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18 Children Suffer Adverse Reaction Due to Hospital Staff's Negligence, Say Sources
Study Reveals Why Sun's Atmosphere is Hotter Than Its Surface
Our Genes Have Made Us Susceptible to Atherosclerosis: Study
Private Jet Carrying American Ebola Patient Set to Touch Down in US
CT Scans Provide Evidence of Atherosclerosis in Wide Range of Mummies
Telephone Support Program Beneficial for Caregivers of People With Dementia: Study
Researchers Advocate for a Systematic Shift in Thinking for Stroke Rehabilitation
Scientists Tap a Greener Way to Make Colorful Plastics
Caffeine Overdose can be Potentially Dangerous
Scientists Explore 3-D Printing to Make Actual Organs for Transplants
Natural Sugar Mimics Guide Stem Cells Toward Neural Fate
Survey Finds High Frequency of Potential Entrapment Gaps in Hospital Beds
Older Adults at Risk of Financial Exploitation
Brain Response to Pictures of Appetizing Food Varies Among Obese People
Men are Biggest Liar: Study
WHO Says Ebola Death Toll Rises to 729
Taking Contraceptive Pill Increases the Risk of Breast Cancer by 50 Percent

18 Children Suffer Adverse Reaction Due to Hospital Staff's Negligence, Say Sources

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Sources reveal eighteen children reportedly suffered adverse reactions after they were given injections by the staff nurse at Indira Gandhi Memorial hospital in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra. According to the father of one of the children, "My daughter was recovering from illness and was fine till the injection was administered by the sister at 10 pm in the night. About half an hour after the injection was given, her body turned cold, she became restless and her limbs ...

Study Reveals Why Sun's Atmosphere is Hotter Than Its Surface

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The mystery relating to why sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface is explained in a recent study. The new observations came from just six minutes worth of data from one of NASA's least expensive type of missions, a sounding rocket, EUNIS (Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph) mission, launched on April 23, 2013, which gathers a new snapshot of data every 1.3 seconds to track the properties of material over a wide range of temperatures in the ...

Our Genes Have Made Us Susceptible to Atherosclerosis: Study

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In this month's edition of iGlobal Heart/i (the journal of the World Heart Federation), the authors ask in the editorial: Why do humans develop atherosclerosis? Is the human genome hardwired to develop atherosclerosis? Can atherosclerosis be entirely prevented? Is atherosclerosis fundamental to the aging process? Have the risk factors that have contributed to the development of atherosclerosis been the same all along human evolution?" The editorial is by Dr ...

Private Jet Carrying American Ebola Patient Set to Touch Down in US

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For the first time, ebola virus is set to land on US soil, when a private jet carrying one of two American aid workers infected by the disease touches down in Georgia, officials said. Kent Brantly, a doctor who was treating Ebola patients in Liberia, and Christian missionary worker Nancy Writebol, are both fighting for their lives after being stricken with the killer virus in west Africa. Both are in serious but stable condition and are headed for special ...

CT Scans Provide Evidence of Atherosclerosis in Wide Range of Mummies

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Computed tomographic (CT) evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the bodies of a large number of mummies, although atherosclerosis is widely thought to be a disease of modern times. In a paper published in iGlobal Heart/i (the journal of the World Heart Federation) the authors review the findings of atherosclerotic calcifications in the remains of ancient people-humans who lived across a very wide span of human history and over most of the inhabited ...

Telephone Support Program Beneficial for Caregivers of People With Dementia: Study

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Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have found that a support program administered by telephone can reduce depression and other symptoms in informal caregivers, such as family or friends, of individuals with dementia. The study is published online in advance of print in the journal iAlzheimer's (and) Dementia/i. "Those caring for people with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia are often under a great deal of pressure," said principal investigator ...

Researchers Advocate for a Systematic Shift in Thinking for Stroke Rehabilitation

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Stimulation of the brain has become a popular science with the advent of non-surgical modalities and researchers must work to ensure systematic methods for consistent results in the study of stroke rehabilitation. A new study out in iThe Neuroscientist/i discusses a systematic shift in perspective and suggests that chronically stimulating premotor areas (PMAs) of the brain would strongly promote stroke motor recovery, for example by restoring balance between ...

