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- New Notified Rules of Transplant Act of 2014 may Help Give Boost to Deceased Donation in India and Ease Organ Shortage
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Coffee Consumption Wards Off Alzheimer's Disease
- Part of Brain Linked to Gambling Addiction Discovered
- New App That Stops Teens from Texting While Driving Developed
- Top Facts on Asthma
- New HPV Translational Research Team Grant by Two Cancer Institutes
- Faster Eye Responses in Chinese People may Not be Linked to Culture
- Women Pictured Eating on Trains, the New Facebook Craze, Sparks Anger
- Medicaid Expansion Finds a Middle Road
- Gains With the Cup Forecast in Brazil: Study
- Granddaughter Gets the 'World's Oldest Message in a Bottle'
- Flood-Hit Solomons Faces Disease Threat
- Study Explains Why Jogging in the Park is Healthiest for Kids
- Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease is More and Manifests Differently Among African Americans
- Hollywood Actor Mickey Rooney Dies at 93
- French Organic Winemaker Fined for Using Pesticides in His Vineyard
- Green Tea Extract Boosts Brain Power
- Immune Response to Cancer Cuts for Both Good and Bad
- Missing Piece of Air Particle Equation Found Hidden in the Walls
- Stress of Social Disadvantage is Increased by Genes for Some Children
- Britain is the European King of of Anti-Cholesterol Drugs
- Increased Internet Usage Results in Loss of Religious Dedication
- Good Oral Health Could Help Athletes Achieve Sporting Success
- Mindful Peace Could be as Effective as Taking Anti-Depressant
- Exposure to Tobacco Marketing is Associated With Increased Use
- Friedreich's Ataxia - an Effective Gene Therapy in Mice Model
- Retelling 'Positive Stories' can Strengthen Strained Love Lives
- UK Toddler Gets Injected With Eye Cancer Cure
- Women Don't Trust Men With House Cleaning
- New Pork Burger Contains Both Caffeine and Booze
- Over Time, Disease-Free Survival Estimates for Ovarian Cancer Improves
- Portugese Surgeon Saves Football Careers
- Bags With Logos may Last Centuries for Paris Craftsmen
- Caucasian Boys More Likely to be Affected by Color Blindness
- Sun, Earth and Mars to Fall on a Straight Line on April 8
- First Comes Facebook, Then Comes Marriage
- Ozone Hole Over Tropical West Pacific is Reinforcing Ozone Depletion
- France plane quarantined over ebola scare
- Seven Servings of Fruits and Veggies Needed to Cut Cancer, Heart Disease Risk
- Ebola Epidemic a Cause of Concern for Experts
- Weight Loss Surgery Could Help Alcohol Cut Cravings
- Generator can be Fuelled With Spit in the Near Future
- Ancient Egyptians Too, Predicted the Weather
- South Asia Needs United Effort to Fight Against Vector Borne Diseases
- Tips for Better Skin Care This Summer
- Dog Saves Owner's Life by Detecting Breast Cancer
- Melanoma Cells Require Glucose to Grow and Spread
- Novartis Bexsero Bags Breakthrough Therapy Status by FDA
- Adultery Website Skirts the Legal Fence in S.Korea
- Nazi Defense Line in Poland Becomes Shelter for Bats
- Childhood Obesity Costs (Dollar) 19,000 Per Child, Finds Research
- After the Age of 35, Circumcision Could Prevent Prostate Cancer
- Research Reveals One in 3 Intensive Care Survivors Develop Depression
- Non-Invasive Imaging may be Better Than Repeated Biopsy in Active Monitoring of Prostate Cancer
- Renal Cancer Cells Thrive When Put in the Right Environment, Says Research
- Potential Drug Targets Identified in Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors
- Why Food Quality Will Suffer With Rising CO2 Decoded
- Researchers Map Smoking Visibility for the First Time
| Posted:  The Ministry of Health after almost two and half years has finally got round to notifying the new rules on how to implement the Transplantation of Human Organ Act. The new act after doing the rounds of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha was signed and passed by the President of India in Sept 2011. However the act and rules still need to be passed by the state health assemblies before they can become universally applicable in the country. There are two aspects that the ... |
| Posted:  Transient Ischemic Attack is a mini stroke caused due to interruption in the blood supply to the brain leading to symptoms which last for a short time. |
| Coffee Consumption Wards Off Alzheimer's Disease Posted:  Caffeine has a positive effect on tau deposits in Alzheimer's disease, say researchers. Tau deposits, along with beta-amyloid plaques, are among the characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease. These protein deposits disrupt the communication of the nerve cells in the brain and contribute to their degeneration. Despite intensive research there is no drug available to date which can prevent this detrimental process. Based on the results of Prof. ... |
