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Victoria Beckham Voted as Woman of the Decade
Alzheimer's Drugs may Cut Heart Attack Risk
WHO Approves First Non-surgical Circumcision Device
Taking Tamoxifen for 10 Years Reduces Risk of Dying
Study Shows Radiotherapy Provide Regional Control for Breast Cancer Patients
How to Protect Your Kids' Eyes
Kuwait Defends Barring Foreigners from Morning Treatment in Public Hospitals
More Proof Needed to Prove Weight-loss Surgery Can Help Lower Diabetes, Study Says
Gay Marriage in England Closer to Becoming Law
Study Shows How Meditation Helps Reduce Anxiety
Parenting Role Model: Swedish Dads Stay Home So Mom can Get Back to Work
Women can Recall Faces Better Than Men: Study
Blame Your Genes for Bunions and Not Your Shoes
Teens Living In Poor Areas at Increased Risk for Chlamydia Infection
Sperm can Act as Natural Superfood, Says Study
Milk Campaign to Increase Height, Life Expectancy
Blood Vessels Linked With IQ
When Do High Heels Begin to Hurt?
Genetic Signature of Deadly Brain Cancer Identified
FDA Approves Sensus SRT-100 for Keloids
Do We Have Ape Feet?
Phone App to the Aid of Homosexuals With a Complete Cure in 60 Days

Victoria Beckham Voted as Woman of the Decade

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Victoria Beckham has been voted as the "woman of the decade" at London's Glamour Woman Of The Year Awards. The 39-year-old brought her 14-year-old son Brooklyn to the event, as husband David Beckham was in Miami for work, Stuff.co.nz reported. She thanked her eldest son upon receiving the honour. The former Spice Girl, whose womenswear designs are regarded for their wearability, acknowledged her career change from being a popstar ...

Alzheimer's Drugs may Cut Heart Attack Risk

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Alzheimer's disease drugs such as donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine may prevent heart attacks and premature death, suggests study. Professor Peter Nordstrom, of Umea University, Umea, Sweden, and colleagues reviewed records on 7,073 Alzheimer's patients taking cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs), such as donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine, which are used for treating mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. Side-effects of ChEIs include ...

WHO Approves First Non-surgical Circumcision Device

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World Health Organization has approved a first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device that could forestall the spread of AIDS in Africa. According to The New York Times, The PrePex is the only circumcision method, aside from conventional surgery, to gain approval from the international health organization. WHO reportedly gave its approval to the device on Friday, Fox News reported. Dr. Eric P. Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, ...

Taking Tamoxifen for 10 Years Reduces Risk of Dying

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Death rates from breast cancer can be slashed further by extending drug therapy for longer, shows a new study. Researchers have found that women who took the drug tamoxifen for ten years rather than the usual five halved their risk of dying from the disease, the Independent reported. Discovered in the 1960s, Tamoxifen has transformed the treatment of breast cancer and resulted in nearly 50 per cent fall in death rates in the last 30 years. But ...

Study Shows Radiotherapy Provide Regional Control for Breast Cancer Patients

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Both axillary lymph node dissection and axillary radiotherapy provide excellent regional control for breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node biopsy, shows Final analysis of the EORTC 10981-22023 AMAROS (After Mapping of the Axilla: Radiotherapy Or Surgery?) trial. The AMAROS trial also found that axillary radiotherapy reduces the risk of short term and long-term lymphoedema as compared to axillary lymph node dissection. Prof. Emiel J. Rutgers ...

How to Protect Your Kids' Eyes

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Most parents cover their kids with sunscreen to protect their skin from too much of the sun's UVA and UVB rays, before sending them outside to play. But they should also do something to protect their children's eyes, says an expert. "There is a lot of research that shows the harmful effects of too much sunlight for a child's eyes. Sunlight over exposure can lead to aging of the lens and retina damage," said James McDonnell, MD, medical director of pediatric ...

Kuwait Defends Barring Foreigners from Morning Treatment in Public Hospitals

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Kuwait defended its move barring foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings saying that it aimed at resolving the problem of 'overcrowding' at such health facilities. Since Sunday the health ministry in the oil-rich Gulf state began implementing the measure, described by activists as racist, at the public hospital in Jahra, west of Kuwait City, on experimental basis for six months. If successful, it will be expanded to other public hospitals ...

More Proof Needed to Prove Weight-loss Surgery Can Help Lower Diabetes, Study Says

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Research shows gastric bypass or other types of weight-loss surgery can help diabetics who are moderately obese, but a study has said more proof is needed before promoting them on a wider scale. "Bariatric surgery for diabetic people who are not severely obese has shown promising results in controlling glucose," said Melinda Maggard-Gibbons, the study's lead author and a surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles. "However, we need more information ...

Gay Marriage in England Closer to Becoming Law

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Gay marriage in England moved a step closer to becoming law when the British parliament's upper house voted down a bid to kill off a bill to introduce gay marriage in England and Wales. Following two days of impassioned debate in the House of Lords that exposed deep divisions in the unelected upper chamber, peers voted 390 to 148 against the so-called "wrecking" amendment. The amendment was a proposal to not allow a second reading of the Marriages (Same ...

