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Cook Your Barbecue Meat in the Oven First, FSA Warns

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is urging anyone planning a barbecue to oven-cook the meat first. The UK government organization has estimated that 280,000 people a year suffer from food poisoning from barbecued food. The agency said food poisoning was a real danger of outdoor cooking, with 94% of people admitting to at least one bad barbecue habit. In a survey of 2,030 adults, 21% said they believed they had been ill due to something ...

Tumor Growth in Stomach Cancer may be Slowed Down by Botox

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Countless of Hollywood stars have used Botox to freeze their faces, but international researchers said Wednesday that these toxic injections might help in stopping cancer in its tracks, at least temporarily. The findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine are based on studies of mice with stomach cancer. Researchers found that Botox could block signals from the vagal nerve -- which extends from the brain stem to the abdomen -- slowing the ...

TB to Americans Brought by Seals, Not Columbus

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Seals and sea lions are suspected to have brought tuberculosis to the Americans well before Christopher Columbus first set foot there, said scientists on Wednesday. A new study challenges the theory that Europeans introduced TB to the New World, where it killed millions of indigenous Americans along with other foreign diseases like whooping cough, chicken pox and flu. As many as 20 million people lived in the Americas before Europeans arrived, and up ...

Catching A Cold May Run Into Stroke Risk For Kids

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It is a misconception that strokes are associated Only with older people with poor heart health. There have been many recent studies that indicate a significant increase in the number of strokes experienced by children in the United States. One such study conducted by the researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Children's Hospital and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research has inferred that children who experience minor infections such ...

Ebola-Like Virus in Monkey Tests Blocked by Drug

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Monkeys survive an otherwise deadly infection with an tropical virus called Marburg, similar to Ebola, with an experimental drug treatment, said researchers on Wednesday. The findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine show the potential for a similar drug treatment against Ebola, the deadly hemorrhagic virus that is sweeping across West Africa in the largest outbreak to date. There is no available drug or vaccine for Ebola, which has killed ...

Ebola Drugs Required for Up to 30,000 Patients by Now: Analysis

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Ebola drugs are required for about 30,000 people in the west African outbreak by now, estimates a scientific attempt to quantify demand for a treatment and vaccine, published Wednesday. No approved drugs exist though several are under development and the World Health Organisation last week gave the green light for experimental medicines to be used to fight the deadly disease. University of Oxford epidemiologist Oliver Brady published a guide in the journal ...

Dermatomyostitis

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Dermatomyostitis (DM) is an uncommon, inflammatory disease affecting the connective tissues. It is characterized by symptoms such as skin rashes and muscle weakness.

Liberia's Ebola Restrictions Turn Violent as Asia Fears New Cases

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As authorities struggled to contain the deadly Ebola, violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia's capital Wednesday. New suspected cases in Asia sparked fears of its spread from Africa. Four residents were injured in Monrovia's West Point slum when soldiers opened fire on crowds and used tear gas as they tried to evacuate a state official and her family from the quarantined quarter. The crackdown in Liberia comes as authorities around the ...

Tickle Your Ears for a Healthy Heart

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A new research has found that stimulating nerves in your ear could improve the health of your heart. Researchers used a standard TENS machine to apply electrical pulses to the tragus, the small raised flap at the front of the ear immediately in front of the ear canal. They found that the stimulation changed the influence of the nervous system on the heart by reducing the nervous signals that can drive failing hearts too hard. "It ...

Sunscreen Potentially Hazardous To Marine Life

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A relaxing trip to the beach is not complete without the bottle of sunscreen. A generous slathering of sunscreen is shown to give the most effective protection for human skin from ultraviolet (UV) radiation. However scientists are now reporting that the ideal beach trip can pose dangerous hazards to the environment and in particular to marine life. Researchers Antonio Tovar-Sanchez and David Sanchez-Quiles have found out that when sunbathers decide to take a ...