| Part of Brain Linked to Gambling Addiction Discovered Posted:  University of Cambridge researchers have discovered the part of the brain linked to gambling addictions. The findings of the study are published in I PNAS /I. During gambling games, people often misperceive their chances of winning due to a number of errors of thinking called cognitive distortions. For example, 'near-misses' seem to encourage further play, even though they are no different from any other loss. In a random sequence like tossing a coin, ... |
| New App That Stops Teens from Texting While Driving Developed Posted:  TXTShield app developed by a pair of entrepreneurial brothers in Florida will get people to put down their phones when they're behind the wheel. In Kentucky, Mobile Life Solutions created a similar app called Text Limit. As part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Kentucky and West Virginia drivers can download the Text Limit app for free. TXTShield co-founder Phil Stiles told CBS News that the goal is to change the behavior so ... |
| Posted:  Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease in which your airways narrow, swell and produce extra mucus. Read Medindia's facts on asthma. |
| New HPV Translational Research Team Grant by Two Cancer Institutes Posted:  Stand Up To Cancer and Farrah Fawcett Foundation come together to join hands with the American Association for Cancer Research, SU2C's Scientific partner, to form a research team dedicated to HPV-related cancers during a press event today at the AACR Annual Meeting 2014, held here April 5-9. The HPV and Anal Cancer Foundation is supporting the translational research team by making an additional gift to Stand Up To Cancer. Ellis L. Reinherz, M.D., chief of the Laboratory ... |
| Faster Eye Responses in Chinese People may Not be Linked to Culture Posted:  The theory that neurological behaviour might be linked to culture in the people of Chinese origin is doubtful, suggest research from University of Liverpool scientists. Scientists tested three groups - students from mainland China, British people with Chinese parents and white British people - to see how quickly their eyes reacted to dots appearing in the periphery of their vision. These rapid eye movements, known as saccades, were timed in all of the ... |
| Women Pictured Eating on Trains, the New Facebook Craze, Sparks Anger Posted:  Transport authorities in London expressed on Monday, their helplessness in stopping a bizarre Facebook craze involving photographs of women eating on underground trains. The page, entitled "Women Who Eat on Tubes", encourages contributors to send in photographs and anecdotes of women eating while on London's underground transport network. By Monday, the page had more than 16,000 members, despite claims it was just the latest example of so-called 'stranger ... |
| Medicaid Expansion Finds a Middle Road Posted:  Signs of an emerging middle way toward reducing the ranks of the uninsured is seen in a new analysis of state-level decisions, as the political divide over health care reform is still strong going into this year's elections. The approach centers on efforts by governors and legislatures to get federal permission to customize Medicaid expansion in ways that satisfy political conservatives - while still allowing them to collect federal funding to increase health insurance ... |
| Gains With the Cup Forecast in Brazil: Study Posted:  Brazil will get a major shot in the arm with the World Cup related spending, tripling a a (Dollar) 4.2 billion contribution to the economy made at last year's Confederations Cup, says a study by the Institute for Economic Research Foundation (FIPE) revealed Monday. The study for state tourist board Embratur estimated the June 12-July 13 tournament should more than triple last year's (Dollar) 4.2 billion gain which emanated from a total (Dollar) 9 billion spending at the Confederations ... |
| Granddaughter Gets the 'World's Oldest Message in a Bottle' Posted:  A message in a bottle, believed to be the oldest, tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago, has been presented to the sender's granddaughter, a museum said Monday. A fisherman pulled the beer bottle with the scribbled message out of the Baltic off the northern city of Kiel last month, Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in the northern port city of Hamburg told AFP. "This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle ... |
| Flood-Hit Solomons Faces Disease Threat Posted:  Solomon Islands are facing a new threat after the flood that ravaged, as the first signs of disease emerged in camps sheltering thousands of displaced residents in the capital Honiara, aid workers said on Monday. The official death toll stands at 21 after flash floods tore through the city last Thursday. But Save the Children's Graham Kenna said the number of fatalities was certain to rise as hopes faded for another 30-40 people still listed as missing. "We ... |
