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Slow Reaction Time Means Reduction in Life Span: Research

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Adults displaying slow reaction time need to sit up and think about it seriously as this means reduction in life span, says a research published in journal PLOS ONE. After going through data of over 5,000 participants aged 20-59 year, researchers from UCL and the University of Edinburgh concluded that those who were slower had 25 per cent more chance of dying in next 15 years, compared to those who were of average speed. The researchers studied reaction time ...

3D Fossil Portrait of 'World's First Spider' Discovered

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3D fossil portrait of what could be one of the world's first spiders has been discovered by scientists. The creature named Enalikter aphson, which was discovered nestled in a rock in Herefordshire, has a shape of a Christmas-tree, has no eyes, a primitive tail and hundreds of legs, the Daily Express reported. The fossil arthropod measures just two centimetres long and is part of an extinct group of arthropods knows as the megacheira, which is ...

Marking on Your Child's Back Could Mean Spinal Defects

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Any kind of marking or a patch of hair on the back of a child should not be taken lightly as that can point to a spinal problem that she is suffering from. Recently, when a three-year-old Taiwanese girl was taken to the doctor to get a patch of hair removed from her lower back, it came to light that the hair was not a cosmetic problem. The hair had formed due to problems in her spinal cord, said a report in The New England Journal of Medicine. She was diagnosed ...

Health Benefits of Aloe Vera

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Aloe Vera plant is known as a medicinal herb for treating several skin problems, hair loss and weight loss. Here are some Aloe Vera plant benefits given in detail.

Mammography Beneficial for Younger Women

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Women in their 40s who underwent screening mammography were diagnosed at earlier stages with smaller tumors and less likely to require chemotherapy, says study published in iAmerican Journal of Roentgenology/i. In recent years, there have been contradictory guidelines related to the benefit of annual mammograms for women in their 40s. The United States Preventive Services Task Force's guidelines from 2009 recommend against annual screening mammography ...

Discovery May Pave Way for New Osteoporosis Drugs

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A potent stimulator of new bone growth has been discovered by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis scientists. The finding could lead to new treatments for osteoporosis and other diseases that occur when the body doesn't make enough bone. Osteoporosis affects 55 percent of Americans age 50 and older. Of that age group, one in three women and one in 12 men are believed to have osteoporosis, a condition responsible for millions of fractures ...

Nutrition Highly Important for Bariatric Surgery Patients

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A new study reported how individuals having undergone bariatric surgery may need to play close attention to their nutritional intake and take dietary supplements. The study, published in the emJournal of Investigative Medicine/em, tracked a group of gastric banding patients and found that despite nutritional counseling over a three-month period, most still did not meet recommended daily requirements for important nutrients such as protein, vitamin D, and calcium. ...

Association Between Diabetes, Depression and Eating Disorders Explained

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There is an independent association between diabetes diagnosis and depression and eating disorders after adjustment for presence of other mental disorders, a new study found. The research, published in iDiabetologia/i (the journal of The European Association for the Study of Diabetes), supports the focus on depression as an independent risk factor for diabetes, but also suggests this focus should be extended to impulse control disorders. The study is the first to report ...

Your Relationship With Your Mom Could Influence Your Child's Obesity Risk

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A new study has linked the quality of your attachment to your parents to your risk of being affected by obesity. "If your mother regularly punished or dismissed your anger, anxiety, or sadness instead of being sensitive to your distress and giving you strategies for handling those feelings, you may be insecurely attached and parenting your children in the same way. A child who doesn't learn to regulate his emotions may in turn develop eating patterns that put him ...

Relieve an Itch Without a Scratch! Here's How You Do It

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Thanks to a new research, there is now a perfect way to get rid of that annoying itch without scratching it. The technique, inspired by the rubber hand illusion, involves using a mirror to manipulate the perception of our own bodies by the brain and fooling people into feeling relief from an itch by scratching the wrong place, the Daily Express reported. According to New Scientist magazine, the team at University of Lubeck calculated that the fake scratch ...

Beer Consumption Drops Down in Germany for the Seventh Year in a Row

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The national statistics have reported a decline in the domestic sales of beer in Germany for the seventh year in a row. The output of German breweries dropped two percent in 2013 on the previous year to the lowest level since German reunification in 1989, said the Destasis statistics office. Shifting consumer tastes have seen brewers market ever more non-alcoholic as well as fruit-flavoured and other varieties, and bank on exports to China and the United ...

Lab-Grown Blood and Lymph Capillaries Make an Entrance

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Around 11 million people around the world suffer from burns every year; and the resulting deep wounds don't just heal slowly, but also result in lifelong scars. What is needed to reduce this kind of scarring is the grafting of functional full-thickness skin. Only a very limited area of skin can be removed from the individual patient as the surgery, in turn, creates new wounds. Besides conventional skin grafting, another option is to engineer a skin graft in the lab which firstly ...

Functional Cure of HIV/AIDS: International HIV/AIDS Symposium in India

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From the time it was variously called "gay cancer" or gay related immunodeficiency (GRID) or community acquired immune dysfunction to its identification and establishment as one of the most feared and controversial diseases in modern history, the a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/hiv-risk-calculator.asp" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"HIV/AIDS/a drama as it gradually unfolded and the current challenges in AIDS management were discussed ...

