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US Schoolchildren Consuming More Veggies, Fruits: Study

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Researchers have found that schoolchildren in the US are consuming more fruits and vegetables since the new school lunch programme came into effect in 2012. The study published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine said vegetable intake went up by 0.17 cups/day among students. But the percentage of students choosing vegetables was static at 68 per cent. The percentage of students choosing fruits went up from 53 per cent to 76 per cent. "Many low-income ...

Want to Live Longer? Give Up High Animal-Protein Diet in Middle Age

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In order to add more years to your life, a person should give up high-protein diet, particularly animal protein, during middle age as this increases the chance of death due to cancer by four times, claims a new study. On the other side, people over 65 years should switch to a high-protein diet, especially sourced from animals, as this makes them strong and protects from diseases. Researchers said following a high-protein diet in middle age was equivalent to ...

Osteosarcoma

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Osteosarcoma is a primary cancer of the bone which targets adolescents most commonly and mainly affects the areas around the knee, shoulder and hip joint.

Lasting Remissions With Immune System-based Therapy in Melanoma Patients: Study

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Lasting remissions can be produced by a drug that unleashes the immune system to attack cancer and hold the disease in check for more than two years in some cases, in patients with advanced melanoma, found in a new study by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and allied institutions. The study, published online today, March 3, by the iJournal of Clinical Oncology/i, provides the longest-term look so far at ...

Binge Drinking Harmful to Older Drinkers, Although in Moderate Levels

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Focus on average levels of drinking is more in studies examining the potential health benefits of moderate drinking, rather than the drinking patterns.A new study shows that, among older moderate drinkers, those who binge drink have a significantly greater mortality risk than regular moderate drinkers. /ulNumerous studies have highlighted the purported association between moderate drinking and reduced mortality. However, these analyses have focused overwhelmingly ...

NHRC Issues Notice to UP Government Over Medical Negligence

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A notice has been issued to the Uttar Pradesh government by the NHRC for the death of a 4-year old girl due to medical negligence. Acting on media reports, the commission asked the UP director general of health services to file a report within four weeks, said an NHRC statement. The media reports said the girl from a village in Hathras was suffering from abdominal pain and was also vomiting. Her condition deteriorated after she was administered some ...

Extra Funding Could Help US Hospitals Follow Britain's Lead in Fighting Superbugs

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Hospitals in the US can fight the growing problem of antibiotic resistance much the way Britain has and some (Dollar) 30 million proposed by President Barack Obama could help the cause, US health authorities said Tuesday. The extra funds for fiscal year 2015, if approved by Congress, would double the amount spent on efforts to cut back on overprescribing of antibiotics, a widespread trend that experts agree is contributing to dangerous superbugs and untreatable infections ...

Affordable Care Act and Two Sectors of Most Vulnerable Americans

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The effect of the Affordable Care Act on two sectors of the most vulnerable Americans - those living with HIV/AIDS and people who have recently cycled through jail - have been examined in a series of papers in the March issue of iHealth Affairs/i. The issue features several studies by researchers with the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, one of the nation's premier policy research centers dedicated to promoting health and value in healthcare ...

Curly Hair: The Science Behind

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A detailed model of the 3D strand of curly hair that could be a boon for the computer and film animation industries has now be developed. Previously, scientists had no way to describe the motion of curly hair, including the way curls bounce as they move around. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Universite Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (UPMC) in Paris are unraveling the physics of curly hair. "Our work does not ...

Cost-Effectiveness of Healthcare in India Needed

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Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia emphasized on how healthcare in India should be cost-effective and states should come up with innovative ideas to help it. "Health actually is not a central subject but a state subject. Only medical education is under the central government," Ahluwalia said addressing a conference on the future of healthcare here. As a country, India has to focus on what is the most cost effective way of getting ...

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Saved (Dollar) 1.5 Annually!

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Medicare Part D prescription coverage reduced the number of hospital admissions and program expenditures of upto (Dollar) 1.5 billion annually, a new study revealed. In the largest and most rigorous impact analysis of Medicare Part D to date, researchers found that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D reduced hospitalizations by 8%, decreased annual Medicare expenditures for hospitalization by 7% and reduced hospital charges associated with hospitalization ...

