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New Energy Drink That Gives You Erection

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MosKa, an energy drink marketed to adults that is guaranteed to give them an erection. According to the authorities, the drink may not provide the happy ending which the consumers were hoping for, News.com.au reported. The drink that was earlier promoted at Sexpo Sydney last year apparently contains vardenafil, a prescription-only substance, at levels above what was allowed in Australia. The side effects could cause nausea, abdominal ...

Foot Orgasm Syndrome

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Foot orgasm syndrome is a rare condition that was first reported in a medical journal in 2013. The patient felt sensations similar to that of an orgasm on stimulating the left foot.

China's 'Lost' Sexual Philosophy Now Found in Erotic Art

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Dutch art collector Ferdinand Bertholet has some ancient paintings of fornicating Chinese couples and phalluses made of stone in his collection, which he hopes will help China reconnect with its sexually charged past. Explicit works spanning from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) are among more than 100 pieces on display in Hong Kong, drawing surprise and giggles from some viewers unaware of China's ancient relationship with sex. ...

Hope and Integration Offered at Slovenia's First Roma Restaurant

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Slovenia's first Roma restaurant sends flyers saying, "Come hungry and with an open heart", offering hope to an impoverished minority. More than impressing food critics, the Romani Kafenava (Roma coffeeshop), which opened last week in the northern city of Maribor, aims to build ties with the local community. "The point of this kind of social enterprise is to integrate socially vulnerable groups and teach them to work. And future customers should bear ...

New Nanoparticle Created by UT Arlington Physicist for Cancer Therapy

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A luminescent nanoparticle is being created by a physicist from University of Texas at Arlington, to use in security-related radiation detection, could be an advance in photodynamic cancer therapy. Wei Chen, professor of physics and co-director of UT Arlington's Center for Security Advances Via Applied Nanotechnology, was testing a copper-cysteamine complex created in his lab when he discovered unexplained decreases in its luminescence, or light emitting power, ...

Great Sperm-egg Secret Unscrambled

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Scientists have made the long-sought discovery of how sperm latches onto an egg in the very first spark of reproduction. This new finding opens up avenues for new contraception or treating infertility, they said. When a sperm meets an egg, they fuse to form a single-cell entity called a zygote, which divides to produce an embryo. In 2005, Japanese researchers reported they had found a molecule jutting from the membrane of mammalian sperm that docks ...

It's Not the End of the Road for HIV Patients

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An inspiring story was recently published on India HIV/AIDS Alliance blog, about an HIV patient who has dealt with the condition and not allowed the disease to dominate his life. a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/aids/treatment.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"HIV/a has destroyed the lives of a large number of people. Men have lost their jobs, women have been ostracized and children have been abandoned. Today, however, there has ...

Chrono, the Last Piece of the Circadian Clock Puzzle Found

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The circadian clock, the tightly regulated internal clock of daily cycle of all living organisms, is controlled by a complex network of genes and proteins. The whole-body circadian clock, influenced by the exposure to light, dictates the wake-sleep cycle. At the cellular level, this network of genes and proteins switch each other on and off based on cues from their environment. Most genes involved in the regulation of the circadian clock have been characterized, ...

Heavy and Prolonged Bleeding During Menopause is Common

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Menopause is thought to be the time for an end to predictable monthly periods. Researchers at the University of Michigan say it's normal, however, for the majority of them to experience an increase in the amount and duration of bleeding episodes, which may occur at various times throughout the menopausal transition. The researchers from the U-M School of Public Health and U-M Health System offer the first long-term study of bleeding patterns in women of multiple ...

Number of Duplicated Genes and Adaptation, New Links Found: Study

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Small-scale duplication genes, or SSDs, are important for adapting to novel environments and surviving environmental changes, found in a study, suggesting two genes are better than one. Published in the advanced online edition of iMolecular Biology and Evolution/i, authors Takashi Makino, Masakado Kawata, et al., were the first to examine more than 30 fully sequenced vertebrate genomes to look at SSDs as genetic signposts that correlated with habitat variability. ...

Pregnant Women With High Blood Pressure Increase Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

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Likelihood of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery, low birth weight and neonatal death are higher in pregnant women with chronic hypertension or high blood pressure. This situation highlights a need for heightened surveillance, suggests a paper published on bmj.com today. Chronic hypertension complicates between 1-5% of pregnancies, and the problem may be increasing because of changes in the antenatal population. A recent study in ...

Toxicity of Drug That Killed 5 in 1993 Clinical Trial Could Have Been Predicted by Mouse Model

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A study published this week in iPLOS Medicine/i has shown that mice with humanized livers recapitulate the toxicity of the fialuridine, a drug-trial that was fatal over 20 years ago. The work suggests that this mouse model should be added to the repertoire of tools used in preclinical screening of drugs for liver toxicity before they are given to human participants in clinical trials. A retrospective analysis by the US National Academy of Sciences of all preclinical ...

