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Study Shows How Stress Leads to Obesity

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The process that can disrupt the process of fat tissue development due to stress has been revealed by scientists. The study showed that adenosine, a metabolite released when the body was under stress or during an inflammatory response, stopped the process of adipogenesis, when adipose (fat) stem cells differentiated into adult fat cells. The findings indicated that the body's response to stress, potentially stopping the production of fat cell ...

Telecare Intervention Improves Chronic Pain, Finds Study

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A telephone-delivered program produced meaningful improvements in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, says study published in JAMA. Pain is the most common symptom reported both in the general population and patients seen in primary care, the leading cause of work disability, and a condition that costs the United States more than (Dollar) 600 billion each year in health care and lost productivity. Musculoskeletal pain accounts for nearly 70 million outpatient ...

Battling India's TB Epidemic With Rollout Strategy: Researchers

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Quick evaluation of tuberculosis patients in India by the right doctors can be just as effective at curbing TB as a new, highly accurate screening test, suggests a new study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers. While ideally all suspected TB cases would be evaluated with the new test, it is primarily being used only on the highest-risk populations and only in public health clinics, partly because of its cost and the complexity of the ...

Cells Devour Dying Neighbours on a Signal from Molecular Level

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A Pac-Man-style power pellet has been devised by a team of researchers that gets normally mild-mannered cells to gobble up their undesirable neighbors. The development may point the way to therapies that enlist patients' own cells to better fend off infection and even cancer, the researchers say. A description of the work will be published July 15 in the journal iScience Signaling/i. "Our goal is to build artificial cells programmed to eat up dangerous ...

No Blood Clot Risk in New Skin Gel's Fight Against Breast Cancer

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A new study has found that a gel form of tamoxifen applied to the breasts of women with noninvasive breast cancer reduced the growth of cancer cells to the same degree as the drug taken in oral form. However the gel form had fewer side effects that deter some women from taking the drug. The finding emerges from a Northwestern Medicine research. Tamoxifen is an oral drug that is used for breast cancer prevention and as therapy for non-invasive breast cancer and ...

Immune Response of Asian Elephants Infected With Human Disease Studied

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Asian elephants (occasionally other elephants) are also infected by iMycobacterium tuberculosis/i, the organism that causes tuberculosis in humans. Diagnosing and treating elephants with TB is a challenge, however, as little is known about how their immune systems respond to the infection. A new study begins to address this knowledge gap, and offers new tools for detecting and monitoring TB in captive elephants. The study, reported in the journal iTuberculosis/i, ...

Foods to Get Rid of Dandruff - Slide Show

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Poor nutrition can be a contributing factor to the development of dandruff. Adding foods rich in key nutrients like zinc and vitamin B6 to the diet can help control dandruff symptoms

Arsenic in Rice, Rice-based Foods Can Seriously Harm Children: Experts Voice Concern

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Experts warn inorganic arsenic in rice and rice-based foods poses serious health concerns in infants and young children, and steps should be taken to minimize exposure to inorganic arsenic. The commentary appears in the emJournal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition/em, official journal of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. ...

Health and Life Insurance May be Difficult to Get After Donating a Kidney

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Kidney donors may face difficulty when they apply or renew their health or life insurance policies; this is despite the fact that there is no evidence that they are at increased health risks. In fact the donors are thoroughly investigated and are usually in better health than an average person to be eligible to be a donor. The above finding comes from a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation and suggests that actions by insurers could negatively ...

Governments Agree to Follow New Food Standards to Restrict Veterinary Drugs in Food

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A UN body has confirmed that governments have agreed to follow new food standards calling for zero residue of veterinary drugs in meat, limiting lead pollution in infant formula and toxins in maize. The Codex Alimentarius Commission -- the top global decision-making body for food standards -- made a raft of recommendations at its ongoing annual meeting in Geneva, Angelika Tritscher, the UN's food safety coordinator, told AFP. While often complex, the ...

DNA Plays a Part in Increasing Risk of Giving Birth to a Child With Cerebral Palsy

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Recent research points to an inherited cause for raising the risk of giving birth to a child with cerebral palsy. Earlier, this disability of the brain was linked to problems in pregnancy or birth. Norway researchers found that families where a close relative has cerebral palsy are at increased risk of giving birth to a child with this condition. The investigators trawled through a top-quality database covering the health of Norwegians born between 1967 ...

Scientists Examine 'Non-Human' DNA

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Much of what we know about Oetzi - for example he suffered from lactose intolerance or what he looked like - stems from bone sample which allowed the decoding of his genetic make-up. Now, however, the team of scientists have examined more closely the part of the sample consisting of non-human DNA. "What is new is that we did not carry out a directed DNA analysis but rather investigated the whole spectrum of DNA to better understand which organisms are in this sample ...

Taking B Vitamins Can't Prevent Alzheimer's Disease: Study

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Taking B vitamins doesn't slow mental decline as we age, nor is it likely to prevent Alzheimer's disease, conclude Oxford University researchers. To offer a final answer on this debate, researchers have assembled all the best clinical trial data involving 22,000 people. High levels in the blood of a compound called homocysteine have been found in people with Alzheimer's disease, and people with higher levels of homocysteine have been shown to be at ...

