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To Lighten a Tan - Beauty Tips

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Skin gets tan due to long periods of exposure to sunlight, especially in winter because of the direct sunrays. Here are some beauty tips that can lighten a tan effectively.

Hispanic Stroke Patients Less Likely to Receive Clot-Busting Drugs

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A new research found that Hispanic stroke patients in hospitals in the border states of California, New Mexico and Texas were less likely to receive clot-busting drugs and were more likely to die. Researchers analyzed stroke care for Hispanic and non-Hispanic patients according to demographics and clinical characteristics in states bordering Mexico and states not on the Mexican border. They found:ulliOf the nearly 35,000 Hispanic stroke patients, 21,130 were ...

Mystery of 'missing' Genetic Risk Decoded

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Study results may help us solve an important riddle- why research to look for the genetic causes of common diseases has failed to explain more than a fraction of the heritable risk of developing them.Susceptibility to common diseases is believed to arise through a combination of many common genetic variants that individually slightly increase the risk of disease, plus a smaller number of rare mutations that often carry far greater risk. However, even when their ...

Immune System in Newborn Lungs Different from That in Adults

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Newborns are more susceptible to infections maybe due to their immature and inexperienced immune systems. The most common dangerous condition in newborns and infants are lower respiratory tract infections caused by viruses, especially respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). A study published on February 13th in iPLOS Pathogens/i shows how the immune system in the lungs during early life differs from the one in older children and adults. Ideally, newborns could be ...

Bile Duct Cancer Gets a New Drug Treatment Using Genomic Sequencing Technique

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Personalized drug treatments are being done for patients suffering from cholangiocarcinoma using genomic sequencing technologies by physicians at the Mayo Clinic. Potential new treatment approaches are being validated to develop new tests that physicians can use to guide therapy for this aggressive cancer of the bile ducts that progresses quickly and is difficult to treat. Clinically important findings suggest that targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor ...

Stem Cell Components may Help the Brain Rebuild Itself After a Stroke

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Using molecular components of stem cells to enhance the brain's ability to rebuild the brain after a stroke holds good promise in treating long term disability in adults. Michael Chopp, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute, will presentthis approach to treating neurological diseases Thursday, Feb. 13, at the American HeartAssociation's International Stroke Conference in San Diego. Although most stroke victims recover some ability to ...

Intensive Dialysis may Help Pregnant Women With Kidney Failure

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A new study revealed how intensive dialysis treatments in pregnant women suffering from kidney failure may have higher proportion of live births as opposed to that under standard dialysis care. The findings suggest that more frequent and longer dialysis sessions should be considered for dialysis patients of childbearing age who want to become pregnant or who are already pregnant. When young women develop advanced kidney disease, pregnancy becomes dangerous and often ...

Adaptor Protein P66Shc may be a New Target for Cancer and Diabetes

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A new study published online has revealed how a protein that was known to be a part of a complex communications network within the cell also plays a direct role in regulating sugar metabolism. Cell growth and metabolism are tightly controlled processes in our cells. When these functions are disturbed, diseases such as cancer and diabetes occur. Mohamed Soliman, a PhD candidate at the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, found a unique ...

Energy Security Concerns Grow Among The Rising Energy Costs and Bitter Cold

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The problem of energy insecurity is still going unreported despite its effect on the vulnerable public thanks to many regions of the country now facing a cold snap. In a new brief, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health paint a picture of the families most impacted by this problem and suggest recommendations to alleviate its chokehold on millions of struggling Americans. The authors note that government programs to address energy insecurity are coming ...

HIV Risk Four Times Higher in Patients Receiving Mental Health Care

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A new study involving more than 1000 patients has found how those receiving mental health care are at 4 times a higher risk of being infected with HIV as compared to the general population. Of that group, several new HIV cases were detected, suggesting that not all patients are getting tested in mental health care settings, despite recommendations to do so from the CDC and the Institute of Medicine. The study is one of the largest studies to date to estimate HIV ...

Pill to Cure Laziness

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Researchers are in the process of developing pills which is going to motivate lazy people. Scientists in China and Scotland have made a key discovery, which centres on the system that regulates physical activity levels, the Independents reported. To make their discovery, researchers compared normal mice with those that had a mutation in a gene called SLC35D3, and found that it produces a protein that helps play a key signalling role in the brain's ...

