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- Windowless Offices Cause Sleepless Nights: Study
- Scientists Discover Weakness of Leukemic Stem Cells
- Horses 'Talk' With Their Eyes and Ears: Study
- Dieters can Lose Weight With Crowdsourcing
- Payment Changes Bring in Enquiries into Medical Consultations for Surgical Patients
- (Dollar) 200 Million Pledged by World Bank for Fighting Ebola
- Energy Drinks - Power or Hype?
- GPs Told to Stop Prescribing Antibiotics for 'Simple' Coughs and Colds
- Mouse Models Not Suitable for Studying Human Disorders
- Hepatitis C Screening and Drug Therapy Could Make It a Rare Disease
- Risk of Crime, Alcohol Abuse Linked to Violent Video Games
- Identifying Kidney Damage Risk in Kids and Teens After First UTI
- Exercise during Pregnancy - Slide show
- Midlife Hypertension and Cognitive Change Over 20-Year Period Examined
- Shark Fin Ban Movement Joined by Spain's Largest Hotel Chains
- Rome's Spanish Steps Is Now Pedestrian-Only Zone
- For-Profit Home Care Agencies Costlier but Poor Care: Health Affairs
- Gap of Life Expectancy Between Blacks and Whites Varies Considerably Across US States
- HIV may Help Prevent Multiple Sclerosis: Study
- Doctor Who Treated Ebola Victim Has Contracted the Virus
- Becoming Bad by Playing Video Games
- Children Who Play Video Games Under an Hour are Well-Adjusted: Study
- Researchers Develop Tool to Analyze Human Genomic Data
- Medtronic Unveils NuVent EM Sinus Dilation System
- Making Sense of Sensory Stimuli
- Researcher Claims Mysterious 'Giant Holes' in Northern Siberia may Just be Sinkholes
- New Method to Help Protect Women from HIV
- British Street Artist Banksy's Spy Mural Defaced - With Graffiti
- Mum Ridiculed on Beach for Stretch Marks Pens Open Letter
- Saving Private Smith: Real World War II Story That Beats Hollywood
- Research Reveals How Touchscreen Technology Helps to Understand Eating Habits
- After Nuclear Bomb, British Researchers Now Suggest Terrorists may Turn to Ebola Virus to Create 'Dirty Bomb'
- 'Healthy Leisure' and Being There for Family Key to Happiness: Pope Francis
- Poland in Silent Homage 70 Years After Warsaw Uprising
- Southwest America Played Host to a Bloody Era More Than 800 Years Ago
- Earthquake Claims Over 360 Lives and Leaves Over 1,300 Injured in Southwest China
- Get Ready to Listen to News in Hip Hop Rap
- Now, You can Memorialise Your Dead Pets by Sending Them to Space
- Intention Shapes Our Judgment on How Severely the Guilty Should be Punished
- France Tops the List of Countries That Made Most 'Right to be Forgotten' Requests
- War Diaries of British Poet Siegfried Sassoon Published Online
- Tiny Addition to Genetic Makeup can Alter Brain's Threat Response
- How Enzymes are Able to Distinguish Important Cellular Messages Decoded
- Artificial Anti-Cancer Molecules Produced by University of Warwick Researchers
- Researchers Find Link Between Tumor Suppression Protein and Developmental Disorder
- Nosee App Tracks Local Pollen Levels and Warns Suffers When to Take Medication and Which Areas to Avoid
- New 90:90:90 Targets for Controlling HIV
| Windowless Offices Cause Sleepless Nights: Study Posted:  It's long been known that sunlight plays a significant role in regulating our internal body clock. A new research has shown that office staff stuck in windowless rooms - or with little exposure to daylight - get on average 46 fewer minutes of sleep a night. Those who sit near a window were also found to have less broken sleep and a better quality of life than employees deprived of daylight. Researchers say better designed workplaces could boost the physical ... |
| Scientists Discover Weakness of Leukemic Stem Cells Posted:  In a recent study scientists report that the enzyme 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) plays a significant role in the survival of leukemic AML stem cells. 5-LO is known for its role in inflammatory diseases like asthma. A team led by Dr. Marin Ruthardt from the Haematology Department of the Medical Clinic II and Dr. Jessica Roos, Prof. Diester Steinhilber and Prof. Thorsten Jurgen Maier from the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry showed that the leukaemic stem cells ... |
| Horses 'Talk' With Their Eyes and Ears: Study Posted:  Horses are sensitive to the facial expressions and attention of other horses and they communicate through their eyes and mobile ears, says new study. Jennifer Wathan of the University of Sussex said that their study is the first to examine a potential cue to attention that humans do not have: the ears and they have found that in horses their ear position was also a crucial visual signal that other horses respond to. In fact, horses need to see the detailed facial ... |