Scientists Tap a Greener Way to Make Colorful Plastics

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Long before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process - for example, think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues. Now scientists are tapping into those secrets to develop a more environmentally friendly way to make colored plastics. Their paper on using structure - or the shapes and architectures of materials - rather than dyes, to produce color appears in the ACS journal iNano Letters/i. N. ...

Caffeine Overdose can be Potentially Dangerous

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The sudden death of an Ohio teen due to caffeine overdose in May highlighted the potential dangers of the normally well-tolerated and mass-consumed substance. To help prevent serious health problems that can arise from consuming too much caffeine, scientists are reporting progress toward a rapid, at-home test to detect even low levels of the stimulant in most beverages and even breast milk. Their report appears in ACS' iJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry/i. ...

Scientists Explore 3-D Printing to Make Actual Organs for Transplants

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Printing new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual hearts, kidneys, livers and other organs for patients who need them. In the ACS journal iLangmuir/i, scientists are reporting new understanding about the dynamics of 3-D bioprinting that takes them a step closer to realizing their goal of making working tissues and organs on-demand. Yong Huang and colleagues ...

Natural Sugar Mimics Guide Stem Cells Toward Neural Fate

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Embryonic stem cells can develop into a multitude of cells types and researchers would like to understand how to channel that development into the specific types of mature cells that make up the organs and other structures. One key seems to be long chains of sugars that dangle from proteins on surfaces of cells. Kamil Godula's group at the University of California, San Diego, has created synthetic molecules that can stand in for the natural sugars, ...

Survey Finds High Frequency of Potential Entrapment Gaps in Hospital Beds

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In Ireland, a survey of beds within a large teaching hospital has shown than many of them did not comply with dimensional standards put in place to minimise the risk of entrapment. The report, published online in the journal iAge and Ageing/i, therefore emphasises the need for careful selection of patients for whom bedrails are to be used, as well as the need for monitoring and maintenance of hospital bed systems. Bedrails are commonly used as safety ...

Older Adults at Risk of Financial Exploitation

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Nearly one in every 20 elderly American adults is being financially exploited, often by their own family members. This burgeoning public health crisis especially affects poor and black people. It merits the scrutiny of clinicians, policy makers, researchers, and any citizen who cares about the dignity and well-being of older Americans, says Dr. Janey Peterson of Weill Cornell Medical College in the US. She led one of the largest American studies ever on elder ...

Brain Response to Pictures of Appetizing Food Varies Among Obese People

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Individuals who have the most common genetic mutation linked to obesity respond differently to pictures of appetizing foods than obese people who do not have the genetic mutation. This is according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's iJournal of Clinical Endocrinology (and) Metabolism/i (iJCEM/i). More than one-third of adults are obese. Obesity typically results from a combination of eating too much, getting too little physical ...

Men are Biggest Liar: Study

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Men lie more than women, reveals new study. It was found that the reasons for lying also differ with gender. While women avoid being honest to spare someone from feeling hurt or upset and men tend to fib to save money or win an argument, the Daily Star reported. A spokesman for financial comparison site PayingTooMuch.com said that men were more prone to stretch a lie than women, with the average man fibbing, or leaving out the truth four times a week. ...

WHO Says Ebola Death Toll Rises to 729

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The World Health Organization said fifty-seven more deaths from the Ebola epidemic spreading alarm in west Africa have pushed the overall fatality toll from the outbreak to 729. The deaths of 57 more people from Ebola in west Africa have pushed the overall fatality toll from the epidemic to 729, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The 57 deaths were recorded between Thursday and Sunday last week in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, ...

Taking Contraceptive Pill Increases the Risk of Breast Cancer by 50 Percent

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Women taking birth control pills have a 50 per cent higher overall risk of developing breast cancer, a new study has found. US scientists found, some pills with high levels of oestrogen can raise the risk threefold, compared with that of women who have never used the pill or who have stopped using it. The study conducted by the iFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/i in Seattle also states that the pills containing low-dose hormones ...