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Poor Sleeping Habits Could Take A Toll On A Student's Academic Performance

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Poor academic performances in adolescents could be linked poor sleep habits among this group of individuals, revealed a study by researchers Uppsala University. The researchers demonstrated that reports of sleep disturbance and habitual short sleep duration (less than 7 hours per day) increased the risk of failure in school. Author Christian Benedict said that another important finding of their study is that around 30 percent of the adolescents reported ...

Simple Fast-track Breath Test to Show Patient's TB Status Coming Soon

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Scientists are working on a simple breath test that may one day show whether someone has a strain of tuberculosis that will respond to a frontline antibiotic, or a drug-resistant type. Building on previous work for a fast-track breath test, their new prototype technique looks for traces of nitrogen gas emitted by the disease-causing germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Strains of the microbe, which respond to the drug isoniazid, have an enzyme called KatG ...

Men With Masculine Faces Are Not Always The Preferred Partner Choice By Women

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Researchers say just as women deny the choosing a man as their partner based on the theory of infectious diseases, they also do not always prefer men with masculine faces. The study at University of Oregon, on which Sugiyama is one of 22 co-authors, tested 962 adults drawn from 12 populations living in various economic systems in 10 nations. Sugiyama said that it is not the case that women have a universal preference for high testosterone faces and it's ...

Ebola Drug Trials to Start in West Africa

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Plans to push ahead with clinical trials of prototype Ebola treatments in West Africa for the first time in November were unveiled by scientists from London. "Ebola treatments are to be tested in West Africa for the first time," said the Wellcome Trust, a British biomedical research charity, which is funding the effort with a 3.2 million grant ( (Dollar) 5.2 million, 4.1 million euros). The charity said there had been some experiments with treatments already ...

Babbling And Cooing In Infants Connected To Hearing Ability

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A new research at University of Missouri has revealed that sounds that infants make like babbling and cooing are connected to their ability to hear. The research showed that infant vocalizations are primarily motivated by infants' hearing ability their own babbling and infants with profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants to help correct their hearing soon reached the vocalization levels of their hearing peers, putting them on track for language development. ...

Airway Muscle-on-a-chip Mimics Asthma for Testing New Drugs

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Treating asthma has been the same way for the past 50 years and new drugs are urgently needed to treat this chronic respiratory disease. Nearly 25 million people in the United States alone to wheeze, cough, and find it difficult at best to take a deep breath. But finding new treatments is tough: asthma is a patient-specific disease, so what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another, and the animal models traditionally used to test new drug candidates ...

Mad Men Skirts and Beehive Hair At Paris Fashion Week

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Paris fashion got off to a retro start Tuesday with a collection inspired by the 1960s, from Corrie Nielsen featuring beehive hair and Mad Men-style looks with futuristic, voluminous twists. Citing 1960s icons Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin as influences, Nielsen dedicated the collection to "the women of the 1960s who shaped and influenced the world as we see it," including her late mother. London-based Nielsen said her "Single Girl" ready-to-wear collection ...

Benefits of Statins Slightly Outweigh Diabetes Risk, Say Experts

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A new research has revealed the benefits of taking cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins are far greater than the risks and the diabetes risk of taking the drug was "small". According to the researchers from iUCL and the University of Glasgow/i, among nearly 130 000 participants from clinical trials that previously tested the effect of statins on heart disease and stroke (major vascular events), those assigned statins vs. placebo, or higher vs. lower doses ...

Preventing and Treating Liver Cancer With a New Genetic Driver of Inflammation

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Inflammation has been considered to be a driving force behind many chronic diseases. Liver cancer often develops due to chronic inflammation caused by conditions such as viral hepatitis or alcoholism. The liver cancer has relatively few effective treatment options. Now, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have demonstrated for the first time in preclinical studies that blocking the expression of a gene known as astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) ...

Risk of Failure in School Linked to Lack of Sleep

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Adolescents who suffer from sleep disturbance or habitual short sleep duration are less likely to succeed academically compared to those who enjoy a good night's sleep, found a new Swedish study. The results have recently been published in the journal iSleep Medicine/i. In a new study involving more than 20,000 adolescents aged between 12 and 19 from Uppsala County, researchers from Uppsala University demonstrate that reports of sleep disturbance and habitual ...

Diabetes Has Become a Part of Life

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Measuring the daily rise and fall of blood glucose or sugar levels is a routine part of life for millions of people in the United States living with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Our body's energy is primarily governed by glucose in the blood, and blood sugar itself is exquisitely controlled by a complicated set of network interactions involving cells, tissues, organs and hormones that have evolved to keep the glucose on a relatively even keel, pumping it up when ...

'Five-a-day' Fruits, Veggies Consumption can be Good for Mental Health Too: Study

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Consuming recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables per day may not only be good for people's physical health but is also beneficial for their mental wellbeing, a new study has revealed. It was found in the study that 33.5 percent of people with high mental wellbeing ate five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day, compared with only 6.8 percent who ate less than one portion. 31.4 percent of those with high mental wellbeing ate three-four portions ...

Food Allergy Disorder - The Understudied Health Area

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Researchers have found that eosinophilic gastritis is a systemic disorder that has high levels of eosinophils in the blood and gastrointestinal tract. It involves a series of allergy-associated-immune mechanisms and has a gene expression pattern (transcriptome) that is distinct from that of a related disorder, eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). This was reported by investigators at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have published the first study to extensively characterize ...

Iran Photographer Pays Price for Artistic Freedom

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Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian was over the moon when she won a 50,000-euro prize from a French foundation. She never imagined she would lose it to "censorship" by her own benefactors. "I am very sad, disappointed. I was so happy that with this prize I finally get a reward for working in difficult conditions," the 33-year-old photographer who won the Carmignac Gestion photojournalism award in October 2013 told AFP. The brief of her project was to investigate ...

