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Genetic Culprits That Drive Antibiotic Resistance Discovered

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A powerful new tool to identify genetic changes in disease-causing bacteria that are responsible for antibiotic resistance has been developed by researchers. The results from this technique could be used in clinics within the next decade to decide on the most effective treatments for diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis. The team looked at the genome of iStreptococcus pneumoniae/i, a bacterial species that causes 1.6 million deaths worldwide each ...

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

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Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is a rare condition that occurs when blood vessels or nerves become compressed in the space between the collarbone and the first rib.

New Recommendations for Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults Released

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New evidence-based clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians (ACP) says doctors should assess the risk factors for and the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients with unexplained daytime sleepiness. "Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious health condition that is associated with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cognitive impairment, and type 2 diabetes," said Dr. David Fleming, president, ACP. "It is important to ...

Genetic Testing of Tumor is Recommended for Colorectal Cancer Patients, Says Study

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U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer recommends genetic testing of tumors for all newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients. The task force makes specific surveillance and management recommendations for those affected by a genetic condition called Lynch syndrome, the most common cause of inherited colorectal cancer, accounting for approximately 3 percent, or more than 4,000, of the newly diagnosed cases in the U.S. each year. strongUniversal Tumor ...

High Caffeine Intake may Lower Ear Ringing Sensation in Women: Study

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Are you a sufferer of tinnitus? Then you should increase the intake of tea or coffee, say experts. Tinnitus is defined as the perception of ringing or buzzing sound within the human ear when no external sound is present. According to a new research by iBrigham and Women's Hospital/i (BWH), women with a higher intake of caffeine had a lower incidence of unexplained ear ringing. For the study, the researchers followed more than 65,000 women. ...

Key Piece to Cancer Cell Survival Puzzle Uncovered

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A specific gene that human cells require in order to survive defects linked to the onset of cancer has been discovered by scientists. "We have found a gene that appears to be crucial for the evolutionary processes that can drive cancer" said Professor Baird from Cardiff University's Institute of Cancer and Genetics. "This is a new role for this gene, making it a potential therapeutic target," he added. As cells divide their telomeres ...

Scientists Develop New Test That Predicts Individual's Risk of a Second Kidney Stone

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Scientists have developed a novel tool that takes multiple factors into account can accurately predict how likely a patient who experienced a painful kidney stone will develop another one in the future. The tool, which is described in an upcoming issue of the iJournal of the American Society of Nephrology/i (iJASN/i), could help patients and their doctors determine whether preventive measures are needed. Kidney stones are common and affect approximately ...

New Insecticide to Target 'Face Bugs' That Cause Rosacea

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Demodex folliculorum, a tiny microscopic bug may be harmless to most people, but is a huge concern for those affected by rosacea. This tiny spider-like bug crawls over the face, emerging from the pores of your skin while you are asleep, and once it dies, it releases bacteria which trigger inflammation of tissues, particularly in patients suffering from a href="http:www.medindia.net/news/good-news-for-rosacea-victims-106475-1.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"rosacea/a. ...

European Trial With 13-Year Follow-Up Shows Prostate Cancer Screening Reduces Deaths by a Fifth

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Prostate cancer screening could reduce deaths from the disease by about a fifth, suggests a long-term results of a major European study involving over 162 000 men published in emThe Lancet/em. Despite this new evidence for the effectiveness of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to reduce mortality, doubts as to whether the benefits of screening outweigh the harms remain, and routine PSA screening programmes should not be introduced at this time, conclude ...

Friendship With Colleagues Makes People Happier at Work

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Nearly half of all professionals believe that friendships with colleagues make them happier at work, reveals a new survey. According to the survey released by LinkedIn covering more than 11,500 full-time professionals around the world, 46 percent of professionals said that having friends at workplace made them happy, Enterprise Innovation reported. Nicole Williams, LinkedIn career expert said that creating an office culture that resonates across generations, ...

Financial Schemes for Hospitals Only Reduce Patient Death Rates

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Pay-for-performance schemes - which reward hospitals financially for improving the quality of care provided to patients - only reduce patient death rates in the short term. This is according to new research by The University of Manchester. A variety of programmes have been introduced in the UK over the past decade, with mixed results. Advancing Quality, a programme imported from the United States, was the first of these schemes to demonstrate a significant reduction ...

Lack of Vitamin D Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia

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Older people who do not get enough vitamin D face a much higher risk of Alzheimer's disease or dementia, the largest study of its kind on the topic said. People get vitamin D from sunlight and from oily fish like salmon, tuna or mackerel, as well as milk, eggs and cheese. It is also available in supplement form. Reporting in the journal Neurology, international researchers found that people who were severely deficient in vitamin D were more than twice ...

Male Teenage Drinking on the Rise in India

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Researchers at Columbia University reveal that the number of male teenagers drinking alcohol in India has increased by more than three times over the last few decades. Researchers led by Aravind Pillai surveyed around 2,000 randomly-selected men between 20 and 49 years of age in northern Goa and asked them how old they were when they first started drinking, the quantity of alcohol that they drank and whether they had suffered any injuries due to their habit. ...

