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Modulation of Platelets' Clotting Behavior Influenced by Surroundings

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Researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have discovered that platelets can "feel" the physical environment around them. Platelets are the tiny cell fragments whose job it is to stop bleeding. Platelets respond to surfaces with greater stiffness by increasing their stickiness, the degree to which they "turn on" other platelets and other components of the clotting system, the researchers found. "Platelets are smarter than we give them credit for, in that ...

Men Could Prevent Heart Attacks By Leading Healthy Lifestyles

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Eighty percent of the men who adopt healthy lifestyle choices reduce their risk of heart attacks. A recent study revealed that maintaining a healthy weight and diet, exercise, not smoking and moderating alcohol intake, could prevent could prevent coronary events in men. While mortality from heart disease has declined in recent decades, with much of the reduction attributed to medical therapies, the authors said prevention through a healthy lifestyle avoids potential ...

Gene Expression Patterns in Pancreatic Tumor Cells Identified in MGH Study

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New research reveals that analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer identified distinct patterns of gene expression in several groups of CTCs. In their study reported in the Sept. 25 issue of emCell Reports/em, investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center identified several different classes of pancreatic CTCs and found unexpected factors that may prove to be targets for improved treatment of ...

New Antibiotics may be Developed from an Old Drug

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An anticonvulsant drug may help in developing a new class of antibiotics, McMaster scientists have found. Although dozens of antibiotics target what bacteria do, their study has looked at how a certain part of bacteria are created, and they found there is a way of stopping it. The discovery is important as there is growing concern worldwide about how antibiotic resistance is making the cures for infections ineffective. The World Health Organization ...

South Asians in Canada Have High Risk of Heart Disease

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McMaster researchers have found that South Asians living in Canada have a higher rate of heart disease. They also have double the rate of diabetes compared with while people. The paper was published today in the emCanadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ Open)/em and may be found at www.cmajopen.ca/content/2/3/E183.full/a One of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the country is the more than one million South Asian people living in Canada, ...

Record Tourism Numbers in Spain in August

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Spain has the highest ever figure in foreign visitors for a single month, just over nine million in August, said the government said Monday. The trend is setting the country up for its best-ever year for tourism and giving a boost to the economy. The number of foreign tourists rose 8.8 percent in August over the same time last year to an unprecedented 9.07 million, the tourism ministry said in a statement. It is the first time that Spain, the world's ...

Challenging Long-Held Understanding of the Sense of Touch

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Nerves and skin receptors of different types, in concert to produce sensations of touch, argue in a review article published in September 22, 2014, in the journal iTrends in Neurosciences/i. Their assertion challenges a long-held principle in the field-that separate groups of nerves and receptors are responsible for distinct components of touch, like texture or shape. They hope to change the way somatosensory neuroscience is taught and how the science of touch is studied. ...

Workshop Chalks Out Priorities for Research on Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in the Environment

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A workshop that was held in 2011 by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) involved 45 international experts. The aim was to identify and prioritize the scientific research needed to understand the risks of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the environment. The effort was extended, and results were published in the most recent issue of the Society's international journal, emIntegrated Environmental Assessment and Management/em ...

Parents Choices of Physicians for Their Children Depend on Online Ratings

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Online ratings have been used by more than one quarter (28%) parents to choose a healthcare provider for their children and almost three-quarters (74%) of parents are aware of the online ratings sites, found by U-M research published today in iPediatrics/i. Using the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, researchers surveyed 1,619 parents about how online ratings of physicians influenced their choices in seeking ...

WHO Says Ebola Cases to Triple to 20,000 by November Unless Efforts Raised

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As the number of Ebola affected people soar by thousands every week, the World Health Organization(WHO) issued a warning that if efforts are not significantly stepped up to stop the Ebola outbreak, the numbers will triple to 20,000 by November. "Without drastic improvements in control measures, the numbers of cases of and deaths from Ebola are expected to continue increasing from hundreds to thousands per week in the coming months," the World Health Organization ...

Obesity Comes With Stress Related Diseases too

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Greater risk for stress-related diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer is seen in persons with overweight, reveals a new study by Brandeis University. It's long known that psychological stress can trigger biological responses similar to the effects of illness or injury, including inflammation. While normal inflammation is an important part of our body's healing response, runaway inflammation can contribute to chronic and life-threatening ...

New Blood Test May Help Determine Who Is At Risk For Psychosis

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New blood test developed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers help diagnosis people who are experiencing the earliest stages of psychosis. Psychosis includes hallucinations or delusions that define the development of severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia. Schizophrenia emerges in late adolescence and early adulthood and affects about 1 in every 100 people. In severe cases, the impact on a young person can be a life compromised, and ...

Pathogens Remaining in ICU Patients Can be Deadly

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A team of scientists at the University of Chicago discovered that the remaining pathogens in a patient's intestines can become deadly when provoked by conditions that mimic the body's stress response to illness. However, it is has been shown that only a handful of pathogenic microbe species continue to exist in the patient after a long stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The findings, published in imBio/i (Regd) , the online open-access journal of the American Society ...

