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Current Avian Influenza Virus Packed With Genetic Ingredients of 1918-Like Virus With Pandemic Potential

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The circulating avian influenza viruses contain all genetic ingredients that are needed to underpin the emergence of a virus similar to the 1918 influenza virus, a team of researchers have found. Searching public databases, the researchers, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, identified eight genes from influenza viruses isolated from wild ducks that possessed remarkable genetic similarities to the genes that made up the 1918 pandemic ...

Diet Rich in Protein Linked to a Reduced Risk of Stroke

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A new meta-analysis has found that people consuming a diet rich in protein, especially fish, may be less likely to have a stroke. "The amount of protein that led to the reduced risk was moderate-equal to 20 grams per day," said study author Xinfeng Liu, MD, PhD, of Nanjing University School of Medicine in Nanjing, China. "Additional, larger studies are needed before definitive recommendations can be made, but the evidence is compelling." The meta-analysis ...

Cognitive Performance may be Boosted in Kids Even Years After Traumatic Brain Injury

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One of the leading causes of death and disability in adolescents and children is traumatic brain injury occurring due to sports, falls, recreational and car accidents. While previously it was believed that the window for brain recovery was at most one year after injury, new research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas published online today in the open-access journal iFrontiers in Neurology/i shows cognitive performance can be improved to ...

Brodalumab Proves Effective in Psoriatic Arthritis Treatment

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Brodalumab, a drug being developed by Amgen Inc for treatment of psoriatic arthritis has proven to be efficacious after a year of treatment, according to a study. The use of brodalumab for psoriatic arthritis resulted in a substantial improvement in skin condition and brought about a reduction in dactylitis, a condition that features the swelling of the fingers and toes and is commonly found in psoriatic arthritis patients, according to the study's lead ...

New Light on Best Medication for Children With Seizures

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The debate over which is better, drug Lorazepam and diazepam, has long puzzled ER pediatricians, but has been answered in a recently published clinical study in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. The drug diazepam has been the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medication as first line therapy most often used by emergency room doctors to control major epileptic seizures in children? The answer to that question - based on a double-blind, ...

Safer Strep Vaccine With New Research

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An international team of scientists have identified genes encoding a molecule that famously defines Group A iStreptococcus/i (strep), a pathogenic bacterial species responsible for more than 700 million infections worldwide each year. The team is led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The findings, published online in the June 11 issue of iCell Host (and) Microbe/i, shed new light on how strep bacteria resists the human ...

How to Make a Million Dollars Selling Snake Products? Expert Q (and) A

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Kevin Dai looks mighty pleased as he holds aloft some of his precious snakes so I can get a closer glimpse. "Precious" yes. Snakes, scorpions and spiders from his farms take him smiling all the way to the bank. iKevin Dai is dangerously rich!/i Owner of Benjamin Agriculture Biotechnology Ltd, Kevin Dai has 3 big snake farms at different locations in China. In an interesting chat with Medindia's reporter, he shared how snake farming is lucrative business ...

Child Behavior Disorders

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Behavioral problems occur in children for various reasons including stress, abuse or inconsistent parenting. They must not be mistaken for misbehavior which children are prone to from time to time.

The Sixth Taste of Tongue - The Carbs!

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So far, it was believed that the human tongue is capable of perceiving only 5 tastes, namely saltiness, sweetness, sourness, savouriness and bitterness. But, scientists have now found that the tongue has the capacity to recognize yet another taste, that is, the taste of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are molecules that contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are key nutrients that form the main source of energy for the body. Carbohydrates break down into ...

New Solar System Now 60 Million Years Old

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The formation of the new solar system was completed around 60 million years ago, reveal researchers. The timing of the giant impact between Earth's ancestor and a planet-sized body occurred around 40 million years, which led to the beginning of earth and moon formation. Geochemists from the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France have discovered an isotopic signal which indicates that previous age estimates for both the Earth and the Moon were underestimated. ...

Thirty-Three Pc Women Experience Sexual Violence in Conflict With Their Husbands

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Around 33 percent of women suffer sexual violence during and after a period of conflict and around 29 percent reported that their husbands or partners were the perpetrators, reveals a new study. The study also established that total of 10 percent women said that the culprit was someone other than an intimate partner and only 0.3 percent identified an armed combatant. Although international attention has focused primarily on extreme cases of sexual abuse ...