Eyes of Bioluminescent Sharks Have High Rod Density

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The eyes of deep-sea bioluminescent sharks have a higher rod density when compared to non-bioluminescent sharks. This is according to a study published August 6, 2014 in the open-access journal emPLOS ONE/em by Julien M. Claes, postdoctoral researcher from the FNRS at Universite catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and colleagues. This adaptation is one of many these sharks use to produce and perceive bioluminescent light in order to communicate, find prey, and ...

Brain Tumors Fly Under the Body's Radar Like Stealth Jets

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New research shows that brain tumors fly under the radar of the body's defense forces by coating their cells with extra amounts of a specific protein. Like a stealth fighter jet, the coating means the cells evade detection by the early-warning immune system that should detect and kill them. The stealth approach lets the tumors hide until it's too late for the body to defeat them. The findings, made in mice and rats, show the key role of a protein called ...

Women can also Get Addicted to Porn

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A new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking suggests that women are as susceptible as men in getting addicted to cybersex. The study was conducted by a group of German researchers who were looking into the role of anticipating and receiving sexual gratification in the development of cybersex addiction. The researchers limited their study to heterosexual women under 30 years of age and found that heavy use of online pornography sites led ...

New Standards Proposed for Reporting Spinal Cord Injury Treatments

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The difficulty in replicating and directly comparing and confirming the scientific results reported by researchers is slowing the translation of important new findings to patient care. A newly proposed reporting standard for spinal cord injury (SCI) experimentation defines the minimum information that is appropriate for modeling an SCI in the research setting, as presented in an article in iJournal of Neurotrauma/i, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann ...

Expert Says High Salt Levels in Cheese Unhealthy

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A British nutrition expert has hit out at some of the most popular cheese brands in the country, claiming that they should stop 'dragging their feet' on the issue of salt reduction after a recent study found that some of the popular dishes, such as Gourmet halloumi and French blue cheese, contain more salt than sea water. Researchers led by Dr Kawther Hashem, from Queen Mary University of London, analyzed data of a previous survey carried out by Consensus Action on ...

Aggressive Teens More Likely to Drink Alcohol

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While the common perception is that those who suffer from whereas depression and anxiety take to drinking increased amounts of alcohol, a new study has found that aggressive adolescents were more likely to drink alcohol compared to their depressed peers. The study conducted in Finland showed that smoking and attention problems also increased the probability of alcohol use. Eila Laukkanen, Professor and Chief Physician of Adolescent Psychiatry at the ...

Long Car Journeys Often Lead to Arguments: Survey

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Recently, a survey revealed that many disputes occur among people while going on a long car trips. The poll of AA members found that disputes over the best route to take are the biggest cause of rows on car journeys, while other topics that spark arguments include driving too fast, failing to ask for directions, noisy children, shouting at other drivers, the temperature in the car, where to eat or what music to play, and even the topics of conversation also caused ...

Centralizing Stroke Services can Reduce Deaths in Hospital

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Centralising acute stroke services can reduce mortality and length of hospital stay, suggests a study published on thebmj.com. Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Each year in England an estimated 125,000 people have a stroke and 40,000 of them die. Centralising means hospitals of differing capability work together to create a centralised system of stroke care, in which patients are taken to a small number of high volume specialist units ...

Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening Improved by Gut Microbiome Analysis

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Data published in iCancer Prevention Research/i, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, says that analysis of the gut microbiome more successfully distinguished healthy individuals from those with precancerous adenomatous polyps and those with invasive colorectal cancer. "A person's gut microbiome is the collection of all the bacteria in their gut," said Patrick D. Schloss, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology ...

Use of Experimental Drug to Treat American Ebola Victims While Death Toll in Africa Reaches 1,000 Sparks New Ethical Controversy

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With death toll continuing to rise in West Africa following the Ebola outbreak, the news that two American citizens have been given experimental drug and have responded well to the treatment has sparked a new controversy though US experts continue to maintain that it was ethically justified. The World Health Organization announced Wednesday it was convening a special meeting next week to explore using experimental drugs in the West African outbreak, after two health ...

Campaign Involving Muslim Clerics Has Increased Uptake of Polio Vaccination

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In northern Nigeria, a coalition campaign involving imams, Islamic school teachers, traditional rulers, doctors, journalists, and polio survivors is gradually turning the tide against polio vaccine rejection. This is according to experts from Nigeria writing in this week's iPLOS Medicine/i. Sani-Gwarzo Nasir (from the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria) and colleagues describe how anti-polio propaganda, misconceptions, and violence against vaccinators ...

Human Milk Not Just Food for Sick and Hospitalized Babies

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While human milk is seen as the best infant food, a series of articles published in a neonatal nursing journal's special issue to mark World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, 2014, suggests that breast milk can also prove to be a medicine for sick, hospitalized babies. Multiple public health and professional medical associations from the World Health Organization to the American Academy of Pediatrics have endorsed the widespread advantages of human milk and breastfeeding ...

