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- Palliative Care Denied For Most Patients With Advanced or Incurable Cancers
- Men Think Women are Not So "Hot" After Age of 20 Years
- New Therapies to Combat Leukemia on the Anvil
- How Mysterious 'Circular RNA' is Formed Revealed
- Users' Mental Health and Behavior Revealed by New Dartmouth Smartphone App
- Link Between Complex Traits and Diversity Explored
- Losing Eyesight Has Greatest Impact on Their Lives, Say Americans
- Following Trauma, Musculoskeletal Pain Outcomes Worsened by Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood
- Seniors can be Kept Out of the Emergency Room Via Decision-Support Program
- STXBP5 Gene and Its Role in Blood Clotting Studied
- Research: Viability of Premature Babies is Minimal at 22 Weeks' Gestation
- Breast Milk Jewellery: New Fashion Trend
- Neurons Respond To Three Perceptual Parameters
- Couples Without Kids Also Consume Family Meals
- Quiz on Cystic Fibrosis
- New Drug Blocks Gene Driving Cancer Growth
- Switzerland Tests Two Ebola Vaccines
- Plan Against Antibiotic Resistance 'Upgraded' by US
- Syria Measles Vaccine Deaths Blamed on Anesthesia Additive
- Nigeria's Mecca-Bound Pilgrims to Undergo Ebola Screening
- Ebola is a Threat to World Peace: Security Council
- Berries can Improve Effectiveness of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
- Woman Dies as Ambulance Gets Stuck in Queue
- New 'Sleep Node' in Brain Discovered
- GSK's Melanoma Pill Gets NICE Nod
- Women and Children Bear Brunt of Ebola Epidemic in Liberia
- French Health Minister Authorizes 'Experimental Treatments' for Ebola Infected Nurse
- Girl Born Six-Weeks Premature and Without a Drop of Blood Starts Going to School
- Spoof Nobel Awards Celebrate Humor in Science
- Abundance of Small Fast-Living Mammals Increases Risk of Tick-Borne Illness
- Providing Private Mental Health Service to Veterans Clarified in Study
- Research: Down Syndrome Helpful in Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
- World Population may Become 11 Billion by 2100
- Functional Architecture of Brain Changed by Single Dose of Antidepressant
- Vital 'On/Off Switches' Controlling When Bacteria Turn Deadly
- Gambling With Confidence: is It Even Possible?
- Neuropsychological Outcome After Brain Injury may be Predicted Via Network Measures
- Super-Thin Condom Becomes Ultra-thin
- Routine Prostate Cancer Screening Has Very Little Effect
- Insights on Ancient plague could show way for treatments of new infections
- New Treatments Possible With a Research Milestone in CCHF Virus
- Emergency Meeting on Ebola to be Held by UN Security Council
- Winter Born Babies Start Crawling More Rapidly Than Summer Born Ones
| Palliative Care Denied For Most Patients With Advanced or Incurable Cancers Posted:  A new research at the European Society for Medical Oncology(ESMO) revealed that many patients with advanced, incurable cancer do not receive any palliative care. These astonishing findings will be presented at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, where 15 new oncology centres in Europe, Canada, South America and Africa are being awarded the prestigious title of 'ESMO Designated Centre of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care.' SR I Dr Alexandru Grigorescu, medical ... |
| Men Think Women are Not So "Hot" After Age of 20 Years Posted:  A new book on relationships claims that men think women who are 22 would be less hot than the ones who are 20. The book, Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking), is based on the data from the dating website OkCupid, that was co-founded by author Christian Rudder, and reveals the way people interact and view each other, Discovery News reported. It also stated that men up to age 50 find women between ages 20-24 most attractive. However, ... |
| New Therapies to Combat Leukemia on the Anvil Posted:  Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Newcastle University reveal that new therapies to combat leukemia may come about via a key step in understanding the nature of the fight for superiority between mutated genes and normal genes. The study, published in emCell Reports/em, investigated Acute Myeloid Leukaemia to understand why leukemic cells are not able to develop normally into mature blood cells. Stem cells in the bone marrow generate ... |
| How Mysterious 'Circular RNA' is Formed Revealed Posted:  It is well-known that our genetic information is stored in DNA. The latter comprises of tiny strands of nucleic acid that contain instructions for the functioning of our bodies. To express this genetic data, our DNA is copied into RNA molecules, which then translate the instructions into proteins that perform tasks in our cells. Several years ago, scientists discovered a new type of RNA molecule. Unlike all other known RNAs, this molecule is circular, ... |
