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Concerns About Blood-Thinning Drug Raised by Journal

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Concerns were raised about a blood-thinning drug by a medical journal, that is widely used by people at risk of stroke, accusing the manufacturer of concealing safety data and regulators of laxness. A key selling point of the drug known as Dabigatran or Pradaxa was that it required no blood-level monitoring, as does competitor warfarin. Dabigatran's maker, Boehringer Ingelheim, had said the drug was better than warfarin at reducing stroke in people with ...

Kids Spend More Time on Digital Devices Than Parents Think

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Kids are spending more time on digital devices than their parents think they are, shows a new study conducted by the St. Louis-based American Optometric Association. The study estimates, 83 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 use electronic devices for three or more hours each day. However, a different survey of parents reveals a dramatic difference from how much time parents think their children spend on digital devices. ...

Freedom Diet: Expert Offers Tips for Healthy Weight Loss

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Obesity has become a common health concern worldwide and globally at least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese, statistics from the World Health Organization reveal. Dr. Kalpana Gupta Shekhawat, Director and medical nutritional Consultant of 'Freedom Diet', shares her experiences of treating a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/obesity.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"obesity/a and talks ...

Autistic Behaviours Linked to Enzyme: Study

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Behaviours on the autistic spectrum like obsessive-compulsive and repetitive behaviours is also caused by Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder, apart from cognitive deficits. It is the most common inherited cause of mental impairment and the most common cause of autism. Now biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have published a study that sheds light on the cause of autistic behaviors in FXS. Appearing online today (July 23) in the emJournal ...

Screening for Whole Population for AIDS Targeted in South Africa

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Plans of conducting AIDS screening tests to South Africa's entire population and speeding up antiretroviral treatment of those who test positive for the virus has been announced by health minister on Wednesday. "We come from very far in the past five years," Aaron Motsoaledi told parliament. "But a lot still needs to be done," the minister said while presenting his annual budget. With 6.4 million people infected with HIV, the virus that can ...

Statin Use Decreases the Risk of Barrett's Esophagus: Study

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Statins significantly cut a patient's risk of developing Barrett's esophagus, finds study published in Gastroenterology. "Patients who received statins had a 43 percent reduction in the odds of having Barrett's esophagus compared to non-users," said study author Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, MPH, from the Houston VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. "This is the first study to find a significantly lower risk of Barrett's esophagus with statin ...

Ebola Infects Head Doctor at S.Leone Ebola Clinic

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Deadly Ebola virus has infected a head doctor in-charge of an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, and the doctor is admitted to hospital, the health ministry said Wednesday. The news comes just days after three nurses from the same facility died of the disease, which has killed hundreds of people throughout west Africa and continues to spread. Dr Omar Khan was in charge of the main Ebola treatment centre in Kenema, around 320 kilometres (200 miles) ...

Trauma and Brain Damage Showed in 3-D Image of Paleolithic Child's Skull

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Potentially violent head trauma that likely lead to brain damage is revealed in the 3-D imaging of a Paleolithic child's skull, found in a study published published July 23, 2014 in the open-access journal emPLOS ONE /emby Helene Coqueugniot and colleagues from CNRS - Universite de Bordeaux and EPHE. A Paleolithic child that lived -100 thousand years ago found at Qafzeh in lower Galilee, Israel, was originally thought to have a skull lesion that resulted from ...

Flea Bites

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Fleabites occur when fleas bite their hosts and suck warm blood. Fleas mainly feed on the fresh blood of domestic animals and humans and transmit diseases from one to the other.

Decoding the Non-coding DNA

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A combination of genetic modifications or mutations results in the disease of the genome, cancer. We inherit from our parents strong or weak predispositions to developing certain kinds of cancer; in addition, we also accumulate new mutations in our cells throughout our lifetime. Although the genetic origins of cancers have been studied for a long time, researchers were not able to measure the role of non-coding regions of the genome until now. A team of geneticists ...