Higher Rates of Suicide Attempts also Seen in Teenagers Who Have Had a Concussion

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Suicide attempts are at "significantly greater odds" in teenagers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury such as concussion, being bullied and engaging in a variety of high risk behaviours, a new study has found. They are also more likely to become bullies themselves, to have sought counselling through a crisis help-line or to have been prescribed medication for anxiety, depression or both, said Dr. Gabriela Ilie, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral fellow at St. ...

First Language Learnt Determines Brain Anatomy Differences Between Deaf And Hearing

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Researchers have found that the language we learn as children affects brain structure, as does hearing status, seen in the first known study of its kind. The findings are reported in the iJournal of Neuroscience/i. While research has shown that people who are deaf and hearing differ in brain anatomy, these studies have been limited to studies of individuals who are deaf and use American Sign Language (ASL) from birth. But 95 percent of the deaf population in ...

Frequency of Droughts and Floods Will Go Up

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Stanford and CA floods and droughts are on the increase, and climate experts predict that the rise will continue in future. As such, it is crucial for scientists to learn more about how these extreme events affect plants in order to prepare for and combat the risks to food security that could result. Like animals, plants have hormones that send chemical signals between its cells relaying information about the plant's development or interactions with the outside ...

Her Secret to Slim and Fit Body: 51 Bananas a Day

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This woman from Australia claims she can eat 51 bananas in a day and as part of her raw vegan diet she consumes only fruits and vegetables. "Raw fit bitch" is what Freelee calls herself. Food guru says her special diet helps her keep in good shape and maintain a fit figure. She claims that she shed 40 pounds by following this diet regime. According to her, she was able to get rid of serious acne problems through her diet. She claims that her digestion process ...

Higher BMI of Mothers Increases Risk of Stillbirth and Infant Death

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Increased risk of fetal death, stillbirth and infant death is associated with higher maternal body mass index (BMI) before or in early pregnancy. Women who are severely obese have the greatest risk of these outcomes from their pregnancy, revealed a study in the April 16 issue of iJAMA/i. Worldwide, approximately 2.7 million stillbirths occurred in 2008. In addition, an estimated 3.6 million neonatal deaths (death following live birth of an infant but before ...

Obesity can Amplify Bone and Muscle Loss

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Osteosarcopenic obesity - a new syndrome links the deterioration of bone density and muscle mass with obesity. "It used to be the thinking that the heavier you were the better your bones would be because the bones were supporting more weight," said Jasminka Ilich-Ernst, the Hazel Stiebeling Professor of Nutrition at Florida State. "But, that's only true to a certain extent." The syndrome, outlined in the May issue of iAgeing Research Reviews/i, ...

Thyroid Disease Risk Varies Among Blacks, Asians, and Whites: Study

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Graves disease is more common among blacks and Asian/Pacific Islanders compared with whites, finds study published in JAMA. Donald S. A. McLeod, F.R.A.C.P., M.P.H., of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland, Australia and colleagues studied all U.S. active duty military, ages 20 to 54 years, from January 1997 to December 2011 to determine the rate of Graves disease and Hashimoto thyroiditis (a progressive autoimmune disease of the thyroid ...

New Experimental Anti-viral Drug Offers Promise in Fight Against Measles

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A novel experimental anti-viral drug when taken orally could help contribute to measles eradication, show clinical trial results. The drug, so far tested on animals, has been effective on a virus closely related to the one that causes measles, having reduced virus levels and prevented death. Despite major progress to contain the highly-contagious disease worldwide, measles has caused around 150,000 deaths annually since 2007, according to the study, ...

Daytime Sleep Reduces Longevity: Study

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Those power naps during day time could actually be doing you more harm than good by reducing your life span, suggests a new study. According to researchers, those who took a nap for less than an hour in a day had 14 per cent more chance of dying. And in cases when the sleep time lasted for more than an hour, the risk increased by 32 per cent. But experts say that sleep is good and that we all need it and the main point to be kept in mind is the reason why ...

Whooping Cough Bacterium in Australia Undergoes Change, Now Vaccine Less Effective: Study

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In Australia, the bacteria that cause whooping cough have undergone mutation, making the available vaccine for the disease less effective, experts have said. After analysing strains of bacterium Bordetella pertussis that causes whooping cough, a UNSW-led team of researchers discovered that the bacterium now does not produce an important protein called pertactin. Pertactin is one of the three proteins made from purified extracts of Bordetella pertussis bacteria ...