Rise of CO2 in Atmosphere Due to Arctic Sea Ice Depletion

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Arctic Sea ice helps remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere from the atmosphere, found a new study. Its depletion would result in an increase of atmospheric concentration of the gas. Dorte Haubjerg Sogaard, PhD Fellow, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, said that if their results are representative, then sea ice plays a greater role than expected, and we should take this into ...

Blood Disorder Due to Gene Mutation

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Gene mutation has been found to cause aplastic anemia, a serious blood disorder, by an international team of scientists. In this disorder, the bone marrow fails to produce normal amounts of blood cells. Studying a family in which three generations had blood disorders, the researchers discovered a defect in a gene that regulates telomeres, chromosomal structures with crucial roles in normal cell function. "Identifying this causal defect may help suggest future molecular-based ...

Mars Mission Success: PM Modi, Prez Mukherjee Congratulate ISRO Scientists

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Preisdent Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists on Wednesday for successfully going through with the orbit insertion manouvre of the 'Mangalyaan'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi closely watched the progress of the Mangalyaan from the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore. After the success of the mission, Prime Minister Modi said, "The short form of this Mars mission is MOM, and as soon as I heard ...

Regulatory Thermometer Controlling Cholera Discovered

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Findings on how humans get infected with cholera have been released this week, in an article published by the iProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/i. The research was done by Karl Klose, professor of biology and a researcher in UTSA's South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, teaming up with researchers at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. Cholera is an acute infection caused by ingestion of food or water that is contaminated with the ...

Current Treatments for Liver Cancer

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Current Treatments for Liver Cancer (also known as hepatoma or hepatocellular carcinoma) can result in complete cure of the disease if it is detected early.

Community College Medical Students Likelier to Serve Poor Communities

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The community college system is a potential source of student diversity for medical schools and physicians who will serve poor communities. However, there are significant challenges to enhancing the pipeline from community colleges to four-year universities to medical schools. The authors recommend that medical school and four-year university recruitment, outreach and admissions practices be more inclusive of community college students. FINDINGSResearchers ...

Gallbladder Surgery can Wait: Study

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Procedure to remove the gallbladder, laproscopic cholecystectomy, is a minimally invasive procedure. It is one of the most common abdominal surgeries in the U.S. Yet medical centers around the country vary in their approaches to the procedure with some moving patients quickly into surgery while others wait. In a study published online Monday in the iAmerican Journal of Surgery/i, researchers found gallbladder removal surgery can wait until regular working hours ...

Bane of His Life: American Man's 100 Orgasms Per Day

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An American man has been having about 100 orgasms a day, which has made his life miserable, it has been reported. Dale Decker revealed that the 'Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome' has cost him friends and has destroyed his family life, the Mirror reported. The 37-year-old said it's disgusting and it can break people real fast when they are in public or in front of their kids. Dale lives in Two Rivers, Wisconsin with his wife April and ...

Long 'Group Nature Walks' Lowers Stress and Depression

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Researchers revealed that taking long "group nature walks" could help people beat stress and anxiety. The study conducted by the University of Michigan, with partners from De Montfort University, James Hutton Institute, and Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom found that group nature walks are linked with significantly lower depression, less perceived stress and enhanced mental health and well-being. Sara Warber, M.D., associate professor of family medicine ...

Whiplash and Conditions that Mimic Whiplash

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Whiplash injury is an injury that common with road traffic accidents. Whiplash happens due to sudden acceleration of the vertebrae in the cervical spine.

Ebola Cases may Hit 1.4 Million Mark by January 2015, Cautions CDC

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reportedly predicted that the number of Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone could rise to between 550,000 and 1.4 million by January 2015 if there are no "additional interventions or changes in community behavior." The prediction was made in a report released by the CDC on Tuesday and is based on a new forecasting tool developed by the organization. The estimated range is wide because experts suspect that the ...

On Maiden US Visit, India's PM Pulls Out All Fashion Stops

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hired a top Mumbai designer to create outfits that will sell his vision of a newly confident India during his upcoming visit to the United States. India's politicians are often mocked by media for their crumpled traditional cotton shirt-and-pyjama attire, which serves as an austerity badge in a nation where simple living is prized as a political credo. But fashion experts say Modi, 64, has taken Indian political dress ...

Do Not Induce Labor Without Medical Reason Recommends AWHONN

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Healthcare providers and pregnant women are advised against inducing labor at any time during pregnancy unless it is medically necessary recommends the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). Approximately one-in-four U.S. births are induced, a number that has more than doubled since 1990. While there are limited data to distinguish how many of these inductions are for medical and non-medical reasons, there is no data to suggest that ...

US Soft Drink Giants Promise to Cut Calories to Fight Obesity

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Obesity epidemic is on the rise and US soft-drinks giants vowed to work to reduce the country's beverage calorie consumption by 20 percent by 2025 in a campaign to counter obesity trends. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr. Pepper Snapple pledged to provide smaller-sized bottles, and more water and other low- or no-calorie beverages, to the market to help bring down per-person consumption of their high-sugar drinks. They also agreed to better publicize calorie ...

Legionnaire's Disease: Lung Infection Kills Three More in Spain

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Three more people have died from Legionnaire's disease in Catalonia in northeastern Spain, bringing to seven the death toll from the lung infection in the region in just over a week. The three deaths took place in Ripollet, a town near Barcelona, Catalonia's health department said. Two other people in the town have been diagnosed with the disease, including one who is in hospital. Another four people have died from an outbreak of Legionnaire's ...