Loopholes Abound Even After Setting Guidelines

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There are enough loopholes for claim rejections even after standardization of health insurance terms by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority -IRDA. This was found especially in the case of personal accident and critical illness covers. "Although health insurance is rapidly growing, access to it still remains limited and complaints, especially due to variable interpretations of key policy terms, are enormous," it explained. "All insurers shall adhere ...

Preventing Age-related Diseases With New Strategies

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Fontana said, "Heart failure doesn't happen all at once. It takes 30 or 40 years of an unhealthy lifestyle and activation of aging-related pathways from metabolic abnormalities such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes to give a person heart failure in his 60s. So we propose using lifestyle interventions - such as a personalized healthy diet and exercise program - to down-regulate aging pathways so the patient avoids heart failure in the first place." ...

FDA Approves REBEL Bare-metal Stent

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Boston Scientific Corporation has announced that it has received FDA approval for the REBEL Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System. This is company's latest generation bare-metal stent for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD). Bare-metal stents continue to play an important role in the treatment ofCAD and represent a significant portion of the global stent market. The company announced CE Mark for the Rebel Stent System in February. The REBEL ...

Better Screening for Psoriatic Arthritis Required: Panel of Experts

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For the first time, leading experts have come together to call for better screening of psoriatic arthritis and help millions of people worldwide suffering from the condition. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) causes painful joint inflammation and can cause irreversible joint damage if left untreated. PsA tends to affect people with the skin condition psoriasis, which causes a red, scaly rash, and affects approximately two per cent of people in the UK. Around ...

Walking Department Store at Khartoum

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Loading his arms with as many battery-powered wall clocks he can carry, the Sudanese man pushes one through the taxi's open window. His head follows. "For you, a good price," he tells the passenger. "How many dollars?" he asks expectantly, hoping for an offer. On the other side of the car, the taxi driver negotiates with a vendor selling cheap flashlights. The Merchants of McNimir Street are always at your service -- a walking department ...

Encephalitis Outbreaks Kill More Than 150 In India

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Encephalitis outbreaks in India have killed more than 150 people, with health officials on alert fearing the death toll could rise further, state government directors said. Some 102 people have died in West Bengal state from the mosquito-borne virus which affects mainly malnourished children and can cause brain damage and seizures, said medical education director Sushanta Banerjee. Many of the deaths have occurred since the onset of the monsoon season ...

People Shell Out More Money While Experiencing 'Nostalgia'

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People tend to shell out more money when they think about their past, reveals a new study. Authors, Jannine D. Lasaleta from Grenoble Ecole de Management), Constantine Sedikides from the University of Southampton, and Kathleen D. Vohs from University of Minnesota, conducted six experiments that looked at how much people were willing to spend, donate, and value money when feeling a sense of nostalgia-evoked social connectedness. In one study, the consumers ...

Are Medicaid Policies Sentencing Individuals With Mental Illnesses to Prison?

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At the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, researchers have linked tighter Medicaid policies governing antipsychotic drugs with increased incarceration rates for schizophrenic individuals. The study comes amid media scrutiny over whether cutbacks in mental health actually save money, when other costs are taken into account. Some health plans require an extra approval step before tests or treatments can be ordered for patients. This ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Increases Risk of Schizophrenia Diagnosis: Study

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Individuals with vitamin D deficiency are twice as likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia as people who have sufficient levels of the vitamin. This is according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's iJournal of Clinical Endocrinology (and) Metabolism/i. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and is needed for bone and muscle health. The skin naturally produces this vitamin after exposure to sunlight. People also obtain smaller amounts ...

Get Some Sleep to Avoid Errors in Your Memory

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People who get less sleep might be hurting their memory, claims a new study. Researchers at Michigan State University and the University of California, Irvine found that distorted memory could have serious consequences in areas such as criminal justice, where eyewitness misidentifications are thought to be the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called insufficient sleep an epidemic ...

