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EHR Algorithms to Identify Undiagnosed Hypertension Developed

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Reviewing electronic health records (EHRs) can identify patients with undiagnosed hypertension, says study. Of the 1,033 patients that were identified with the EHR algorithms and evaluated, 361 were formally diagnosed with the hypertension and 290 others were diagnosed with related blood pressure conditions such as prehypertension, white-coat hypertension or elevated blood pressure. The study, "A Technology-Based Quality Innovation to Identify Undiagnosed Hypertension Among ...

Study Reveals Benefits of Ginkgo Biloba

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In mice Ginkgo biloba enhances neurogenesis and improves recovery following a stroke, finds new study. Researchers at the University of Toledo, Ohio, found that Ginkgo biloba treated mice had enhanced neurogenesis, partly due to the increased protein expression of hemeoxygenase 1, an antioxidant gene that also has a role in neurogenesis. Pertinently, mice lacking the hemeoxygenase 1 gene were observed to have reduced neurogenesis after stroke. The ...

Menopause Weight Gain

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Menopause and weight gain in menopause often go hand in hand. But with simple lifestyle changes, menopause weight gain can be easily managed.

Epidural Linked to Lower Depression Risk

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New study published in iAnesthesia (and) Analgesia/i finds controlling pain during childbirth may reduce the risk of postpartum depression. Wisner's editorial is based on a new Chinese study that found women who had pain control with epidural anesthesia during a vaginal delivery had a much lower risk for postpartum depression than women who didn't have the epidural. "Maximizing pain control in labor and delivery with your obstetrician and anesthesia ...

Acid Used for Toilet Cleaning may Cause Lung Diseases, Says Survey

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A survey conducted by Indian Medical Academy states that almost 91 percent of doctors link acids used as toilet cleaners with respiratory and other health problems. Dr Preetiash Kaul, senior consultant of the Academy, said that long-term exposure of acid fumes, even for a short time (10-15 minutes), could lead to severe respiratory problems including asthma and bronchitis, pulmonary edema, nasal ulceration and other health difficulties like bluish coloration ...

Tracking Hive Dynamics With Radio Frequency ID Tags on Honey Bees

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Hundreds of individual honey bees were tracked for several weeks after scientists attached radio-frequency identification tags on them. The effort yielded two discoveries: Some foraging bees are much busier than others; and if those busy bees disappear, others will take their place. The findings are reported in the journal emAnimal Behaviour/em. Tagging the bees revealed that about 20 percent of the foraging bees in a hive brought home more than ...

Vaccination Drive Against Polio in Syria by UN

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Help was called by United Nations on Tuesday to vaccinate 765,000 young Syrian children against polio, to prevent a resurgence of the crippling disease across the restive Middle East. "Inside Syria, 765,000 children under the age of five live in hard-to-reach areas where conflict and restriction make it extremely difficult to reach them with humanitarian assistance including regular access to vaccines," UN agencies said. Polio is a potentially fatal ...

Breast Cancer Treatment May Cause Heart Damage

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Approximately 20 percent of women who develop early breast cancer have HER2-positive (human epidermal growth factor receptor-2-positive) tumors. If left untreated, these tumors generally have a worse prognosis than HER2-negative tumors. The case is the same with advanced breast cancer as well. Currently, the standard treatment for HER2-positive a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/breast-cancer-high-risk.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"breast cancer/a ...

Understanding How Neuro Cells Turn Cancerous

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A research by a team of scientists bring us closer to understanding of how some cells in the brain and nervous system become cancerous. Scientists from the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York with the help of Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have completed the research. The results of their study are published in the prestigious journal iCancer Cell/i. The research team led by Sloan-Kettering researchers ...

Fly-inspired Sound Capturing Device

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Among the range of mean little creatures found in nature, the yellow-colored Ormia ochracea fly is one of meanest, at least to crickets. Native to the southeastern U.S. states and Central America, the fly is a most predatory sort of parasite. It swoops onto the back of a singing male cricket, deposits a smear of larvae, and leaves its wicked brood to invade, kill and consume the cricket from inside out. None of this would be possible without the fly's ability to ...

Age-Related Memory Loss Explained With Molecular Basis

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Our brains hold a seemingly endless supply of information and memories right from telephone numbers to foreign vocabulary. However, as we are getting older, our ability to learn and remember new things declines. A team of scientists around Associate Prof Dr Antonio Del Sol Mesa from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine of the University of Luxembourg and Dr Ronald van Kesteren of the VU University Amsterdam have identified the molecular mechanisms of this cognitive ...