Liberia President Terms Step to Declare Emergency Necessary for the "Very Survival of State"

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Stating that extraordinary measures are necessary for the "very survival of our state" following the deadly Ebola outbreak, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has declared a state of emergency in the country. Speaking of "a clear and present danger" from the virus, she announced in a speech the state of emergency for a minimum of 90 days, which will be presented to parliament on Thursday. Some 300 Liberians have been infected by the tropical disease, ...

Aquatic Animals Losing Battle Against Predators Due to Man-Made Noise

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A joint study conducted by researchers from Universities of Exeter and Bristol has found that noise generated by man-made objects on the seas, such as ship noise, leads to loss of crucial responses to predator threats among sea animals, with eels losing their battle to survive against their predators. The study, published today in the journal iGlobal Change Biology/i, found European eels were 50% less likely to respond to an ambush from a predator, while those ...

Researchers Hoping to Develop Safety Lock to Reduce Risk of Tumor Growth Following Stem Cell Transplantation

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While stem cell transplantation using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural stem cells (iPS-NSCs) provides a number of benefits, including promotion of functional recovery after spinal cord injury, there is a serious risk of tumor growth, or tumorogenesis, post-transplantation. In an effort to better understand this risk and find ways to prevent it, a team of Japanese researchers has completed a study in which they transplanted a human glioblastoma cell ...

We are Most Popular When We are 29!

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At age 29, we're at the stage where we're the most popular we'll ever get, finds a new study. Food firm Genius Gluten Free Study conducted a survey on 1,505 Brits and found that at 29, a person could has 80 friends, which compile of their school, college as well as work pals, the Independent reported. The study claimed that a person generally had 64 friends on an average which are most likely from their workplace, who they have more in common with in ...

Older Adults Display Best Cognitive Ability in the Morning

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Canadian researchers have found that the older adults activate the same brain networks responsible for paying attention and suppressing distraction as younger adults and perform better on cognitive tasks when tested on mornings. The study, published online July 7th in the journal emPsychology and Aging/em (ahead of print publication), has yielded some of the strongest evidence yet that there are noticeable differences in brain function across the day for older ...

Ebola Virus Death Toll Nears 1000 Mark

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The World Health Organization has confirmed an additional 108 lives have been lost in the Ebola outbreak, taking the total death toll to 932 while the number of cases has crossed the 1,700 mark. In a statement, the UN health agency said that its latest updated figures took account of 108 new cases and 45 deaths reported by Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone between last Saturday and Monday. The total number of laboratory-confirmed, probable or ...

Pakistanis Spend 50 Percent of Income on Food

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Pakistanis spent almost 50 percent of their household budget on food in 2012, finds a survey. According to The Express Tribune, a report by the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service revealed that out of the 84 countries surveyed, Pakistanis spend more of their income on food than any other country. The report says that an average Pakistani spends 47.7 per cent of their house hold budget on food consumed at home. The statistics ...

Spanish Missionary Infected With Ebola to Fly Back Home to Receive Treatment

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An elderly Spanish missionary who has been infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia will be flying back in an air force plane after the Spanish government confirmed that he will be returning back to receive treatment. "This news lifts my spirits, it's great, I am very happy, it is worth fighting," the 75-year-old Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, told the online edition of daily Spanish newspaper ABC by telephone. Pajares tested positive for Ebola ...

Experimental Drug Made from Tobacco Plant Found to be Effective Against Ebola Virus

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An experimental drug made from tobacco plant has been found to be effective in curing the Ebola virus infection among two US aid workers, who were infected in Liberia, raising hopes that a cure may soon become a reality. Sources revealed that within an hour of receiving the drug, one of the recipient's condition was "nearly reversed" and doctors have described the turnaround as "miraculous", Metro.co.uk reported. Prof Martin Hibberd, at the London School ...

Parkinson's Drug Gives Woman Spontaneous Orgasms

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Scientists have reported that a drug prescribed to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease caused one woman to experience unwanted, spontaneous orgasms. The 42-year-old woman used Rasagiline, a drug usually depended by people with Parkinson's, for seven days when she began feeling hyperarousal and an increased libido. According to iLive Science/i, she was then admitted to a private hospital after she began experiencing between three and five orgasms ...

Survey Says 75 Percent IT Professionals Bullied at Work

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75 percent Information technology (IT) professionals have admitted to being bullied at work, finds survey. The survey results were based on the responses given by 650 IT professionals, reported Enterprise Innovation. While 80 percent of the professionals said that they have seen others being bullied at workplace, only 8 percent admitted to bullying others. Forty-five percent of the professionals also chose not to answer the question. A ...

Fairground Ride Leaves British Woman, 26, Feeling Dizzy for a Year

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A British woman has spent the last year of her life feeling dizzy after going on a fairground ride triggered an odd neurological disorder. Bobbie Lane, 26, from Kent, was at Reading Festival when she chose to go on the ride, which flipped her and her friends around at high speed. Her friends quickly recovered from the ride, but Ms Lane's sense of dizziness did not wear away and continued to get worse over the next few days. Ms Lane, said that after she ...