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Food Labels to to Display Food Details More Clearly for the Welfare of Customers
Indian Court Rejects German Drug Giant's Bid With Public Health Interests in Mind
The Alternative View of How Complex Life Came to be
Our Ancestors may Have Mastered Using Fire 350,000 Years Ago
White Fat Cells Reprogrammed to Become Browner and Increase Fat Burning
Low Blood Glucose Levels in Diabetics can be Fatal for Heart
Unsafe Conditions Still Killing New Mothers and Newborns
Patient Awakes from Post-Traumatic MCS After Administration of Depressant Drug
Researchers Tame the Inflammatory Response in Kidney Dialysis
Perioperative Surgical Home Improves Quality, Reduces Health Care Costs

Food Labels to to Display Food Details More Clearly for the Welfare of Customers

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Restaurants and other businesses need to tell customers if their food could trigger allergies or raise other health concerns in a new EU labeling rule taking effect on Saturday. "Key content information will now be more clearly marked on labels, helping people make informed choices on the food they buy," Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said in a statement. The labeling, which has been three years in the making, applies to food ...

Indian Court Rejects German Drug Giant's Bid With Public Health Interests in Mind

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A bid by German drug giant Bayer's, to block a generic version of its blockbuster cancer treatment Nexavar by a local drug maker was rejected by the Indian court on Saturday, which was a move hailed by activists. The judges rejected an appeal by Bayer on Friday that contested a March 2012 decision by India's patent controller, who had argued the price charged by Bayer for the liver and kidney drug, (Dollar) 5,500-per-person, per month in India was far too costly for most ...

The Alternative View of How Complex Life Came to be

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A new theory has suggested an alternate path which led to the evolution of complex life on Earth. All complex life, including plants, animals and fungi, is made up of eukaryotic cells, cells with a nucleus and other complex internal machinery used to perform the functions an organism needs to stay alive and healthy and humans, for example, are composed of 220 different kinds of eukaryotic cells, which, working in groups, control everything from thinking and locomotion ...

Our Ancestors may Have Mastered Using Fire 350,000 Years Ago

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A new research sheds light on an Israeli cave that has given few hints about when humans mastered fire. The study suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago which is far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates. Ron Shimelmitz, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa and a co-author on the new study, said that Tabun Cave was ...

White Fat Cells Reprogrammed to Become Browner and Increase Fat Burning

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White adipose tissue stores excess calories as fat which can be released for use in other organs during fasting. Mammals also have small amounts of brown adipose tissue, which primarily acts as an effective fat burner for the production of heat. Now researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have uncovered the mechanism by which white fat cells from humans gets reprogrammed to become browner. Browning of white adipose tissue increases the energy ...

Low Blood Glucose Levels in Diabetics can be Fatal for Heart

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A new study has confirmed a link between hypoglycaemia and an increased risk of cardiovascular events and mortality in insulin-treated patients with diabetes. Scientists from the University of Leicester demonstrated that, following hypoglycaemia, insulin-treated patients with diabetes had a 60 percent higher risk of cardiovascular events and were between 2-2.5 times more likely to die over the same period as patients who did not experience hypoglycaemia. Researcher ...

Unsafe Conditions Still Killing New Mothers and Newborns

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A matter of birth and death: Unsafe conditions are still killing new mothers and their newborns. ulliNew publication reports that a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in birth settings is killing mothers and newborns in the developing worldliCall by nine leading health organisations for governments to act to save lives and enable skilled health workers to do their jobs /ulWaterAid and the London School of Hygiene (and) Tropical Medicine today ...

Patient Awakes from Post-Traumatic MCS After Administration of Depressant Drug

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A patient who had suffered a traumatic brain injury unexpectedly recovered full consciousness after the administration of midazolam, a mild depressant drug of the GABA A agonists family. This resulted in the first recorded case of an "awakening" from a minimally-conscious state (MCS) using this therapy. Although similar awakenings have been reported using other drugs, this dramatic result was unanticipated. It is reported in emRestorative Neurology and Neuroscience/em. ...

Researchers Tame the Inflammatory Response in Kidney Dialysis

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Frequent kidney dialysis is essential for the approximately 350,000 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in the United States. But it can also cause systemic inflammation, leading to complications such as cardiovascular disease and anemia, and patients who rely on the therapy have a five-year survival rate of only 35 percent. Such inflammation can be triggered when the complement cascade, part of the body's innate immune system, is inadvertently activated by modern polymer-based ...

Perioperative Surgical Home Improves Quality, Reduces Health Care Costs

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The Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) model consistently and significantly improves quality of care for patients and reduces health care costs, reports a first-of-its-kind, large-scale literature review of the PSH in the United States and abroad. The review, published online this month in iMilbank Quarterly/i, provides further evidence to support the benefits, and encourage the adoption, of the PSH model. "There is a global push for more rigorously coordinated ...