Chocolate Set to Enhance the World's Pleasure

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Researchers are seeking new ways to improve chocolate and enhance the world's pleasure. A team of researchers from Germany and Switzerland-the heartland of fine chocolate-have embarked upon a quest to better understand natural cocoa fermentation. Corresponding author Christoph Wittmann of Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, said their studies have unraveled the metabolism of the rather unexplored acetic acid bacteria in the complex fermentation ...

Resistance to Lung Cancer Targeted Therapy can be Reversed

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Up to 40 percent of patients suffering from lung cancer do not respond to a targeted therapy designed to block tumor growth - a puzzling clinical setback that researchers have long tried to solve. Now, scientists at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute have discovered why that intrinsic resistance occurs - and they pinpoint a drug they say could potentially reverse it. Their findings, published in the iJournal ...

Rates of Prediabetes in Adults Have Tripled Over Past Decade in England

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In England, more than a third of adults now have pre-diabetes, the findings suggest, with those who are disadvantaged and of black and minority ethnicity disproportionately affected. If nothing is done to halt this trend, the country faces a steep rise in the prevalence of diabetes, as up to one in 10 of those with pre-diabetes will progress to diabetes every year, warn the authors. They base their findings on an analysis of data collected for the ...

Cancer Risk from Heart Imaging Tests is Low for Most Young Children

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Radiation from standard X-rays is relatively low and doesn't raise lifetime cancer risks for most young children. This is according to research in the American Heart Association journal iCirculation/i.Researchers followed 337 children under age 6 who had surgery for heart disease at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Their operations required almost 14,000 imaging procedures, including X-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans, and cardiac catheterization ...

Statins Linked With Lower Physical Activity in Older Men

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Bottom Line: Older men who were prescribed statins (the cholesterol-lowering medications associated with muscle pain, fatigue and weakness) engaged in quite less physical activity. Author: David S.H. Lee, Pharm.D., of Oregon State University/Oregon Health and Science University College of Pharmacy, Portland, and colleagues. Background: Physical activity is important for older adults to remain healthy. Muscle pain, fatigue, and weakness ...

Mosquito Control Pesticide Low Risk to Juvenile Oysters

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A NOAA study suggests that four of the most common mosquito pesticides used along the east and Gulf coasts show little risk to juvenile hard clams and oysters. However, the study, published in the on-line journal iArchives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology/i, also determined that lower oxygen levels in the water, known as hypoxia, and increased acidification actually increased how toxic some of the pesticides were. Such climate variables should ...

Antiviral Therapy may Prevent Liver Cancer in Patients Suffering from Hepatitis B

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Scientists have found that antiviral therapy may be successful to prevent hepatitis B virus from developing into the most common form of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). That was the finding of a study published in the May issue of iClinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology/i. Investigators from Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., and Kaiser Permanente in Honolulu, Hawaii and Portland, Ore. participated ...

Key Protein Could Put Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs in Handcuffs

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Staph infections that become resistant to multiple antibiotics don't happen because the bacteria themselves adapt to the drugs. It happens because of a kind of genetic parasite they carry called a plasmid that helps its host survive the antibiotics. Plasmids are rings of bare DNA containing a handful of genes that are essentially freeloaders, borrowing most of what they need to live from their bacterial host. The plasmids copy themselves and go along ...

Specific Gene Linked to Adult Growth of Brain Cells, Learning and Memory

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Memory and learning are regulated by a region of the brain known as the hippocampus. New research from City of Hope has found that stimulating a specific gene could prompt growth - in adults - of new neurons in this critical region, leading to faster learning and better memories. Understanding the link between this gene and the growth of new neurons - or neurogenesis - is an important step in developing therapies to address impaired learning and memory ...

Gossip in Beijing Targets Government and the Rich

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A good number of rumours in Beijing usually target government officials and the rich, the state-run media said. "About 64 percent of the rumour samples in the research involved hatred of officials, 58 percent hatred of the rich," the Global Times reported, citing a study by the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and Social Sciences Academic Press. "The report found rumours about more sensitive issues and involving more sensational stories that elicit ...