| Users' Mental Health and Behavior Revealed by New Dartmouth Smartphone App Posted:  The first smartphone app that automatically reveals students' mental health, academic performance and behavioral trends has been developed by Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues. In other words, your smartphone knows your state of mind -- even if you don't -- and how that affects you. The StudentLife app, which compares students' happiness, stress, depression and loneliness to their academic performance, also may be used in the general population ... |
| Link Between Complex Traits and Diversity Explored Posted:  Previous research has shown that the biological characteristics people care most about are usually those considered "complex traits." Just as for height-the textbook example of a complex trait-attributes like risk for a particular human disease are shaped by multiple genetic and environmental influences, making it challenging to find the genes involved. To track down such genes, geneticists typically mate two individuals that differ in key ways-for example, a large ... |
| Losing Eyesight Has Greatest Impact on Their Lives, Say Americans Posted:  A new survey finds that many Americans across racial and ethnic groups describe losing eyesight as having the greatest impact on their lives. This is more so than other conditions including: loss of limb, memory, hearing and speech (57% of African-Americans, 49% of non-Hispanic whites, 43% of Asians and 38% of Hispanics). When asked which disease or ailment is the worst that could happen to them, blindness ranked first among African-Americans followed by AIDS/HIV. ... |
| Following Trauma, Musculoskeletal Pain Outcomes Worsened by Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Posted:  New research suggests that people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods have worse musculoskeletal pain outcomes over time after motor vehicle collision than individuals from higher socioeconomic status neighborhoods. These were the findings of a multi-site research study led by Samuel McLean, MD, MPH, associate professor of anesthesiology and emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. The results of the study were published online ... |
| Seniors can be Kept Out of the Emergency Room Via Decision-Support Program Posted:  Older adults on Medicare can benefit significantly via an Emergency Room Decision-Support (ERDS) program that can reduce ER visits and hospital admissions among this population. This could have important economic implications, helping to reduce the nearly 33% of avoidable ER visits that contribute to about (Dollar) 18 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs each year. Details of a successful ERDS program that had a positive return on investment are published in an article ... |
| STXBP5 Gene and Its Role in Blood Clotting Studied Posted:  Important studies exploring the role played by a gene called STXBP5 in the development of cardiovascular disease have been published by two independent groups of researchers led by Sidney (Wally) Whiteheart, PhD, of the University of Kentucky, and Charles Lowenstein, MD, of the University of Rochester. According to Whiteheart, previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified a gene called STXBP5 as a factor that regulates a protein called Von Willebrand ... |
| Research: Viability of Premature Babies is Minimal at 22 Weeks' Gestation Posted:  The survival rates in Spain of newborns with a gestational age under 26 weeks have been analyzed in a new study. The results show that survival under 23 weeks is 'exceptional', although other factors such as birth weight and sex also have an influence. Experts from the Spanish Society of Neonatology have studied the survival rates in Spain of newborns with a gestational age under 26 weeks, taking into account that a newborn carried to term is between ... |
| Breast Milk Jewellery: New Fashion Trend Posted:  In US, jewellery crafted out of breast milk has been catching up the trend. The creations by a mother from Rhode Island, Allicia Mogavero, have become so popular that she could barely keep up with the growing requests, and she said there was a 12-month waiting list for her products, the Daily Express reported. Founder of Mummy Milk Creations, Mogavero, who admitted to be amazed of her body's milk producing skills, and now gets daily packages from ... |
| Neurons Respond To Three Perceptual Parameters Posted:  In a new research by Japanese scientists, monkeys were shown a number of images representing various glosses and the responses of 39 neurons were measured using microelectrodes. This new study found that a specific population of neurons changed the intensities of the responses according to 3 perceptual parameters - contrast-of-highlight, sharpness-of-highlight or brightness of the object. The research showed that these are parameters used when the brain recognizes ... |
| Couples Without Kids Also Consume Family Meals Posted:  Adults living with young children or adolescents are not the only ones to eat family meals. A new research suggests that couples who live with other adult family members are also likely to consume family meals most days of the week. The study is the first large-scale look at family-meal eating patterns in American adults. While a substantial amount of research has focused on health benefits for children who regularly eat family meals, such eating patterns have not ... |