Bombay Blood Group

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Bombay blood group is a rare blood type in which the people have an H antigen deficiency. They can receive or donate blood only with other individuals with the same blood group.

Pneumococcal Infection Enhanced by Influenza a

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The ability of the bacterium iStreptococcus pneumoniae/i is enhanced by influenza infection, resulting in ear and throat infections, reveals a research published ahead of print in the journal iInfection and Immunity/i. In the study, the investigators infected mice with either influenza alone, pneumococci alone, or both at once, and then monitored the populations of bacteria and virus over time. They also monitored the mice for development of middle ear infection. ...

Education on Concussion: Some More Useful Than Others

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Parents of kids who participate in athletics are asked to sign a waiver about concussion education. But this is not enough to ensure parents are confident about handling the injury, suggests a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. In the poll, about half of the 912 parents of middle and high school children surveyed reported participation in some type of concussion education: ulli 23% have read a brochure ...

Computer Security Strengthened by ZEBRA Bracelet

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A computer security has been created, which authenticates users continuously while they are using a terminal. It automatically logs them out when they leave or when someone else comes to use their terminal. This is a big step for securing critical information systems, such as medical records in clinical settings. The security is created by Dartmouth College researchers. Dartmouth's Trustworthy Health and Wellness (THaW) researchers recently presented their findings ...

Environment Determines Food Allergic Disease More Than Genetics

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Environment has a much stronger role than genetics in eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a severe, often painful food allergy that renders children unable to eat a variety of foods, found researchers. Eosinophils are normal cellular components of the blood, but when the body produces too many eosinophils they can cause a variety of eosinophilic disorders. These are disorders involving chronic inflammation and resulting tissue damage, often in the gastrointestinal ...

Sprained Ankle

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Ankle sprains occur when the ligaments that hold the ankle bones together get stretched or torn. This happens when the ankle is rolled, twisted or turned awkwardly.

Good Bowel Cleansing is Key for High-quality Colonoscopy, Says Study

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New guidelines published by the U.S. Multi-Society Task force on Colorectal Cancer find that the success of a colonoscopy is closely linked to good bowel preparation, with poor bowel prep often resulting in missed precancerous lesions. Additionally, poor bowel cleansing can result in increased costs related to early repeat procedures. Up to 20 to 25 percent of all colonoscopies are reported to have an inadequate bowel preparation. "When prescribing bowel preparation ...

Less Than A Quarter Kids Who Take ADHD Medication Don't Receive Therapy

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A study revealed that out of the children in the US who have been prescribed medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), only less than a quarter receive the adequate behavioral therapy. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics examined records of more than 300,000 children from 1,516 counties across the United States who had received an ADHD prescription. "Less than a quarter of those prescribed ADHD ...

Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Training Best Fit To Fight Teen Obesity

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A recent study has found that a combination of aerobic exercise with resistance training is the best exercise program to fight the "epidemic" of teen obesity. This results of this study were published in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i (iJAMA/i) iPediatrics/i. The Healthy Eating Aerobic and Resistance Training in Youth (HEARTY) study, led by researchers at the University of Calgary and University of Ottawa, involved 304 overweight teens ...

WHO Says Ebola Kills 2,793, 'pretty Much Contained' in Senegal, Nigeria

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The World Health Organization said the deadliest Ebola epidemic ever has now killed 2,793 in west Africa adding though that in Senegal and Nigeria the outbreak had been basically contained. The UN health agency, which also published the results of the latest meeting of its Ebola emergency committee, said a total of 5,762 people had been infected in five west African countries as of September 18. Guinea, where the outbreak began at the start of the ...

Longer Working Hours Impact on Quality of Care by Nurses

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Nurses who work longer shifts and more overtime are more likely to rate the standard of care delivered on their ward as poor, give a negative rating of their hospitals safety and omit necessary patient care. This is suggested in the results of a survey of more than 30,000 nurses across Europe. Led by researchers at the University of Southampton and the National Nursing Research Unit (NNRU) at King's College London, the RN4CAST survey of nurses in over 450 hospitals ...

Guidelines for Managing Peri- And Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

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New evidence-based guidelines were released for the prevention and treatment of perioperative and postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) and flutter for thoracic surgical procedures by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS). The guidelines are published in iThe Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery/i. "These guidelines have the potential to prevent the occurrence of atrial fibrillation in thousands of patients who undergo lung surgery ...

Involvement in Release Planning Helps Female Offenders Improve Reintegration

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Involving women who are about to be released from prison in their discharge planning can help them to successfully reintegrated into their communities and avoid returning to prison, suggests a new study. Almost half of all female prisoners are back behind bars within one year of their release and most have multiple prison terms, mainly for drug-related offenses. Dr. Flora Matheson, a researcher at St. Michael's Hospital, conducted one-on-one interviews ...

Evidence of Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who do not respond to other treatments can benefit from deep brain stimulation, supports available research evidence. This is a conclusion presented in a review in the October issue of iNeurosurgery/i, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams (and) Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. Based on evidence, two specific bilateral DBS techniques are ...