Trick to Get Children Eat Their Veggies

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Most kids are told that drinking milk makes their bones strong and eating fish is good for brain. But do these messages foster the idea that if something is good for us, it must surely taste bad? A new study in the emJournal of Consumer Research/em suggests that when children hear about the benefits of healthy food, they're less likely to eat it. "We predicted that when food is presented to children as making them strong or as a tool to achieve a goal such as ...

Brain Connectivity Determines Children's Impulsive Behaviour

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Impulsiveness is a personality trait that causes difficulties in inhibiting a response in the face of a stimulus and leads to unplanned actions without considering the negative consequences. Researchers from the University of Murcia have studied the changes in the brain that are associated with impulsiveness. These patterns can serve as an indicator for predicting the risk of behavioural problems. A new study headed by researchers from the University of Murcia analyses ...

Japanese Encephalitis in West Bengal Affects Over 83 Children

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Japanese encephalitis has afflicted at least 83 children in West Bengal in the last fortnight, said director of state health services, Biswaranjan Satpathy. So far, the deadly disease has claimed more than 50 lives in the seven affected districts. The North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) has been flooded with patients complaining of encephalitis symptoms in Darjeeling District. "Particularly, from 7th July itself, and they are coming now, ...

Risk of Concussions and Other Injuries in High School Lacrosse Players

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More and more high school lacrosse players are being exposed to injuries during practice and competition, with over 170,000 students going for the game, reveals a study from the Colorado School of Public Health and the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The study, published online today by emThe American Journal of Sports Medicine/em, found that high school lacrosse players experienced 1,406 injuries over ...

HIV Cure Aims to Force Virus Out of Their Hiding

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Scientists said at the world AIDS conference Tuesday that they had forced the virus out of a hiding place where it had lurked after being suppressed by drugs. The experiment, carried out with six HIV-infected volunteers, is an important advance in the so-called "kick-and-kill" approach for a cure, they said. The technique aims to force the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from its last redoubt after it is beaten back by antiretroviral drugs. These ...

'Deadliest Distraction' While Driving Are Mobile Phones

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Mobile phone use is the biggest cause of road fatalities, found in a new poll. An AA poll of 18,000 members has shown that out of nearly 7,000 people, who admitted losing concentration, 548 reported a near-miss and 106 had crashed, and the biggest cause of the distraction was mobile phone use, the Daily Express reported. Official figures suggest that mobile phones pose the biggest accident risk to drivers as they get carried away by messages, tweeting ...

French Court Cancels Ruling That Ordered Halal Food for Muslim Prisoners

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A French court cancelled on Tuesday, a November ruling that ordered a prison to provide halal meals for Muslim prisoners, in the latest legal battle over an issue that has raked up a controversy in the secular republic. The French government had sought to overturn the ruling by an administrative tribunal that argued that the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier jail in southeast France should provide the meals on the basis that failing to do so would violate Muslim prisoners' ...

Presence of Middle East Virus in Air of Camel Barn

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Genetic traces of dangerous Middle East respiratory virus, MERS-CoV, was found in the air of a barn that housed a sick camel, by researchers in Saudi Arabia, they said Tuesday. The study in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, calls for further research to determine if the potentially fatal virus can be transmitted through the air. MERS emerged in 2012 and has already killed 209 of the 699 people infected, according to the World ...

Seriously Ill Patients May Grow Their Own Medical Marijuana, German Court Rules

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While cannabis or marijuana remains illegal for general use in Germany, a German court ruled for the first time on Tuesday that seriously ill patients may grow their own marijuana for medical purposes in certain cases. The administrative court in the western city of Cologne said that while cannabis remained illegal for general use in Germany, it may be cultivated at home by some patients with medical permits for the drug. The court said in a statement ...

Anti-Cancer Drug can Activate Hidden HIV: Study

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HIV researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark have shown that an anti-cancer drug can activate hidden HIV. The researchers found that the anti-cancer drug romidepsin increased the virus production in HIV-infected cells between 2.1 and 3.9 times above normal and that the viral load in the blood increased to measurable levels in five out of six patients with HIV infection. strongA pilot study/strongThe results were ...

Playing in Schoolyards Reduce Children's Stress: Colorado University-Boulder Study

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A University of Colorado Boulder study suggests that playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children's stress and inattention. Working on class assignments or gardening in such settings also provide stress-reducing benefits for youth, according to a paper published in the journal iHealth (and) Place./i The study is one of the first of its kind to focus on the relationship between student ...

LSUHSC Contribute Samples Identifying New DNA Regions Associated With Schizophrenia

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Nancy Buccola, MSN, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CNE, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Nursing, contributed samples used in a study reporting new locations of genetic material associated with schizophrenia. Buccola also suggested a possible link between the immune system and schizophrenia. The study, "Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci," was published online July 22, 2014 ...

