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Healthcare Providers may Help Women Get Trimmer, Healthier

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With the help of a healthcare provider, women can now beat middle-aged diseases risks and hot flashes. And even a short term program can spell success for women and fit into a busy provider's practice, shows a demonstration obesity-fighting and health risk reduction program detailed in an article just published online in iMenopause/i, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).Making lifestyle changes can take a lot of work. Programs that have ...

Intravenous Magnesium Treatment may Not Improve Stroke Outcome

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A new research revealed how intravenous magnesium treatment given to stroke patients to protect the brain cells deprived of oxygen failed to improve stroke-related disability 3 months later. Investigators showed that paramedics can successfully deliver intravenous medications to most stroke patients within an hour after symptoms begin. This is the "golden hour" the time in which patients have the best chance to survive and avoid long-term neurological damage. ...

Bacon Oil Painting Bags Over 42 Million

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A portrait depicting artist Francis Bacon depicting his lover and muse George Dyer was sold for over 42 million ( (Dollar) 70 million, 51 million euros), setting a record. Oil masterpiece "Portrait of George Dyer Talking", painted at the height of Bacon's powers, was first shown in Paris in 1966 -- the year of its creation -- and then at the artist's legendary first museum retrospective at the city's Grand Palais five years later. The exhibition opened two days ...

Hungary Criticized by World Jewish Congress for Holocaust Commemoration

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government was accused by The World Jewish Congress of trying to "falsify" history, thus adding its voice to concerns about Holocaust commemorations this year. "The attempt to falsify history instead of commemorating the annihilation of two-thirds of Hungary's Jews has caused profound disappointment," WJC president Ronald S. Lauder said in a letter published by the Nepszabadsag daily. Lauder said he supported last ...

Study Suggests New Dads may Have Less Craving for Sex

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A study has suggested that new fathers may be less inclined towards having sex. Lee Gettler, of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, tracked the lives and hormones of 433 young men from the Philippine islands and found that the most testosterone-fuelled men were also the most likely to become fathers. But after having a baby their levels of the male sex hormone dropped along with the amount of sex they had,Daily Mail reported. Gettler ...

Five-Fold Growth in Ayurveda Targeted by Kerala

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A Kerala government official has said that the two-day International Business Meet (IBM) on Ayurveda being held at Kochi next week is expected to bring a five-fold increase in the state's share. "At present, the Indian ayurveda industry is worth Rs.10,000 crore of which Kerala's contribution is about Rs.1,000 crore. We are aiming for a five-fold rise in the state's share by 2020," said Aruna Sundarajan, managing director of the state-owned Kerala State Industrial ...

Top Cardiologist Says India Needs New Cholesterol Guidelines

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Top heart specialist Srinath Reddy has said that it is time for India to pro-actively consider new cholesterol guidelines for the future. "The early onset of heart disease in India, at the age 52, compared to China (63 years) and the US (62 years), makes India a unique ethnographic class when it comes to cholesterol guidelines," Reddy said. Around the world, many countries have their own version of cholesterol guidelines to manage heart disease, with ...

President Calls for Eradicating Leprosy

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Stressing the need for combating leprosy, President Pranab Mukherjee has called for integrated leprosy services in geographically focused areas to eradicate the disease. He was speaking at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan where he presented the International Gandhi Award for 2013 to Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre and Guocheng Zhang from China for making outstanding contribution in the field of leprosy. He pointed to certain areas where the prevalence ...

Woman Gets Relief from Incontinence

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Surgery has provided relief for a 48-year-old woman, who was suffering from incontinence, a condition characterized by involuntary loss of urine. Indu was suffering from the condition despite medication. Said to be the first such surgery in India for treating female urge incontinence, Indu was operated at the Safdarjung Hospital Friday. "Until now, only European countries had conducted 1,000 such surgeries. But now, it is possible in India ...

Here is How You can Save a Troubled Marriage

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One of the sayings most repeated among friends is that if one wants to keep the peace in their marriage, it's better to remain happy, than right. However, researchers in New Zealand asked a husband to agree with everything the wife said, without her knowing of this beforehand and both had to score their daily quality of life on a scale of 1-10. The experiment ended after 12 days when the wife became hostile at her husband for everything that he said ...

Asthmatic Kids are Adversely Affected by Passive Smoking

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A new study has found that children exposed to smoking at home have lower levels of an enzyme that helps them respond to asthma treatment. Passive smoking is known to worsen asthma symptoms in children and impair their response to inhaled steroid treatment, but how this effect occurs was not known till date. Researchers at Imperial College London found that children with severe asthma with a parent who smokes at home have lower levels of the enzyme 'HDAC2' ...

Here is What Separates Love from Lust

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Have you ever wondered why your mind wavers between an intense longing for the opposite sex and pleasurable goals at times? Scientists have discovered a key area in the brain of a neurological patient that helps you choose between love and lust. "A region deep inside the brain called the anterior insula plays an instrumental role in love," said neuroscientist Stephanie Cacioppo at University of Chicago. In the study, the patient made decisions ...

Arctic Wildlife and Landscapes are at Risk Due to Global Warming

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The unique and irreplaceable Arctic wildlife and landscapes are at risk due to global warming, a new report has warned. The Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) is a report prepared by 253 scientists from 15 countries under the auspices of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council. "An entire bio-climatic zone, the high Arctic, may disappear. Polar bears and the other highly adapted organisms ...

Study Reveals Two-Thirds of Americans Own Smartphones

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A new study has found that about two-thirds of Americans own smartphones. In a Nielsen's Digital Consumer Report, it was found that smartphone popularity in the US is so high that it is more common than gaming consoles, owned by about 46 percent and digital cable by 54 percent of people. According to Mashable, the report, highlighting tech adoption in the nation, revealed that the average person owns about four mobile devices and spends 60 hours a week ...