Myopia Increases With Higher Level of Education

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Attaining a higher level of education and spending more years in school are two factors associated with a greater prevalence and severity of nearsightedness or myopia, reveals a new study. According to German researchers, environmental factors may outweigh genetics in myopia development and suggested that students should spend time outdoors. Researchers at the University Medical Center in Mainz, Germany examined nearsightedness in 4,658 Germans ages ...

Legalising Sex Work Would Slash the Number of HIV Infections

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A study presented at the world AIDS forum suggests that scrapping laws that ban sex work would slash the number of HIV infections over the next decade. Female sex work is one of the big vectors of the world HIV pandemic, sometimes being the bridge between infected drug users and heterosexual men who buy sex from them. But policymakers have squabbled about how best to deal with the question. They have wrestled with initiatives such as outreach ...

Initial HIV Care at Home may Increase Use of ART

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Offering optional home care initiation after HIV self testing could be linked to a significant increase in the number of adults initiating antiretroviral therapy compared to standard HIV care.The results are part of a study that was funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in the July 23/30 issue of emJAMA/em, which is HIV/AIDS themed and released early to coincide with the International AIDS Conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia next week. In 2012 ...

Peer-led Intervention may Help Moms of Children With Autism

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New findings have revealed that peer-led interventions that target well-being of parents can reduce stress, anxiety and depression in mothers of children suffering from disabilities. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from Vanderbilt University examined two treatment programs in a large number of primary caregivers of a child with a disability. Participants in both groups experienced improvements in mental health, sleep and overall life satisfaction and showed ...

Risk of Heart Disease Doubles for People With Diabetes Who Eat High-salt Diet

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A new study finds people with Type 2 diabetes who eat a diet high in salt face twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to those who consume less sodium. The study is published in the Endocrine Society's iJournal of Clinical Endocrinology (and) Metabolism/i. Diabetes occurs when there is too much sugar in the bloodstream. People develop Type 2 diabetes when their bodies become resistant to the hormone insulin, which carries sugar from the blood ...

More Older Americans Suffer Chronic Medical Conditions

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A new research has revealed that around four in every five Americans live with chronic medical conditions, and the more ailments you suffer from, the shorter your life expectancy. The analysis, one of the first to examine the burden of multiple chronic conditions on life expectancy among the elderly, may help explain why increases in life expectancy among older Americans are slowing. A report on the findings, based on an analysis of 1.4 million Medicare enrollees, ...

Research Identifies Gene Variant as Heart Disease Risk Factor for Women

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New research from Western University published online this week in the iBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology/i brings to light a genetic basis for heart disease in women and helps to identify which women are more prone to heart disease. When it comes to heart disease, Dr. Ross Feldman who led the study says women are often in the dark. Historically, it was thought that heart disease was a men's-only disease, however, data has shown that post-menopausal ...

Cost-effectiveness of Weight-loss Programs and Weight Loss Pills Compared

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The Weight Watchers program and the drug Qsymia showed the best value for the money in a cost-effectiveness analysis of commercial diet programs and pills. The Jenny Craig regimen generated the greatest weight loss, but was also the most expensive option tested, according to researchers at Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Graduate Medical School. The findings, published in the June issue of the journal emObesity/em, provide important ...

Study Finds Algorithm Behind Cutting 'Fair Pieces' of Cake

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A new study has found the algorithm to divide goods such as land and cake. Mathematician Julius Barbanel of Union College, and political scientist Steven Brams of New York University have shown a way to optimally share cake between two people efficiently, in equal pieces and in such a way that no one feels robbed. According to the method, an objective referee is essential so that the potential cake eaters first reveal which parts of the delicacy they ...

World AIDS Community Mourns Colleagues on Crashed Malaysian Airlines Plane

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World AIDS community mourned several passengers on a crashed Malaysian Airlines plane who were heading to Australia for a global conference on the epidemic. Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, which US officials believe was hit by a surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people on board, was due to connect with another flight to Melbourne. "My thoughts (and) prayers to families of those tragically lost on flight . Many passengers were enroute to ...

