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Baby with Part of Brain Outside Skull Survives Without any Long-term Problems

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Doctors said that this baby, with part of her brain outside her skull, would not be able to breathe on her own after birth and even if she survived she would suffer from disabilities. But destiny had something else in store for Faith Martin. When Martin was born she had no problem of breathing. And she also cried like other normal kids after her birth. Her only problem was the pouch that she had at the back of the head. She was diagnosed with encephalocele ...

Thai Man Loses Sight After Using Herbal Eye Drops

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A Thai man has lost his vision after using herbal medicine, say reports. Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Secretary Pathom Sawanpanyalert said ophthalmologists have informed authorities about the incident. The 41-year-old man developed a severe infection in his left eye after using the herbal drops, the Bangkok Post reported. An eye specialist who operated on the infected eye said bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa ...

Eye Puffiness - Beauty Tips

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Eye puffiness is a condition where the eyes begin to swell due to reasons like lack of sleep, eye pain, physical stress and so on. Natural remedies offer effective treatment to avoid eye puffiness.

4:12pm Prime Time for Indulging in Unhealthy Food, Finds Survey

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4.12pm is the time of the day that people are most likely to wreck their diets by indulging in unhealthy food, finds new survey. According to the study by Seasonal Berries, over a third of Britons have succumbed to the daily afternoon hunger slump and admit they have already broken healthy diets that they started at the beginning of the year, the Daily Star reported. Crisps, biscuits, cake and chocolate were named as the biggest downfalls, with ...

Short-Term Exposure to the Dark Could Boost Hearing

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It was long known how very young brains were capable of re-wiring some circuits that process sensory information. Now, researchers at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University have overturned conventional wisdom, showing that the brains of adult mice can also be re-wired to compensate for a temporary vision loss by improving their hearing. The findings may lead to treatments for people with hearing loss or tinnitus, Patrick Kanold, an ...

Body Odour may Now be Your ID!

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A latest biometric identification method boasts of using body odour to verify people, leaving fingerprint and facial recognition techniques way behind! Researchers at Spain's Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, in collaboration with tech firm IIia Sistemas SL, are developing a system that can verify people by their scent signatures. Recognisable body odour patterns remain constant enough over time to allow people to be identified with an accuracy rate of ...

Liver Failure Linked to Painkiller Overdose Now Preventable!

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A team of researchers have now identified a key step that may prevent liver failure occurring due to the overuse of everyday painkiller paracetamol. Published today in the iProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/i (iPNAS/i), the study pinpoints a target for new treatments to prevent the potentially lethal consequences of paracetamol overdose. "Paracetamol is the most frequently used over-the-counter pain medication," says Dr Grigori ...

HIV Positive Cases Rise in Kerala

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An increase in the number of HIV positive cases has been noted in Kerala, the minister said. Health Minister V.S.Sivakumar informed the Kerala assembly that in the past decade, the last fiscal saw the highest increase of fresh HIV positive cases in the state. "If one looks into the figures of new HIV cases starting from the fiscal 2004-05, 440 cases was registered then and the last fiscal saw 1,766 cases. During the 2011-12 fiscal, 1,680 new cases was ...

Single-Sex Classrooms may Not Have Benefits for Students, Study

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There is little evidence to support the fact that single-sex classrooms and schools offer educational or social benefits, a new study found. The study was the largest and most thorough effort to examine the issue to date, Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. "We looked at 184 studies, representing the testing of 1.6 million students in grades K-12 from 21 nations, for outcomes related to science and mathematics ...

Healing of Hearing Woes Could be Possible With a Short Stay in Darkness

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Rewiring of cells in the brain possible to compensate for a temporary vision loss by improving their hearing, found by researchers at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Researchers have long known that very young brains are malleable enough to re-wire some circuits that process sensory information. Now researchers at the University ...

Jordan Hookah Ban Sparks Public uproar

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There's no smoke without ire: a ban on water pipes in restaurants and cafes has caused uproar in Jordan, where about (Dollar) 1 billion worth of tobacco is consumed every year. Under a decision based on a 2008 law that was not previously enforced, the government has announced that by the end of 2014 the licences of more than 5,000 establishments that serve hookahs will be revoked. Furious smokers and cafe owners say the move will affect their lifestyle and a ...