| Study Explains Why Jogging in the Park is Healthiest for Kids Posted:  Kids exposed to scenes of nature while exercising experience health-enhancing effects after activity, says study. Sports science academics in the University's Department of Applied Sciences and Health asked kids aged 9-10 years to complete a series of 15 minute moderate intensity cycling activities - one whilst viewing a video of a forest track synced to the exercise bike and another with no visual stimulus. The researchers found that after the ... |
| Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease is More and Manifests Differently Among African Americans Posted:  The risk for developing Alzheimer's disease among older African Americans may be two to three times greater than in the non-Hispanic white population and they also differ in terms of risk factors and manifestation of the disease, as found in reviews of researches in a new study by researchers at the Rush University Medical Center. The study results will be published in the April 7 issue of iHealth Affairs/i. "The older African American population is growing ... |
| Hollywood Actor Mickey Rooney Dies at 93 Posted:  Mickey Rooney, an iconic Hollywood actor of 1930s and 1940s, died Sunday at the age of 93. His film and musical career lasted for nine decades as he started his career when he was just 18 months. Rooney was nominated for four Academy Awards and received two special Oscars for his work. By 1965, Mickey Rooney's 200 films had garnered over (Dollar) 3bn. His film and musical career lasted for nine decades as he started his career when he was just 18 months. He ... |
| French Organic Winemaker Fined for Using Pesticides in His Vineyard Posted:  A Burgundy winemaker was fined 500 euros by the French court on Monday for defying a government order to use pesticides in his organic vineyard to prevent an infectious disease caused by a leaf-hopping insect. The case of Emmanuel Giboulot became a cause celebre among environmentalists and he theoretically risked six months in prison and a fine of up to 30,000 euros ( (Dollar) 41,000). But Giboulot got handed a fine of 1,000 euros, in line with the prosecutor's ... |
| Green Tea Extract Boosts Brain Power Posted:  New study finds green tea extract enhances the cognitive function. In the new study, the researcher teams of Prof. Christoph Beglinger from the University Hospital of Basel and Prof. Stefan Borgwardt from the Psychiatric University Clinics found that green tea extract increases the brain's effective connectivity, meaning the causal influence that one brain area exerts over another. This effect on connectivity also led to improvement in actual cognitive ... |
| Immune Response to Cancer Cuts for Both Good and Bad Posted:  An immune response that kills cancer cells and the one that conversely stimulates tumor growth can be as close as a "double-edged sword", say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in the April 7, 2014 online issue of the emProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/em. "We have found that the intensity difference between an immune response that stimulates cancer and one that kills it may not be very much," said principal ... |
| Missing Piece of Air Particle Equation Found Hidden in the Walls Posted:  Researchers had underestimated the formation of secondary organicaerosol in the atmosphere because the laboratory chamber walls have been stealing the vapors. A study published April 7 in iPNAS/i Online Early Edition describes how a team of scientists, including researchers from the University of California, Davis, showed that vapor losses to the walls of laboratory chambers can suppress the formation of secondary organicaerosol, which in turn has contributed ... |
| Stress of Social Disadvantage is Increased by Genes for Some Children Posted:  The genetic make up of some children can contribute in amplifying the stress of harsh environments and magnify the advantage of supportive environments for other children, reveals a study that's one of the first to document how genes interacting with social environments affect biomarkers of stress. "Our findings suggest that an individual's genetic architecture moderates the magnitude of the response to external stimuli-but it is the environment that determines ... |
| Britain is the European King of of Anti-Cholesterol Drugs Posted:  It is perhaps no surprise that Britain is the European king of anti-cholesterol drugs with some seven million users, as the home of cooked breakfasts and pints of beer. But recommendations to widen the use of "statins" -- the class of drugs used to battle cholesterol -- has sparked a national debate about their merits and whether they are really a silver bullet to stave off heart attacks. Britain is the heaviest country in Europe, and the seventh fattest ... |