Tooth Plaque Sheds Light into Our Prehistoric Ancestors' Diet

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New study may provide evidence that our prehistoric ancestors understood plant consumption and processing long before the development of agriculture. This is according to a study published July 16, 2014 in the open-access journal iPLOS ONE/i by Stephen Buckley from University of York and colleagues. Evidence of plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is difficult to find; such evidence is meaningful for understanding how much prehistoric ...

US Health Chief Faces Congress Over a Dangerous Mixup of Flu and Anthrax

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The chief of the US government's top public health agency is to testify in Congress over a series of dangerous mixups in the handling of anthrax and influenza. Tom Frieden, who leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is expected to face tough questions from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations at the hearing, beginning at 10 am (1400 GMT). Last week, the CDC admitted to five incidents over the past ...

Men Love to Brag and Lie

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Men are not only more likely to brag about their talents, but are also more prone to lying to cover up their deficiencies, reveals a new study. According to the study by by trainline.com, 70 per cent men confess to boasting, while 46 per cent admit they claim to be skilled in areas they're not and are conditioned to be more competitive than women and feel a greater need to impress, the Daily Express reported. Psychology professor Cary Cooper, of Lancaster ...

Doctors Extract 232 Teeth from Teenager

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A rare surgery conducted by doctors at the JJ Byculla removed 232 teeth from a teenager, who came in with routine troubles of swelling and pain in the mouth. According to the doctors, there are very few cases of this tooth developmental anomaly documented in the dental literature. K Gavai, 17, a tenth standard student from Buldhana, a district in western India, had a swelling on the right side of the mouth when he came to JJ hospital last ...

Stress may Make Hard-working Mongooses Less Likely to Help in the Future

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A study conducted on banded mongooses has revealed that those who work hard to care for pups could be less likely to invest in future offspring in the same way due to elevated stress hormones. Dr Jennifer Sanderson, from the University of Exeter, has been observing wild banded mongooses to understand why working hard makes them less likely to work hard in the future. She discovered that when a banded mongoose invests heavily to care for mongoose pups, ...

Elementary School Children's Lunches and Snacks from Home Has Room for Improvement

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Lunches and snacks that fall short of federal guidelines usually make up a kid's lunch box. Those are the findings of a study conducted by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. The findings are published online ahead of print in the iJournal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/i. Led by senior author Jeanne ...

Presence of Uterine Cancers at the Time of Hysterectomy Using Morcellation Explained by Study

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Uterine cancer was found affecting women undergoing electric power morcellation during a minimally invasive hysterectomy surgery, a new study has found. There has been concern that this procedure, in which the uterus is fragmented into smaller pieces, may result in the spread of undetected malignancies. Despite the commercial availability of electric power morcellators for 2 decades, accurate estimates of the prevalence of malignancy at the time of electric power ...

MH17 Strongly Echoes of the 1983 Korean Tragedy

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The Malaysian airliner's downing has spurred up memories of the 1983 incident when a Korean passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters in a mid-air massacre. As with the Malaysian plane, the loss of life was total, with all 269 passengers and crew aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 perishing when the stricken aircraft plunged into the Sea of Japan. The similarities between the two disasters are striking. Both involved aircraft from Asian ...

Orthopedic Outcomes may be Predicted by Activity Levels

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Patient's activity levels may be a strong predictor on how well they will respond to treatments and recover from the injury, a new study has found. Patients are encouraged to ask their orthopaedic surgeon if activity level is an important factor in their treatment decision. For example, more active patients are at a higher risk of re-injury after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, and activity level should be considered when deciding which graft to use in the ...

Combo Lipid Emulsion Has Benefits No Greater Than Soy-Based Emulsion

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Lipid emulsions are important for providing essential fatty acids and energy to children and children who require intravenous feeding. There has been concern that soybean-based emulsions could compromise immune functions and promote liver damage due to its composition. Combination lipid emulsions based on triglyceride oil, fish oil, or olive oil have been developed to address this concern. However, researchers at Rutgers and Tufts universities found that concern ...