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New Auction Record for Spanish Artist Gris

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Juan Gris, the Spanish artist, sold his still life "Nature Morte a la Nappa a Carreaux" ("The Checked Tablecloth") at a new record price of 34. The 1915 work portrays a pile of objects -- including a bunch of grapes and a newspaper -- on a checked tablecloth. It smashed pre-sale estimates of 12-18 million, fetching almost double the previous record for a Gris work at auction. That was achieved in 2010 when his 1913 painting of a violin ...

Von Recklinghausen's Disease

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Von Recklinghausen''s disease or neurofibromatosis type 1 is due to the abnormality in chromosome 17. Von Recklinghausen''s disease or neurofibromatosis type 1 is the most common genetic disorder caused by a single gene.

Portugal Dispute Leads To Cancellation Of The Micro Art Sale

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The London sale of 85 paintings by Spanish master Joan Miro, which is valued at around 36 million euros has been cancelled over a legal dispute in Portugal. "The sale of the collection of 85 works by Joan Miro has been cancelled as a result of a dispute before the Portuguese court, to which Christie's is not a party," the auction house said in a statement, hours before the first of the paintings were due to go under the hammer. Earlier on Tuesday a Portuguese ...

Climate Change may Have Serious Impacts on the World's Coastal Regions

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The world's coastal regions may face massive damages due to storms and surge in flooding over the course of the 21st century, a new research has predicted. According to the study, global average storm surge damages could increase from about 10 to 40 billion dollars per year today to up to 100,000 dollars billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken. The study, led by the Berlin-based think-tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and ...

Hamburgers Win Over Baguette Sandwiches in the French

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The hamburger, which is a popular American food, is now winning hearts in the French with people choosing the beef patty wedged between a bun over a baguette sandwich. Research by the Gira marketing and consulting firm found that nearly one of every two sandwiches sold in the country last year was a burger, up from one in nine in 2000. Although the French are famously proud of the their cuisine, Gira found that burgers are making inroads into traditional ...

Hot Flashes Now Relieved by an Injection!

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A new randomized controlled trial recently revealed how troublesome hot flashes could be controlled by injecting a little anesthetic near a nerve bundle. The technique could give women who cannot or prefer not to take hormones or other medications an effective treatment alternative.In this study from two Chicago medical schools, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, 40 women who had moderate to severe hot flashes got either a stellate ...

'Natural' Food in the US Not Natural After All!

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Pre-packgaed food with lots of artificial and chemical preservatives and ingredients make it to grocery store and supermarket shelves in the US, claiming to be natural." Why? Because in America, there is no definition of "natural." This gray area has led consumer advocates to threaten lawsuit after lawsuit against big food giants, alleging that their claims are misleading and illegal. "There are just too damn many 'natural' lawsuits," said ...

Bacterial Spread Through The Body Predictable By Lyme Disease Rash

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The occurrence of lyme disease is often evident by the presence of a rash on the skin, however, infections do not always produce similar rashes. This can make it difficult to detect the disease early, when antibiotic treatment is most effective. In the February 4th issue of the iBiophysical Journal/i, published by Cell Press, researchers describe a new mathematical model that captures the interactions between disease-causing bacteria and the host immune response that affect ...

Contrast MRIs may Predict Catheter Ablation Benefits in Patients

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A new study recently found how a new type of contrast MRI could predict which atrial fibrillation patients could benefit from catheter ablation. Loyola University Medical Center had the second highest enrollment in the international study, contributing 15 percent of the patients. David Wilber, MD, director of Loyola's Division of Cardiology and Section of Clinical Electrophysiology, is second author. First author is Nassir Marrouche, MD of the University of Utah School ...

Adults Make Up for 95 Percent Deaths Occurring Due to Vaccine Preventable Diseases

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A new study has recently revealed how vaccination rates among adults are still low despite the fact that adults make up for 95% deaths occurring annually due to vaccine preventable diseases. The study, published recently in the iAnnals of Internal Medicine/i, is the first to examine several important aspects of adult vaccination. Every year, 30,000 people on average die of vaccine preventable illnesses, almost all of them adult. "Our study suggests ...

Blood Pressure Checkups at 18 may Cut Down Disease Risk Later in Life

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The risk of developing heart disease later in life can be spotted even when you're just 18, especially if you suffer from high blood pressure, a new study found. The 25-year comprehensive study is the first to identify different long-term patterns of blood pressure levels and resulting cardiovascular risk. "Blood pressure in young adulthood can impact risk for heart disease later in life," cautioned Norrina Allen, assistant professor of preventive medicine ...