Study Shows How Meditation Helps Reduce Anxiety

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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center scientists have identified the science behind how meditation reduces anxiety. "Although we've known that meditation can reduce anxiety, we hadn't identified the specific brain mechanisms involved in relieving anxiety in healthy individuals," said Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow in neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the study. "In this study, we were able to ...

Parenting Role Model: Swedish Dads Stay Home So Mom can Get Back to Work

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Like many Swedish dads who have opted for an active parenting role, Anders Weide keeps an eye on his young daughter Alma sleeping in her pram at the Humlegaarden park in central Stockholm, as he waits for a friend who's gone to change his son's diaper. In Sweden, the image surprises no one. "It's very important to see fathers walking in town with prams, it sets an example," explains Malmoe University sociologist Lars Plantin, who specialises in parenting ...

Women can Recall Faces Better Than Men: Study

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Women can remember faces better than men, because they spend more time studying features, reveals study. This technique, researchers said, can help improve anyone's memories. The findings help to answer long-standing questions about why some people can remember faces easily while others quickly forget someone they've just met. "Our findings provide new insights into the potential mechanisms of episodic memory and the differences between ...

Blame Your Genes for Bunions and Not Your Shoes

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Bunion or hallux valgus is a bone deformity characterized by the big toe pointing towards the adjacent toe of the same foot. Scientists believe that the incidences of bunions are mostly linked to family inheritance and not ill-fitting shoes. The bunions can cause swelling, tenderness and pain around the big toe. Recently U.S. researchers from the Framingham Foot Study assessed around 13,700 adult volunteers and discovered profound ...

Teens Living In Poor Areas at Increased Risk for Chlamydia Infection

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Adolescents living in a poor neighborhood are at increased risk of getting infected with chlamydia in young adulthood, says new research. Chlamydial infection is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by bacteria in both men and women. Persisting chlamydia can cause scarring and infertility issues in women. Researchers at Ohio State University analyzed data from a large national study that tracked youths over time.They observed that children who ...

Sperm can Act as Natural Superfood, Says Study

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Certain females consume male ejaculate and sperm as if they were food, finds study. "If males have their sperm consumed, rather than used for egg fertilization, they will lose that reproductive opportunity. Therefore, it is in the male's best interests to try to ensure at least some of his sperm reaches the female's eggs," lead author Benjamin Wegener, a researcher at Monash University's School of Biological Sciences, told Discovery News. Wegener ...

Milk Campaign to Increase Height, Life Expectancy

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Thailand has urged its citizens to drink a glass of cow's milk to boost their height, life expectancy. The move comes along with a simultaneous campaign to encourage women to breastfeed their children for longer, ensuring babies are given breast milk for their first six months before giving them two or three glasses of cow's milk during pre-school, the Guardian reports. The deputy public health minister, Cholanan Srikaew has said that the milk ...

Blood Vessels Linked With IQ

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Blood vessels in the retina are linked with intelligence quotient (IQ), suggests study. Research shows that younger people who score low on intelligence tests, such as IQ, tend to be at higher risk for poorer health and shorter lifespan, but factors like socioeconomic status and health behaviors don't fully account for the relationship Psychological scientist Idan Shalev of Duke University and colleagues wondered whether intelligence might ...

When Do High Heels Begin to Hurt?

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Wearing high heels does give women a high, only till it starts hurting. Is there a way to know how long it takes before it begins to hurt? An interesting survey has revealed that high heels begin to hurt after one hour, six minutes and 48 seconds. But, for those who are really delicate, it could begin to hurt within ten minutes of wearing high heels. A survey of 2,000 men and women, and 60 podiatrists and chiropodists found that feet often turn sore after ...

Genetic Signature of Deadly Brain Cancer Identified

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Genetic traits of the cells that give rise to gliomas - the most common form of malignant brain cancer have been discovered by scientists. The findings, which appear in the journal iCell Reports/i, provide scientists with rich new potential set of targets to treat the disease. "This study identifies a core set of genes and pathways that are dysregulated during both the early and late stages of tumor progression," said University of Rochester Medical Center ...

FDA Approves Sensus SRT-100 for Keloids

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The FDA has given the nod to Sensus Healthcare (Boca Raton FL) to start the marketing of its SRT-100 superficial radiotherapy system for the treatment of keloids, or scar tissue which takes shape over a wound after injury or surgical procedures. The system is employed for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers. The SRT-100 employs superficial X-rays to deliver radiation to the surface of the skin and this does not cause any pain. Anesthesia is also not required ...

Do We Have Ape Feet?

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A study of the feet of nearly 398 visitors at the Boston Museum of Science has revealed that one out of 13 people have flexible ape-like feet and differences do exist in the structure of their bones. Flexible feet help apes to move around fast providing good grip on the branches. Scientists are now surprised how most humans ended up with rigid feet. Apes spend a lot of their time in trees, so their flexible feet are essential to grip branches and allow them to ...

Phone App to the Aid of Homosexuals With a Complete Cure in 60 Days

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Phone apps are used for many reasons and some of the overriding uses are to stay connected and entertained. A certain interesting app which offers something new comes with a tall claim that it can cure homosexuality within 60 days. The website, 'Setting Captives Free' has come out with an app called "Door of Hope". This app claims that it can cure people from sins such as smoking, drinking, homosexuality, and pornography. This app which provides ...