Crucial Health Coverage to Jail Population by Affordable Care Act

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An estimated 4 million people who have spent time in jail will have better access to health coverage, under the Affordable Care Act, for conditions that might - if left untreated - result in higher health care costs and an increased risk of recidivism. That's the conclusion of an analysis by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). "Health reform gives people with a history of jail time access to continuous ...

New Treatment Paradigm for Kidney Disease Uncovered

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Reversal and prevention of chronic kidney disease is truly an urgent public health need. The disease affects 1 in 10 Americans, is debilitating and deadly, and existing drugs, at best, offer only mild delay in progression to end-stage kidney failure. New research led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai investigators has uncovered abnormal molecular signaling pathways from disease initiation to irreversible kidney damage, kidney failure, and death. Results from their ...

Molecular Switch That Regulates Heart's Cell Division Discovered

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A key molecular switch that regulates heart's cell division has been identified by a team of researchers in a study that began in a pair of infant siblings that have a rare heart defect. Their research, they report, could advance efforts to turn the process back on and regenerate heart tissue damaged by heart attacks or disease. "This study offers hope that we can someday find a way to restore the ability of heart cells to divide in response to injury and to help ...

Women With Breast Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy can Do Better by Adding Yoga in Their Routine

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Yoga offers unique benefits beyond fighting fatigue for women with breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy, reveals a research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The preliminary findings were first reported in 2011 by Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., professor and director of the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson, and are now published in the iJournal of Clinical Oncology/i. This research is part of an ongoing effort to scientifically ...

Singapore: World's Costliest City!

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A strong currency and the soaring cost of cars and utilities has made Singapore the world's most expensive city to live in, a new survey found. Tokyo's weakening yen saw it slide to sixth place, the position previously occupied by Singapore, in the 2014 Worldwide Cost of Living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). "Singapore's rising price prominence has been steady rather than spectacular," said a report accompanying the survey by the research ...

Lifestyle Changes, Bacterial Elimination to Help Potential Colon Cancer Patients

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A new study published in the iJournal of Experimental Medicine/i found that the gut bacteria may plan an important role in the development of intestinal tumors in mice. Sergio A. Lira, MD, PhD, Director of the Immunology Institute, and Professor of Immunology and Medicine, and his laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, used a transgenic mouse model to test the hypothesis that distribution of intestinal polyps (precancerous lesions) was dependent ...

Parents Fear Teen's Online Activities

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The parental fears of the online activities by teens are wildly overblown due to misinformation and a sense of fear, a new book suggests. For her book, Microsoft and Harvard researcher danah boyd (she insists on a lower-case name), she interviewed more than 150 teens, as well as parents, teachers, and other authority figures from 2007-10, the New York Post reported. Part of the irrational fear of online predators, boyd said, speaks to the difficulties ...

Study Finds Antibiotics in US are Often Prescribed Incorrectly

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More than one third of antibiotics prescribed in hospitals in the United States might be unnecessary and could be fueling drug resistance, US health authorities said Tuesday. The latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms earlier research that has suggested antibiotics are often prescribed incorrectly, leading to dangerous superbugs and untreatable infections. "Practices that are not optimal are putting patients ...

Experimental Stroke Drug Could also be Used for People With Lou Gehrig's Disease

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Lou Gehrig's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder that affects the motor skills of the person, has now been better understood by the USC neuroscientists team of Keck School of Medicine. Their findings appear in the March 3, 2014, online edition of the emProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/em of the United States of America, the official scientific journal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. "We know that both people and transgenic ...

Gut Microbes may Contribute to Bowel Cancer

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A new study published in the emThe Journal of Experimental Medicine/em found how gut microbes could also be responsible for the development of intestinal tumors. Bowel cancer, also called colorectal cancer, results from a series of genetic changes (mutations) that cause healthy cells to become progressively cancerous, first forming early tumors called polyps that can eventually become malignant. Although mutations can occur anywhere in the human intestine, ...