First Ever Human Lung Created in Lab

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The first ever human lungs have been created by scientists in a laboratory in Texas. Joan Nichols, a researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, said that it's really cool that scientists are now finally moving into science fact, CNN reported. Researchers have revealed that if the lungs work, it will be able to help more than 1,600 people awaiting a lung transplant. Nichols said that the researchers started with lungs from two children ...

Breast Milk Contains Natural Stress Hormone

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A study done on laboratory monkeys has revealed that a hormone that is released when someone is under physical or emotional stress is present in breast milk. Scientists found that levels of the stress hormone cortisol in breast milk can vary between mothers and that it affects sons and daughters in a different way. The researchers believe the same is likely to be true for human breast milk, the Independent reported. Female babies fed on breast milk with ...

Spanish Experts Discover 3,600-Year-Old Mummy in Egypt

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Egypt's antiquities minister has confirmed that Spanish experts found a sarcophagus containing a 3,600-year-old mummy in the southern city of Luxor. The discovery was made on the west bank of the Nile and dates back to the 17th dynasty (around 1600 B.C.), which governed Upper (southern) Egypt from what is now Luxor, Mohamed Ibrahim said in a statement. The discovery was made while excavating the front patio of the tomb of Yehuti, who was supervisor of ...

Blood Clot Risk Higher in Women After Delivery

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A large study recently found how women's blood clot risk remains higher than normal for atleast 12 weeks after delivering a baby. The chance of a blood clot rises during pregnancy, when platelets and other blood-clotting factors increase. The risk peaks around the time of delivery, but researchers found that afterwards it remained:ulli10.8 times higher during weeks 0-6;li2.2 times higher during weeks 7-12; andli1.4 times higher (a non-significant rise) during weeks ...

HIV Infection Risk Higher in Patients Receiving Mental Health Care

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A new study recently revealed how patients receiving mental health care are at a higher risk of getting affected by HIV than 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 prevalence and risk factors among persons ...

Metabolic Syndrome Similar in Different Age Groups

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A new study found out how metabolic risk factors cluster similarly in children and adults. Furthermore, in adults, the clustering of these riskfactors increases the risk of premature death caused by type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarctionand cardiovascular diseases. The results indicate that lifestyle interventions aiming at theprevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases should be invested in already inchildhood. The results of the study were recently published ...

Exercise may Cut Down Stroke Risk in Women

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A new research recently revealed how women could simply cut down their stroke risk by performing moderate intensity exercises such as brisk walking and playing tennis."I was surprised that moderate physical activity was most strongly associated with a reduced risk of stroke," said Sophia Wang, Ph.D., the study's lead author and professor in the department of population sciences within the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope in Duarte, Calif. "More strenuous ...

'Implantation' Study may Cause Biology Textbooks to be Rewritten

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The process of embryo development has been known for long, but a key stage- implantation, is still a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered a way to study and film this 'black box'of development. Their results - which will lead to the rewriting of biology text books worldwide- are published in the journal iCell/i. Embryo development in mammals occurs in two phases.During the first phase, pre-implantation, the embryo is a small, free-floating ...

Leukemia Treatment Gets a New Approach

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A promising new approach has been put forward by a team of researchers which may help treat leukemia by disarming a gene responsible for tumor progression. That gene, known as Brg1 is a key regulator of leukemia stem cells that are the root cause of the disease, resistance to treatment and relapse. Julie Lessard, principal investigator and her colleagues at IRIC have spent the past four years studying that gene in collaboration with another research group at Stanford ...

Self-Harm Behavior More Common in Asthma, Diabetes Patients

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A new research has recently found that individuals who suffer from certain physical illnesses have a greater risk of indulging in self-harm . While it is known that psychiatric illnesses are associated with a greatly elevated risk of self-harm, a moderately elevated risk was seen with common physical illnesses such as diabetes, epilepsy and asthma. The research, published today by the emJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine/em, investigated the risk of self-harm ...

Sarcopenia Ups the Risk of Mortality and Sepsis in Liver Transplant Patients

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Sarcopenia-a loss of skeletal muscle mass, could be linked to an increased risk of sepsis and mortality in patients undergoing live donor liver transplantation, a new study found. Findings published in iLiver Transplantation/i, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, suggest that post-transplant sepsis was reduced in candidates with sarcopenia who received early nutritional support with a ...

Sunlight may Help Lower Blood Pressure Risk

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Sunlight could help to reduce high blood pressure, say researchers. According to British researchers, exposure to sunlight changes the levels of nitric oxide in the skin, dilating blood vessels and thus easing hypertension, Japan Times reported. Martin Feelisch, a professor of experimental medicine at the University of Southampton in southern England, said that small amounts of NO (nitric oxide) are transferred from the skin to the circulation, ...

Study Shows How Stem Cells Decide Liver, Pancreas Formation

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A gradient of prostaglandin E2 in the region of zebrafish embryos where stem cells differentiate into the internal organs has been discovered by Stem cell scientists Wolfram Goessling and Trista Northat the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). The finding could potentially make liver and pancreas cells easier to generate both in the lab and for future cell therapies. "Cells that see more prostaglandin become liver and the cells that see less prostaglandin ...

Link Between Air Pollution and Brain Cancer Identified

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Toxic compounds in polluted air are capable of causing brain cancer, say a team of researchers. The research by scientists at the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai will be done in laboratory mice and will focus on three - naphthalene, butadiene and isoprene - that often are associated with polluted air. Cedars-Sinai researchers and others have used high-tech systems to detect genes and proteins ...