| Increased Internet Usage Results in Loss of Religious Dedication Posted:  Researchers have reportedly concluded that there is apparently a direct link between a decline in religious dedication and an increased use of the Internet. According to a research study published in the MIT Technology Review, between 1990 and 2010, 25 million Americans shed their religion, at least officially. Using the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, Allen Downey, a computer scientist at the Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, ... |
| Good Oral Health Could Help Athletes Achieve Sporting Success Posted:  Elite athletes have a better chance of winning gold medals if they look after their teeth, suggest dentists. A study showed that about 20 per cent of athletes said that their oral health damaged their training and performance for the Games. At the Oral Health and Performance in Sport conference in London, dentists said tooth pain could cause disruption in sleep and training and inflammation of the gums could affect the rest of the body, impairing performance. ... |
| Mindful Peace Could be as Effective as Taking Anti-Depressant Posted:  A woman's voice says softly, "make yourself comfortable, eyes closed, take a few full breaths". "If you find that your mind has wandered, this is good news." Twelve professionals have gathered in a conference room much like any other in downtown Washington. But this is no ordinary meeting. This is "mindfulness," a form of meditation that is growing fast in the Western world, including in the United States, and has been hailed for its benefits in reducing ... |
| Exposure to Tobacco Marketing is Associated With Increased Use Posted:  Despite restrictions that a new study has revealed that not only are young people exposed to tobacco marketing, they are influenced by it, say researchers. According to the study, exposure to "direct marketing" is associated with increased use of tobacco. Lead author Samir Soneji, PhD, Norris Cotton Cancer Center researcher and assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical ... |
| Friedreich's Ataxia - an Effective Gene Therapy in Mice Model Posted:  In mice, the transfer via a viral vector of a normal copy of the gene deficient in patients, allowed to fully and very rapidly cure the heart disease. These findings are published in iNature Medicine/i on 6 April, 2014. Friedreich's ataxia is a severe, rare hereditary disorder which combines progressive neuro-degeneration, impaired heart function and an increased risk of diabetes. The condition affects one in every 50,000 birth. There is currently no effective ... |
| Retelling 'Positive Stories' can Strengthen Strained Love Lives Posted:  An expert says that reclaiming positive stories can help couples that have become distant, strained and stressed find ways to connect and strengthen their relationships. Dr. Karen Skerrett, a staff clinician and faculty member at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, explores this concept in her co-authored book, Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience (Routledge, 2014). Using the authors' combined years of psychological ... |
| UK Toddler Gets Injected With Eye Cancer Cure Posted:  In UK, an 18-month-old girl who is suffering from eye cancer, is paving way for better cancer cures after getting injected with drugs to battle her disease rather than undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Eliza Deakin was diagnosed with aggressive retinoblastoma when she was just six weeks old after her mother Lucy noticed that there was something wrong with her left eye, the Daily Express reported. Explaining why she choose to get her daughter ... |
| Women Don't Trust Men With House Cleaning Posted:  British women do not trust their partners' cleaning skills, suggests a new study. The new report, by cleaning product manufacturer Karcher, has found that 52 percent of housewives don't want to let their hubbies near the washing up, vaccuming and cleaning the bathroom, the Daily Star reported. The study, which surveyed 2,000 women, found that 65 percent of housewives admit to re-doing the job straight after their husbands. Men's biggest ... |
| New Pork Burger Contains Both Caffeine and Booze Posted:  In Scotland, a cafe-bar has brought out a burger, whose chiefingredient pork has been soaked in Buckfast wine - a controversial mix of caffeine and alcohol. The wine is so strong that Devon monks have blamed it for the increase in youth crime. However, the chef Jass McNeil, 29, who created this burger insists that pork and Buckfast combo is a good one, despite the drink being nicknamed the 'commotion lotion,' Daily Star reported. He said ... |
