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Nut Allergy Girl Stopped Breathing When Plane Passenger Ignored Three Warnings Not to Open Packet of Nuts

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A 4-year-old girl suffered severe allergy attack at 30,000ft after an airline passenger ignored repeated warnings not to eat peanuts. Fae Platten stopped breathing and passed out on a holiday flight after the man opened a packet of mixed nuts despite three warnings that there was a child on board with critical allergy issues. The girl was returning to the UK after her family holiday in Tenerife. After boarding the flight, the crew of the ...

Pericarditis

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Pericarditis occurs when the pericardium gets inflamed. Pericarditis is characterized by severe chest pain.

New Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Developed

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University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center is the first in Ohio and among the first in the United States to offer a new FDA-approved treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), say sources. This first-of-its-kind treatment consists of a small implantable system called Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) therapy. It has been clinically proven to significantly reduce sleep apnea events and improve quality of life for people who cannot tolerate continuous ...

Key to Human Life at High Altitudes is 8,000-Year-Old Mutation

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Tibetans thrive in the thin air on the Tibetan Plateau, an environment where others struggle to survive, situated at an average elevation of 14,800 feet. A study led by University of Utah scientists is the first to find a genetic cause for the adaptation - a single DNA base pair change that dates back 8,000 years - and demonstrate how it contributes to the Tibetans' ability to live in low oxygen conditions. The study appears online in the journal iNature Genetics/i ...

Tumor Cells Transition to Invasion Revealed by Microchip

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Now that migration of EMT cancer cells is understood, the researchers hope to use the same device for preliminary testing of drugs aimed at inhibiting that migration. The work is part of a larger effort to understand the underpinnings of cancer metastasis, which is responsible for nine out of 10 cancer-related deaths. 'Obstacle course for cells' To get this new view of how cancer cells move, the researchers borrowed microelectronics processing ...

Hidden Genetic Landscape Revealed in a New Method

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Adding or removing a DNA base here and there could have much of an effect on our health, although there are three billion letters in the human genome. In fact, such insertions and deletions can dramatically alter biological function, leading to diseases from autism to cancer. Still, it is has been difficult to detect these mutations. Now, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has devised a new way to analyze genome sequences that pinpoints so-called insertion ...

Wales Approves Cannabis-Based Medicine for MS Patients

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Sativex, an oral spray for people with multiple sclerosis, has been approved by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG). According to the authorities, the chemical extracts of Savitex, Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol/cannabidiol are derived from the cannabis plant. The manufacturers of this drug say that these extracts can be used as treatment for symptom improvement in adult patients with moderate to severe spasticity due to MS. MS is a chronic condition ...

Illness-Linked Genetic Variation That Affect Neurons Revealed by Stem Cells

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Mental illnesses are generally caused by environmental factors in combination with multiple gene variants, while neither of them could cause the disease in isolation. This poses as one difficulty in studying the genetics of common mental illnesses. A rare exception is the gene known as disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), in which some mutations have a strong effect. Two families have been found in which many members with the DISC1 mutations have mental illness. To ...

Expert Offers Ten Things to Know About Ebola

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Lee Norman, MD, chief medical officer for The University of Kansas Hospital has offered ten things one need to know about Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). . Cases Are Out-Migrating From Africa: This is happening due to the fact that infected or ill people are traveling out of those countries in Africa with Ebola outbreaks. Cases found outside of Africa may likely go up as the number of people leaving outbreak areas increases when aid-workers and ...

How Children's Brains Memorize Facts

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Basic arithmetic learning in children gradually progresses from solving problems by counting on their fingers to pulling facts from memory. The shift comes more easily for some kids than for others, but no one knows why. Now, new brain-imaging research gives the first evidence drawn from a longitudinal study to explain how the brain reorganizes itself as children learn math facts. A precisely orchestrated group of brain changes, many involving the memory center ...

Keeping People Healthy is the Future of Healthcare

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Michael Tarwater, CEO of Carolinas healthcare system, said the future of health care depended on"keeping people well instead of fixing them when they're broken," Hospitals and doctors would continue to treat patients who were sick or injured though now the emphasis would be "caring for them and keeping them well," he said. Tarwater felt that after the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and the health care industry was finding it difficult ...

Neural Connections Disrupted by Suspected Gene

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Major mental disorders are genetically-rooted diseases of synapses, the connections between neurons, suspected researchers for a long time. Now, investigators supported in part by the National Institutes of Health have demonstrated in patients' cells how a rare mutation in a suspect gene disrupts the turning on and off of dozens of other genes underlying these connections. "Our results illustrate how genetic risk, abnormal brain development and synapse dysfunction ...

