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Vaccination Against HPV Important for Boys too

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Human papilloma virus infection is common in men and may cause development of genital warts and the development of head and neck or anal or penile cancers too, Gillian Prue claims. She says incidence of this has increased in the past two decades with HPV causing 5% of all human cancers. Since September 2008 a free vaccination has been available for 12-13 year old girls in the UK with a catch up programme for girls up to age 18. Australia, the US, Austria and parts ...

Hunger Suppression may be the Key to Reducing Overeating?

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Medical science has frequently reported the failure of some obese individuals to generate enough signals to stop eating frequently. Researchers at the University of Leeds, UK have devised a simple metric to quantify satiety responsiveness - Satiety Quotient (SQ) - and are applying it to their research to find out why some people struggle to manage their weight and whether certain foods may help to amplify sensations of fullness. In an experiment at the University ...

Finland's Love for Milk Dates Back to 2500 BC

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The love of milk in Finland can be traced back to 2500 BC owing to high-tech techniques that analysed the residues that were preserved in fragments of ancient pots. The Finns are the world's biggest milk drinkers today but experts had previously been unable to establish whether prehistoric dairy farming was possible in the harsh environment that far north, where there is snow for up to four months a year. Research by the Universities of Bristol and ...

Growing Pains 'First Sign' of Arthritis, Says Study

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Uneasiness that is dismissed as 'growing pains' in teenagers can continue into adulthood, says a new study. A third of teenagers suffer pains in their knees - and for half of them the pain does not go away. In fact, if it is not properly treated, it could turn into osteoarthritis, the study suggests. The study shows that a quarter of the elderly who have knee replacements due to osteoarthritis of the kneecap said they ...

New Blood Test may Help Detect, Prevent Neural Tube Defects

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Folic acid, as opposed to folate, which is a naturally occurring form of vitamin B found in different foods, is synthetically produced and is often used in supplements and fortified foods. It is well known that taking folic acid before and during early pregnancy reduces the risk of neural tube defects like spina bifida. The current recommended dose is 400 ig (micrograms) a day, but it is still not clear exactly how much daily folic acid is needed to prevent neural ...

As Ebola Fears Spread, Nigerians Plead for Foreign Help

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John Ejiofor, a Nigerian, pleaded the world to help contain the spread of the Ebola virus raging across west Africa. He was standing just a few hundred meters from the Lagos Hospital, where a Liberian man died. "Nigeria is in a serious mess," the 40-year-old electrical engineer told AFP. "We lack the capacity to deal with the situation." Residents of Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa's largest city with more than 20 million people, returned to work Wednesday ...

Study Shows Impact of Soft Drinks in Our Meal Planning

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At the University of Bristol's Nutrition and Behaviour Unit (NBU), new research by academics have looked into whether we take liquid calories into account when planning meals. The research, to be presented at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior Conference (SSIB 2014) in Seattle, USA this week [29 July to 2 August], argues that we do.The team was led by Professor Jeff Brunstrom, and is based in the School of Experimental Psychology. As part ...

Pan-African Airline ASKY Bans Flights to Ebola Hit Countries

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Pan-African airline ASKY announced the suspension of flights to and from the capitals of Sierra Leone and Liberia, both hit by an outbreak of the Ebola virus. The move by the Togo-based carrier follows the death of one of its passengers from the virus after they had travelled from Liberia to Nigeria via the Togolese capital Lome. The 40-year-old man, an employee of the Liberian government, died in Lagos on Friday in Nigeria's first confirmed death from ...

Differences in Brain Wiring in Kids With Autism and Sensory Processing Disorders

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Decreased structural brain connections in specific sensory regions were found to be different in children with sensory processing disorders than those in children with autism, by researchers at UC San Francisco. The finding further establishes SPD as a clinically important neurodevelopmental disorder. The research, published in the journal iPLOS ONE/i, is the first study to compare structural connectivity in the brains of children with an autism diagnosis versus ...

Researchers Find a Way to Reduce Kidney Injury Using Quality Improvement Method

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Researchers have found a way to reduce kidney injury in patients undergoing a procedure with contrast dye, using quality improvement measures in 8 of the 10 hospitals in the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group. Currently, 7-15 percent of these patients who undergo a coronary stent procedure with contrast-dye end up with kidney injury, which can result in death or rapid decline in kidney function leading to temporary or permanent dialysis, says ...

Tourists in Paris Share Picnic With Rats at the Louvre

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In central Paris, hundreds of tourists are enjoying a picnic on a summer's day in the city's Tuileries garden. It's a picture perfect scene, a stone's throw from the famous Louvre museum, with just one drawback -- the rats. Look carefully and they are not difficult to spot, scuttling across the lawns or along hedges in broad daylight. "Now that we've seen one, it disgusts us," declared 19-year-old student Alexandre, as she enjoyed the gardens ...