Brain Scans Reveal the Logic Behind Risky Behavior

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A new study correlating brain activity found how people tend to indulge in risky behavior such as drunk driving and unsafe sex because they lack active self-control systems. This might have implications for how health experts treat mental illness and addiction or how the legal system assesses a criminal's likelihood of committing another crime. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, UCLA and elsewhere analyzed data from 108 subjects who ...

Why are People With Diabetes More at Risk for Microvascular Complications?

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Recent research in diabetes throws light on a molecule called PGC-1alpha that could explain why patients with diabetes are prone to risk of microvascular complications that can lead to chronic infections and other serious health issues. Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of microvascular complications, which develop when the body's small blood vessels become diseased. One of the most common problems results when wounds fail to heal properly, which can lead to ulcers, ...

Amnesty Reports Violation of Transgender People's Rights in Europe

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An estimated 1.5 million transgender people living across Europe are facing a violation of their rights in the European Union nations, reveals an Amnesty International report released Tuesday. The report, spotlighting the rights of people trying to change their legal gender, said procedures for gender recognition violate human rights in Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Belgium and Germany. No procedure exists in Ireland though legislation is planned. ...

Woman Gets Skin Cancer After 3-year Use of Sunbed

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Using sunbed for an hour a day made her feel very healthy, but using it for three years was not so very healthy as this habit gave Anna Taylor, 33, a cancerous tumour on her face. Though Taylor discontinued with the habit later, it was already too late when last January doctors found a cancerous spot on her face. For her an hour a day, six nights a week, was booked to be spent under tanning bulbs in her spare room. Later she switched to tanning lotions. Doctors ...

European Lawmakers Urge EU to Fight Homophobia

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European lawmakers backed a call for the EU to fight homophobia and to protect the rights of sexual minorities as fears rise of growing intolerance in many countries in the bloc, on Tuesday. "Homophobia must not be tolerated in Europe any more," said Greens MEP Ulrike Lunacek, who steered the resolution through the assembly. "So many of us lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people have lived our lives in fear for too long. Fear of holding ...

US Telecoms Giant AT (and) T Disapproves Russian Anti-gay Law

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US telecoms giant AT (and) T shows its disapproval of Russia's anti-gay law, and activists ramped up a global campaign for Olympic sponsors to follow suit ahead of the Sochi winter games on Tuesday. "We stand against Russia's anti-LGBT law," said AT (and) T, the biggest US cellphone and landline operator, in a blog on its corporate website, three days before the Sochi games open. "Russia's law is harmful to LGBT individuals and families, and it's harmful to a diverse ...

Anti-Cancer Plan of 1.5-billion-Euro Announced in France

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Anti-cancer plan aimed at reducing inequalities in treatment of the disease, worth a 1.5 billion euro ( (Dollar) 2 billion), was announced by French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday. The 2014-2019 plan aims to give "the same chances to everyone everywhere in France" in preventing and fighting cancer, Hollande said in a speech to medical professionals. His announcement comes a day after the United Nations warned that new cases of cancer will rise by half ...

Scientists Discover Gene Behind Promotion of Sleep

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In the fruitfly Drosophila scientists have discovered a new protein that is involved in the homeostatic regulation of sleep. Amita Sehgal, PhD, professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and her team conducted a screen of mutant flies to identify short-sleeping individuals and found one, which they dubbed redeye. These mutants show a severe reduction in the amount of time they slumber, sleeping only ...

Pain Sensitivity may be Influenced by Lifestyle and Environment: Study

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Sensitivity to pain could be altered by a person's lifestyle and environment throughout their lifetime, say King's College London researchers. The study is the first to find that pain sensitivity, previously thought to be relatively inflexible, can change as a result of genes being switched on or off by lifestyle and environmental factors - a process called epigenetics, which chemically alters the expression of genes. Published today in iNature Communications/i, ...

Greenland's 'Fastest Glacier' Now Faster Than Ever

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Jakobshavn Isbrae (Jakobshavn Glacier) is moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean at a speed that seems to be the fastest ever recorded, suggest researchers. Lead author Ian Joughin, a researcher at the Polar Science Center, University of Washington, said that they are now seeing summer speeds more than 4 times what they were in the 1990s on a glacier which at that time was believed to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, glacier in Greenland. ...

Improved Care in Hospitals With New Assessment Tool

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Hospital medicine groups across the country can now improve their patient care and hospital operations with a new assessment tool published today in the iJournal of Hospital Medicine/i. Published as "The Key Principles and Characteristics of an Effective HMG," the self-assessment tool is comprised of 47 different characteristics of effective hospital medicine groups (HMGs) sorted into ten different principles. It outlines characteristics like the development ...

