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Key to Fight Malaria Identified

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By isolating a chemical that causes kidney failure in mosquitoes leaving some of the mosquitoes too bloated to survive after feeding, researchers have come a step closer to fighting malaria. The research, a collaboration that includes Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Ohio State and Cornell Universities, was conducted on species known to carry malaria, West Nile virus, dengue and yellow fever. "By introducing a specific chemical, we cause kidney ...

Oncogene Mutation Hijacks Splicing Process to Promote Growth: Research

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An international team of researchers has found that a singular gene mutation helps brain cancer cells to not just survive, but grow tumors rapidly by altering the splicing of genes that control cellular metabolism. The team is led by principal investigator Paul S. Mischel, MD, a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The findings are ...

Anti-cancer Drive Launched in West Bengal

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An anti-smoking campaign was launched on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day to prevent the rising incidences of oral cancer among the youth of West Bengal. "In the last five years, oral cancer cases have increased from five to 14 percent among the youth here. We have organised a rally to spread awareness about the disease among them," Asish Mukherjee, director of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Institute (NCRI) here, told IANS. More people in the ...

Now an App can Unlock Your House Doors!

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A new smart-lock application is set to turn your smartphone into a key to lock or unlock the house doors. August Smart-Lock, designed by Jason Johnson and Yves Behar, is a device attached to the door, which communicates with the smartphone via Bluetooth, reports ABC News. The device's base plate is made of aluminum and attaches to the interior portion of the deadbolt and connects to the phone via Bluetooth. The app on the phone then activates ...

Healthy Lifestyle Lowers Risk of Alzheimer's: Study

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A study says that scientists have shown that healthy lifestyle choices like not smoking, exercising and healthy eating could lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. To examine the impact of these lifestyle choices on memory throughout adult life, University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers and the Gallup organisation collaborated on a nationwide poll of more than 18,500 individuals between the ages of 18 and 99. Respondents were ...

Death Toll Rises To 30 in Saudi Arabia Due to SARS-like Virus

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The World Health Organization said that the global death toll from a SARS-like virus has risen to 30, after three people died of the illness in Saudi Arabia, which is bearing the brunt of the outbreak. WHO spokesman Glenn Thomas told reporters that the number was raised from 27 after Saudi authorities confirmed the deaths of the three, who had previously been reported to the WHO as suffering from the disease. In addition, Thomas said, a new case has ...

World's Most Expensive Video Game Comes in 125k Pounds

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New Discovery Allows Rapid Diagnosis of Sepsis

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Effective treatments for sepsis remain elusive, despite numerous advances in treating infections and disease. A new discovery published in the June 2013 issue of iThe FASEB Journal/i not only could help health care providers predict who is more and less likely to develop sepsis, but it also opens the doors to new therapies that actually address the root cause of the problem, rather than just managing the symptoms. This also has the potential to benefit patients ...

New Agent Inhibits Hepatitis C Virus Replication in Mouse Models

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Treatments against hepatitis C virus have only been partially successful because antivirals generate drug resistance. Now Seong-Wook Lee of Dankook University, Yongin, Republic of Korea and his collaborators have developed agents that bind to the business end of a critical protein, disabling it so successfully that no resistance has arisen. The research is published in the June 2013 issue of the iJournal of Virology/i. The target protein for the ...

Use of Nuclear Power Prevents Air-pollution Deaths

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A new study has revealed that the use of nuclear power has led to prevention of 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths globally and has also prevented the release of 64 billion tons of greenhouse gases that might have erupted from burning coal and other fossil fuels. Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen from the International Energy Agency have said that nuclear power has the ability to aid in controlling of both global climate change and illness and death ...

Detail of HIV's Inner Coat may Lead to New Therapies

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For the first time, researchers have described that the 4-million-atom structure of the HIV's capsid, or protein shell. The findings could lead to new ways of fending off an often-changing virus that has been very hard to conquer. Scientists have long struggled to decipher how the HIV capsid shell is chemically put together, said senior author Peijun Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School ...

EORTC Investigates Imatinib Failure-free Survival in GIST Patients

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In patients with localized, surgically resected, high/ intermediate-risk GIST, interim results of an EORTC intergroup trial have confirmed that adjuvant imatinib impacts short-term freedom from relapse. In the high-risk subgroup, a non-statistically significant trend in favor of the adjuvant arm was observed in terms of Imatinib failure-free survival. This new endpoint for the adjuvant setting, survival free from any failure of the first employed tyrosine kinase ...