How Strongly Does Tissue Decelerate the Heavy Ion Beam?

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Irradiation with heavy ions is suitable in particular for cancer patients with tumours which are difficult to access, for example in the brain. These particles hardly damage the penetrated tissue, but can be used in such a way that they deliver their maximum energy only directly at the target: the tumour. Research in this relatively new therapy method is focussed again and again on the exact dosing: how must the radiation parameters be set in order to destroy the ...

High-Fat Meals Combined With Stress can Make Women Fat

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High-fat meals when taken post stressful events can result in weight gain in women, as it slows down their metabolism rate, finds a new study. The Ohio State University researchers questioned study participants about the previous day's stressors before giving them a meal consisting of 930 calories and 60 grams of fat. The scientists then measured their metabolic rate, how long it took the women to burn calories and fat, and took measures of blood sugar, triglycerides, ...

Scientists Offer New Hope for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

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Researchers have discovered that a relatively frequent genetic variant actually conveys significant protection against the common form of Alzheimer's disease and can delay the onset of the disease by as much as 4 years. Judes Poirier, PhD, C.Q., from the Douglas Mental Health Institute and McGill University in Montreal (Canada) and his team have done this discovery and it opens new avenues for treatment against this devastating disease. Dr. Poirier announced his ...

World's Top Windsurfers Make Waves in Turkmenistan

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Isolated ex-Soviet Turkmenistan, better known for its inhospitable desert plains than beach breaks, this month welcomed an unlikely group of visitors: a sun-tanned crop of the world's top windsurfers. Bordering Iran and Afghanistan, the energy-rich Central Asian country played host to a leg of the windsurfing World Cup at a sparkling new Caspian Sea resort that authorities hope can turn the once hermit state into a water sports hub. International competitors ...

Scientists Reveal The Secret Behind 'Forgiveness'

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Apologies, offers of compensation and owning up to one's responsibility increase forgiveness and reduce anger by making the aggressor seem more valuable as a relationship partner and by causing the victim to feel less at risk of getting hurt again by the transgressor, reveals a new study. According to the researchers at the University of Miami, all of the things that people are motivated to do when they have harmed someone they care about really do appear to be ...

Now, World's First Motorbike can Fly You Home

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Pal-V One, world's first bike will never let you get stuck in traffic as it can take off and fly you home with just a flick of a switch. This incredible marvel designed and built by a team in Holland, can attain the altitude of 4000ft and speed at a whopping 112mph both on local roads as well as in the air, the Daily Star reported. Priced at over 230,000 pounds, this bad boy can turn itself into a copter within 10 minutes of hitting the copter button ...

German Sausage Makers Fined (Dollar) 460 Million for Price Cartel

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German sausage makers have been fined a sizzling 338 million euros ( (Dollar) 460 million) for fixing their prices to the retail sector for many years, says the national competition watchdog. "Numerous statements and documentation prove that there was a 'fundamental understanding' to agree regularly on requests for price increases," the Federal Cartel Office said in a statement. In all, 21 sausage makers and 33 company officials were fined, including the Herta ...

Study Finds Link Between Prolonged Sedentary Time and Obesity

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Physical fitness may buffer some of the adverse health effects of too much sitting, reveals a new study. According to a new study by researchers from the American Cancer Society, The Cooper Institute, and the University of Texas, there is an association between prolonged sedentary time and obesity and blood markers associated with cardiovascular disease is markedly less pronounced when taking fitness into account. Kerem Shuval, Ph.D., of the American ...

AIDS Scare After Australian Health Worker Diagnosed With HIV

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Australian authorities were urging 399 people to have a HIV test in eastern Victoria state after a health care worker was diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. The Victorian Department of Health said it had conducted a thorough investigation and was following up with selected patients who had contact with the worker in the unnamed region. "This is entirely precautionary as there are no reports of any patient contracting HIV from the health care ...

UN Chief Vows to Help Haiti End Cholera Epidemic

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited Haiti, vowing to help the country end a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 8,500 people since 2010 and that some blame on UN peacekeepers. Ban promised to seek (Dollar) 2.2 billion from international donors to help the destitute nation fight the disease, which has also infected more than 700,000 people, over the next 10 years. There had been no cholera in Haiti for at least 150 years until it was allegedly introduced by Nepalese ...

Label of Pre-Diabetes is 'Unhelpful and Unnecessary'

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Pre-diabetes label for people with moderately high blood sugar is a drastically premature measure with no medical value and huge financial and social costs, say researchers from UCL and the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. The analysis, published in the emBMJ/em, considered whether a diagnosis of pre-diabetes carried any health benefits such as improved diabetes prevention. The authors showed that treatments to reduce blood sugar only delayed the onset of type 2 diabetes ...

Cancer Screening in Ontario Not Improved With Bonuses to Doctors

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Nearly (Dollar) 110 million was spent by Ontario between 2006 and 2010, to motivate family doctors to screen more of their patients for cancer. But these bonuses were associated with little or no improvement in actual cancer screening rates, reveal researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The study, published today in iAnnals of Family Medicine/i, tracked screening rates for cervical, breast and colorectal cancer ...