Small Increase in Ugandan Urbanicity Linked With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

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Urban dwellers tend to have higher risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) than people living in rural locations. In a new study published in iPLOS Medicine/i, Johanna Riha and colleagues, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the MRC/UVRI Research Unit in Uganda, have found that even within rural communities in Uganda that all lacked paved roads and running water, people living in villages with relatively more urban features-such as schools and health ...

Growth-Driving Cells Within Tumors to be Targeted, Not Fast Proliferating Ones

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Cancer cells that can proliferate the fastest may not be the most dangerous among the many sub-groups of cells jockeying for supremacy within a cancerous tumor, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in a paper appearing in an advance online publication of the journal emNature/em. The findings have important implications for the treatment of cancer with precision medicines, the study authors explained: Doctors need to ascertain which cell subgroups are truly ...

Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of Cardiovascular, Metabolic Diseases

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A new study conducted by Brown School at Washington University researchers finds young adults who were breastfed for three months or more as babies have a significantly reduced risk of chronic inflammation associated with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Molly W. Metzger, co-author of the study with Thomas W. McDade, PhD, of Northwestern University, said that these findings underscore the importance of a preventive approach, including but not limited ...

Spinach

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Surprised why spinach is called a superfood? Spinach offers numerous health benefits and has disease prevention properties.

Best Workout Routines for Women

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Jumpstart your body transformation with workouts that build strength, endurance and a toned body. The carefully selected exercises will help women burn fat and strengthen muscles.

Antibiotics in Chickens Make Indians Antibiotic-Resistant: Study

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Indians are developing resistance to antibiotics and falling prey to a host of otherwise curable ailments due to large-scale uncontrolled use of antibiotics in the poultry industry, says a study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The organization also sought implementation of a comprehensive set of regulations including banning of antibiotic use as growth promoters in the poultry industry as it puts lives of people at stake. ...

World Breastfeeding Week 2014: 'BREASTFEEDING: A Winning Goal - for Life!'

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The World Breastfeeding Day has been observed by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) for the past 22 years. The theme for this year's World Breastfeeding Week that is being observed between August 1 to August 7, 2014 is 'BREASTFEEDING: A Winning Goal - for Life!' a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/breastfeed_direction.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"Breastfeeding/a is the first and best gift that a mother ...

RNA That Regulates Cell Death Discovered

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An RNA known as INXS that modulates the action of an important gene in the process of apoptosis, or programmed cell death has been discovered by University of Sao Paulo scientists. According to Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, professor at the USP Chemistry Institute and coordinator of a research funded by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), INXS expression is generally diminished in cancer cells, and methods that are capable of stimulating the production of this ...

New Strategy For a HIV-Free Generation: Scientists

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Procedures to help HIV-babies born to HIV-infected mothers are being assessed by researchers, after the recent news of HIV detected in the Mississippi baby, thought to be cured of HIV. These infants around the world are in need of new immune-based protective strategies, including vaccines delivered to mothers and babies and the means to boost potentially protective maternal antibodies, say researchers who write in the Cell Press journal emTrends in Microbiology/em on July ...

'Tumor Softening' Treatment Benefiting Bladder Cancer Patients

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A protein that can identify potential bladder cancer patients who could benefit from a treatment that makes radiotherapy more effective, has been identified by scientists in Manchester, revealed a study published in the iBritish Journal of Cancer/i (BJC). The team from The University of Manchester, funded by the Medical Research Council, found that patients whose bladder tumour had high levels of a protein, called 'HIF-1 (and) #945;', were more likely to benefit from ...

Tourist Boom in Asia Fuels Airport Binge

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Asian nations are rushing to build hundreds of new airports to cope with surging demand for air travel in the region, faced with snaking queues at immigration, overflowing baggage carousels and expensive flight delays. From China and India to the Philippines and Indonesia, the fast-growing middle classes are looking to spend their cash by spreading their wings, leading to a boom in the Asia-Pacific region's tourism sector. Airlines have responded by ...

McDonald's in Japan Unveils Tofu Nuggets After China Meat Scandal

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In Japan, McDonald's restaurants are turning to time-honoured Asian soul food -- tofu -- as the chain scrambles to minimise the damage from an embarrassing tainted meat scandal in China. The fast-food giant's more than 3,000 restaurants in Japan on Wednesday started selling "Tofu Shinjo" nuggets modelled on a traditional side dish that meshes tofu, vegetables and fish. For 249 yen ( (Dollar) 2.40), customers can sink their teeth into four pieces of the chicken-free ...

