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Melbourne Leads the World with the Longest Night's Sleep: Study

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People in Melbourne sleep more as compared to the people in London, Denver, Brisbane and Paris, according to a new study conducted by fitness tracker company Jawbone. The second most populous city in Australia sleeps with 7 hours and 5 minutes on a nightly basis. Next to Melbourne is London, with their 7 hours and 2 minutes sleep in a day. The most awake city is identified as Tokyostrong. /strongPeople in Tokyo collectively sleep ...

United Nation Says Ebola Kills 84 in Three Days

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The World Health Organization said the Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229. The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark over a week ago, soared higher between last Thursday and Saturday. The number of confirmed infections jumped by 113 over the three days, bringing the total number of cases to 2,240, the UN health agency said. The epidemic, which has hit four west African nations ...

Past, Present and Future Attempts to Measure Childhood Tuberculosis

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A new study has revealed that there may be 650,000 annual cases of TB in children. In reality, WHO has been closely involved in much of this recent research, as was brought out in a podcast done by TB Alliance (Global Alliance for TB Drug Development) in which Derek Ambrosino interviewed some of the leaders in paediatric TB research, including the lead author of the study - Dr Peter J Dodd. Dr Charalambos Sismanidis, of the WHO Global TB Programme, informed ...

Malaria Parasites Infecting RBCs Revealed by Laser Optical Tweezers

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Malaria parasite invades one red blood cell after another and is life threatening. However, very little is known about this infection process as it occurs very quickly, potentially explaining why there is currently no approved malaria vaccine. In a study published by Cell Press August 19th in the iBiophysical Journal/i, researchers used a tool called laser optical tweezers to study interactions between the disease-causing parasite and red blood cells. The findings ...

Occupational Hearing Loss

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Noise-Induced hearing loss is one of the major avoidable causes of hearing loss and is also one of the major occupational hazards.

Affordable Care Act's Contraceptive Coverage can be Beneficial to Women

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Affordable Care Act's mandate for contraceptive coverage could be immensely beneficial to women, suggest Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The Affordable Care Act requires private insurance plans -- except those grandfathered or exempted due to employers' religious beliefs -- to provide women with access to all FDA-approved contraceptive methods without cost-sharing. This first-dollar coverage "has the potential to dramatically shift contraceptive use ...

German Experts Said Ebola Scare in Woman Could be Stomach Bug

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German infectious diseases experts said that a woman whose health condition had sparked an Ebola scare Tuesday likely suffered from a gastrointestinal infection instead. Authorities rushed a 30-year-old woman of West African origin to hospital and quarantined her while closing down a Berlin public building where she had fainted, with several hundred people left inside. However, the Charite hospital later issued a statement saying its experts "at the ...

Graphene Rubber Bands Stretch to Improve Current Healthcare

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Body motion sensors have not been widely used due to their complexity and cost of production, although they already exist in different forms. Now researchers from the University of Surrey and Trinity College Dublin have for the first time treated common elastic bands with graphene, to create a flexible sensor that is sensitive enough for medical use and can be made cheaply. Once treated, the rubber bands remain highly pliable. By fusing this material with graphene ...

Novel Drug to Treat Respiratory Depression Helps Opioid Users Breathe Easy

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People taking prescription opioids to treat moderate to severe pain can now literally, breathe easy, as it may reverse or prevent respiratory depression. A study published in the September issue of iAnesthesiology/i, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (Regd) (ASA (Regd) ), found that a new therapeutic drug, GAL-021, may reverse or prevent respiratory depression, or inadequate breathing, in patients taking opioid medication without compromising ...

Indian Yoga Guru BKS Iyengar Passes Away

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Legendary yoga guru Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, the founder of Iyengar yoga, passed away at a private hospital in Pune (western part of India) on Wednesday morning. He was 96. He was admitted to the hospital on August 12 as he had been suffering from acute breathlessness and palpitation. Doctors who attended on him said that he was put on dialysis after his condition worsened two days ago. "He did not want to be admitted to ...

Fertility Awareness-Based Family Planning Goes National

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Scaling up of a successful pilot program introducing a health innovation to expand successfully to the national, regional, state or even metropolian level is typically complex and difficult. A new study from Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health reports on the results of the successful large-scale implementation, in a low resource environment, of the Standard Days Method (Regd) , a highly effective fertility awareness-based family planning method developed ...

HIV Prevention: Intimacy a Strong Motivator for PrEP

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Out of a desire to preserve intimacy, men in steady same-sex relationships, where both partners are HIV negative may forgo condoms, even if they also have sex outside the relationship. But the risk of HIV still lurks. In a new study of gay and bisexual men who reported at least one instance of condomless anal sex in the last 30 days, researchers found that the same desire for intimacy is also a strong predictor of whether men would be willing to take antiretroviral ...

100-bite Diet - The Latest Trend to Lose Weight?

