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Beer Consumption Ups Cancer Risk

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More than just two pints of beer a year increase the risk of cancer, finds study. Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, the chairman of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said that the risks of breast cancer in women were "significantly" higher, even when drinking within the existing Government guidelines of one glass of wine a day, the Daily Express reported. The Alcohol Public Health Research Alliance (AMPHORA), an EU-funded body of 30 universities and other ...

Schools in Indiana Have to Decide Between Insurance for Part Timers or Reduce Working Hours

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Under the federal health care mandate, employers have to cover employees with health covers - to avoid doing this; these schools are cutting back the working hours of teacher assistants, bus drivers and cafeteria workers. "We cannot go out and raise the price of our product to assist us covering this. We would have to go the taxpayers and ask for some type of increase and I just don't see that happening," said Les Huddle, superintendent of the Lafayette School ...

Drug Abuse in Pregnancy

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Drug abuse during pregnancy has an adverse effect on the mother as well as the fetus. It is advisable to stop usage of illicit drugs well before pregnancy.

What Happens to Women When They Turn 31?

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A poll has revealed that the age at which women turn into or get close to what their mothers are, is about the age of 31, the same age as the Duchess of Cambridge. She is precisely the same age when women turn into their mothers. This is the age when they begin to have the same attitude and tastes as their mum did. Daughters at 31 begin to find a lot in common with their mothers. The resemblance to their mom also increases when women give birth to their ...

Poll Reveals Least Productive Time of Day

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2:55 p.m is found to be the least productive time of the day. The poll of 400 workers, conducted by British office brokerage londonservices.com, also found that 10:26 a.m. and 4:18 p.m. are the most-productive times of day for office workers, according to Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. Michael Davies of londonoffices.com offers one perennial suggestion on how to overcome the 2:55 hump. He recommends people to take a few five-minute ...

Wrist Sensor Could Help Accurately Measure Blood Pressure, Say Scientists

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A sensor worn on the wrist could improve how blood pressure is measured, say researchers. Normally blood pressure is measured in the arteries in the arm, but the pressure at the heart might be a better predictor of future health problems. If blood pressure is too high it can lead to heart attacks and stroke. About a third of people in the UK have hypertension, dangerously high blood pressure, but most are unaware of the condition. A ...

Cut 100 Calories a Day and Reduce Your Risk of Cancer

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Obesity or being overweight stands only second to smoking as far as the risk of being affected by cancer is concerned. It has been linked to different types of cancer, for instance, bowel, breast, uterine, throat and pancreas cancer. Scientists have suggested that instead of making big lifestyle changes, an effective way to avoid the risk of cancer is to cut down on calorie intake and avoid consuming excess calories. In order to encourage ...

Global Atlas on Sexuality Published

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French geographers have published a global atlas on sexuality. From legislation and the dynamics of couples to prostitution and violence, the book maps out the evolution of sexual habits and acts around the world by collating various surveys, figures and reports already available. "Sexuality is everywhere on our city walls and on our screens, in lighter news or in darker events," said Nadine Cattan, research director in geography at France's National Center ...

Not Just Women, Now Men Too May Be Susceptible to Breast Cancer

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With Angelina Jolie's recent brave move to undergo a double mastectomy, breast cancer seems to be a trending topic on the internet. New developments and treatments don't seem to dull the 'scary' sheen of breast cancer, and it still stands high among the most feared diseases. But there's something most of us don't really know about breast cancer - men too, are susceptible to this disease. Breast cancer is basically a condition wherein certain ...

World's First Tablet Cafe

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Senegal has opened the world's first tablet cafe, a cafe that works with tablets. The concept, introduced by the Internet search giant, is a simple twist on the traditional cyber cafes which have been springing up across Africa as the Internet boom takes hold, ditching PCs for tablet computers. When Medoune Seck, 33, opened his Equinoxe cyber cafe six years ago, he quickly discovered that frequent power cuts and exorbitant electricity bills were a major ...

