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Many Elite College Athletes Return to Play After ACL Surgery: Study

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The majority of athletes included in a new study by researchers at the iUniversity of North Carolina School of Medicine/i were able to return to play after having knee surgery to repair an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. In addition, the study found that athletes who had ACL surgery when they were in high school or younger were much more likely to suffer repeat ACL reinjuries than athletes who experienced their first ACL injury during collegiate play. ...

T N Ninan Takes Over as New Chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre

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Chairman of Business Standard and award-winning editor, Thoppil Ninan Ninan has taken over as the new Chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre (formerly Aspen Institute India). Ninan succeeds Founder and Chairman, Avantha Group, Gautam Thapar, as the new Chairman of the Centre, following the latter's decision to step down after a stellar five-year term. In an illustrious career spanning a quarter-century in the media, Ninan has been at the helm of several news ...

Train Your Brain to Prefer Healthy Foods and Lose Weight

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Want to lose weight, but just can't say no to your favorite junk food and high sugar snacks? Here is the solution and it can be done in a few months. Train your brain to prefer healthy foods. Contrary to the popular belief, scientists at theiJean Mayer US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and at Massachusetts General Hospital/ihave found that it is possible to train the brain to choose healthy ...

Foods that Negatively Affect Bone Density

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Calcium and vitamin D are known to improve bone health. Most people are aware of the foods which promote bone health but are unaware of those that lower bone density leading to osteoporosis.

Amazon Brings Transsexuals into the Mainstream With "Transparent"

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"Transparent", Amazon.com's new online TV show aims to bring the transsexual community firmly into the mainstream, just like what the popular TV series "Modern Family" did for gay parents. "In terms of changing the conversation, these shows have an immense amount of reach," said Jay Brown of the Human Rights Campaign, which supports the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. Produced by Jill Soloway and with Jeffrey Tambor in the central ...

Islamic State Teen Terror Suspect Shot Dead in Melbourne After Stabbing Cops

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A teenage terror suspect believed to be associated with Islamic State (IS) group was shot to death in Australia after he brutally stabbed two police officers. Islamic State is the radical group that controls many areas of Iraq and Syria. The stabbing and shooting happened at a police station in Melbourne. According to News.com.au, police believe that 18-year old Numan Haider's plan was to follow instructions from the Islamic State and behead officers and then cover ...

Enzyme That Combats Deadly Diseases

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Researchers of a new study suggest sleeping sickness and other deadly diseases could be fought by an enzyme found in all living things. The enzyme, which helps cells convert nutrients into energy, is activated in different ways in various species. The researchers say this discovery creates an opportunity to design drugs that block activity of the enzyme - known as pyruvate kinase - in species that cause infection. Blocking the enzyme would effectively kill the parasite, ...

Simple Ways to Deal with Work Related Stress

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Work-related stress has many causes and symptoms. But there are ways workplace stress can be managed with ease.

100 Dead and 200 Patients Found During Ebola Lockdown

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During the three-day lockdown to curb the deadly Ebola epidemic that has been raging in west Africa approximately 100 bodies and 200 patients had been collected from homes in Sierra Leone. Almost six million people across the country were confined indoors for 72 hours from Friday while 28,000 volunteers went door-to-door, giving out advice and identifying new suspected cases and deaths that had been kept from the authorities. "Over 92 bodies were discovered ...

Damaged Livers Could be Saved Without Surgery By Injecting Tonsils Stem Cells

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Scientists have found a promising way to repair damaged livers without surgery by injecting stem cells from tonsils, a body part we don't really need. The liver, however provides critical functions, such as ridding the body of toxins. Failure of this organ can be deadly, and there are few options for fixing it. This study is reported in the journal iACS Applied Materials (and) Interfaces/i. William A. Mitch, Avner Vengosh and colleagues point out that the disposal of ...

A Step in the Right Direction may Avoid Falls: Research

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At The Ohio State University, researchers have gained new insight into how the body moves when we're walking. They learned everything they needed to know by watching people walk naturally on a treadmill. In normal walking, humans place their foot at slightly different positions on each step. To the untrained eye, this step-to-step variation in foot position just looks random and noisy. But in the Sept. 24, 2014, issue of the journal iBiology Letters/i, ...

Ebola's Path from a Guinean Toddler to Global Mayhem

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In a remote Guinean village, when a toddler suddenly died from a mysterious fever last December, no one could have imagined it signalled the start of the worst-ever Ebola epidemic. The outbreak that has swept through west Africa like wildfire, killing nearly 3,000 people so far and threatening to infect tens of thousands in the coming weeks, smouldered undetected for months before erupting onto the world stage. The virus first took hold in a triangle-shaped ...

Guinean Asylum Seeker Suspected With Ebola Case Admitted to Swiss Hospital

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In Switzerland, a Guinean asylum seeker has been hospitalised with suspected Ebola, health authorities announced Tuesday. "The individual fulfils the criteria for a suspected case of Ebola virus," the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health said in a statement. He was being monitored under tightly controlled conditions at the University Hospital in the western city of Lausanne, it said. "He is undergoing medical examinations in order to determine ...