| Posted:  How much do you know about the chronic, progressive, inherited, fatal disease called cystic fibrosis? Learn more about cystic fibrosis from this quiz. |
| New Drug Blocks Gene Driving Cancer Growth Posted:  A new study uses a novel approach to target the activation of Ral proteins which drive tumor growth and metastasis in several human cancers including pancreatic, prostate, lung, colon and bladder."When you want to keep an alligator from biting you, you can tie its mouth shut. We took another approach - we put a stick in its mouth to hold it open," says Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, professor of Urology and Pharmacology, director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center and the ... |
| Switzerland Tests Two Ebola Vaccines Posted:  Switzerland soon to begin clinical trials of two experimental vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus, the country's Tropical and Public Health Institute said on Thursday. "Switzerland is playing a central role in the clinical trials of two vaccines against Ebola," Marcel Tanner, who heads the Basel-based institute, told Swiss public radio SRF. Clinical trials should begin "as soon as possible in Geneva and Lausanne," he said. The Swiss Agency ... |
| Plan Against Antibiotic Resistance 'Upgraded' by US Posted:  An executive order to ramp up the national response to the problem of antibiotic resistance and infections that cannot be treated has been issued by US President Barack Obama. The White House called for a task force that combines the government's health, defense and agriculture departments to deliver a five-year plan to the president by February 2015. The administration was also to release a blueprint for moving forward, described as a "national strategy" ... |
| Syria Measles Vaccine Deaths Blamed on Anesthesia Additive Posted:  The 16 children who died during a measles vaccination campaign in the mostly rebel-held province of Idlib had been given an anesthesia additive by mistake, said Syria's opposition on Thursday. "Reports point to the possibility of human error which led to atracurium being used in place of the solvent which should have been used with the vaccine," said opposition government chief Ahmad Tohme. Tohme said the maximum dose of atracurium as used in general ... |
| Nigeria's Mecca-Bound Pilgrims to Undergo Ebola Screening Posted:  About 76,000 Nigerian Muslims are expected this year at the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and organizing the people would be a major logistical undertaking. But after more than 2,600 deaths from Ebola in West Africa this year, including eight in Nigeria, the authorities have had to put in extra security measures to allay fears about its possible spread outside the region. Nigeria is the only country of the five in the region affected by the mass outbreak of hemorrhagic ... |
| Ebola is a Threat to World Peace: Security Council Posted:  The Ebola outbreak was declared as a threat to world peace by the UN Security Council on Thursday, with a call on countries to provide urgent aid to West Africa, the epicenter of the growing crisis. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that the number of Ebola infections -- already more than 5,000 -- was doubling every three weeks, notably in Liberia. It was only the third resolution on ... |
| Berries can Improve Effectiveness of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Posted:  A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology suggests that berries could be effective in improving treatment for pancreatic cancer. The study was conducted by researchers at King's College Hospital and the University of Southampton who found that an extract of chokeberry was effective in killing off the cancer cells, probably through a process known as apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The researchers said that they concentrated on pancreatic ... |
| Woman Dies as Ambulance Gets Stuck in Queue Posted:  A 73-year old great grandmother died after the ambulance carrying her to the hospital was stuck in a traffic jam for at least an hour outside the hospital. Sonia Powell suffered a suspected heart attack and was being carried to the Morriston Hospital's Accident (and) Emergency Unit, in Swansea, from Neath Port Talbot Hospital. The ambulance that was carrying her got stuck in a tailback of 15 ambulances, with the family claiming that the wait was for at least an hour while ... |
| New 'Sleep Node' in Brain Discovered Posted:  Scientists have discovered a sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem that enables us to fall into deep sleep. This is only the second 'sleep node' identified in the mammalian brain whose activity appears to be both necessary and sufficient to produce deep sleep, said scientists at iHarvard School of Medicine and the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. /i The research demonstrated ... |