| Dieters can Lose Weight With Crowdsourcing Posted:  Dieters would be able to stick to healthy foods and lose weight with crowdsourcing, as participants are equally good as trained experts in rating the healthiness of foods and giving feedback on them, indicates research published online in the iJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association/i. Being able to track energy intake and getting personalized feedback on diet have been linked to greater weight loss, but can be hard to sustain over time, say ... |
| Payment Changes Bring in Enquiries into Medical Consultations for Surgical Patients Posted:  Use of medical consultations for surgical patients, especially those without complications, varied widely across hospitals, found in a study of Medicare beneficiaries undergoing surgery for colectomy (to remove all or part of their colon) or total hip replacement (THR). Internists and medical subspecialists are frequently called on to assess surgical patients and to help manage their care. As payers move toward bundled payments, hospitals need to better understand ... |
| (Dollar) 200 Million Pledged by World Bank for Fighting Ebola Posted:  The World Bank declared on Monday that it would provide up to (Dollar) 200 million to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to help the West African nations contain a deadly Ebola outbreak. World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, himself an expert on infectious diseases, said he has been monitoring the spread of the virus and was "deeply saddened" at how it was contributing to the breakdown of "already weak health systems in the three countries." "I am very worried that ... |
| Energy Drinks - Power or Hype? Posted:  Energy drinks come with the promise of giving a boost during a workout unlike anything an energy rich food can provide. This discussion will give an insight to the pros and cons of energy drinks. |
| GPs Told to Stop Prescribing Antibiotics for 'Simple' Coughs and Colds Posted:  Immediate measures must be taken to curb unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics, said health experts after a new study found that antibiotic prescriptions for coughs and colds increased by around 40% from 1999 to 2011. Thirty-six per cent of patients were prescribed antibiotics for coughs and colds in 1999 but by 2011 this figure had soared to 51%, study stated. This is despite the fact that the Government issued guidance in 1998 advising GPs not to ... |
| Mouse Models Not Suitable for Studying Human Disorders Posted:  Medical sciences widely use mouse models of human diseases as essential research tools to increase our understanding in the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of various diseases, and to search for cures. Despite the widespread use of mice as animal models of disease, in 2013, Seok et al. reported that mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases, such as severe burn injury, sepsis, and acute infection, in terms of gene expression (PNAS 2013, 110(9), 3507-3523), which ... |
| Hepatitis C Screening and Drug Therapy Could Make It a Rare Disease Posted:  Highly effective and improved drug therapies along with the newly implemented screening guidelines, could make hepatitis C a rare disease in the United States by 2036, suggest the results of a predictive model developed at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. The results of the analysis, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and performed with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, are published in the Aug. 5 issue ... |
| Risk of Crime, Alcohol Abuse Linked to Violent Video Games Posted:  Videogames glorifying antisocial characters are violent and could increase the young gamers' risk of criminal and other risky behaviours like smoking and alcohol abuse, a US study said Monday. These adult-rated games also affect teenage users' self-image, according to the study by Dartmouth College researchers published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. A previous Dartmouth study published in 2012 had already found that such videogames ... |
| Identifying Kidney Damage Risk in Kids and Teens After First UTI Posted:  Bottom Line: High risk for renal scarring with first Urinary tract infection (UTI) in children and adolescents with abnormal kidney ultrasonography finding or with fever of at least 102 degrees and infected with organism other than emE.Coli/em. Author: Nader Shaikh, M.D., of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and colleagues. Background: UTIs are a common and potentially serious bacterial infection in young children. UTIs can lead to permanent ... |