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Commonly-used Antibiotic Linked to Heart Disease Risk

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An association between a commonly-used antibiotic and a significantly higher risk of heart deaths has been reported by Danish researchers. In a study published online by the British medical journal The BMJ, the team said clarithromycin use was associated with a 76-percent higher risk of cardiac death, compared to use of penicillin V. "The absolute risk difference was 37 cardiac deaths per 1 million courses with clarithromycin," reported the trio ...

Liberia Has Found 17 Ebola Patients Who Fled Attack

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'More Varied Orgasm Experiences' in Women Than Men

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Women have less predictable and more varied orgasm experiences than men, found in a new study. The study suggests that men experience orgasm during sexual activity with a familiar partner 85 percent of the time on an average, as compared with 63 percent of the time for women. The study also found that lesbian women having a significantly higher probability of orgasm than either heterosexual or bisexual women. The study was published in Journal ...

Study Explores Prevalence, Risk Factors for Diabetic Macular Edema

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Racial differences are seen in the prevalence of diabetic macular edema and among individuals having diabetes for a longer time and higher levels of hemoglobin A1c. Bottom Line: The odds of having diabetic macular edema (DME), a leading cause of vision loss in patients with diabetes mellitus, appears to be higher in non-Hispanic black patients than white patients, as well as in those individuals who have had diabetes longer and have higher levels of hemoglobin A1c. ...

Crucial Step in DNA Repair Identified

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A crucial step in DNA repair that could lead to targeted gene therapy for hereditary diseases such as "children of the moon" and a common form of colon cancer has been discovered by Washington State University scientists. Such disorders are caused by faulty DNA repair systems that increase the risk for cancer and other conditions. The findings are published in this week's emProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/em. The study was funded ...

Prohealth -launched by Cigna TTK Health Insurance

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Cigna Corporation, a US based global health service and the Indian company TTK group announced the launch of a health insurance product "Prohealth" which has a critical care option. "One of the significant features of this product is that it offers world-wide emergency health cover to the policy holder. Through this facility, a customer is covered for health emergencies anywhere across the world," the company said. "We strongly believe that different ...

Increased Teen Suicide Attempts Due to Mass Layoffs

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Increased suicide attempts and other suicide-related behaviours among some teenagers may be triggered by mass layoffs, says a new research from Duke University. Lead author Anna Gassman-Pines found that when 1 percent of a state's working population lost jobs, suicide-related behaviors increased by 2 to 3 percentage points among girls and black adolescents in the following year. Among girls, thoughts of suicide and suicide plans rose. Among black teens, thoughts ...

Likelihood of Binge Drinking Reduced With Strong State Alcohol Policies

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Significant lower likelihood of any binge drinking, frequent and high-intensity binge drinking is observed in people living in states with stronger alcohol policy environments, suggests a new study by researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), published in the current issue of the iAmerican Journal of Public Health/i. Specifically, the study found, each 10 percentage point increase in the strength of ...

Identified: Biomarker in an Aggressive Breast Cancer Resistant to Many Types of Chemotherapy

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Two Northwestern University researchers have identified a biomarker strongly associated with basal-like breast cancer, a highly aggressive carcinoma that is resistant to many types of chemotherapy. The biomarker which is a protein called STAT3, provides a smart target for new therapeutics designed to treat this cancer that is often deadly. Using breast cancer patient data taken from The Cancer Genome Atlas, molecular biologists Curt M. Horvath and Robert W. Tell ...

Air France Flight Crews Refuse to Fly to Ebola-hit Nations Over Fears of Ebola Outbreak

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Air France is in a tight corner as some Air France flight crews are refusing to board planes bound for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria over fears of the Ebola outbreak. Cabin crew scheduled to work on some flights "have not wanted to carry out their assignment", a spokesman for the company told AFP. He refused to be drawn on numbers but said none of the flights destined for the region had ultimately been left short-staffed. "In the end, ...

Shortages Create Emergency in Venezuelan Hospitals and Clinics

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Private hospitals and clinics are reeling from the shortages that have hit Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro has declared on Tuesday a humanitarian emergency over a lack of medicine and supplies. "We ask the national executive to declare a humanitarian emergency in the (health) sector in the face of the worsening shortages and irregular delivery of supplies, medicine, surgical materials, medical equipment and reserve supplies," said Carlos Rosales, head of the ...

Adipose-Derived Stem Cells may Improve Nerve Regeneration

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Stem cell researchers led by Dr Adam Reid, present a review of the current literature on the suitability of adipose-derived stem cells in peripheral nerve repair. Th study took place at the Blond McIndoe Laboratory, University of Manchester, UK. Injuries to peripheral nerves are common and cause life-changing problems for patients alongside high social and health care costs for society. Current clinical treatment relies on sacrificing a nerve from elsewhere in ...

Gender Disparities Uncovered in Desire to Receive Kidney Transplants

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Despite more offers from family and friends, women are much less likely than men to want to receive kidney transplants from living donors among black kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis. The findings, which are from a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the emClinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN)/em, suggest that interventions are needed to increase women's acceptance of living donor kidney transplantation. Living ...