Dying Brain Cells Cue New Brain Cells to Grow

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Brain cells that multiply to help birds sing during breeding season are known to die back naturally later in the year. For the first time researchers have described the series of events that cues new neuron growth each spring, and it all appears to start with a signal from the expiring cells the previous fall that primes the brain to start producing stem cells. If scientists can further tap into the process and understand how those signals work, it might lead to ...

Domesticated Sheep Breeds and Climate Adaptation

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Man has domesticated animals for thousands of years, selecting the best traits possible for survival. Now, livestock such as sheep offer an intriguing animal to examine adaptation to climate change, with a genetic legacy of centuries of selected breeding and a wealth of livestock genome-wide data available. In a first-of-its kind study that combined molecular and environmental data, professor Meng-Hua Li et al., performed a search for genes under environmental ...

Ebola-Hit French Nurse in 'Stable Condition'

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A French nurse who contracted Ebola while volunteering for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Liberia and was flown back to Paris is in a "stable" condition, informs the humanitarian group. The nurse was airlifted back to France last week and is being treated in the Begin military hospital on the outskirts of the capital, where she is being given experimental treatments to fight the deadly disease. "Her condition is stable and doctors are doing their ...

Immune System is a Clinician's Most Powerful Ally in Cyberwar Against Cancer

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Rice University scientists who are fighting a cyberwar against cancer finds that the immune system may be a clinician's most powerful ally. "Recent research has found that cancer is already adept at using cyberwarfare against the immune system, and we studied the interplay between cancer and the immune system to see how we might turn the tables on cancer," said Rice University's Eshel Ben-Jacob, co-author of a new study this week in the Early Edition of the emProceedings ...

Healthcare Professionals Accept False-Positives to Achieve Diagnostic Sensitivity

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Both healthcare professionals and patients believe diagnosis of extracolonic malignancy with screening computed tomography (CT) colonography greatly outweighs the potential disadvantages of subsequent radiologic or invasive follow-up tests precipitated by false-positive diagnoses. This is according to a new study published in the October issue of the journal emRadiology/em. Diagnostic tests used for cancer screening programs usually target a specific ...

Ebola Epidemic to Explode Without Drastic Action

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The Ebola epidemic is set to explode unless the response is radically intensified, says WHO, warning that hundreds of thousands could be infected by the end of the year. The UN agency said in a report that new cases would surge from hundreds each week to thousands without "drastic improvements in control measures", with the number of infections set to more than triple to 20,000 by November. "We've rather modestly only extended the projections to November ...

Detail Reports of the 1st EORTC Cancer Survivorship Summit

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The special issue of the iEuropean Journal of Cancer/i presents detailed reports on the wide range of research presented during the 1st EORTC Cancer Survivorship Summit held in Brussels, Belgium. Early diagnosis, targeted therapeutics, and more personalized multimodal treatments has boosted survival rates of patients with cancer and led to a large and rapidly increasing number of cancer survivors. Despite this good news, cancer survivors are often confronted ...

New Hope for Beloved Family Pet Dogs

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One out of four dogs will develop cancer in their lifetime and 20 per cent of those will be lymphoma cases. A team of researchers from the University of Leicester has helped Avacta Animal Health Ltd to develop a new user-friendly electronic system for diagnosing lymphoma in dogs in the early stages, and for remission monitoring. Marketed as cLBT (canine lymphoma blood test), this is the first test of its kind to track the remission monitoring status ...

Preventing Gender-Based Violence and Its Consequences

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Gender-based violence affects the mental and physical health of girls and boys, men and women around the world. A recent study by researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University addresses the challenge of developing effective strategies to change inequitable and harmful social norms that result in gender-based violence. Inequitable gender norms are not only related to domestic violence, but also to other behaviors such ...

Dating, Sexual Activity Among Single Parents of Young Children in US: New Insight

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It is often assumed that single parents, particularly single parents of young children refrain from dating and indulging in sexual activity. A new study from The Kinsey Institute has found that single parents of children younger than 5 go dating and are sexually active as often as singles without children - and more so than single parents of older children. The study, "Dating and Sexual Behavior Among Single Parents of Young Children in the United States," was ...

Islamic State Fighters Reportedly Raping Thousands of Women to Make 'More IS Babies'

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Thousands of women are reportedly raped and impregnated in Iraq and Syria by members of the Islamic State militant group to populate the caliphate, reveals a shocking new report. According to the New York Post, an Iraqi official said that young militants are running wild to the chagrin of their more sophisticated and p.r.-savvy commanders. The IS men raping women have clear motives which includes creating more IS babies and indulging in perverse thrills. ...

One Dutch Doctor Feared to be Infected With Ebola Virus Has Malaria

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Dutch public health authorities declared that one of two Dutch doctors feared to have been infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has malaria. "She's being treated for malaria," Harald Wychgel, spokesman for the National Institute for Health and the Environment (RIVM), told AFP of Erdi Huizenga. "We have carried out tests to see if she's also infected with Ebola. The results show that for the time being she does not have Ebola," said Wychgel. ...

Sleep Apnea Screening Before Surgery Suggested by New Research

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Screening and treatment for obstructive sleep apnea is suggested before going for a surgery, by a new research. A first-of-its-kind study in the October issue of iAnesthesiology/i, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (Regd) (ASA (Regd) ) suggests that patients with OSA who are diagnosed and treated for the condition prior to surgery are less likely to develop serious cardiovascular complications such as cardiac arrest or shock. "OSA ...