Access to Acute Medical Care Now Improved With Telemedicine Service, Study Finds

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Telemedicine program is used more by the young and more affluent and those who do not have established health care relationships that allow patients to get medical help and prescriptions, a new RAND Corporation study reveals. In a telemedicine program users can avail medical help and prescriptions by just talking to a doctor over the telephone. Patients who used the service suffered from a wide assortment of acute medical problems such as respiratory illnesses ...

Shivering: New Way to Burn Fat

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Shivering and exercise may stimulate the conversation of energy-storing 'white fat' into energy-burning 'brown fat', suggests study. Around 50 g of white fat stores more than 300 kilocalories of energy. The same amount of brown fat could burn up to 300 kilocalories a day. Endocrinologist Dr Paul Lee, from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, recently undertook the study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington*, funded ...

Energy Drinks Leading More Teens to Substance Use

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Teenagers who consume high-caffeine energy drinks report higher rates of substance use, reveals research. Even a high soft drink consumption is also related to substance use but such associations were much stronger for energy drinks. The researchers analysed data on nearly 22,000 US secondary school students. In response to questionnaires, about 30 percent of teens reported using caffeine-containing energy drinks or shots. ...

Delaying Dialysis Now Recommended for Chronic Kidney Disease

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Adults with chronic kidney disease who are asymptomatic and need dialysis are now recommended an intent-to-defer approach over an earlier start, suggested a new guideline from the Canadian Society of Nephrology published in iCMAJ/i (iCanadian Medical Association Journal/i). The guideline panel recommends an "intent-to-defer" strategy over an "intent-to-start" early approach, in which patients with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) below 15 mL/ ...

Enlarged Prostate May Not Need Surgery

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Researchers claim that a new nonsurgical treatment called prostate artery embolization (PAE) may ease the symptoms of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), a condition with an enlarged prostate. a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"BPH/a is commonly found in men over the age of 50; as the name suggests, it is benign, i.e. noncancerous. Enlargement of the prostate can cause symptoms ...

New Hormone Receptors to Target When Treating Breast Cancer Discovered

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Current breast cancer treatments focus on using drugs to block estrogens from attaching to estrogen receptors on tumor cells. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers have found that apart from estrogen receptors, androgen and vitamin D receptors can also be targeted when treating breast cancer. The findings offer the possibility of expanding the ways patients with breast cancer are treated with hormone therapy. "These findings ...

Hot Weather Deaths to Soar, Says Study

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In England and Wales, the number of annual excess deaths caused by hot weather is projected to surge by 257% by the middle of the century, as a result of climate change and population growth, finds study published in the iJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health/i. The elderly (75+) will be most at risk, particularly in the South and the Midlands, the findings suggest. The research team, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ...

Protein Controlling Blood Pressure Could Enhance Immune Responses and Prevent Alzheimer's

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ACE inhibitors to control blood pressure could also induce a protective immune response in the brain and affect cognition. Many people with high blood pressure are familiar with ACE inhibitors, drugs that widen blood vessels by limiting activity of ACE - angiotensin-converting enzyme - a naturally occurring protein found in tissues throughout the body. But high activity of the enzyme - in the right context, place and time - may be a good thing. A study ...

Experts Issue "Blueprint for Action" to Overcome Shortages of Life-Saving Drugs

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Shortage of life-saving drugs are being managed with concrete steps for preventing and managing emergencies with proposals of a team of prominent healthcare experts including bioethicists, pharmacists, policymakers and cancer specialists. In a consensus statement published in the journal iPediatrics/i, the experts say they sought to move away from the current strategy of reaction to shortages once they have occurred and focus instead on prevention. Using the ...

US Govt Researchers, 10 Large Pharma Companies Join to Develop New Medications for Major Diseases

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In a move to speed up development of new medications for major diseases, US Government researchers will collaborate with 10 large pharmaceutical companies on a (Dollar) 230 million initiative, the US National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday. The five-year initiative targets Alzheimer's Disease, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, and may be expanded to other ailments, the NIH said. The goal is to pool resources among NIH and the companies, ...

Drugs Containing Animal Products Need Clearer Labels for Vegetarians

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Calling for improved drug labeling, Dr Kinesh Patel and Dr Kate Tatham say most medications prescribed in primary care contain animal derived products and it is unclear whether they are suitable for vegetarians. They call for improved labeling, similar to those on food, to help inform doctors, pharmacists and patients about the content of medicines. And they stress that concerned patients should not stop taking their medication without consulting their doctor first. ...