Postpartum Doctors Visits Attended by Less Than Half of Women

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Women are recommended to visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but less than half go for the postpartum appointment, found a study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The researchers found that women with pregnancy complications were more likely to see a doctor post-delivery, but overall, visit rates were low. "Women need to understand the importance of a six-week visit to the obstetrician - not only to address concerns ...

Healthy Diet and Adequate Sleep may Reduce Mortality in Elderly

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Smartphone Game That Lets Users Help Scientists Find Cure for Cancer Launched

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A new mobile game which helps scientists answer some of cancer's toughest questions has been developed by researchers. "Citizen scientists" will play the space-based game to highlight flaws in the genetic make-up of cancer patients and will help scientists beat the disease using the world's first app designed to unravel genetic data, the Daily Star reported. Game 'Play To Cure: Genes In Space' by the Cancer Research UK is set 800 years in ...

Yoghurt Consumption may Ward Off Diabetes Risk

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Consumption of yogurt and low-fat cheese can reduce the risk of developing diabetes by around a quarter, says study. The evidence comes from a long-term health survey of men and women living in the eastern county of Norfolk, whose eating and drinking habits were detailed at the start of the investigation. During the study's 11-year span, 753 people in the group developed adult-onset, also called Type 2, diabetes. Those who ate low-fat ...

Taking Statins to Lower Cholesterol? Discuss Options With Your Doctor

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Clinicians and patients should use shared decision-making to select individualized treatments based on the new guidelines to prevent cardiovascular disease, suggests a commentary by three Mayo Clinic physicians published in this week's iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. Shared decision-making is a collaborative process that allows patients and their clinicians to make health care decisions together, taking into account the best scientific evidence ...

Heart Disease Warning at Age 18 Identified

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Elevated blood pressure when a person is as young as age 18 is a warning sign of cardiovascular disease developing later in life and the time to begin prevention is from age 18 onwards, suggests a large national Northwestern Medicine study. That's decades earlier than clinicians and patients generally start thinking about heart disease risk. The study also found distinct blood pressure patterns from ages 18 to 55 that reveal people at high risk for calcification ...

Want Healthy Life, Alert Brain? Have Sex!

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If you thought having sex is just a pleasurable exercise, think again! A new study suggests having sex could cut migraine pain, lower risk of prostate cancer and activate brain cells. All these health benefits and emotional well-being too! Having more sex could not only make us feel good, it could provide far-reaching health benefits. According to the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, unfortunately we are having less of it -- on average ...

First Study on Mediterranean Diet Among Young US Workers Shows Lower Risk of Heart Disease

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The first study to assess the effects of Mediterranean-style diet among a group of young, working U.S. adults showed lower risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The new study led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) involved a large group of Midwestern firefighters who were under observation for the effects of greater adherence to Mediterranean-style diet. The study will appear online in iPLOS ...

Study Identifies Sleep Apnea Related Predictors of Cardiovascular Events

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Obstructive sleep apnea-related predictors identified in a new study could be collected using more limited recordings than PSG [polysomnography], potentially in the home setting, claim researchers. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) generally is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease. OSA is usually measured using the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), the number of times that breathing pauses or severely slows per hour of sleep. However, sleep studies ...

Appoint Doctors in Delhi Government Hospitals, PIL Urges Court

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A public interest litigation noted that due to vacancies in Delhi government hospitals, patients were not getting treatment and some were dying in absence of medical assistance. A petition was filed Tuesday in the Delhi High Court seeking its direction to appoint doctors in government hospitals. The public interest litigation (PIL) said the condition at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here was very poor as the vacancies are not being filled ...

Alert Raised by Chinese Scientists Over New Bird Flu

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Chinese scientists raised the alarm on Wednesday when a new bird flu virus, H10N8, infected another individual last month after killing an elderly woman in December. The fifth novel influenza strain to emerge in 17 years, the virus has a worrying genetic profile and should be closely monitored, they reported in The Lancet medical journal. It appears to be able to infect tissue deep in the lung and may have features allowing it to spread efficiently among ...