Study Shows How Memory and Schizophrenia are Connected

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A network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is important for human brain activity, memory and the development of schizophrenia has been discovered by Basel scientists. The ability to hold transitory information - e.g. memorizing a telephone number - is a fundamental function of the human brain. This so-called working memory enables us to understand the world that surrounds us. To keep the working memory running, our brain uses a ...

Being Gay Comes Through Genes: Study

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It is genes that affect a man's sexual orientation of being gay or straight, a new study has revealed. Dr Michael Bailey of Northwestern University said, "Sexual orientation has nothing to do with choice. Our findings suggest there may be genes at play - we found evidence for two sets that affect whether a man is gay or straight." DNA of 400 gay men was used for the study and it was revealed that genes on at least two chromosomes influenced whether a man ...

Docs Warn Bodybuilders Against Using Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxifen

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Estro Suppress supplement used by bodybuilders contains breast cancer drug tamoxifen, observe experts. Researchers have said that bodybuilders use anabolic steroids which causes breast enlargement and to keep this in check such people take tamoxifen. The team of researchers from Liverpool John Moores University bought four samples of the supplement and found tamoxifen in three of these samples. And they said the drug is being used for past 30 years. The team ...

Dermatologists may be Able to Diagnose Condition from Pictures Only

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Dermatologists will soon be just a snapshot away after a new study published in JAMA Dermatology revealed that taking a picture of skin conditions or suspicious mole would be enough for the dermatologists to conduct a remote diagnosis of the condition. Researchers at University of Pennsylvania looked into the effectiveness of teledermatology, which involves sending dermatologists photos of suspicious, by recruiting around 50 individuals who were in a hospital with ...

Risk of Blood Clots High for Up to 12 Weeks After Child Birth

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A new study published in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the risk of blood clots that may cause strokes and heart attacks in women is high for up to 12 weeks after child birth, twice as long as previous estimates. Researchers led by Dr Hooman Kamel, from New York's Weill Cornell Medical College, observed more than 1.7 million women in California who gave birth to their first child and found that more than 1,000 of them developed ...

Woman Complaining of Earache Discovers Maggot in Ear

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A 48-year old woman in Taiwan who went to doctors complaining of ear ache was found to have a maggot living in her ear. The woman visited the emergency department of Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei complaining of ear ache and when the doctors removed her hearing aid and examined her left ear, they found a fruit fly larva wriggling along the ear canal and had eroded the skin at the base of her ear canal, close to the eardrum, filling her ear with blood-stained ...

Oz Couples Happiest Until They Get Engaged

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Australian couples are the happiest and the healthiest in the country, until they get engaged, according to figures released by the Alere Wellness Index. The index is made up of scores exercise, psychological wellbeing, nutritional health, alcohol, smoking, medical conditions and body mass based on more than 50,000 surveys in a year conducted by Roy Morgan Research. The scores reveal that couples who are engaged tend to get a bit stressful though same-sex ...

Assam Bans Non-Smoking Tobacco Products

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Assam became the first Indian state to ban non-smoking tobacco after Governor Janaki Ballav Patnaik gave his assent to the Assam Health (Prohibition of Manufacturing, Trade, Advertisement, Storage, Distribution, Sale and Consumption of Zarda, Gutkha, Pan masala Containing Tobacco) Bill 2013. Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma confirmed that the Bill has gone into effect from Thursday, February 13, and any found to be manufacturing, advertising, ...

Risk of Memory Decline Increased by Cold Sores

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A new study shows that exposure to common infections like cold sores or mild pneumonia may increase risk of memory decline. Researchers found that exposure to Chlamydia pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori, cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex viruses was associated with worse cognitive performance, including memory, speed of mental processing, abstract thinking and planning and reasoning ability. "We were very interested in what were the risk factors for cognitive ...

Facebook Intros New Gender Options

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Facebook is now letting people opt for custom genders such as transsexual or "intersex", thus freeing members from the bonds of being either male or female. Along with adding scores of "custom gender" options on profile pages, Facebook is letting members select which pronouns they wish to be used when being referred to in posts or messages. Facebook users could opt to be refered to as "he/him" or "she/her," or by a neutral "they/their" choice. "While ...

