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Drug Candidate for Multiple Sclerosis Shows New Promise

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The Scripps Research Institute have discovered and synthesized a new drug candidate for relapsing multiple sclerosis. According to the results from a six-month Phase 2 study of 258 multiple sclerosis patients, the drug candidate RPC1063 reduced the annualized relapse rate of participants with multiple sclerosis by up to 53 percent, compared with placebo. The potential therapy also decreased the emergence of new brain damage seen by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

Sprained Thumb

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A thumb sprain is a common soft tissue injury involving the ligaments, cartilage and joint capsule of the thumb. Thumb sprains symptoms include pain, swelling and tenderness.

Milk may Protect Against High Blood Pressure

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Milk has several benefits that are well known. But are you aware that milk can protect against high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease? Researchers analyzed several studies that considered the possible association of milk with the risk of high blood pressure. The results of their analysis were presented at the 12th Euro Fed Lipid Congress in Montpellier, France. The researchers analyzed data from 57,256 individuals and 15,367 cases ...

World Alzheimer's Day 2014

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World Alzheimer's Day 2014 aims to raise awareness about what is Alzheimer's and dementia by bringing together the Alzheimer's organizations around the world and these support groups play a vital role in Alzheimer's treatment and care. World Alzheimer's Day and month is an initiative of the Alzheimer's Disease International. Alzheimer's month offers a longer time period for raising awareness of what is Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's symptoms and options available ...

New Diagnostic Algorithm for Female Genital Tuberculosis

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Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) embarked upon a research to develop a new algorithm for diagnosing and treating female genital tuberculosis patients. Genital tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major causes of tubal infertility. Some studies show that only two per cent of women with genital TB have live births. Genital TB is usually asymptomatic so needs higher degree of clinical suspicion so that accurate and confirmed diagnosis of TB can be made ...

Suicide Prevention a Health Priority: Union Health Minister

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Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has expressed grief over the national loss in valuable human resources which is owed to the increasing tendency of people to commit suicide when facing unconquerable adversity. "The mounting incidence of suicide has become a public health issue of global importance as brought out by the World Health Organisation in a recent report. The government will adopt a strategy on suicide prevention which will stress on counselling ...

29th International Coastal Clean-Up Day Observed in Visakhapatnam

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To mark the 29th International Coastal Clean-up Day, the personnel of the Eastern Naval Command and Coast Guard along with their families and other stakeholders embarked on a drive to clean up the beaches in the city from Yarada to Kalinga. Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command, Vice Admiral Bimal Verma flagged off the drive being taken up with the theme 'Fighting for trash-free seas' at the Kursura Museum. The Coastal Cleanup drive has gained importance ...

Menopause Could be 'Turned On/Off' in 20 Yrs

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Recently, a stem cell scientist has claimed that menopause could be eliminated in 20 years. According to the Times, Aubrey de Grey has claimed rapid progress in stem cell and regenerative therapies might mean that the current limits on when women are able to conceive and give birth could disappear, the Independent reported. Co-founder and chief science officer of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Research Foundation, said that ...

Jobless Ghana's Youth Turn to Selling Blood

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Eric Bimpong has a money-making proposition to Ghana's legions of jobless young men: sell your blood. Bimpong spends his days outside schools, bars and on the streets of poor neighbourhoods in Accra, scouring for teenagers and 20-somethings to give blood outside the capital's largest hospital. Commercial blood donors, as the authorities call them, fill a void in a country where blood is often in short supply and cultural and religious beliefs keep some ...

Rise of Religious Schools Cause Alarm in Turkey

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Textile worker and father Halil Ibrahim Beyhan received an unpleasant surprise, when Turkish pupils received their school entry exam results after the end of last term. His daughter had been assigned to a religious high school, like thousands of other students under a new system that caught many parents off guard. Parents, educators and civil society groups have decried the move as another attack on Turkey's secular principles by the Islamic-rooted ...