Scientists Find Kids may be Able to Tell When Adults are Saying Truth, but Not the Whole Truth

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MIT scientists are tackling a question about whether children can tell when their adults are telling the truth, but not the whole truth. Led by Laura Schulz, the Class of 1943 Career Development Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, the researchers found that not only can children make this distinction, but they can also compensate for incomplete information by exploring more on their own. Determining whom to trust is an important skill to learn ...

Street Art Vents Anger Over Austerity in Athens

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Against the backdrop of a battered Greek flag, in wall art covering the side of a school building in a working-class Athens suburb, a giant lion roars. The creation is one of many examples of street art across the Greek capital expressing the despair of ordinary people after four years of government belt-tightening at the behest of international creditors. The artist, BANE, is among around 60 contributors to Athens' second annual street art festival, ...

New Analysis on Californians' Experiences With Long-term Care Released

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The results of a survey on long term care in California has now been released by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. With a particular focus on demographics, the issue brief provides new data on how Californians are, or are not, planning for long-term care and their views on the role of family. This information is vital as policymakers are currently grappling with how to plan for and finance high-quality long-term care in the United States. "This ...

World Cup Pavilion Being Built by Pritzker Winner at Embassy in Japan

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In a case of art mirroring life, a pavilion designed by a prize-winning architect to celebrate the World Cup is still not ready, just days before the first ball is kicked. Shigeru Ban's cardboard construction in the grounds of the Brazilian embassy in Tokyo was due to be finished on Monday. But ferocious downpours that have pounded Japan in the past few days in a particularly severe start to the rainy season have prevented work on the pavilion. Press ...

How to Make Statewide Health Campaigns More Effective Shown by Study

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Adding evidence-based weight loss strategies to a statewide wellness campaign improves weight loss outcomes, a new study has found. The study and its findings are published online in advance of print in the iAmerican Journal of Public Health/i. Lead researcher Tricia Leahey, Ph.D., and her colleagues chose to conduct a study among participants in Rhode Island's annual, three-month statewide health campaign. Called Shape Up Rhode Island (SURI), the campaign was ...

Hydrolyzed Formula Does Not Reduce Diabetes-Associated Autoantibodies in Infants

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The use of a hydrolyzed formula among infants with a high risk of type 1 diabetes does not reduce the incidence of autoantibodies after 7 years of follow-up, a new study has found. Type 1 diabetes is characterized by selective loss of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets in genetically susceptible individuals. The disease process leading to clinical type 1 diabetes often starts during the first years of life. Some studies have suggested that exposure ...

'Love Hormone' Oxytocin Latest Treatment Target for Age-related Muscle Wasting

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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered that oxytocin variously known as love hormone, cuddle hormone or trust hormone and associated with maternal nurturing, social attachments, childbirth and sex - is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance and repair. The study also found that in mice, it declines with age. The new study published in the journal iNature Communications/i, presents oxytocin as the latest treatment target ...

Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Should Have Access to HIV Treatment, Supportive Services

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Refugees and internally displaced persons in stable settings should have access to HIV treatment and supportive services, experts argue. Joshua Mendelsohn and colleagues argue that available evidence suggests that refugees and internally displaced persons in stable settings can sustain high levels of adherence to antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression and should have the same level of access to HIV treatment and support as host nationals. The authors ...

Moles Linked to an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

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Two recent studies have found that Cutaneous nevi, commonly known as moles, may be a novel predictor of breast cancer. Jiali Han and colleagues from Indiana University and Harvard University, United States, and Marina Kvaskoff and colleagues from INSERM, France, report that women with a greater number of nevi are more likely to develop breast cancer. The researchers reached these conclusions by using data from two large prospective cohorts- the Nurses' Health ...

Bariatric Surgery Shows Greater Rate of Diabetes Remission in Obese Patients

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Bariatric surgery is linked to more frequent diabetes remission and fewer complications, a new study that included long term follow up of obese patients found. Obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic proportions and constitute major health and economic burdens. Worldwide, 347 million adults are estimated to live with diabetes and half of them are undiagnosed. Studies show that type 2 diabetes is preventable. The incidence of diabetes can be reduced by as much ...

Effect of Adding Insulin With Metformin to Treat Diabetes Examined

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An increased risk of cardiovascular outcomes was noted in diabetes patients receiving metformin in addition to insulin, a new study has found. Diabetes mellitus and its complications represent an enormous health care burden and result in nearly 200,000 deaths annually. The American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes recommend that, for patients with preserved kidney function, diabetes treatment begin with metformin and lifestyle ...