Armed Men Attack Ebola Patients in Liberia Isolation Ward

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Better Diet Quality Associated With Less Weight Gain: Study

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Women Seek Anti-aging Clinicians to Treat Menopausal Symptoms, Finds Study

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A recent study reveals women seek out hormonal treatments for menopausal symptoms from anti-aging clinicians. Some women also feared the harmful side effects from conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) that had shown increased risks for cancer, heart disease and high blood pressure. Yet, they thought that the bioidentical, "natural" hormones their anti-aging doctors prescribed were safe, despite a lack of conventional scientific evidence to that fact. ...

'Parents in Jail' can be More Worse for Kids Than Divorce or Parental Death

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For many kids, parents in jail can be worse than divorce and death of a parent, reveals a new study. The study by University of California-Irvine found significant health problems, including behavioral issues, in children of incarcerated parents and also that, for some types of health outcomes, parental incarceration can be more detrimental to a child's well-being than divorce or the death of a parent. Kristin Turney, an assistant professor of sociology ...

Dubai Bans World's Most Pierced Man

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Rolf Buchholz, the world's most pierced man, has been barred from Dubai, where he was turned back at the airport on his way to a hotel appearance, reports a newspaper. Airport officials gave no reason for refusing entry to the 53-year-old German, who sports 453 piercings plus two horns on his forehead, local daily Al-Emarat Al-Youm said. They put him on a flight to Istanbul, it said. A spokesman for the hotel where Buchholz was scheduled ...

Displaced Iraq Yazidis Left Hungry and Desperate on the Outskirts

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Scores of Yazidis who fled as jihadists, mainly children, overran their villages in northern Iraq are now sheltering in an abandoned construction site on the outskirts of Dohuk city. While they have found safety in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, the members of the Yazidi religious minority have little to celebrate, having lost loved ones, homes and their belongings. Four-year-old Alia, who arrived with five relatives, sobs with hunger on her mother ...

Sarajevo Film Festival Opens to Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

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Created as an act of resistance to the siege of the city during the Bosnian war, from 1992-1995, the Sarajevo Film Festival opens to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Founder and director Mirsad Purivatra said the festival's "vision and ambitions" were now to promote the best young talent from Europe and the Balkans. "Every year we have improved the quality of the festival and it has now become important not only in our region, but also in Europe," Purivatra ...

President Francois Hollande Leads 'Southern D-Day' Tributes

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President Francois Hollande paid tribute to the hundreds of thousands of troops who launched the southern invasion of occupied France, 70 years ago in World War II, that opened up a second western front against Hitler's Nazis. Joining Hollande for Friday's ceremonies were 15 leaders from France's former African colonies, in recognition of the key role soldiers from these countries played in liberating France, two months after D-Day smashed the first hole in Hitler's ...

Guidelines can Predict Early Menopause in Cancer Survivors

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New research shows that girls with cancer who are most likely to become infertile after treatment can be identified using guidelines developed almost 20 years ago. The criteria - developed in Edinburgh - will help to select which girls should be offered the opportunity to freeze some tissue from their ovaries for use in the future. Doctors are optimistic that the frozen tissue could one day help young cancer survivors to have children of their own. ...

Bats Bolster Brain Hypothesis, Maybe Technology Too: Study

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Amid a neuroscience debate about how animals and people focus on distinct objects within cluttered scenes, some of the newest and best evidence comes from the way bats "see" with their ears. This is according to a new paper in the iJournal of Experimental Biology/i. In fact, the perception process in question could improve sonar and radar technology. Bats demonstrate remarkable skill in tracking targets such as bugs through the trees in the dark ...

Food Allergies More Widespread Among Inner-city Children: Study

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A new study led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists finds young inner-city children appear to suffer disproportionately from food allergies. The federally funded multi-center study, described online Aug. 13 in the iJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology/i, found that at least one in 10 children from four large U.S. cities has a food allergy. However, the true number may be even higher, the investigators say, because the study used highly stringent ...

Scientists Reveal How Bats Track Their Targets in Cluttered Scenes

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New insight into how bats focus on their targets such as bugs through the trees in the dark of night has been provided in a new study. It was found that 'temporal binding hypotheses' had the explanation. The hypothesis proposed that people and animals focus on objects versus the background when a set of neurons in the brain attuned to features of an object all respond in synchrony. Amid a neuroscience debate about how people and animals focus on distinct ...