| GSK's Melanoma Pill Gets NICE Nod Posted:  With GlaxoSmithKline agreeing to provide its melanoma pill Tafinlar at an undisclosed discount price, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in UK has recommended the drug for treating unresectable or metastatic BRAF V600 mutation-positive melanoma. Tafinlar is similar to Roche's Zelboraf and targets a genetic mutation known as BRAF that is linked with melanoma. Results from the BREAK-3 trial revealed that the drug was more effective than dacarbazine ... |
| Women and Children Bear Brunt of Ebola Epidemic in Liberia Posted:  As a team of Ebola specialists disinfects her dead baby, Olivia Clark turns away in silence. Aaron, just 18 months old, slipped away a few hours earlier, too young to fight the deadly virus amplifying inside his tiny body. It is likely that he was infected by his father, Olivia's husband, who died at their home in the Liberian capital Monrovia two weeks earlier. "Even if I look at him, what can I do for him? I am waiting for death myself. ... |
| French Health Minister Authorizes 'Experimental Treatments' for Ebola Infected Nurse Posted:  A French nurse who contracted Ebola infection will be given 'experimental treatments' after the country's health minister authorized them at a Paris hospital. "She is receiving experimental treatments," Marisol Touraine said, adding that these drugs were administered "as soon as she arrived." A medical plane carrying the young female Doctors Without Borders (MSF) volunteer arrived in France from Liberia overnight. She was then taken immediately ... |
| Girl Born Six-Weeks Premature and Without a Drop of Blood Starts Going to School Posted:  The mother of a four-year-old daughter from Ireland, who was born without a single droplet of blood, revealed her fear that she thought her daughter would not survive past the first few days of her life. Emma Vignes absorbed all of her daughter's Maisy's blood during her pregnancy which left her daughter six weeks premature, Metro.co.uk reported. Maisy, who is now four years old, has started going to school. The 31-year-old mother said that ... |
| Spoof Nobel Awards Celebrate Humor in Science Posted:  Harvard University is playing host to an unusual awards function, handing out spoof Nobel prizes to honor the humor in science, such as the physics behind stepping on a banana skin or the neuroscience involved in spotting Jesus in toast. The 24th edition of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes were handed out Thursday to winners from across the world by genuine Nobel laureates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The awards showcase "achievements that first make people ... |
| Abundance of Small Fast-Living Mammals Increases Risk of Tick-Borne Illness Posted:  A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that the risk of suffering from various tick borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, babesiosis and anaplasmosis, increases in areas where small, fast-living mammals are abundant. In eastern and central North America, blacklegged ticks are the primary vectors for Lyme disease, babesiosis, and anaplasmosis. The pathogens that cause these illnesses are widespread in nature; ticks acquire them when they feed on infected ... |
| Providing Private Mental Health Service to Veterans Clarified in Study Posted:  A new RAND Corporation report sheds light on an unique partnership to support private efforts to provide mental health services to veterans and their families. The report says this could provide a model for similar efforts should federal officials decide to expand privately provided health care as part of reform of the VA health system. The Welcome Back Veterans Initiative, a joint project of philanthropic groups and major academic medical centers, has ... |
| Research: Down Syndrome Helpful in Understanding Alzheimer's Disease Posted:  A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center suggests that the link between a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease and its impact on memory and cognition may not be as clear as believed until now. The findings are revealing more information about the earliest stages of the neurodegenerative disease. The researchers - including lead study author Sigan Hartley, UW-Madison assistant professor of human development and family ... |
| World Population may Become 11 Billion by 2100 Posted:  The growth of world population may be larger than previously estimated, reaching 11 billion people by century's end, suggests a UN-led analysis published Thursday. That would mean two billion more people on Earth than expected by 2100, largely due to high birth rates in Africa, said the report in the US journal Science. "The consensus over the past 20 years or so was that world population, which is currently around seven billion, would go up to nine ... |
| Functional Architecture of Brain Changed by Single Dose of Antidepressant Posted:  New research indicates that a single dose of antidepressant is enough to produce significant changes in the functional architecture of the human brain. Brain scans taken of people before and after an acute dose of a commonly prescribed SSRI (serotonin reuptake inhibitor) reveal changes in connectivity within three hours, say researchers who report their observations in the Cell Press journal iCurrent Biology/i on September 18. "We were not expecting ... |