| Over Time, Disease-Free Survival Estimates for Ovarian Cancer Improves Posted:  The probability of staying disease-free improves dramatically for ovarian cancer patients who already have been disease-free for a period of time. And time elapsed since remission should be taken into account when making follow-up care decisions. This is according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), a partner with UPMC CancerCenter. The findings will be presented Wednesday at the American Association ... |
| Portugese Surgeon Saves Football Careers Posted:  Pioneering Portuguese surgeon Jose Carlos Noronha, known as the Ronaldo of knees, is saving the careers of top world football players. A tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, one of the main stabilisers at the centre of the knee joint, is a potential career killer and one of the most feared injuries among footballers. But Noronha was credited in the world's sporting press with performing a "miracle cure" when he operated on Real Madrid's Pepe in December ... |
| Bags With Logos may Last Centuries for Paris Craftsmen Posted:  The handbags that adorn the shelves of Serge Amoruso's Paris boutique have something missing. It's certainly not the hefty price tag or the top quality craftmanship. What you won't find, however, is that universal badge of 1990s consumerism -- a logo. Amoruso's message is clear. Exclusivity is what his customers -- many of them from China and Japan -- now want, and they don't mind paying for it. Amid a feeling that some brands have become ... |
| Caucasian Boys More Likely to be Affected by Color Blindness Posted:  Caucasian male children have the highest prevalence of color blindness, a new study found. Researchers also found that color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in boys is lowest in African-Americans, and confirmed that girls have a much lower prevalence of color blindness than boys. The study will be published online April 3 in iOphthalmology/i, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Despite the name, color blindness is not a type of blindness, ... |
| Sun, Earth and Mars to Fall on a Straight Line on April 8 Posted:  ... |
| First Comes Facebook, Then Comes Marriage Posted:  Read on to find the secret behind which types of couples meet on social networking websites are more likely to marry. The study suggests that compared to other ways of meeting online, meeting through social networking sites presents no more of a risk of divorce or separation and is associated with equal or greater marital satisfaction. They were more likely to be satisfied in their marriage than those who met in traditional offline ways, such as through ... |
| Ozone Hole Over Tropical West Pacific is Reinforcing Ozone Depletion Posted:  Significant influence on the climate of the Earth may seen due to an atmospheric hole over the tropical West . An international team of researchers headed by Potsdam scientist Dr. Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered that above the tropical West Pacific there is a natural, invisible hole extending over several thousand kilometres in a layer that prevents transport of most of the natural and manmade substances into the stratosphere by virtue ... |
| France plane quarantined over ebola scare Posted:  Suspecting a passenger having a deadly Ebola by the crew, an Air France plane from Guinea was quarantined for two hours in Paris on Friday. The flight from the Guinean capital Conakry landed at Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport at 5:28 am (0328 GMT) with 187 passengers and 11 crew members on board. Emergency services conducted checks for fever on all those travelling after a dirty toilet sparked concern that a passenger could be infected with the deadly ... |
| Seven Servings of Fruits and Veggies Needed to Cut Cancer, Heart Disease Risk Posted:  The struggle to eat enough fruit and vegetables had just got harder with a new advice being passed on in Britain. Over the past decade, Britain has absorbed if not adopted the idea of five a day, the target endorsed by the state-run National Health Service (NHS) for a healthy, balanced diet. But now researchers at University College London (UCL) have advised this should be increased to at least seven to cut the risk of death from cancer or heart disease. ... |
| Ebola Epidemic a Cause of Concern for Experts Posted:  The Ebola epidemic in West Africa which has claimed more than 90 lives and may now also have struck north into the Sahel, is a cause of deep worry for virologists. A rare but extremely dangerous virus, Ebola is historically rooted in central Africa, although it has also caused past outbreaks in Uganda to the east. Except for a non-fatal case in Ivory Coast in 1994, when a lab researcher was infected while examining a dead chimp, Ebola had not previously ... |