Leukemia Drug Could be Used for Treatment of Some Other Cancers too

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Dasatinib, a leukemia drug, shows promise for treating breast, skin and other cancers also, suggest researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Dasatinib fights leukemia by checking the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. But when used against other cancer cells, researchers found, the drug employs a different strategy: It causes the cells to clump together, thus preventing them from migrating. Without the ability to migrate, cancer cells ...

Electro-Acupunture for Neuropathic Pain After Brachial Plexus Injury

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The effect of electro-acupuncture on pain following brachial plexus injury is unknown, although the procedure has traditionally been used to treat pain. In a recent study reported on the iNeural Regeneration Research/i (Vol. 9, No. 14, 2014), rat models of an avulsion injury to the left brachial plexus root (associated with upper-limb chronic neuropathic pain) were given electroacupuncture stimulation at bilateral Quchi (LI11), Hegu (LI04), Zusanli (ST36) and ...

Spread Of Meningitis Can Be Cut By Nearly 40 Percent With Vaccines

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Two new vaccines that can prevent the transmission of meningitis bacteria from person to person have been discovered by investigators at the University of Southampton. The vaccines do this by reducing 'carriage' of the responsible bacteria in the nose and throats of the population. Meningitis is a devastating condition and the Southampton team believe this discovery will change the way new vaccines are made in the future. Robert Read, Professor ...

Protein That Helps Prevent Active Tuberculosis in Infected Patients Discovered

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A protein that appears to play a key role in protecting people infected with iMycobacterium tuberculosis/i has been discovered by scientists. The protein, interleukin-32, was discovered to be one biomarker of adequate host defense against TB. The discovery could help doctors identify people who are at the greatest risk for the highly contagious and potentially fatal lung disease, and it could point the way toward new treatment strategies for TB.The study, conducted ...

Doctors Worldwide Should Stay Alert on Developments in Ongoing Ebola Epidemic

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Doctors worldwide should be prepared to identify Ebola virus infection in hospitals and emergency rooms, and isolate patients if necessary, infectious disease specialists recommend. However, concerns that Ebola will spread beyond West Africa to Europe and North America are unfounded because of the way Ebola is transmitted and because of highly developed hospital infection control practices, they say. A description of the virus, the current outbreak and recommendations ...

Lupus and Other Rheumatologic Diseases may Look Like Neurological Disorders

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Lupus and other rheumatologic diseases can initially look like neurological disorders presenting itself with symptoms such as headaches and seizures. This could delay diagnosis for many months, suggest Loyola University Medical Center neurologists. Moreover, treatments for rheumatologic disorders can cause adverse neurological effects, Dr. Sean Ruland and colleagues report in the journal emCurrent Neurology and Neuroscience Reports/em. Rheumatologic ...

New Lease of Life for Alopecia Patients

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Nothing lasts forever, not even your hair! Your hair length, style and color actually frames your face and ultimately your personality. It is normal to lose some strands of hair every day, due to the end of life cycle of a hair strand. However, the cause for concern arises when you see an abnormal or persistent loss of a href="http:www.medindia.net/slideshow/top-ten-foods-for-healthy-hair.asp" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"hair/a, which could be quite ...

New App for Improving Diabetes Health Launched

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Philosys has launched GMATE (Regd) SMART Meter that connects with iPhone, iPad, iPod touch to deliver accurate and fast blood glucose results. Philosys announces it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510K approval for the highly anticipated Gmate (Regd) SMART Blood Glucose Monitoring System. The Gmate (Regd) SMART meter is the size of a quarter and connects to the headphone jack on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, while using the free Gmate (Regd) SMART app to ...

Pharmaceutical Giant Novartis Licences Drugs to Non-Profit TB Group

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Novartis, Swiss-based pharmaceuticals giant, said that it had signed a licensing deal with an international organisation that fights tuberculosis. In a statement, the group said that the exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development covered compounds discovered at the Novartis Institutes for Tropical Diseases. All told, TB claimed 1.3 million lives worldwide last year, making it the deadliest disease after ...