Mexican Copper Mine Still Leaking Acid

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Mexican authorities say that a copper mine which spewed millions of gallons of acid into a river last month is still causing pollution and the facility's owners are blocking the work of investigators probing the accident. The massive acid leak in August, involving some 40,000 cubic meters (10.6 million gallons) of sulfuric acid, was one of Mexico's largest ever mining-related environmental disasters. "As of this moment, the government of Sonora (state) ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez-Inspired Spanish Opera Comes to Washington

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Inspired by the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Washington's stately Kennedy Center is staging its first opera in Spanish -- a dreamy tale of a jungle boat journey and lost love. The Washington National Opera is performing "Florencia in the Amazon," by the late Mexican composer Daniel Catan, starting Saturday, with five shows planned. It will treat opera lovers to a taste of the late Nobel prize-winning Colombian novelist's "magical realism" -- a genre ...

Albania is the Symbol of Muslim-Christian Tolerance

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Pope Francis will be celebrating religious tolerance when he visits the medieval church of St Nicolas in Albania on Sunday. Majority Muslims and the tiny Catholic and Orthodox communities all faced persecution under the ruthless regime of Enver Hoxha, who in 1967 declared Albania the first atheist country in the world. Countless churches and mosques were destroyed at the time -- as many as 1,820 Catholic and Orthodox places of worship according to the ...

Sierra Leone Faces Criticism Over a 72-Hour Nationwide Shutdown

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Sierra Leone began the second day of a 72-hour nationwide shutdown aimed at containing the spread of the Ebola virus amid criticism that the action was a poorly planned publicity stunt. Most of Sierra Leone's six million people have been confined to their homes from midnight (0000 GMT) on Friday, with only essential workers such as health professionals and security forces exempt. Almost 30,000 volunteers are going door-to-door to educate locals and ...

Missionary With Ebola to be Airlifted Back Home to Spain

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Spanish officials have confirmed that the government is sending a plane to fly a Catholic missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus home from Sierra Leone. Brother Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, director of a hospital in the Sierra Leonean town of Lunsar, "has tested positive (for Ebola) and has expressed his desire to be transferred to Spain", the health ministry said in a statement. He is the second Spaniard to contract Ebola in the current outbreak. ...

Germany's Oktoberfest Opens to Toast Millions

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Germany's world-famous Oktoberfest kicked off with the traditional tapping of the first barrel of beer in the 16-day annual extravaganza, as millions of revellers are set to soak up the frothy atmosphere. With the cry of "O'zapft is" ("The keg is tapped"), the amber fluid officially began to flow at noon after Munich's mayor, Dieter Reiter, with due pomp and ceremony, took a mallet and in four swings breached the 200-litre (53-gallon) barrel. The first ...

Indonesian Aceh Proposes 100 Lashes of the Cane for Gay Sex

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In Indonesia's staunchly conservative Aceh province, gay sex could be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane if parliament passes a draft law that critics say violates basic human rights. Aceh is the only part of the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation to enforce Islamic sharia law and has been slowly implementing it since 2001, when it gained some powers of autonomy. A draft bylaw sent to AFP on Saturday outlaws anal sex between men and "the rubbing ...

Shells Leave Coal Miners of Ukraine Digging for Survival

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Miners spend much of their day clearing gardens of shrapnel, digging up potatoes or chopping wood to prepare for the fast-approaching winter. The coal miners of the village of Vilkhivka in eastern Ukraine haven't been working for months, forced to down tools by the shells they say are still falling almost every day. "As miners, we used to get coal for the stove," says Pavel Krivonosov, 64, who despite his age still used to work at the nearby state-owned ...

Oktoberfest Kicks-Off on Saturday

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Millions of revelers are all set to soak up the frothy atmosphere in a 16-day extravaganza as Germany's world-famous Oktoberfest kicked off on Saturday. With the traditional cry of "O'zapft is" ("The keg is tapped"), the amber nectar officially begins to flow at noon after Munich's mayor, with due pomp and ceremony, takes a mallet to the first barrel. This year the job falls to new incumbent Dieter Reiter, who'll be hoping to breach the 200-litre (53-gallon) ...

Ebola-Hit West Africa to Receive Aid from Western Militaries

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Aid missions are being readied by Western militaries to help Africa's Ebola-hit nations. The epidemic which has sparked killings in panicked southern Guinea and forced a nationwide shutdown in Sierra Leone. The United States said a 3,000-strong contingent of troops due to deploy to Liberia would help train health workers, while Germany and France unveiled plans to send military transport planes to help contain the spread. The announcements ...