| Weight Loss Surgery Could Help Alcohol Cut Cravings Posted:  Post weight loss surgery, the high risk drinkers experienced a reduction in their cravings. Lead author and principal investigator Christina Wee, MD, Director of Obesity Research in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, and colleagues interviewed patients who participated in the Assessment of Bariatric Surgery or ABS Study, which aims to understand patient preferences and decision making processes about weight loss and weight loss surgery. They ... |
| Generator can be Fuelled With Spit in the Near Future Posted:  Minute amount of energy sufficient to run on chip applications with saliva powered micro-sized microbial fuel cells. Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, Penn State, credited the idea to fellow researcher Justine E. Mink. The researchers said that by producing nearly 1 microwatt in power, this saliva-powered, micro-sized MFC already generates enough power to be directly used as an energy harvester in ... |
| Ancient Egyptians Too, Predicted the Weather Posted:  It may sound surprising, but records from 3,500 years ago revealed how ancient Egyptians too, predicted the weather A new translation of a 40-line inscription on a six-foot-tall 3,500-year-old calcite block from Egypt - called the Tempest Stela - describes rain, darkness and "the sky being in storm without cessation, louder than the cries of the masses". The inscription could provide new evidence about the chronology of events in the ancient Middle East. ... |
| South Asia Needs United Effort to Fight Against Vector Borne Diseases Posted:  The WHO has called for a united effort to fight against vector borne diseases like dengue and malaria which is still having a significant impart on the socioeconomic status of countries in south Asia. "These diseases are still killing thousands of people in the WHO southeast Asia Region," a World Health Organization release said. Forty percent of the global population at risk of malaria lives in the WHO southeast Asia region, home to a quarter of the ... |
| Tips for Better Skin Care This Summer Posted:  The onset of summer triggers a number of skin problems as sun damage leads to wrinkles, premature aging of the skin, dryness and many other skin problems. Kaya Skin Clinic's Sangeeta Amladi has come up with some tips to take care of your skin this summer. Select the right sun screen: Selecting the right sun screen is key to prevent harmful sun rays from damaging your skin. There are wide varieties of sun screens available in the market, each with different benefits. ... |
| Dog Saves Owner's Life by Detecting Breast Cancer Posted:  A nine-year old dog has reportedly saved the life of his owner by detecting her breast cancer even though two mammograms had turned up negative, according to a new report by BBC Earth. Max, a 9-year-old collie cross, started acting strange around his owner Maureen Burns. According to the video, Max would touch her breast with his nose and would immediately pull back with a sad look in his eyes. Maureen thought that Max was sick but also decided to go through a second ... |
| Melanoma Cells Require Glucose to Grow and Spread Posted:  Researchers in Melbourne have found that melanoma cells require glucose to grow and spread, a finding that could lead to development of new therapies for treating the deadly skin cancer. Researchers led by Tiffany Parmenter along with Rodney Hicks and Grant McAurthur at the Peter Peter McCallum Cancer Centre identified a number of patterns in clinical practice and found that tumors that are supported by BRAF genes displayed a particularly high usage of glucose which ... |
| Novartis Bexsero Bags Breakthrough Therapy Status by FDA Posted:  The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accorded a Breakthrough Therapy designation to Meningitis B vaccine Bexsero, manufactured by Swiss drug company Novartis. The company said after the new status for vaccine Bexsero, it plans to file for US approval of the vaccine this year itself. Bexsero, which helps protect against meningococcal disease, has already got an approval in Europe, Canada and Australia. In the UK, Bexsero has already been ... |
| Adultery Website Skirts the Legal Fence in S.Korea Posted:  Noel Biderman has launched an adultery hook-up site in South Korea where marital infidelity is a crime punishable by up to two years in prison. Biderman is the CEO of Canada-based AshleyMadison.com -- slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair" -- which claims more than 25 million subscribers in 35 countries and launched in South Korea last month. Within a week, 46,000 people had signed up and Biderman said the company was targeting a membership of around ... |