Outcomes Improved by Targeting Lung Cancer Genes

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A new study has suggested that lung cancer patients who received a drug designed to target a genetic dysfunction lived longer with fewer side effects than those who received traditional chemotherapy. Researchers found that patients with an abnormal ALK gene who received Pfizer's targeted drug crizotinib remained cancer-free for nearly five months longer. "This study demonstrates the value of testing lung cancer tissue for an ALK rearrangement, and it ...

Study Says Sex With Spouse Who Has HPV-Caused Cancer is Safe

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A new study has indicated that there is no need for patients who have developed cancer from an oral HPV infection to refrain from sex with their spouses or long-term partners. The study found that the spouses of patients with oral cancer caused by HPV did not have a significantly higher risk of developing the disease than the general population. "Couples who have been together for several years have likely already shared whatever infections they have ...

Poll Finds Online Muslims More Open to Western Culture

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The Pew Research Center has said that Muslims outside the United States who use the Internet are more likely to have a favorable opinion of Western popular culture than those who do not go online. Crunching the numbers of its recent wide-ranging survey of Muslims in 39 countries, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found a median of 18 percent of respondents use the Internet at home, work or school. Internet use varied widely, however, between ...

Eurocor GmbH to Make Catheters for Heart Diseases

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Eurocor GmbH has entered into a licensing agreement with Biosensors International Group Ltd to manufacture catheters for treating heart diseases. Eurocor is a group firm of medical technology leader Opto Circuits India Ltd. As part of the agreement, Eurocor will manufacture three medical devices using Biosensors' drug eluting balloon (DEB) technology for treating coronary and artery diseases, while the latter will market them worldwide. "The three devices ...

Experts Warn That Smoking Affects Pregnant Women and Children

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Experts have said that counseling about the risks of smoking in pregnancy would help limit the use of tobacco among women. "Smoking has a negative impact on maternal health," Health Secretary Keshav Desaraju said. To counsel pregnant women on smoking during pregnancy and its impact on the unborn's health, the government has a national consultation session to limit the use of tobacco use among women and children, he said. Suneeta Mittal, director ...

Updated Google Search App Makes Calorie Counting Easier

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Users can now find out nutritional and calorie information for food-related queries using a new feature in the Google search app. The update, which will be made available to the users in the coming two weeks, will provide detailed calorie and nutrition information sourced from the US Department of Agriculture, reports New York Daily News. The feature provides a new display for easier access to nutritional queries. Google representative, Roya ...

Philippines: New HIV Cases Hit Record High in April

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The Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed that new cases of HIV infections in the Philippines was highest in April at 388. In its HIV and AIDS registry, the DOH reported that the 388 fresh cases in April was 67 percent higher than the 233 recorded in April 2012. HIV infections recorded in April brought the total number of new HIV cases in the first four months of the year to 1,477. Of the 388 new HIV cases, the DOH said 95 percent, or ...

Shakira Wants to Breastfeed Her Son Until He Goes to College

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Shakira has revealed that she wants to breastfeed her son until he starts going to college. The 36-year-old singer, who welcomed her first child, Milan, with footballer boyfriend Gerard Pique, four months ago, told US Weekly that she just loves pumping out her breast milk to feed her toddler, the Mirror reported. She asserted that breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of her life. "I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to ...

Report Discloses Words Never to be Used in a CV

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Jobseekers take note; if you are planning to polish up your CV, stop using these buzzwords to sell yourself. "Creative" is the most overused buzzword in LinkedIn profiles in Australia, the social networking site said, followed by "effective", "motivated" and "extensive experience," News.com.au reported. Career expert David Schwarz said using buzzwords not only makes your CV generic, but it can give the impression that you are trying to mislead your ...

Secrets of Christina Aguilera's Weight Loss

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Christina Aguilera has been following a special diet which is keeping her in shape. The singer recently flaunted a trim look at an awards function. She follows a Fresh Diet premium meal plan, which features meals amounting to a maximum of 1,600 calories a day, reports US Weekly magazine. "She did it all on her own. She goes online and picks out her food," the magazine quoted a source as saying, reports dailystar.co.uk. The 32-year-old is ...

In Severe Influenza, Double Dose of Antiviral Drug Offers No Added Benefit

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New research indicates that giving double doses of the antiviral drug oseltamivir offers no clinical or virological advantages over a standard dose for patients admitted to hospital with severe influenza infection. These are the findings of a randomized trial published today and funded by the Wellcome Trust, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Singapore National Medical Research Council. This is the first study to look at ...

Risk of Some Cancers Increases With TCE Exposure

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A study published in the iJournal of the National Cancer Institute/i says that ttrichloroethylene (TCE) exposure has possible links to increased liver cancer risk, but this relationship needs to be explored further. TCE is a chlorinated dry-cleaning solvent and degreaser that has been widely used for approximately the last 100 years and has shown carcinogenicity in rodents. Previous epidemiologic studies have shown a reported increase in cancer risk in humans ...

