lethal brain tumor in children has been found to contain an unusual mutation that may help to classify, diagnose and guide the treatment of the tumors, say scientists. The researchers led a study of pediatric low-grade gliomas, samples of which were collected through an international consortium organized by brain tumor specialists at Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center. Their findings are being published online by the iProceedings of the National ...

Link Between Hypertension and Better Quality of Life Identified

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Teenagers with high blood pressure have less distress and enjoy a higher quality of life than those with normal blood pressure, says study published in iPsychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine. /i "This is the first report linking elevated blood pressure to quality of life and psychosocial adaptation in a large epidemiological study of adolescents," according to the report by Dr Angela Berendes of University of Gottingen, Germany, and ...

US Regulator Says Caffeine in Kids' Foods 'Dangerous'

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Addition of caffeine to kid's foods like chewing gum and jelly beans is dangerous, warns US food and drug regulator. Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner Michael Taylor said the rise in such caffeine-added products outside the beverage industry was "very disturbing," after candy giant Mars Inc. announced a caffeinated version of its Wrigley gum. That was added last month to a slew of "high energy" foods on the market sporting substantial ...