| Exercise during Pregnancy - Slide show Posted:  Looking for exercises during pregnancy? Use this slideshow as guide to 10 easy and uncomplicated exercises. |
| Midlife Hypertension and Cognitive Change Over 20-Year Period Examined Posted:  Bottom Line: Modest decline in cognition seen more in people with hypertension in middle age (48 to 67 years), over a 20-year period, compared to those who had normal blood pressure. Author: Rebecca F. Gottesman, M.D., Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and colleagues. Background: Evidence suggests hypertension is a risk factor for cognitive change and dementia and midlife hypertension may be the stronger risk factor. ... |
| Shark Fin Ban Movement Joined by Spain's Largest Hotel Chains Posted:  Shark fins have been removed from the menu of all the restaurants of Spain's biggest hotel chain, Melia Hotels International, who joined a global campaign against the popular delicacy in Asia, they declared on Monday. "With the removal of shark fin as an ingredient, Melia contributes to the protection of the important role sharks have in maintaining balance in marine ecosystems," the company said in a statement. "As predators, sharks are a key species ... |
| Rome's Spanish Steps Is Now Pedestrian-Only Zone Posted:  Added to the series of new pedestrian-only zone in Rome, is the historic square at the foot of the Eternal city's monumental Spanish Steps, which is closed to traffic since Monday. Police cars blocked the entrance to the square, ready to slap drivers with an 80 euro ( (Dollar) 107) fine if they drive or park near the 18th-century Baroque-style stairway, made famous by the 1953 film "Roman Holiday" starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. While some tourists ... |
| For-Profit Home Care Agencies Costlier but Poor Care: Health Affairs Posted:  Costlier Medicare is provided by for-profit home health agencies than nonprofit ones, reveals a nationwide study published Monday, in the August issue of the journal iHealth Affairs/i. Overall cost per patient was (Dollar) 1,215 higher at for-profits, with operating costs accounting for (Dollar) 752 of the difference and excess profits for (Dollar) 463. Yet the quality of care was actually worse at for-profit agencies, and more of their patients required repeat hospitalizations. Researchers ... |
| Gap of Life Expectancy Between Blacks and Whites Varies Considerably Across US States Posted:  Differences in life expectancy in terms of race have declined nationally, but there is a significant variation across U.S. states, reveals a new study by McGill University researchers. The findings, published in the journal emHealth Affairs/em, suggest that state policies could play a key role in further reducing racial differences in mortality. The researchers calculated annual state-specific life expectancies for blacks and whites from 1990 to 2009 and found that progress ... |
| HIV may Help Prevent Multiple Sclerosis: Study Posted:  Infection by the AIDS virus may reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), says new study. Patients in England who were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were mathematically far less likely to develop MS than the general population they found. If further work confirms the link, there could be a major advance in the fight against MS, the scientists wrote in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. MS is ... |
| Doctor Who Treated Ebola Victim Has Contracted the Virus Posted:  A doctor in Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa's largest city, reveal Nigerian authorities. "This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died," said Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu. The minister told journalists that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian are being monitored, eight of whom have been ... |
| Becoming Bad by Playing Video Games Posted:  Earlier studies showed that violent video games increase adolescent aggressiveness. But new Dartmouth research finds for the first time that teen-agers who play mature-rated, risk-glorifying video games are more likely subsequently to engage in a wide range of deviant behaviors beyond aggression, including alcohol use, smoking cigarettes, delinquency and risky sex. More generally, such games - especially character-based games with anti-social protagonists ... |