Archeologists Discover 3,600-Year-Old Mummy in Luxor

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Archeologists from Spain have discovered a 3,600-year-old mummy in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's Antiquities Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said that the mummy preserved wooden sarcophagus dates back to 1600 BC and it appears to belong to a high official, as it is engraved with hieroglyphs and decorated with inscriptions of bird feathers, the Independent reported. He said that the exact identity of the well-preserved mummy, which was discovered by a Spanish mission ...

Stroke Risk Among Women can be Reduced by Moderate Exercise

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Moderate-intensity physical activity like brisk walking or playing tennis is enough to reduce the risk of stroke in women, a new study has suggested. Sophia Wang, the study's lead author and professor at the Beckman Research Institute in Calif., said that she was surprised that moderate physical activity was most strongly associated with a reduced risk of stroke. More strenuous activity such as running didn't further reduce women's stroke risk and moderate ...

Teens More Worried About Wrinkles and Not Skin Cancer

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New research suggests that the threat of looking old and premature aging leads teens to wear sunscreen. "You can tell that when we talk about the skin cancer risk, it doesn't faze youth. But when you talk about premature wrinkling and aging, they listen a little more closely," said April W. Armstrong, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center in the US. To understand this behaviour, researchers went to local high schools to recruit 50 ...

Main Cause of Widespread Pain in Adults Over 50: Restless Sleep

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Non-restorative sleep is the strongest, independent predictor of widespread pain onset among adults over the age of 50, UK researchers have found. According to the study, anxiety, memory impairment, and poor physical health among older adults may also increase the risk of developing widespread pain. Muscle, bone and nerve (musculoskeletal) pain is more prevalent as people age, with up to 80 percent of people 65 years of age and older experiencing daily ...

Bicycle Sharing Scheme in London Has Had Positive Health Effect

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Authors of a new research are suggesting that the potential benefits of cycling "may not currently apply to all groups in all settings." Over 600 cities around the world have implemented bicycle sharing schemes, but there is very little published evidence on the health effects of such schemes. So researchers at the University of Cambridge, University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine set out to estimate the health ...

Stroke Risk Among Trauma Patients Younger Than 50 Years may be Increased by Head and Neck Injuries

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Research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2014 says that suffering an injury to the head or neck increases the risk of ischemic stroke by three-fold among trauma patients younger than 50. "These findings are important because strokes after trauma might be preventable," said Christine Fox, M.D., M.A.S., lead author and assistant professor of neurology at the University of California San Francisco. Researchers studied the ...

Topiramate Reduces Heavy Drinking Among Patients Seeking to Cut Down on Alcohol Consumption: Research

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Previous research has shown that heavy drinking alcohol consumption is common in the United States. This habit a personal and societal toll, with an annual estimated cost of (Dollar) 223.5 billion due to losses in workplace productivity, and health care and criminal justice expenses. Data shows that 23 percent of individuals age 12 or older reported drinking five or more drinks on one occasion in the previous month, and almost seven percent reported doing so on at least ...

Link Between Stock Market Volatility and Mental Disorders Probed in Large Study

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New research published in the journal iHealth Policy and Planning/i suggest that falling stock prices lead to increased hospitalizations for mental disorders. Researchers assessed the relationship between stock price movements and mental disorders using data on daily hospitalisations for mental disorders in Taiwan over 4,000 days between 1998 and 2009. They found that a 1000-point fall in the Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalisation Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX) ...

Mobile Apps Contributes to the World of Dating

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The use of mobiles has now extended to mobile dating as the smartphone is an accessible means of a daily hub to help people discover new friends in real time, along with their exact location too. Looking to meet women, 20-year-old US college student Leland turned to mobile phone app Tinder, after a friend told him about his own successful exploits. Leland's results were mixed: he was matched with around 400 women over more than a year but only ended ...

South Korean Lovers Express It With Matching Outfits

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South Korean couples often display their relationship by wearing matching outfits, like shirts, socks, jackets, or more privately underwear; in spite of the public show-offs being frowned on. It's especially popular with newlyweds, making South Koreans honeymooning on the beaches of Southeast Asia easy to spot in their twinned T-shirts or shorts, complete with "couple flip-flops." The fashion can also be seen among young people in China and Japan, but ...