'Romancing' Robots Will be a Reality by 2025

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In what could be seen as taking a leaf out of science fiction books, a new study reveals that a large section of people will be romancing actual robot lovers by 2025. The report mentioned that these robots would know humans' every need and minister to it accordingly, CNet reported. In 2013, 9 percent of people expressed their cheeriness at the idea of robot sex. Robots would threaten current jobs more than ever. These won't merely be jobs ...

Kenya Closes Borders to African Countries Worst Hit by Ebola Outbreak

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Analysis of Bone Chemistry Unveils New Details of the Life and Diet of Richard III

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An analysis of the bone and tooth chemistry of King Richard III conducted by researchers at British Geological Survey and University of Leicester has thrown new light on the life and diet of Britain's last Plantagenet king. The study, published in Elsevier's iJournal of Archaeological Science/i indicates a change in diet and location in his early childhood, and in later life, a diet filled with expensive, high status food and drink. This forensic study, the most ...

Attacking Aid Workers Becoming Worryingly Common in Modern Hostile War Zones

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NGOs and aid workers are worried of their safety after they are being increasingly targeted for attack in hostile war zones across the globe, raising concerns for NGOs who try to ease the suffering of the victims. From South Sudan, where roaming militias killed six aid workers this month -- three of them in an ambush -- to Gaza, where 11 UN staff were killed in attacks on UN-run shelters, relief workers are living dangerously. Over the past decade, the ...

Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Serious Complications After Noncardiac Surgery

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A study in iAnesthesia (and) Analgesia/i suggests that patients with low blood levels of vitamin D are at increased risk of death and serious complications after noncardiac surgery. "Vitamin D concentrations were associated with a composite of in-hospital death, serious infections, and serious cardiovascular events," according to the new research by Dr Alparslan Turan and colleagues of the Cleveland Clinic. They believe their results warrant further study to ...

Scots' Call for Independence Has a Keen Observer in Italy's German-Speaking North

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The call for independence among Scottish separatists and the upcoming referendum to be held in September is being keenly observed by citizens of Italy's German-speaking northern region of Tyrol, who are feeling the pinch of Italy's on-going economic crisis. "We are not Italians," says Eva Klotz, 63, a local separatist politician, her office in the capital Bozen -- Bolzano in Italian -- adorned with a Scottish and a Catalan flag and a large Che Guevara poster. "Italy ...

Ebola 'Moving Faster' Than They can Handle: MSF

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In west Africa, the Ebola crisis is outstripping the ability of aid organisations to stem the epidemic, the head of international medical charity MSF said Friday, likening it to a war. "It is deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to," Joanne Liu told reporters a day after returning from a 10-day mission to the hard-hit region. "It is like war time. There is fear," she said. "It's moving, and advancing, but we have ...

Social Media Users Fake to Appear Authentic Online

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People on social media fake to appear authentic online, reveals a new study. According to the study by researchers at Aalto University, presenting an authentic image on social network sites (SNSs) includes an element of fakery and though being authentic is very important for social media users, they have also admitted faking parts of their online image in order to conform to social norms and expectations. By focusing on two SNSs, Facebook and Last.fm, ...

Women Perform at Their Worst in Risky Situations

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Results of a new study that will be presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association have found that women get more anxious when in risky situations, thereby performing worse under such circumstances while no such problems were found among men. "On the surface, risky situations may not appear to be particularly disadvantageous to women, but these findings suggest otherwise," said study author Susan R. Fisk, a doctoral candidate in sociology ...

Federal Law Enacted to Curb Use of 'Club Drugs' is Actually Harming Users

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A new study has found that rather in reducing the intake of 'club drugs' such as Ecstasy and Molly, a federal law that was enacted to curb their use has instead endangered the users by making it difficult to adopt measures to protect themselves. University of Delaware sociology professor Tammy L. Anderson makes that case in a paper she will present at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. The paper, which has been accepted for publication ...

Virginity Pledges Tend to Leave Men Awkward and Confused About Sex Even After Marriage

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While bragging of sexual conquests and suggestive jokes are considered to be part of demonstrating one's manhood, a growing number of men have taken to pledging sexual abstinence before marriage. A new study is looking into how such men manage to stick to such virginity pledges and what sort of problems they face due to it after marriage. "Sexual purity and pledging abstinence are most commonly thought of as feminine, something girls and young women promise before ...

Nepal Housewives Cook Up Potent Brew After Ignoring Laws

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Housewives in Nepal continue to brew raksi, a rice liquor containing more than 50 percent alcohol. The latter is a festive staple among Nepal's Newar community. Indigenous to the Kathmandu valley, raksi (or aila as it is also called) is offered to Hindu and Buddhist gods during religious ceremonies but revellers need little excuse to sample the potent brew. Although it is illegal in Nepal to make alcohol at home for sale, the preparation and consumption ...

