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List of Healthy Office Snacks - Slide Show

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Portable snacks are a good idea of healthier meals during office working hours. Some healthy work snacks are sandwiches, fruits, and nuts.

Research Says Male Breast Cancer Should be Treated Differently from That of Female

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Results presented at the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, of a male breast cancer program conducted in Europe and US, EORTC10085/TBCRC/BIG/NABCG International Male Breast Cancer Program, reports significant improvement in survival for men with breast cancer, but this improvement was not as good as that observed for women. The study, which included 1822 men treated for breast cancer between 1990 and 2010, provides much needed information about the clinical and biological ...

Immune Cells in the Brain Perform a Role That may Contribute to Obesity

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A new study by UC San Francisco researchers, reports that immune cells perform a previously unsuspected role in the brain that may contribute to obesity. When the researchers fed mice a diet high in saturated milk fats, microglia, a type of immune cell, underwent a population explosion in the brain region called the hypothalamus, which is responsible for feeding behavior. The researchers used an experimental drug and, alternatively, a genetic approach ...

UN Warns About Food Insecurity in Drought-hit Central American Countries

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The UN's humanitarian agency's spokesperson warned on Friday that a drawn-out drought in Central America has pushed some 2.5 million people in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador into food insecurity. The drought in the three countries is "turning into a creeping humanitarian crisis," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN's humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva. Subsistence farmers, farm labourers and low-income families were especially at risk, ...

Studies Show Migraine may Not be Associated With Breast Cancer

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A new study published on December, 12 in the iJNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute/i reports that migraine, which has been proposed to be associated with breast cancer risk or differences in the endogenous sex hormones, has been proven not to be associated with any of these. Studies linking migraine to breast cancer have reported inconsistent results. Furthermore, a biological mechanism underlying such an association has not been investigated although ...

TGen Uses the X and Y Chromosome Genetics to Track Down a Young Girl's Neurological Disorder

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The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered a way to track down the source of a neurological disorder in a young girl, using a basic genetic difference between men and women. TGen's discovery relies on a simple genetic fact: Men have one X and one Y chromosome, while women have two X chromosomes. This women-only factor was leveraged by TGen investigators to develop a highly accurate method of tracking down a previously unrecognized disorder ...

Quiz on Anal Cancer

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Anal cancer is relatively a rare type of cancer that occurs in the anal canal. The anal canal is a short passage that connects the rectum to the outside of the body from where the stool is passed.

Experts Recommend Children to Undergo Early Vision Health Screening

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A report published in the January issue of iOptometry and Vision Science/i, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry, recommends children to undergo vision health screening between age 36 and 72 months, preferably every year, using evidence-based test methods and with effective referral and follow-up. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams (and) Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The National Expert Panel to The National Center for Children's ...

UNICEF Scales Up Ebola Fight, Needs (Dollar) 500mn for Next Six Months

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The UN children's agency said on Friday that it was scaling up efforts to fight Ebola, including to help thousands of children in west Africa orphaned by the deadly virus. The agency said it had already received the (Dollar) 200 million (160 million euros) it had previously appealed for but now estimated it would need (Dollar) 300 million more over the next six months. The expanded budget would among other things help provide protection services to many of the estimated ...

Sierra Leone Cancels Christmas Celebrations as Ebola Crisis Deepens

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Sierra Leone said on Friday it was banning any public Christmas celebrations as the spiralling caseload of Ebola infections continues to spread alarm. Soldiers are to be deployed throughout the festive period to force people venturing onto the streets back indoors, the government's Ebola response unit said. Palo Conteh, head of the department, told reporters in the capital Freetown there would be "no Christmas and New Year celebrations this year". "We ...

Training Elderly in Social Media Improves Cognitive Capacity

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Training older people in the use of social media improves cognitive capacity, increases a sense of self-competence and could have a beneficial overall impact on mental health and well-being, according to a landmark study carried out in the UK. A two-year project funded by the European Union and led by the University of Exeter in partnership with Somerset Care Ltd and Torbay (and) Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust gave a group of vulnerable older adults a specially-designed ...

Link Between Low Blood Glucose and Cardiovascular Events Exposed

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A study conducted by scientists at the University of Leicester has established a link between hypoglycaemia and increased risk of cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with diabetes. Professors Kamlesh Khunti and Melanie Davies, scientists from the University of Leicester's Diabetes Research Centre, have confirmed an association between hypoglycaemia and an increased risk of cardiovascular events and mortality in insulin-treated patients with diabetes, ...

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Unlikely to Reach Epidemic Levels

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A new study has suggested that it is possible to stop Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which is a viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012, from reaching pandemic or even epidemic status. In three new studies in the current issue of the, researchers reported on clinical outcomes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), how long patients will shed virus during their infections, and how the Sultanate of Oman is dealing ...

Protein That Controls Fat Levels in the Body Found

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Studies report that a protein that governs the making of other proteins in the cell also appears to be capable of controlling fat levels in the body. The finding, which appeared in emCell Reports/em on Dec. 11, applies to the Maf1 protein in worms. A version of the protein, which exists in humans, also regulates protein production in the cell, raising the possibility that it too may control fat storage. A protein with such a function would offer ...

Acupuncture Helps Treat Sick Owls

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Two months ago a 25-centimetre (10-inch) owl, or Athene Noctua, hurt his back when he flew by mistake into a stovepipe at a factory in eastern Madrid, Spain. The bird was sent to Brinzal, an owl-rescue charity based in a park in the west of the city, where acupuncturist Edurne Cornejo pricks four fine needles into his legs to stimulate key points in his nervous system. The owl was unable to stand when he was brought to Brinzal. After 10 weekly acupuncture sessions the ...