A Shot may Now Prevent Heart Attacks

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A "genome-editing" approach has been developed by a team of scientists that could permanently reduce cholesterol levels through a single injection and could reduce the risk of heart attacks by 40-90%. "For the first iteration of an experiment, this was pretty remarkable," said Kiran Musunuru of HSCI, an assistant professor in Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), and a cardiologist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. ...

Electronic Items may Now be Charged in Just 10 Minutes

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A new 3-D, silicon-decorated, cone-shaped carbon-nanotube cluster architecture for lithium ion battery anodes has been developed by researchers that could charge portable electronics in 10 minutes . In a paper, Silicon Decorated Cone Shaped Carbon Nanotube Clusters for Lithium Ion Battery Anode, UC Riverside researchers developed a novel structure of three-dimensional silicon decorated cone-shaped carbon nanotube clusters architecture via chemical vapor deposition ...

New Health Minister Vows to Eradicate Deadly Encephalitis

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Extraordinary steps have been ordered by the new health minister of India to end the deadly disease encephalitis, after it claimed the lives of 44 children in the country in the past fortnight. Hundreds of people across India die each year from the virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes from pigs to humans, with malnourished children particularly vulnerable. "I am extremely distressed at the runaway conquest of encephalitis and it is high time extraordinary ...

The Risks of Growing Up With Bipolar Parents

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The World Health Organization claims that bipolar disorder is one of the 10 most burdensome medical conditions. The disorder is known for its dramatic highs of extreme euphoria, racing thoughts and decreased need for sleep, as well as its profound lows of sadness and despair. Because it is also associated with a heightened risk of suicide, substance abuse, hypersexuality, familial discord and aggressive behaviour, BD affects not just those suffering from it, but ...

Thousands of Children in Somalia Threatened by Measles

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Thousands of children in war-torn Somalia are facing a risk of death or disability due to the outbreak of highly contagious measles. Recent rates of infection are four times higher than the same time last year, and a vaccination campaign must be "urgently conducted to prevent thousands of avoidable deaths", the UN children's agency UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a joint statement. The outbreak comes amid renewed warnings impoverished ...

Oatmeal can Keep You Feeling 'Full' Longer

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A serving of instant oatmeal is more filling than a ready to eat cereal when compared keeping the calorie constant, a new study has found. Researchers found that eating a bowl of instant oatmeal for breakfast is more satiating and helps to manage hunger better than the same amount of calories from a leading oat-based, cold cereal, even when consumed in smaller portions than previously found. Frank Greenway, M.D. and colleagues at the Pennington Biomedical Research ...

Testosterone After Menopause: How Much is too Much?

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The new hot top now is testosterone for women. A new pharmacokinetics study of a brand of testosterone cream for women approved in Western Australia has been published online in iMenopause/i, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS). For women after menopause, it took 5 mg, the lowest dose of this product, to raise testosterone back to a premenopause level. "In the United States we do not yet have an approved testosterone product designed for ...

New Biometric Watch Allows Users to Monitor Glucose, Dehydration and Pulse Using Light

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Health and fitness minded individuals are looking for an easy way to keep their own tabs on vitals signs and parameters of medical care. Enter the biometric watch. In a pair of papers published in The Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal iBiomedical Optics Express/i, groups of researchers from the Netherlands and Israel describe two new wearable devices that use changing patterns of scattered light to monitor biometrics: one tracks glucose concentration ...

Stressing Patient Safety Causes Dip in Obstetric Malpractice Claims

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A 50% drop in malpractice liability claims and payments was noted when a hospital made patient safety initiatives a priority by training nurses and doctors to improve teamwork, a new study found. The results, published in the June 9 online issue of the iAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology/i, come at a time when mounting concerns about liability are thinning the ranks of obstetricians in the United States, according first author Christian Pettker, ...

Complex Mechanisms Controlling Changes in Snake Venom Identified by Researchers

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The diverse mechanisms by which variations in venom occur in related snake species has been identified by a team of researchers. Working with colleagues from Bangor University and Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia in Spain, the team assessed the venom composition of six related viperid snakes, examining the differences in gene and protein expression that influence venom content. The research, published in iPNAS/i, also assessed how these changes in venom ...