China Unveils World's Largest Aquarium to Promote Domestic Consumption as Driver for Growth

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China has unveiled the world's largest aquarium, complete with a giant 63-metre blue whale shark, which it hopes will be used as a testing ground for reforms that encourage domestic consumption. Hengqin island is just across the Pearl River from Shenzhen, the boom town on the border with Hong Kong that was designated a Special Economic Zone 35 years ago. At the time Shenzhen was a fishing village. Now foreign investment and a freer capitalist economy ...

Robin Williams 'Dreaded' Dying While High on Drugs or Alcohol: Rehab Friend

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Robin Williams wanted his death to be quick, clear and sober, a rehab friend of the late actor has revealed. Teresa Cohen asserted that the 'Mrs. Doubtfire' actor dreaded dying while high on drugs or alcohol, the Daily Star reported. Cohen said that Williams cried when he told her his greatest fear was relapsing and he might die early because of excessive drinking while his family watched helplessly. She continued saying that the late 63-year-old ...

Robin Williams was Afraid Parkinson's Would Stop Him from Cycling

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Media reports suggest that Robin Williams was afraid that Parkinson's would stop him from cycling, which might have led him to his alcohol and drug addiction once again. Tony Tom, close friend to Williams told to the Sun that the 63-year-old actor took up riding in order to quit booze, drugs and battle depression, the Mirror reported. The 58-year-old, who owns a bike show near Williams' home in California, said that Parkinson's would have affected his ...

Film on 1597 Victory Against Japan Storms to Top of South Korean Box-Office

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The South Korean box office has been set on fire by a film depicting a famous 16th century naval victory against Japanese invaders. The film has been drawing the largest audience and has become the first local movie to take more than (Dollar) 100 million. "Myeongryang" ("Roaring Currents") attracted 13.62 million viewers as of Saturday after 18 days of screening, distributor CJ Entertainment. The previous frontrunner, Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar", drew 13.61 ...

Magpies are Not Attracted to Shiny Objects, Says Study

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A new study has suggested that magpies are not attracted to shiny objects and do not routinely steal small trinkets such as jewellery. In European culture, it is widely accepted that magpies (iPica pica/i) are the pilferers of the bird kingdom, unconditionally attracted to sparkly things and prone to pinching them for their nests, almost as a compulsion. But psychologists at the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) at the University of ...

Research Sheds Light on Use of Bivalirudin Versus Heparin in Patients Planned for Coronary Stenting

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Among patients undergoing coronary stenting for ischemic heart disease, bivalirudin and heparin are two anticoagulant options. Bivalirudin, a newer anticoagulant, has been touted as being as effective as generic heparin, but with nearly half the rate of bleeding. However, several studies have hinted that, compared with heparin, bivalirudin-based regimens might not protect as well against recurrent heart attacks and might increase the risk of stents clotting off. ...

Dopamine Replacement Causes Impulse Control Increase in Early Parkinson's Disease

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Symptoms such as depression, anxiety and fatigue are more common in newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease (PD) patients compared to the general population, says new research from Penn Medicine. The study also found that initiation of dopamine replacement therapy, the most common treatment for PD, was associated with increasing frequency of impulse control disorders and excessive daytime sleepiness. The new findings, the first longitudinal study to come out of the ...

No Uniform Charges for Blood Tests Across California Hospitals

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There are significant price differences for ten common blood tests in California hospitals, new UC San Francisco research shows. The researchers add that some patients were charged as little as (Dollar) 10 for one test while others were charged (Dollar) 10,169 for the identical test. The analysis of charges at more than 150 California hospitals looked at blood tests that are often required of patients, such as lipid panel, basic metabolic panel, and complete blood cell count with ...

Gut Bacteria and Cravings: Is There a Connection?

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The bacteria within us may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, claims a new research. In an article published this week in the journal emBioEssays/em, researchers from UC San Francisco, Arizona State University and University of New Mexico concluded from a review of the recent scientific literature that microbes influence human eating behavior and dietary choices to favor consumption of the particular nutrients ...

Latest Issue of 'Science' Focuses on Challenges of Preterm Birth

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A major article about the most important problem in obstetrics; preterm labor, features in the latest issue of the journal Science. The article, "Preterm labor: one syndrome, many causes," delivers a powerful message: preterm birth is not one condition, but many, and provides a framework for meeting this challenge. "There are 15 million preterm babies born annually, and the condition affects 5 percent to 15 percent of all pregnancies, with the highest ...