Panels to Prevent 'Love-Locks' Installed on Iconic Pedestrian Bridge in Paris

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Plastic panels have been installed on an iconic pedestrian bridge spanning the Seine river in Paris in an attempt to stop lovers sealing their passion with padlocks attached to the bridge. City hall authorities are desperately trying to save the world-famous Pont des Arts and other bridges from damage from the thousands of padlocks left there by tourists and some locals as a pledge to their eternal devotion. Since 2008, when the craze first began, thousands ...

Chocolate Museum Opens in Brussels

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A museum dedicated to chocolate featuring a Willy Wonka-style factory and cocoa tree jungle has opened in Brussels. Chocolate is a national treasure in Belgium. It is home to such illustrious brands as Godiva, Neuhaus, Leonidas and Cote d'Or. And the museum opening Saturday, in a former chocolate factory in the capital Brussels, will showcase its love of the brown stuff. "The Belgian passion for chocolate has never been denied and we have become 'the ...

Red Carpet Star Valli Unveils New Line

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Giambattista Valli unveiled a new, more affordable line of sexy, "playful" womenswear for next spring and summer on Friday. The new collection, called "Giamba", is aimed at women in their 20s and early 30s will be priced at 30-40 percent below Valli's ready-to-wear collection, a red carpet regular favoured by the likes of Penelope Cruz, Natalie Portman and Halle Berry. "This is the other side of my personality. Giamba is my nickname, the one that is ...

South Africa: Gay-Friendly Mosque Opens Peacefully

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Despite threats of violence, a new mosque where gay people are welcome and women are treated equally to men opened peacefully in Cape Town this Friday. Launched by Muslim academic Taj Hargey, the South African-born director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, the first Friday prayers at the 'Open Mosque' drew more media crews than worshippers or protesters. Police were on hand in case of trouble outside the newly-painted green mosque, a former ...

Muslims in Germany Rally Against Extremism

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On Friday, German Muslims held rallies to condemn both Islamic extremism and a backlash against their faith, which has seen arson attacks on mosques. Some 2,000 mosques joined the event "Muslims against hatred and injustice" organised by Germany's four main Islamic groups, together with government ministers, lawmakers, Christian and Jewish leaders and city mayors. In Berlin, thousands of faithful knelt on prayer mats under the open sky in the inner-city ...

6,800 New Ebola Cases Predicted to Occur in This Month

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New Ebola cases could reach 6,800 in West Africa by the end of the month, new research appearing in the online journal iPLoS Outbreaks/i predicts. Arizona State University and Harvard University researchers also discovered through modelling analysis that the rate of rise in cases significantly increased in August in Liberia and Guinea, around the time that a mass quarantine was put in place, indicating that the mass quarantine efforts may have made the outbreak ...

Pathway That Contributes to Alzheimer's Disease Identified by Mayo Researchers

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A defect in a key cell-signaling pathway in the brain has been identified by researchers at Jacksonville's campus of Mayo Clinic. They say this defect contributes to both overproduction of toxic protein in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients as well as loss of communication between neurons - both significant contributors to this type of dementia. Their study, in the online issue of Neuron/a/i, offers the potential that targeting this specific ...

Families With Young Children Do Not Get Adequate Support from Current State Policies

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Researchers, advocates, and foundations are minutely examining recent two-generation approaches to reducing poverty that help children and their parents. By combining education and training for parents to enable them to move to jobs that offer a path out of poverty with high-quality early care and education for children, these programs aim to improve the life opportunities of both. However, according to a new report from the National Center for Children in Poverty ...

Research Sheds Light on Long-Distance Communication from Leaves to Roots

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Leguminous plants, which bear many beans that are important to humans, are able to grow well in infertile land. The reason for this is because most legumes have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, called rhizobia, that can fix nitrogen in the air and then supply the host plant with ammonia as a nutrient. The plants create symbiotic organs called nodules in their roots. However, if too many root nodules are made it will adversely affect the growth ...