| Nazi Defense Line in Poland Becomes Shelter for Bats Posted:  Europe's largest artificial roost, which is home to tens of thousands of bats, was once an awe-inspiring Nazi defense line in western Poland. The 37,000 winged mammals sleep elbow-to-elbow in the well-sheltered tunnels of the Ostwall fortification, a largely forgotten war site near the town of Miedzyrzecz, not far from the German border. Adolf Hitler had it built on the eve of World War II in what was then German land to protect the Third Reich from ... |
| Childhood Obesity Costs (Dollar) 19,000 Per Child, Finds Research Posted:  A new research has found that childhood obesity costs (Dollar) 19,000 per child when comparing lifetime medical costs to those of a normal weight child. The analysis was led by researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. When multiplied by the number of obese 10-year-olds in the United States, lifetime medical costs for this age alone reach roughly (Dollar) 14 billion. An alternative estimate, which takes into account ... |
| After the Age of 35, Circumcision Could Prevent Prostate Cancer Posted:  Men circumcised after the age of 35 were 45% less at risk of later developing prostate cancer than uncircumcised men, researchers at the University of Montreal and the INRS-Institut-Armand-Frappier have shown. This is one of the findings that resulted from a study undertaken by Andrea Spence and her research directors Marie-Elise Parent and Marie-Claude Rousseau. The researchers interviewed 2114 men living on the Island of Montreal. Half of them had been diagnosed ... |
| Research Reveals One in 3 Intensive Care Survivors Develop Depression Posted:  A new study has found that a third of intensive care patients develop depression that typically manifests as physical, or somatic, symptoms such as weakness, appetite change, and fatigue, rather than psychological symptoms. This was one of the largest studies to investigate the mental health and functional outcomes of survivors of critical care, published in iThe Lancet Respiratory Medicine/i. The study suggests that intensive care unit (ICU) survivors ... |
| Non-Invasive Imaging may be Better Than Repeated Biopsy in Active Monitoring of Prostate Cancer Posted:  Research has shown that the cells of human body have two major interconnected energy sources: the lipid metabolism and the glucose metabolism. Most cancers feed themselves by metabolizing glucose, and thus can be seen in Positron Emission Topography (PET) scans that detect radiolabeled glucose. However, prostate cancers tend to use the lipid metabolism route and so cannot be imaged in this way effectively. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study being presented ... |
| Renal Cancer Cells Thrive When Put in the Right Environment, Says Research Posted:  Previous research has shown that tumor cells fail to reach their potential in the wrong environment. But put those same cells on the right bit of real estate, and they grow like mad. Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found renal cancer cells planted in a supportive environment proliferate with the help of an enzyme usually only seen in the brain. The enzyme, a specific isoform of a rather common kinase, may eventually become a target for cancer ... |
| Potential Drug Targets Identified in Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors Posted:  A new study reveals that researchers studying a rare, always fatal brain tumor in children have found several molecular alterations that drive the cancer. The study was conducted by scientists at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and McGill University. The findings identify potential new targets for drug treatments. The new research could help physicians choose targeted agents with a better chance of combating pediatric high-grade astrocytomas, ... |
| Why Food Quality Will Suffer With Rising CO2 Decoded Posted:  Elevated levels of carbon dioxide inhibit assimilation of nitrate into proteins by plants, indicating that the nutritional quality of food crops is at risk as climate change intensifies, a field study has found. Findings from this wheat field-test study, led by a UC Davis plant scientist, will be reported online April 6 in the journal emNature Climate Change/em. "Food quality is declining under the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that ... |
| Researchers Map Smoking Visibility for the First Time Posted:  New research from the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand has mapped the visibility of smoking in city streets has for the first time. The research found that up to 116 smokers outside bars/cafes could be seen from any one location in the outdoor public areas of downtown Wellington (e.g. on a footpath). Of 2600 people observed in the outdoor areas of bars and cafes, 16% were smoking, with a higher proportion than this in evenings. Data from ... |
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