| Vital 'On/Off Switches' Controlling When Bacteria Turn Deadly Posted:  It is hard to imagine bacteria as social, communicating creatures, although this has been demonstrated in many studies. But by using a signaling system called "quorum sensing," these single-celled organisms radically alter their behavior to suit their population. In short, some bacteria "know" how many of them are present, and act accordingly. Once the population of quorum-sensing bacteria reaches the millions, it may change from innocuous to pathogenic, ... |
| Gambling With Confidence: is It Even Possible? Posted:  Each decision in life is a gamble and carries with it the chance to second-guess. Some of the most common second-guess situations include: Did I make the right turn at that light? Did I choose the right college? Was this the right job for me? Our desire to persist along a chosen path is almost entirely determined by our confidence in the decision: when you are confident that your choice is correct, you are willing to stick it out for a lot longer. ... |
| Neuropsychological Outcome After Brain Injury may be Predicted Via Network Measures Posted:  Specific regions of the brain are associated with specific cognitive abilities, such as language, naming, and decision-making. How and where these specific abilities are integrated in the brain to support complex cognition is still under investigation. However, researchers at the University of Iowa and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, believe that several hub regions may be especially important for the brain to function as an integrated network. In ... |
| Super-Thin Condom Becomes Ultra-thin Posted:  Progress is being made on developing a "next-generation" ultra-thin, skin-like condoms that could offer better sexual pleasure and help population control, says Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, on Thursday. This will be financed by first-world investors. Last year, the Microsoft co-founder and one of the world's richest men offered inventors (Dollar) 100,000 in start-up grants to develop a "next-generation" of super-sheath condoms through the charitable Bill ... |
| Routine Prostate Cancer Screening Has Very Little Effect Posted:  Recommendation guidelines advice that the elderly men should not be routinely screened for prostate cancer, but the effect "has been minimal at best", say researchers. This was reported in a study led by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital, published as a research letter online in iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, focused on the use of PSA - prostate-specific antigen - to test for prostate cancer. "We found that the effect of the guidelines recommending against the routine ... |
| Insights on Ancient plague could show way for treatments of new infections Posted:  Bubonic plague, an ancient terror, could provide researchers with new insights on how the body responds to infections, paving way to tackle dangerous new pathogens such as the Ebola virus that invoke scary scenarios of deadly epidemics. In a study published online Sept. 18, 2014, in the journal iImmunity/i, researchers at Duke Medicine and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore detail how the Yersinia pestis bacteria that cause bubonic plague hitchhike on ... |
| New Treatments Possible With a Research Milestone in CCHF Virus Posted:  New cellular factors essential for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) infection has been identified in a new research. The CCHF virus is a tick-borne virus which causes a severe hemorrhagic disease in humans similar to that caused by Ebola virus, has identified new cellular factors essential for CCHFV infection. This discovery has the potential to lead to novel targets for therapeutic interventions against the pathogen. The research, reported in a paper ... |
| Emergency Meeting on Ebola to be Held by UN Security Council Posted:  At an emergency meeting due on Thursday, the UN Security Council will try to find ways to scale up the global response to the Ebola epidemic. "It is crucial that council members discuss the status of the epidemic, confer on a coordinated international response and begin the process of marshalling our collective resources to stop the spread of the disease," US Ambassador Samantha Power said Monday. The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly virus has killed ... |
| Winter Born Babies Start Crawling More Rapidly Than Summer Born Ones Posted:  Babies born in winter start crawling earlier compared to the babies born in summer season, a new study has revealed. The research by University of Haifa showed that season of a baby's birth influenced its motor development during its first year of life. For the study, 47 healthy babies with typical development patterns were divided into two groups. The first group comprised "summer-fall" babies, 16 babies born from June to November, and the second, ... |
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