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Rationality Depends on Availability

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Human beings tend to make irrational economic decisions when they are free to focus on the irrelevant details of the purchases they make. The reason was the fact that scarcity breeds rationality, found in a study by University of Chicago. Their findings have implications for individuals facing their own budgetary choices and for policymakers working with budget constrained communities around the world. The researchers began their inquiry with a finding ...

Digitized Images Of Tongue Can Diagnose Various Diseases

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Almost every one of uswould have experienced doctors asking us to show "awww", for checking the tongue. Because, Tongue check up provides easy understanding of the underlying disease. The new diagnostic system, which is based on images of the tongue, can help in identifying the diseases.Researchers at Rajalakshmi Engineering College in Chennai, India have developed this system. This diagnostic system takes soft and hard inputs. Hard inputs ...

Gene Associated Wit Familial Glioma Identified by Scientists

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A gene associated with familial glioma (brain tumors that appear in two or more members of the same family), has been identified by an international consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine, thus providing new support that certain people may be genetically predisposed to the disease. "It is widely thought amongst the clinical community that there is no association between family history and development of glioma. Because we know very little about ...

India Witnesses Fall in HIV Numbers, but Still a Long Way to Go.

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India has 2.1 million people suffering from HIV, making it win a dubious distinction of having the world's 3rd largest HIV population. Surprisingly, only eight lakh people are undergoing Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) treatment, according to an official data. The number of HIV patients registered an increase in states where it was earlier being considered to be non-prevalent, with 10 such states together accounting for 57 % of new infections ...

Cuban Doctor Returns to Havana After Successful Battle With Ebola

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Cuban doctor returned to Havana on Saturday after being cured, in a Swiss hospital, of Ebola contracted while deployed in Sierra Leone. Felix Baez Sarria arrived via Paris on an Air France aircraft and was received by Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales. Wearing a blue shirt and walking under his own power, Baez appeared to be in good health. The 43-year-old doctor, who specializes in internal medicine at a military hospital in Havana, ...

Tobacco Provides Stress Relief: A Belief of Military Culture

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Tobacco use provides stress relief, is a well-established notion in the military culture, reveals a new study. However, Health Behavior News Service, part of the Center for Advancing Health, suggests that other stress relievers, such as exercise or taking meditation breaks, could be more valuable and effective than smoking breaks and avoid the health risks of tobacco. U.S. military tobacco use levels are high: 24 percent of military personnel ...

Website Launched for Organ Donation in Jaipur: Raj's Promise to State

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It is a novel idea to come up with a website to register for organ transplant. Minister Rajendra Rathore launched the website iwww.rnos.org/i on Saturday. Mohan Foundation's managing trustee, Dr. Sunil Shroff and Jaipur Citizen Forum's Chairman, Rajiv Arora were also present at the launch. Patients can now directly register online for their organ transplantation needs by just visiting this website. This will enable lesser waiting time for needy patients. The website ...

Improved Survival in Aggressive Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Study

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Combination of an existing agent cytarabine with a newer compound, vosaroxin, has been proven beneficial for patients who relapse in their battle with acute myeloid leukemia, found in a phase three study. The study, led by Farhad Ravandi, M.D, professor of medicine, department of leukemia at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, demonstrated increased survival rates, particularly in AML patients over age 60. Ravandi's study results were ...

"Superbugs" Getting Stronger: Antibiotics Failing to Resist Bacteria

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The overuse of antibiotics in hospitals and our farms is causing trouble in fighting bacteria. Doctors have recently detected that we are at the risk of facing everyday infections, which may no longer get cured through existing drugs. India has been victim to the "Superbugs" that killed 58,000 infants last year: A recent study revealed. Experts from the medical field have sent warning signals that antibiotic drugs for newborn babies are no longer able to fight ...

Higher-Risk MDS/AML Patients Benefit from Combination Therapy

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Combination of two therapies, namely, the drugs azacitidine (AZA) and lenalidomide (LEN), could be an effective frontline treatment regimen for patients with higher-risk forms of myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This was reported from a phase two study that investigated the potential of the drugs azacitidine (AZA) and lenalidomide (LEN). Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow does not make enough healthy ...

Rectifying Metabolic Abnormalities may Help in Lessening Urinary Problems

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Increased frequency and severity of lower urinary tract symptoms can result in metabolic syndrome. However, weight loss surgery can lessen these symptoms. The findings, which come from two studies published in emBJU International/em, indicate that urinary problems may be added to the list of issues that can improve with efforts that address altered metabolism. Lower urinary tract symptoms related to urinary frequency and urgency, bladder leakage, the need ...

Therapies for Children Benefits Young Adults With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

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Adolescent and young adult patients, aged 16 to 19, with acute lymphoblastic leukemia tend to fare better when treated with high-intensity pediatric protocols than previous patients who were treated with standard adult regimens. Results from a large, prospective clinical trial add up to mounting evidence of such a treatment. The intergroup trial, presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, enrolled 296 adolescent and young adult ...