Potential Drug Target for Treatment-resistant Anemia Discovered

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A protein that is the target of glucocorticoids, drugs that are used to increase red blood cell production in patients with certain types of anemia has been identified by scientists. The discovery could spur development of drugs capable of increasing this protein's production without causing the severe side effects associated with glucocorticoids. "This research is medically important, and we are using it to find a better way to increase the production of ...

All It Takes to Cut Risk of Stroke

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It will be surprising to know that cutting the risk of stroke is easy and achievable by just following Life's Sample 7 health factors. According to a study published in the journal Stroke, Life's Sample 7 health factors include - "eat a healthy diet, manage blood pressure, maintain healthy weight, control cholesterol levels, be active, control blood sugar and avoid smoking." In this study, the risk of stroke was assessed based on the American Heart Association ...

Candidate Drug Provides Benefit in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Mouse Models

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PhD reports on a pharmacological characterization of the drug RG3039, demonstrates that it can extend survival and improve function in two spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) mouse models. It appeared in a new publication in iHuman Molecular Genetics/i, the laboratory of Christine DiDonato. They have determined the minimum effective dose and drug action, thus contributing to dose selection and exposure estimates for the first studies with RG3039 in humans. As in cellular ...

Protein Block Stops Vascular Damage in Diabetic Laboratory Animals

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At Lund University in Sweden, researchers have discovered how to stop the destructive process that leads to cardiovascular disease in diabetic laboratory animals. It is well known that high blood sugar levels significantly raise the risk of cardiovascular disease. It is unclear, however, why this happens. An important part of the explanation may be NFAT, a protein activated when blood sugar is raised and which starts a chain of events that damage the blood vessels ...

As US Lawmakers Play Politics, Anxiety Haunts Students

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Greg Dube, a recent Northeastern University graduate hopes to launch a bright engineering career soon, but like many young Americans, he is haunted by a looming financial burden: some (Dollar) 150,000 in student loan debt. "I think I'm going to end up paying back more than double that in total," said the 23-year-old, predicting it will take 20 years to repay his loans -- if he's lucky enough to find a decent job. Millions of students take out loans to pay for ...

How HIV Kills Immune Cells

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By killing infection-fighting cells, untreated HIV infection destroys a person's immune system but precisely when and how HIV wreaks this destruction has been a mystery until now. New research by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, reveals how HIV triggers a signal telling an infected immune cell to die. This finding has implications for preserving the immune systems of HIV-infected ...

Buckle Up the Right Way

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All children through age 8 should use supplemental child restraints. When appropriate child safety restraint systems-based on a child's age and weight-are in use during motor vehicle crashes, the rates of mortality and serious injury significantly decrease. Most parents don't know that their older children-ages 4 to 8-should use additional measures to protect them from serious injury or death in case of a crash. In a literature review appearing in the ...

Go to Brasilia to Communicate With the Spirits

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The late Oscar Niemeyer is well known in Brazil's capital for the modern architecture. But mystic types come for a different kind of thrill, like communicating with the spirits. The greater Brasilia area has around nearly 1,000 worship sites for every possible faith in the country with, at least nominally, the world's largest Catholic population -- and esoteric rites and mediums are part of the mix. In Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn), a town 40 kilometers ...

Tumors Use Sugar to Disable Immune Cells

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned that cancer cells' appetite for sugar may have serious consequences for immune cell function. The scientists found that when they kept sugar away from critical immune cells called T cells, the cells no longer produced interferon gamma, an inflammatory compound important for fighting tumors and some kinds of infection. "T cells can get into tumors, but unfortunately they ...

Are the Gestures of Apes and Human Infants Similar?

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In a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development, psychologists who analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant found remarkable similarities among the three species. This is the first time such data have been used to compare the development of gestures across species. The chimpanzee and bonobo, formerly called the "pygmy chimpanzee," are the two species most closely ...