Vietnam, Myanmar Test Patients for the Deadly Ebola Virus

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Myanmar and Vietnam are testing 3 patients for the deadly Ebola virus after they arrived in the Southeast Asian nations from Africa suffering fever, health officials said. Two Nigerians were sent to Ho Chi Minh City's Tropical Diseases Hospital for isolation after they arrived in the city by plane, Vietnam's health ministry said, adding that they did not have symptoms other than fever. Airline passengers sitting next to the pair -- who travelled to ...

Research Explains Why old people Have Sleeping Problems

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As people grow old, they often have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep and tend to awaken very early in the morning. In individuals with Alzheimer's disease, this common and troubling symptom of aging tends to be especially pronounced, often leading to nighttime confusion and wandering. Now, a study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the University of Toronto/Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center helps explain ...

Liberian President Orders Curfew Over Deadly Ebola Outbreak

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In a bid to stem the deadly Ebola outbreak, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced a night-time curfew from Wednesday and the quarantine of two neighbourhoods, including one in the capital Monrovia. "Commencing Wednesday, August 20 there will be a curfew from 9:00 pm to 6:00 am (2100 to 0600 GMT)," Sirleaf said in a radio address late Tuesday. "All entertainment centres are to be closed. All video centres are to be closed at 6pm," she ordered. ...

UN's New Pointman Heads to West Africa

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The UN's new pointman on Ebola said that he will travel to West Africa this week to shore up health services in the four countries hit by the outbreak of the virus. British physician and public health expert David Nabarro also told reporters that he will be holding talks with the UN mission in Liberia on ways peacekeepers could help deal with the impact of the disease. Nabarro was appointed last week by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to coordinate ...

Senior Doctor is Nigeria's Fifth Ebola Death

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Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said that a senior doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa's most populous country to five. Chukwu said the doctor was "the most senior who participated in the management of the (first Ebola) patient" in the country. Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, 40, died in a Lagos hospital on July 25, five days after arriving at the city's airport visibly unwell on a flight from ...

African Development Bank Pledges (Dollar) 60 Mn to Help Fight Ebola

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The African Development Bank pledged (Dollar) 60 million (45 million euros) to help fight the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola which is raging across west Africa. The aid will help authorities in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria to strengthen their surveillance and response systems to halt the spread of the deadly disease, president Donald Kaberuka said. "The Ebola epidemic is not only a public health crisis, but an economic crisis... which affects many ...

Two Suspected Cases of Ebola in Austria

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Two men who arrived in Austria last week from Nigeria have been hospitalised on suspicion of carrying the Ebola disease, reveal a regional Austrian governor. Blood samples were sent to a laboratory in Germany with results expected later on Tuesday, Josef Puehringer, governor of Upper Austria province said. The two men were hospitalised in Voecklabruck after developing a fever following their return from Lagos and were currently being held in quarantine, ...

French Prime Minister Kicks Off Paris Liberation Anniversary

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France's prime minister paid tribute to the "sacrifice" and "courage" of the Paris police officers who retook their headquarters from the Nazis, kickstarting the liberation of the city, 70 years ago. While the Marseillaise national anthem resounded around the police headquarters, Manuel Valls laid a wreath to the memory of the 167 officers killed during the liberation and hailed "those who stood up to barbarism." "The police headquarters became the first ...

Ice Bucket Challenge Goes Viral Among Chris Pratt, Lady Gaga

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A-list celebrities like Chris Pratt, Lady Gaga are among many more who have taken on the Ice Bucket Challenge. Gaga recently posted her video via Instagram, where she is dressed in a leather leotard and doesn't speak a word, though she nominated Adele, Michael Rapino, Vincent Herbert, and Arthur Fogel for the challenge, the New York Post reported. Charlie Sheen made it rain money instead of ice water and donated 10,000 dollars, while nominating his ...

Physically Fit Kids Have Beefier Brain White Matter Than Their Less-Fit Friends: Study

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A study of 9 and 10-year-olds finds that kids who are more aerobically fit have more fibrous and compact white-matter tracts in the brain than their peers who are less fit. "White matter" describes the bundles of axons that carry nerve signals from one brain region to another. More compact white matter is associated with faster and more efficient nerve activity. The team reports its findings in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ...