Pneumonia Risk Higher in Sleep Apnea Patients

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A new study published in the iCanadian Medical Association Journal/i has found a relation between patients suffering from sleep apnea and a higher risk of pneumonia. Sleep apnea is characterized by disrupted sleep, caused when the upper airway becomes obstructed by soft tissue, cutting off oxygen. It has been linked to several types of heart disease and cognitive impairment. People with obstructive sleep apnea are at higher risk of aspiration while sleeping. ...

Artificial Heart Trial Continues After Patient Death: French Heartmaker

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French biomedical firm Carmat confirmed on Tuesday it would implant its experimental artificial heart into another three people, as planned, after the first recipient of the artificial heart died. In an email to AFP, the company said it was too soon to draw conclusions about the device's efficacy. A 76-year-old recipient died over the weekend, 75 days after receiving the gadget, whose trials are being closely followed by French investors. "It ...

Cancer-Fighting Effective Vaccines on the Way!

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The early stages of fate determination among T lymphocytes has been described by a team of researchers which may help drug developers create effective vaccines against pathogens and cancer! Naive T lymphocytes patrol the front lines of the human body's defense against infection, circulating in blood and tissues, searching for invasive microbes and other foreign antigens. They're called "naive" because they have not yet encountered an invader. When they ...

India Scraps Two-finger Test for Rape Survivors

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India banned the age-old two-finger test for rape survivors and compiled a new set of guidelines for treating them. The Department of Health Research (DHR) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have formulated new guidelines according to which it is compulsory for medical institutions to provide privacy to rape survivors by providing a separate room to conduct forensic and medical tests on them. "It has been observed that the rape victims are usually ...

Sniffer Dogs can Only Detect 'Real' Explosives

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Sniffer dogs at Airports or Metro stations do not bark at you even if you carry things like plastic grocery bags that smell similar to explosives. The sniffer dogs just do not respond to odours 'similar' to explosives and would detect only the real explosive, finds new research. A research team at the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has helped determine the science behind how canines locate explosives such as Composition ...

Gene Expression Affected by Earth's Gravity

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The Earth's gravity, or its absence, affects not only our ability to keep to the ground, but also affects the expression of genes. In the case of cancer, some tumours are much less aggressive in the micro-gravity environment of space compared to their behaviour on earth, researchers have found. The observation can help scientists understand the mechanism involved and develop drugs targeting tumours that do not respond to current treatments. "Micro-gravity ...

Smart Phones to Run on Sugar Power for 10 Days

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Bio-battery may soon become a reality wherein sugar powered batteries can run smart phone for 10 days. Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech, have designed a new bio-battery with a greater output per weight than the typical lithium-ion batteries used in most electronics. A bio-battery converts sugar into energy - much like our metabolism - decomposing sugar into carbon dioxide and water ...

World's Next 'Super-Food' is Ethiopia's Teff Grain

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The Ethiopian farmers use a herd of cattle to circle atop a pile of golden teff, thrashing the wheat-like grain under the searing midday sun, a routine of the past few centuries. The crop, mostly grown in the Horn of Africa, is a key part of the country's heritage and a crucial food staple, but is also gaining increased interest abroad among health aficionados seeking a nutritious, gluten-free alternative to wheat. "Ethiopians are proud of the crop because ...

Indian Headshake Decoded

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A video revealing the secret of the Indian headshake was uploaded on YouTube last week and has garnered more than a million views. Paul Mathew, is the writer and director of Indian Headshakes - What Do They Mean?, said that a lot of people might find it strange but if they are born in India, it becomes a part of their character, their personality, that as they talk they tend to move their head in different ways, the BBC reported. The video presents an ...

Control Your Appliances With Gestures By Wearing A Hi-Tech Ring

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Appliances can be controlled with gesture of fingers by wearing a hi-tech ring that is filled with sensors and electronics. Kickstarter project, Ring, is a hardware device that resembles an ordinary ring, but is filled with sensors and electronics to use gesture control. According to Tech Crunch, the Ring enables gesture controls, including drawing letters in the air for text input, gesture-based authorization for finalizing payments, and transmit alerts ...