Google Glass Privacy Fears Will Fade: Google Chief

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As people incorporate the eyewear into their lives, Google chief Larry Page assured investors that privacy fears about the company's coming Internet glasses will fade. "People worry about all sorts of things that actually, when we use the product, it is not that big a concern," Page said while fielding questions at an annual shareholders meeting at the company headquarters in Silicon Valley. "You don't collapse in terror that someone might be using Glass ...

Scientists Map the Wiring of the Biological Clocks in Our Brains

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Erik Herzog, PhD, Professor of Biology in Arts (and) Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, says that the World Health Organization lists shift work as a potential carcinogen. And that's just one example among many of the troubles we cause ourselves when we override the biological clocks in our brains and pay attention instead to the mechanical clocks on our wrists. In the June 5 issue of iNeuron/i, Herzog and his colleagues report the discovery ...

Polish Cuisine in Revival Mode

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After years of communist-era shortages, then a craze for Western fast food, Polish cuisine is undergoing a revival thanks to quality local ingredients and a modern twist on traditional fare. Leading the renaissance is Atelier Amaro, a Warsaw eatery that won Poland's first Michelin star in March for using "local produce to create innovative cuisine and original combinations". Tucked away in a wooded area by the capital's modern art centre, the 32-seater ...

Contestants Will Not Wear Bikinis at This Year's Miss World Beauty Pageant

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Contestants at this year's Miss World beauty pageant will not wear bikinis in the parade in a bid to avoid causing offence in Muslim-majority Indonesia, organisers confirmed Wednesday. The 137 women taking part in the September contest will swap bikinis for more conservative attire, such as traditional sarongs, for the beach fashion section. The contest is being held on the resort island of Bali, where foreign tourists flock in their millions and the ...

Africa-rooted Religions Connect Humans to Spiritual World

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Doctors told Julio Penna in 1976 that he needed to undergo corrective spine surgery but faced an 80 percent chance of being condemned to life in a wheelchair. Penna refused and instead sought help from Candomble, Brazil's Africa-rooted religion based on worship of deities known as orishas that link humans to the spiritual world. Today, the 69-year-old, who is of Italian and Portuguese descent, is walking unhindered and is a high-ranking disciple of a ...

Real Estate Boom in New York

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While many people scrimp and save to buy their first modest home and others rent for life, New York is seeing a boom in housing construction for the fabulously rich. Buyers are snapping up high-rise luxury condos before they are even completed, with money gushing in from places like South America, the Middle East, China and Russia, as well as from New York. The global economic and financial crisis may still linger in many parts of the world, but the ...

Novel Technique to Develop Protein Drugs from Bacteria

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A cheaper, more efficient technique for developing complex protein drugs from bacteria has been developed at the University of Sheffield. Using the bacterium iE. coli/i, researchers from the University's Faculty of Engineering showed it was possible to vastly increase the efficiency of the cells producing specifically modified proteins, as well as improve its performance and stability. The modification is present in over two-thirds of human therapeutic drugs ...

Eco-friendly Products Best in Your Beauty Cabinet

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It's time to revamp your beauty cabinet with natural products. Here are some options: Just Herbs Silksplash Neem-Orange Rehydrant face wash: It is a face wash that cleanses face gently and also moisturises at the same time. Neem, orange, cucumber, chandan, calendula, aloe vera and honey are the main ingredients. It removes dust, grime and even makeup residue. Montagne Jeunesse Blemish Mud face mask: Made of aloevera, evening primrose, ...

Vitamin D Deficiency may Increase Spread of Hepatitis B

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In Germany, researchers have found that low levels of vitamin D are associated with high levels of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication. Findings published online in iHepatology/i, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, suggest seasonal fluctuations in vitamin D and HBV levels point to a link in these variables among patients with chronic HBV. While highly effective vaccines are available, HBV still remains one of ...