Deoxygenated Hemoglobin in RBCs Converts Nitrite to Nitric Oxide

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Researchers from Wake Forest University have shown that conversion of nitrite to nitric oxide by deoxygenated hemoglobin in red blood cells affects blood flow and clotting. It reduces platelet activation, and this action has implications in treatments to reduce clotting in pathological conditions including sickle cell disease, hypertension, heart attack and stroke. The researchers used several biophysical techniques to measure nitric oxide production from nitrite and ...

Malaria Drug Resistance in SE Asia is Due to Single Mutated Gene

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A new study has revealed that malaria drug resistance in Southeast Asia is caused by a single mutated gene, K13, in the disease-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite. K13 mutations produce a relatively weak resistance. A related study shows that K13 mutations enable the parasite to hide in red blood cells in a developmental state that is naturally less vulnerable to artemisinin. David Fidock, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology and of medical sciences ...

Our Personality may Affect Our Health and Wellbeing

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A new study by health psychologists at The University of Nottingham and the University of California in Los Angeles has revealed how certain aspects of our personality may affect our health and wellbeing. Researchers used highly sensitive microarray technology to examine relationships between five major human personality traits and two groups of genes active in human white blood cells (leukocytes) - one involving inflammation, and another involving antiviral responses ...

22.7 Percent Pregnant Women Suffer Intimate Partner Violence- Emotional, Physical or Sexual

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The prevalence of partner violence against pregnant women is high in Spain when compared with nearby countries. An investigation into the prevalence of domestic violence against pregnant women has revealed that 22.7% endure some kind of violence; emotional, physical or sexual by their intimate partner. While 21% of women suffered emotional violence during pregnancy, 3.6% encountered physical or sexual violence. Stella Martn de las Heras, researcher at the University ...

Psychotropic Medication Use Among Kentucky Youth Almost Double Than National Average

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Researchers with the Child and Adolescent Health Research Design and Support Unit (CAHRDS Unit) at the University of Louisville have begun a study to examine the higher-than-average rate of psychotropic medication being prescribed to children in the Bluegrass State, Kentucky. Psychotropic medications (PMs) alter chemical levels in the brain that impact an individuals' mood and behavior. Antipsychotics, antidepressants, drugs for attention deficit disorder and attention ...

Brain of Obese Children Responds More to Sugar

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Scientists at University of California have discovered that brains of obese children have a different response to sugar. This elevated sense of 'food reward' involves being motivated by food and deriving a good feeling from it. This could mean some children have brain circuitries that predispose them to crave more sugar throughout life. The researchers studied brain scans of 23 children to study the early development of the food reward circuitry in pre-adolescents. ...

Drug that Lowers Parathyroid Levels May Help Prevent Bone Fractures in Patients on Dialysis

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A drug that mimics calcium and lowers parathyroid levels may help prevent bone fractures in patients with kidney failure who are on dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the iJournal of the American Society of Nephrology/i (JASN). Patients with kidney failure who are undergoing dialysis have an increased risk of bone fractures, and the risk of dying after a hip fracture in such a patient is double that of the general population. Unfortunately, ...

Genomic Analysis, Key to Understanding Bird Evolution

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66 million years ago, the dinosaurs, as we think about them, became extinct, but certain reptiles and birds survived this mass extinction. The birds that survived experienced rapid evolution and diversification. Until now, explaining the family tree of modern birds has been a difficult and controversial subject amongst scientists. Thanks to the research of an international consortium involving researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, we now ...

Scientists Map the Human Loop-ome, Revealing a New Form of Genetic Regulation

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The ancient Japanese art of origami is based on the idea that nearly any design - a crane, an insect, a samurai warrior - can be made by taking the same blank sheet of paper and folding it in different ways. The human body faces a similar problem. The genome inside every cell of the body is identical, but the body needs each cell to be different - an immune cell fights off infection; a cone cell helps the eye detect light; the heart's myocytes must beat endlessly. ...

New Targeted Drugs Could Treat Drug-Resistant Skin Cancer

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Clinical trials to test the new drugs in patients should begin as early as 2015. Existing drugs target faulty versions of a protein called BRAF which drives about half of all melanomas, but while initially very effective, the cancers almost always become resistant to treatment within a year. The new drugs - called panRAF inhibitors - could be effective in patients with melanoma who have developed resistance to BRAF inhibitors. The new study ...

Southampton Scientists Discover New Antibody Which Could Help Fight Cancer

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Scientists at the University of Southampton have found that the precise shape of an antibody makes a big difference to how it can stimulate the body's immune system to fight cancer, paving the way for much more effective treatments. The latest types of treatment for cancer are designed to switch on the immune system, allowing the patient's own immune cells to attack and kill cancerous cells, when normally the immune cells would lie dormant. In a study, ...

World Support for Ebola: US (Dollar) 35 Million Funding from King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia

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Zaire ebolavirus is commonly known as a href="http:www.medindia.net/medical-quiz/quiz-on-ebola.asp" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink" alt="" title=""Ebola/a. It was previously known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever and is a deadly human illness. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is transmitted to humans from wild animals and among human population, it is through human-to-human transmission. h3Where did Ebola originate? /h3 The disease acquired its name from the ...