New Study Links Brain Size to Parental Duties

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A new University of British Columbia study finds that male stickleback fish that protect their young have bigger brains than counterparts that don't care for offspring. Stickleback fish are well known in the animal kingdom for the fact that the male of the species, rather than the female, cares for offspring. Male sticklebacks typically have bigger brains than females and researchers wanted to find out if the difference in size might relate to their role as caregivers. ...

Peanut Butter And Almond Butter Recalled For Salmonella Risk

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A unit of Hain Celestial Group Inc. has recalled some peanut and almond butter brands because of possible salmonella contamination. Reports of four illnesses have been found to be related to nut the butters, the company said. They were sold under the brand names Arrowhead Mills peanut butters and MaraNatha almond butters and peanut butters. Also being recalled were some lots of private label almond butter from grocers Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Kroger ...

Severe Infections With Hospitalization After Prostate Biopsy Rising in Sweden: Study

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The number of risks associated with transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy is increasing, say reports. Swedish researchers found that six percent of men filled a prescription for antibiotics for a urinary tract infection within 30 days after having a prostate biopsy, with a twofold increase in hospital admissions over five years, reports emThe Journal of Urology/em (Regd) . Earlier studies reported serious adverse events after prostate biopsy including febrile urinary ...

Does Love Make Sex More Pleasurable for Most Women?

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Many women find great pleasure in sex if it comes with love and commitment, says a Penn State Abington sociologist who has observed from several interviews that love can make sex physically more satisfying for many women. In a series of interviews, heterosexual women between the ages of 20 and 68 and from a range of backgrounds said that they believed love was necessary for maximum satisfaction in both sexual relationships and marriage. The benefits of being in ...

Inexpensive Electrochemical Sensor can Detect Diseases

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Researchers at iHarvard University /i have devised a new portable device that can perform a slew of tests, including detecting malaria and measuring blood glucose levels, using a special electrochemical sensor. The device looks almost exactly like a glucose meter, with a test strip onto which samples are loaded sticking out of the bottom. Total manufacturing cost of the device is (Dollar) 25 and is about the size of a smartphone. The handy device has an ...

More The Merrier And Happier! A Study Reveals Bigger Weddings May Lead To Happier Marriages

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Couples with happy marriages were more likely to have had more number of guests at their wedding and have had fewer romantic relationships prior to their wedding. A study titled, "Before 'I Do:' What Do Premarital Experiences Have to Do with Marital Quality Among Today's Young Adults?" by Galena K. Rhoades, research associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver, and Scott M. Stanley, research professor and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family ...

How Parents Schedule Their Work Hours may Influence Kids' Weight

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Children will be obese, underweight or of normal weight depending on how their parents balance their work schedules because these schedules may affect their adolescent children's eating habits, observe Penn State researchers. Those schedules may be even more important than the number of hours the parents spend at work, said Molly Martin, associate professor of sociology and demography. Adolescents with moms and dads who spend more time at home, especially ...

Smoking in Pregnancy Affects Grandchildren's Growth

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A new study has found that the effects of smoking during one's pregnancy can span generations. According to the study, smoking during pregnancy can affect the growth of a woman's future grandkids. British scientists discovered that with non-smoking mothers, if a paternal grandmother smoked during pregnancy, her granddaughters tended to be taller and both her granddaughters and grandsons tended to have greater bone mass and lean (muscle) mass. If ...

10-year-old Filipino Boy Receives New Lease Of Life

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Kids at the age of 10 usually run, jump and play, but for Gil Merced even taking a few steps seemed like a difficult task. This Dubai-based Filipino boy was suffering from Tetralogy of Fallot, a rare and life-threatening congenital heart defect that does not let enough blood enter the lungs for oxygenation. Even with a slight amount of exertion his oxygen levels dropped drastically and he would faint. Thanks to the efforts of St Mary's Church in Dubai, that took Gil's ...