Indian Mum With Rare Drug Reaction Stable but Prone to Complication

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Reports on Monday said that the 28-year-old Indian mum who had more than 30% of her skin peeled off due to a rare drug side effect might suffer from long-term complications. While there are no imminent threats to Heena Mustaqeem Khan's life anymore, medicos are closely monitoring her for any permanent damage to skin and eye sight. The young mother of two suffered from the severest form of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome called toxic epidermal necrolysis ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Calls for Eliminating Hunger in Britain

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Launching a report on Monday, the Archbishop of Canterbury urged Britain's government to do more in eliminating hunger among people who struggle to afford food. Justin Welby is backing the report by a group of lawmakers which was prompted by a huge increase in the number of Britons using food banks. These distribute free groceries to people who need them. The Trussell Trust, one of the main charities running food banks in Britain, says the number of people using ...

Paired Donor Exchange Kidney Transplantation

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Paired donor exchange kidney transplantation is a process in which unrelated kidney donors are matched to recipients so that compatible transplants can be performed.

Conversion of Sunlight into Electricity With 40 Percent Efficiency Achieved

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For the first time ever, the scientists have made a breakthrough by converting sunlight into electricity with over 40 percent efficiency. The record efficiency was achieved by UNSW Australia's solar researchers in outdoor tests in Sydney, before being independently confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at their outdoor test facility in the United States. The 40 percent efficiency milestone is the latest in a long line of achievements by ...

Symptom Evaluation of Food Poisoning

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Food poisoning is the infection caused due to consumption of contaminated food. Food contamination can happen at any time during handling of food, its preparation or storage.

Latest Results of Investigational Cellular Therapy Announced by Penn Researchers

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Clinical trials of more than 125 patients testing an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL019 was done by University of Pennsylvania research team. The latest results of the same will be presented at the 56th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition. Highlights of the new trial results will include a response rate of more than 90 percent among pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients, and results from the first lymphoma trials ...

Stem Cell Transplant Shows Promise Without Radiation or Chemotherapy Pre-treatment

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Patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant after pre-treatment with immunosuppressive drugs only and the outcomes showed promising results. Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report these promising outcomes from a clinical trial. This is the first trial reporting successful transplant in dyskeratosis congenita (DC) patients without the use of any radiation or conventional cytotoxic ...

Promising Results for Leukemia Patients With Novel Combinations

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Leukemia cannot be conquered with a "one-size-fits-all" approach. Researchers are pursuing novel targeted therapies and combinations of existing treatment regimens with new agents. These are beneficial for patient populations with historically poor prognoses, reveals the data presented today during the 56th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.In recent years, outcomes for patients with leukemia have steadily improved with the emergence ...

Prognosis of AML Improved by Oral Inhibitor in Clinical Activity

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Encouraging activity and tolerable side effects were shown in patients with treatment-resistant or relapsed acute myelogenous leukemia with oral targeted drug. Acute myelogenous leukemia is a poor-prognosis group with few options. This was given in a report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.Of 32 patients treated with the oral inhibitor ABT-199, five had eradication of their leukemia and several more had stable disease, ...

Metastasis in Multiple Myeloma Caused by Narrow Subset of Cells: Study

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Multiple myeloma is the most highly metastatic of all cancers, and is driven to spread by only a subset of the myeloma cells within a patient's body, find researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). The study suggests that attacking those subsets with targeted drugs may degrade the disease's ability to spread throughout the bone marrow of affected patients, the authors say. ...

Experts Reveal Top Ways to Stay Slim During Festive Season

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Nutrition experts provide tips and advice on how to stay in shape during this festive season. Florida State University's Department of Food, Nutrition and Exercise Science faculty members said that during the holidays, it can get extremely busy and stressful, good and bad stress, and we tend to overindulge so it is important to keep active. Associate Professor Lynn Panton said that if people know they have evening engagements, then can try exercising ...

Six Persons Blinded By Cataract Surgery may Have Vision Restored

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Vision may be restored by doctors, to at least six of 20 people blinded by botched free cataract surgery in northern India, a government official said on Saturday. Authorities have suggested poor surgical hygiene may be to blame for the loss of sight after what are normally considered low-risk operations, in the latest scandal to highlight poor medical care in parts of India. Authorities in India's Punjab state reported 20 confirmed cases of blindness ...

SprayLD Technique to Spray Solar Cells Using Light-sensitive Materials Onto Surfaces

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New technique that offers spray-on solar power has been invented as revealed by new research. The new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) is a major step toward making spray-on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture. Researcher Illan Kramer from the University of Toronto said that his dream is that one day people will have two technicians with Ghostbusters ...