| Children Who Play Video Games Under an Hour are Well-Adjusted: Study Posted:  Playing video games for less than an hour a day is linked with better-adjusted children and teenagers, suggests a new study. The research, carried out by Oxford University, found that young people who indulged in a little video game-playing were associated with being better adjusted than those who had never played or those who were on video games for three hours or more. Study author Dr Andrew Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute said that ... |
| Researchers Develop Tool to Analyze Human Genomic Data Posted:  Scientists have developed a new, web-based tool that enables researchers to quickly and easily visualize and compare large amounts of genomic information resulting from high-throughput sequencing experiments. The research took place at the University of Maryland. The free tool, called Epiviz, was described in a paper published online on August 3, 2014 in the journal emNature Methods/em. Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized functional genomics. ... |
| Medtronic Unveils NuVent EM Sinus Dilation System Posted:  Minneapolis-based medical device company Medtronic has unveiled its NuVent EM Sinus Dilation System that comes with a built-in electromagnetic (EM) surgical navigation technology. NuVent is the only balloon sinus dilation system that features the EM technology and will help surgeons to confirm anatomy and optimize balloon placement during balloon sinus surgery. The surgeons will be able to see the precise location of the instrument with the help of Fusion screen. ... |
| Making Sense of Sensory Stimuli Posted:  Making sense of the clutter of sensory stimuli is often a matter or literal life or death for many animals. Exactly how animals separate objects of interest, such as food sources or the scent of predators, from background information, however, remains largely unknown. Even the extent to which animals can make such distinctions, and how differences between scents might affect the process were largely a mystery - until now. A new study, described in ... |
| Researcher Claims Mysterious 'Giant Holes' in Northern Siberia may Just be Sinkholes Posted:  The three mystery giant holes found recently in the northern Siberia might actually be odd types of sinkhole, reveals scientist. Helicopter video footage of the first hole showed that it was surrounded by a mound of loose dirt that appears to have been thrown out of the hole. Sinkholes are pits in the ground formed when water fails to drain away. Vladimir Romanovsky, geophysicist, said that the water likely came from melting permafrost or ice but whereas ... |
| New Method to Help Protect Women from HIV Posted:  Researchers at University of Washington revealed that they have developed a better and faster way of delivering topical drugs that protect women from HIV virus and it could be as simple as using a tampon. The researchers said that the drug can be converted into thin silk-like fibers that dissolve when coming in contact with moisture. These fibers can be placed within an applicator similar to those used in inserting tampons and provide women with a simple and effective ... |
| British Street Artist Banksy's Spy Mural Defaced - With Graffiti Posted:  A mural by British street artist Banksy which mocks government surveillance has been defaced with spray paint, leaving fans saying they faced a race against time to save the artwork of 1 million. The piece, titled "Spy Booth", depicts three men in trench coats using listening devices to tap into conversations at an actual public telephone box in Cheltenham, southwest England. It is just three miles from the UK government listening post GCHQ, which ... |
| Mum Ridiculed on Beach for Stretch Marks Pens Open Letter Posted:  After being humiliated by five teenagers due to her stretch marks when on the beach, the mother of five children has come out with an open letter saying that she is not ashamed of her scars. Tanis Jex-Blake, 33, wore a bikini for the first time in 13 years and was sunbathing on the beach while her children were playing in the sand. Teenagers soon started to mock her stretch marks, calling it 'nasty' and 'gross' and started laughing and making fun of her in front of ... |
| Saving Private Smith: Real World War II Story That Beats Hollywood Posted:  "Saving Private Ryan" became a Hollywood classic with its heroic tale of how a soldier was rescued from the front line after losing three of his brothers in action in World War II. But the real-life story of Private Smith, brought home by royal request from the trenches of World War I following the deaths of his five brothers, puts the movie in the shade. A simple stone memorial in the rural market town of Barnard Castle in northern England bears the ... |