Magnetic Nanoparticles Could be the New Gene Delivery Method

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Side effects and complications related to stent angiography, such as arterial restenosis and thrombosis, make it a risk procedure although it saves lives. In the June 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, however, scientists report that they have discovered a new nanoparticle gene delivery method that may overcome current limitations of gene therapy vectors and prevent complications associated with the stenting procedure. Specifically, this strategy uses stents as a ...

HIV-1 Infection Better Understood by Using Computer Simulations

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A team of researchers, including one from the University of Central Florida, has taken a step closer to understanding how HIV-1 infection actually occurs in the body. The result of the team's work appears in the May 30 online edition of iNature/i. Peijun Zhang, an associate professor in the department of Structural Biology at the University of Pittsburgh led the team. Others are: Gongpu Zhao, Xin Meng, Jiying Nig, Jinwoo Ahn and Angela Gronenborn ...

Be a True Believer If You Want to Move Up Career Wise

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Employees who are "true believers" in the mission of their organization are more likely to increase in status and influence than non-believers, claims a new study. "Many organizations today have a well-defined mission with enduring principles that matter, not only to employees, but to other stakeholders," John Bingham, BYU professor of organizational leadership and strategy, said. "It's a shift from the old paradigm. In these companies, it's less about ...

Probability of Specific Diet and Exercise Regimen Clicking may be Predicted by Epigenetic Biomarkers

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People are more likely to try a diet and exercise regimen if they know in advance if it would actually help them lose weight. But this has not been possible until now. Thanks to a new report published in the June 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, this could become a reality. In the report, scientists identify five epigenetic biomarkers in adolescents that were associated with a better weight loss at the beginning of a weight loss program. Not only could this could ...

Mice Get Broad Protection to Pandemic Flu Strains Via Gene Therapy

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A new gene therapy to tackle a potential influenza pandemic has been developed by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Specifically, investigators in the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, directed by James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, demonstrated that a single dose of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) expressing a broadly neutralizing flu antibody into the nasal passages of mice and ferrets gives ...

Better Treatment on the Anvil for Brain Hemorrhage Patients

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A formula which predicts when brain hemorrhage patients need surgery for the best outcome has been provided by an international trial. Brain hemorrhage affects some 4 million patients a year worldwide and the trial, run from Newcastle University, will help to ensure the best treatment is given at the right time. David Mendelow, Professor of Neurosurgery at Newcastle University and honorary consultant within the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, ...

Egypt: 2,000-Year-Old Remains of Child Abuse Victim Unearthed

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Archaeologists have revealed that the remains of a child, who lived in Egypt around 2,000 years ago, have revealed her to be the sufferer of child abuse. They added that she could very well be the first such case in history. The remains, known only as "Burial 159", show signs of the child having her bones broken repeatedly, and being shaken repeatedly, the Daily Mail reported. Experts say the case may stem from an ancient Egyptian belief that children ...

Oral Conditions Affect 3.9 Billion People Worldwide

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A paper titled "Global Burden of Oral Conditions in 1990-2010: A Systemic Analysis" has been published by the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR). The paper, written by lead author Wagner Marcenes, Queen Mary University, London, is published in the IADR/AADR iJournal of Dental Research/i. The "Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010)" produced comparable estimates of the burden of 291 diseases and injuries ...

Cytomegalovirus Might Speed Brain-cancer Growth: Study

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Cytomegalovirus may speed the progression of an aggressive form of brain cancer, states research. The animal study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) and at Dana Farber Cancer Institute suggests that cytomegalovirus (CMV) might significantly accelerate the development and progression of glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.The ...

Exfoliate, Hydrate for Glowing Skin

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For glowing and younger looking skin, exfoliate the skin with a scrub and hydrate with a lotion, say experts. Dead cells can be knocked off to get radiant skin by following few basic steps religiously, says Manoj Khanna of Enhance Cosmetic and Aesthetic Studio. Exfoliate your body: It's very important to exfoliate your skin. No matter how much lotion you use, you're never going to have glowing skin if you don't exfoliate. Grab a body scrub ...

Tougher Food Safety Law Passed

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Taiwan has passed tougher food safety law, after the latest tainted food scandal on the island. A new clause imposing the maximum life imprisonment and a fine of up to Tw (Dollar) 20 million ( (Dollar) 666,000) has been added if such an offence results in death, the health department said. Under the revisions passed by parliament late Friday, the fine has been raised to up to Tw (Dollar) 15 million for using toxic or expired ingredients and up to Tw (Dollar) 3 million for using an ...