Choline Recommendation During Pregnancy Need to be High, Study

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Large amounts of choline may be needed during the third trimester of the pregnancy to support fetal development, a new study found. Conclusions of the research revealed that current recommendations may be too low.sup1/sup Choline deficiency in pregnant women may result in elevated levels of homocysteine, potentially resulting in birth defects. January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month, and according to the National Birth Defects Prevention Network ...

Michael Schumacher Will Now be Gradually Bought Out of His Coma

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Michael Schumacher, seven-time Formula One champion will now be bought out slowly from his medically induced coma his manager Sabine Kehm quoted. Michael's sedation is being reduced in order to allow the start of the waking up process which may take long time," Kehm said while updating the media over the condition of Schumacher, who struck his head on a rock while skiing off-piste Dec 29 at the Meribel resort in the French Alps. "For the protection of ...

Asia Celebrates the Year of the Horse With Fireworks and Festivities

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A stunning performance by actress Sophie Marceau and breathtaking fireworks marked Asia's celebration of the year of the horse. Residents from China's small towns and villages to its sprawling megacities rang in the Lunar New Year, the country's most important holiday, by indulging in feasts of dumplings and rice cakes and exchanging hongbao, red envelopes stuffed with "lucky money". Many of them were among the hundreds of millions of people, including ...

Vitamin A Used In Acne Medications May Now Help Deal With Autoimmune Disorders

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Vitamin A, which teens commonly use to deal with acne, may actually hold benefits that are more than just skin deep. That's because an international team of researchers have found that it may also help keep the immune system under control for people with autoimmune disorders or those who have received transplants. This finding was published in the February 2014 issue of the a target="_blank" href="http:www.jleukbio.org"emJournal of Leukocyte Biology/em/a. "The ...

Allergy Now Cured Using Peanuts!

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Children suffering from peanut allergies can now be treated by feeding them the very things that their bodies reject, thereby building a tolerance to it, which may help in cases of accidental ingestion. Small doses of peanut powder taken over several months seemed to induce tolerance in children with the potentially deadly allergy, a research team wrote Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal. After six months of treatment, dubbed oral immunotherapy ...

New Riddell Football Helmet may Lower Concussion Risk

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A new study published in Journal of Neurosurgery finds football helmets can be designed to reduce the risk of concussions. The study analyzed head impact data compiled from eight collegiate football teams that included Virginia Tech, University of North Carolina, University of Oklahoma, Dartmouth College, Brown University, University of Minnesota, Indiana University, and University of Illinois. Six years of data were collected between 2005 and 2010. During ...

Finding a New and Promising Approach to Treat Parkinson's Disease

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When properly manipulated, a population of support cells found in the brain called astrocytes could provide a new and promising approach to treat Parkinson's disease, a new study shows. These findings, which were made using an animal model of the disease, demonstrate that a single therapy could simultaneously repair the multiple types of neurological damage caused by Parkinson's, providing an overall benefit that has not been achieved in other approaches. "One ...

Link Between Childhood Depression and Heart Disease Risk Identified

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Depression during childhood may fuel the risk of adult cardiovascular disease, finds study. Depressed children are likely to be obese, smoke and be inactive that can lead to heart disease as early as their teen years. Further, researchers observed higher rates of heart disease in the parents of adolescents that had been depressed as children. "We were quite surprised to find that the parents of the affected adolescents were reporting ...

Video Game: Innovative Medium to Teach Children About Stroke Symptoms

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A video game can be an effective medium to teach children about the signs of stroke so that they can call emergency services in case they see someone facing the problem, says a study. A study showed that after watching a 15-minute stroke education video game, children exhibited better awareness and knowledge regarding stroke and also understood the need to call an emergency service when required. Not only this, the information also stayed with them for up to seven ...

Electronic Tongue can Identify Beer Brands

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An electronic tongue developed by Spanish researchers could help differentiate between categories of beer. The discovery is accurate in nearly 82 percent of cases and can one day give robots a sense of taste! The electronic tongue - based on the human sense of taste - uses a generic array of sensors. "The method did enable us to distinguish between the main categories of beer we studied - Schwarzbier, lager, double malt, Pilsen, ...

Components in C. Diff That may Lead to Better Treatment Identified

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Components in iClostridium difficile/i (IC. diff/I ) that may lead to new diagnostic tools, and ultimately more timely and effective treatment for this often fatal infection have been discovered by Rhode Island Hospital researchers. IC. diff/I is a spore-forming bacterium that causes severe diarrhea and is responsible for 14,000 deaths annually in the U.S. The study is published online in advance of print in the iJournal of Molecular Diagnostics/i. In ...

Obesity Among US Kids Starts by Kindergarten

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Among US children, obesity is largely established by kindergarten, a study said, adding that nearly half of those obese at 14 already had the problem at age five. The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine also showed that over 14 percent of children enter kindergarten overweight and are four times more likely than normal weight children to become obese by the eighth grade. "Although trends in the prevalence of obesity are well documented, ...

Manipur Helds State Wide Polio Immunization Drive

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