| Research Reveals How Touchscreen Technology Helps to Understand Eating Habits Posted:  There are surprising similarities between the way mammals and flies eat, a new study has claimed. What and how we eat is a crucial determinant of health and wellbeing. Model organisms such as fruit flies have provided crucial insights into how our brain decides what and how much to eat. But until now it was not clear how similar eating was in fruit flies and mammals (vertebrates). In a paper published today (Itskov et. al 2014) in the scientific journal ... |
| Posted: With rising fears of a global Ebola epidemic, British researchers have further inflamed the fears by suggesting that the virus can be used by terrorists to create a 'dirty bomb' which can then be exploded in British cities. Dr Peter Walsh, a biological anthropologist from Cambridge University told the Sun that serious risk was that a group manages to attach the virus as a powder, then exploded it in a bomb in a highly populated public area, News.com.au reported. ... |
| 'Healthy Leisure' and Being There for Family Key to Happiness: Pope Francis Posted:  Being with family and investing more time in 'healthy leisure' are two of the best ways of finding happiness in life, Pope Francis has revealed. During his conversation with Argentinian weekly "Viva" to commemorate the anniversary of his early pontificate, the 77-year-old pope of the Catholic Church said that one should let everyone be themselves and it's the first step peace and happiness, the Huffington Post reported. He said that people should give ... |
| Poland in Silent Homage 70 Years After Warsaw Uprising Posted:  Poland's capital ground to a halt and tv and radio stations fell silent for 70 seconds as air-raid sirens wailed to mark seven decades since Polish insurgents launched the doomed Warsaw uprising against the Nazis. Traffic halted and pedestrians stood in silent homage at 1500 GMT in memory of the nearly 200,000 mostly civilian victims of the 63-day insurrection launched on August 1, 1944 in a doomed bid to secure Poland's post war independence. "The ... |
| Southwest America Played Host to a Bloody Era More Than 800 Years Ago Posted:  Archaeologist Tim Kohler from Washington State University has discovered a time period more than eight centuries ago that was one of the most bloody and violent, on a per-capita basis, on what now constitutes the American soil. Between 1140 and 1180, in the central Mesa Verde of southwest Colorado, four relatively peaceful centuries of pueblo living devolved into several decades of violence.Writing in the journal emAmerican Antiquity/em, Kohler and his colleagues ... |
| Earthquake Claims Over 360 Lives and Leaves Over 1,300 Injured in Southwest China Posted:  More than 360 people died and over 1,300 people were injured after southwest China was rocked by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake on Sunday. The earthquake was the strongest to hit the area in the last 14 years, said the State broadcaster CCTV. According to the US Geological survey, the earthquake hit the Yunnan province at 08:30 GMT. Tremors were felt in the neighbouring Guizhou and Sichuan provinces as well, reports the BBC. Reports ... |
| Get Ready to Listen to News in Hip Hop Rap Posted:  Delivering news on television has gone through a number of transformations over the years and now two Senegalese hip-hop artists are hoping to take it in a new direction, by rapping the news. Dakar-based musicians Xuman and Keyti deliver the week's top domestic and global stories in verse on "Journal Tele Rappe" -- JTR to the cool kids -- to a television and YouTube audience of thousands. "It's the news like any other news, except that it's rapping, there ... |
| Now, You can Memorialise Your Dead Pets by Sending Them to Space Posted:  Houston based 'space burial' company will launch a new service, where the owners can send their beloved dead animal companions into space. The service called Celestis Pets, which would initiate in fall 2014, would be offering four packages to memorialize the pets, ranging from the 1,000 dollars Earth Rise package, which gives a round-trip mission to space in a memorial urn you get to keep upon his return to Earth, to the 12,500 dollar-plus Luna and Voyager packages, ... |
| Intention Shapes Our Judgment on How Severely the Guilty Should be Punished Posted:  Judging a person's guilt and imposing punishment has been part of human history from thousands of years ago and now a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience has shed new light on what brain mechanisms are at work when we judge how severe a punishment should be dealt on a person who has harmed another. The researchers found that whether the harm caused was intentional or unintentional played a great part in deciding the punishment, regardless of how gruesome ... |