Pacific Islands Forum Launches Flab Fight in World's Fattest Region

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The new chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) said that he was determined to change the unhealthy lifestyle choices that have made that region the fattest in the world. Palau President Tommy Remengesau said that junk food had become a blight on Pacific island communities, leading to epidemic rates of heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure among an increasingly obese population. In a region that was once legendary for its muscular warriors ...

A Simple Blood Test may Predict Suicide Risk

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Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to stress reactions that, if confirmed in larger studies, could give doctors a simple blood test to predict a person's risk of attempting suicide. The discovery, described online in emThe American Journal of Psychiatry/em, suggests that changes in a gene involved in the function of the brain's response to stress hormones plays a significant role in turning what might ...

India's Meth Addiction Grows as Criminals Tap Chemical Industry

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In a Mumbai rehab clinic, a teenager sits quietly, a victim of India's emerging fad for the drug crystal meth, which experts say is spurred by loopholes in the country's giant chemical industry. "It made me feel powerful," said the 19-year-old undergraduate student, who began taking the drug with friends at college last year and was soon snorting up to 40 lines of the dangerous stimulant in a single session. "We would just sit and keep doing it," he ...

Fruit and Vegetables: Five-A-Day is OK

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Nutritionists in Britain threw down the gauntlet to dietary guidelines by declaring seven daily portions of fresh fruit and vegetables, rather than the recommended five, were the key to health. But a new foray into the arena of sound eating says the famous five-a-day recommendation made by the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2003 should be fine. Researchers in China and the United States trawled through 16 published investigations into diet ...

Killer Sperm Prevents Mating Between Worm Species: Study

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A study led by graduate students Gavin Woodruff from UMD and Janice Ting from the University of Toronto, was published on July 29, 2014 in the journal iPLOS Biology/i. Woodruff is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Forestry and Forest Research Products Institute in Japan. The researchers believe the "killer sperm" may be the result of a divergence in the evolution of worm species' sexual organs-in particular, the ability of sperm to physically ...

Urbanization of Rural Africa Linked With Increased Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease

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The increasing urbanisation of rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa could lead to an explosion in incidences of diabetes and heart disease. This is according to a new study carried out in Uganda which found that even small changes towards more urban lifestyles was associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Over 530 million people live in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases ...

Adaptive Behavior in Boys With Fragile X Syndrome Tends to Decline During Childhood, Adolescence

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The largest longitudinal study of the inherited disorder has found that standard scores measuring "adaptive behavior" in boys with fragile X syndrome tend to decline during childhood and adolescence. Adaptive behavior covers a range of everyday social and practical skills, including communication, socialization, and completing tasks of daily living such as getting dressed. In this study, socialization emerged as a relative strength in boys with fragile X, in that ...

American Ebola Doctor 'Weak and Quite Ill,' Says Colleague

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An American doctor who has contracted the dangerous Ebola virus in Liberia is "weak and quite ill," a colleague of his told AFP. Kent Brantly, 33, became infected with Ebola while working with patients in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, as he helped treat victims of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Brantly and another American healthcare worker are among the more than 1,200 people who have become infected with Ebola in West Africa since March. A ...

Scientists Uncover Secrets of Internal Cell Fine-Tuning

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For the first time, scientists at the University of Kent have shown how the structures inside cells are regulated - a breakthrough that could have a major impact on cancer therapy development. A team from Kent's School of Biosciences uncovered the mechanism whereby the physical properties of the internal structures within cells - known as actin filaments - are 'fine-tuned' to undertake different functions. While some of these actin filaments appear ...

What Makes Leonardo DiCaprio Friendly, Kristen Stewart Less Approachable?

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Leonardo DiCaprio is friendly and Kristen Stewart is less approachable, if the new study by psychology researchers at York University is to be believed. DiCaprio's round cheeks and soft jaw line help him create friendly first impression. His curved chin makes him more approachable and soft cheek gradient gives less dominant look. Stewart's relatively thin lips give her dominant look and curved down mouth makes less approachable. These assessments ...

Lower Your Risk of Death from Heart Disease, Cancer with Five Daily Portions of Fruit and Vegetables

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Eating five daily portions of fruit and vegetables can lower risk of death from any cause, particularly heart disease and stroke, finds an analysis of the available evidence, published on the bmj.com. These results conflict with a recent study published in iBMJ/i's iJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health/i suggesting that seven or more daily portions of fruits and vegetables were linked to lowest risk of death. There is growing evidence ...