Stimulating a Major Dopamine System Helps Restore Consciousness After General Anesthesia

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Researchers have come one step closer to better understanding how anesthesia works. A study in the August issue of emAnesthesiology/em, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (Regd) (ASA (Regd) ), found stimulating a major dopamine-producing region in the brain, the ventral tegmental area (VTA), caused rats to wake from general anesthesia, suggesting that this region plays a key role in restoring consciousness after general anesthesia. ...

Street Fishing Turning into A Sport In Paris

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Quentin Nespoulous is standing by Canal Saint Martin. It was once a run-down waterway in Paris that has been cleaned up and turned into a popular haunt for young bohemians. Only this 19-year-old is not here for a hipster hangout or a canalside bistro, but to fish. Nespoulous is part of a new wave of "street fishers" taking to the French capital's canals as well as the Seine, where pike, giant catfish and black bass have returned in large numbers to ...

Twins Have Low Language Performance as Compared to Single-Born Kids

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The rate of language delay among twins is almost twice as compared to the single-born children, reveals a recent study. Distinguished Professor Mabel Rice from University of Kansas, who studied 473 sets of twins since their birth, revealed that compared to single-born children, 47 percent of 24-month-old identical twins had language delay compared to 31 percent of non-identical twins, and overall, twins had twice the rate of late language emergence of single-born ...

'Natural Cooling Fluctuation' Masked Greenhouse Effect During Last Decade

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A natural cooling fluctuation between 1998 and 2013 largely masked the warming effects of a continued increase in man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, reveals a new study. According to research by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy, has ruled out with more than 99 percent certainty, the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth's climate. The researchers ...

Encephalitis Kills 60 in West Bengal

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In the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, an outbreak of encephalitis has killed 60 people in two weeks, a top health official has said, calling the situation "alarming'. Hundreds of mainly children die across India each year from the mosquito-borne virus, but West Bengal is not normally one of the worst-hit states. Only five people died last year in West Bengal from Japanese encephalitis, one form of the virus which normally hits during the monsoon ...

Michael Schumacher Now Communicating With His Family by Fluttering Eyelashes

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Formula One star Michael Schumacher is now showing signs of revival after surviving a near fatal accident. A report has revealed that he is now communicating with his family members by fluttering his eyelashes. The recovery shown by Schumacher may allow him to go back home soon but he will still require round-the-clock medical care to recover completely, reported the Mirror. Doctors who are treating the Formula One star in Switzerland have ...

Deal Reached Over US Gynecologist Who Secretly Photographed His Patients

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Lawyers reveal that the health care affiliate of a top US medical school is to pay (Dollar) 190 million to patients of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and videotaped them. At least 8,500 women are party to the class action suit involving Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland and physician Nikita Levy, who took his life in February 2013. In a statement, Jonathan Schochor and Howard Janet, lawyers for the plaintiffs, said a proposed settlement ...

The Future of Gene Therapy

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In cortical neurons, hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) attenuates amyloid-beta protein neurotoxicity and decreases apoptosis induced by oxidative stress or hypoxia. Prof. Xiqing Chai and co-workers from Hebei Chemical and Pharmaceutical College, China constructed a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector expressing the human HIF-1 (and) #945; gene (rAAV-HIF-1 (and) #945;) efficiently, and tested the assumption that rAAV-HIF-1 (and) #945; represses hippocampal neuronal ...

Acupuncture at the Taixi Acupoint Activates Cerebral Neurons

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Previous studies have demonstrated that acupuncture at the Taixi (KI3) acupoint in healthy youths can activate neurons in cognitive-related cerebral cortex. In a perspective article released in the emNeural Regeneration Research/em (Vol. 9, No. 11, 2014), Dr. Shangjie Chen and co-workers at Baoan Hospital, Southern Medical University, China investigated whether acupuncture at this acupoint in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can also activate ...

Mystery of TB Causing Microbe Unraveled

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The mechanisms by which the aerobic soil microbe Mycobacterium smegmatis is able to persist for extreme lengths of time in the absence, or near-absence, of oxygen have been discovered by scientists. This new discovery might develop a revolutionary class of antibiotics to tackle TB. Microbiologists from University of Otago, New Zealand in collaboration with researchers in the US and Germany had revealed in their study that hydrogen is a key factor that enables ...

Divorce Could Increase Chances of Heart Attacks, Strokes and Kidney Damage

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Moving on after divorce, no matter how steady a person you are, is challenging./h1 Underlining the fact, a new study says that sleeping badly after a divorce could cause dangerous increases in blood pressure, leading to serious illness ./h1 The list of serious health issues, as per the study, include heart attacks and strokes, kidney damage, eyes damage and brain diseases. In the initial few months after a break up, sleep issues are probably normal ...