| France Tops the List of Countries That Made Most 'Right to be Forgotten' Requests Posted:  France tops the list of countries that have filed requests for removal of links from the engine's search results under the European Union's recent right to be forgotten ruling, reveals Google. Google has received 17,500 requests involving around 58,000 URLs from France, CNET reported. Germany comes a close second with 16,500 requests referring to around 57,000 URLs followed by the United Kingdom that has made 12,000 requests concerning 44,000 URLs. The ... |
| War Diaries of British Poet Siegfried Sassoon Published Online Posted:  For the first time, the war diaries of British poet Siegfried Sassoon have been published online, revealing early drafts and unpuplished material caked with mud from the trenches. Due to the delicate state of the notebooks and journals, the 4,100-page archive was until now only accessible to the poet's official biographer. But Cambridge University Library, which bought the collection five years ago, has now digitalised the treasure trove and made it ... |
| Tiny Addition to Genetic Makeup can Alter Brain's Threat Response Posted:  Researchers at Duke University have found that one can change the way a person's brain responds to threats by adding a chemical mark to a gene known for its involvement in clinical depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. The results, which appear online August 3 in emNature Neuroscience/em, go beyond genetics to help explain why some individuals may be more vulnerable than others to stress and stress-related psychiatric disorders. The study ... |
| How Enzymes are Able to Distinguish Important Cellular Messages Decoded Posted:  Researchers led by Leemor Joshua-Tor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have shed new light on how a protein called Dis312 makes use of numerous recognition sites in order to identify messages that are flagged for decay. Dis3l2 is a molecular machine that helps to preserve the character of stem cells. It serves as the executioner of an elegant pathway that prevents stem cells from changing into other cell types. The protein does this by acting like a garbage ... |
| Artificial Anti-Cancer Molecules Produced by University of Warwick Researchers Posted:  Researchers led by Professor Peter Scott at the University of Warwick revealed that they have managed to develop molecules that are similar in structure to peptides naturally produced in the body to fight off cancer and infections. Published in iNature Chemistry/i, the molecules produced in the research have proved effective against colon cancer cells in laboratory tests, in collaboration with Roger Phillips at the Institute for Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford, ... |
| Researchers Find Link Between Tumor Suppression Protein and Developmental Disorder Posted:  Researchers looking into the tumor-suppressive properties of the protein p53 in mouse models have found a link between the protein and CHARGE syndrome. The latter is a collection of conditions including coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the choanae, retardation of growth and/or development, genital and/or urinary abnormalities, and ear abnormalities and deafness that affects one in 10,000 babies. "It was a very big surprise and very intriguing," said ... |
| Posted:  Even the mildest hayfever sufferers know how hard it can be to keep track of changes in pollen levels. Keeping this in mind, Birmingham based 383 Labs has introduced Nosee, a smart pollen and air quality sensor that could help hay fever sufferers. At the moment pollen counts are largely found on weather reports that cover huge areas. The Nosee, will allow people to obtain a local reading right from their gardens. And as this network grows a larger picture can ... |
| New 90:90:90 Targets for Controlling HIV Posted: In a new move to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is mobilizing governments and other partners to achieve new set of targets, referred to as, 90:90:90 by 2020. With current set of tools, approaches, funding commitments, and challenge that HIV poses to the world, the goal seems certainly a bold and ambitious one. Without innovation, at current pace of HIV responses on the ground, we are very likely to fail meeting the targets. ... |
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