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- Top Ten Foods for Healthy Hair
- New Biochip Could Enable Fast Flu Virus Detection
- Menstrual Periods - Symptom Evaluation
- Human Clinical Trial of Artificial Pancreas System Shows Positive Results
- Fear of the Dark Contributes to Sleep Disturbances in Some Adults: Study
- Cardiovascular Disease Risk Heightened by 'Bad' Dieting
- Experts Say Arctic Ice Melt may Lead to Severe Winters in US
- Four Inherited Clues To Migraines, Gene Search Turns on the Floodlight
- Sorcery Shrouds African Sleeping Sickness
- Verdict On First Drug To Avert HIV Infection Deferred by FDA
- Loads of Money Still Insufficient In Particular For Neurotics
- After A Night Shift Drowsy Medical Staff Face Amplified Danger Of Accidents Driving Home
- Obesity Negatively Projects Limited Disease Activity Attainment In People With PSA
- Keying Differential Proteins Found In Maternal Serum With Down Syndrome
- Study Says Health Woes Persist for Young Cancer Survivors
- HIV Superinfection Rate Comparable To Initial HIV Infection Recommends New Latest Data
- 126 New Drugs Approved by UAE
- Gene in Programmed Axon Degeneration Identified
- Link Between Second-hand Smoke and Urinary Disorders in Kids
- Treating Esophageal Cancer With Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy
- Treat Prostate Cancer in Half an Hour: British Surgeons
- Lack of Sleep Ups Stroke Risk
- 'Time Bomb' to Fight Cardiovascular Disease Developed
| Top Ten Foods for Healthy Hair Posted:  The top ten healthy foods for your hair can help to stop wasting your fortunes in expensive salons and get satisfactory results in a healthy way.         |
| New Biochip Could Enable Fast Flu Virus Detection Posted:  SMART biochip can speedily detect the flu virus and can be carried in a first aid kit, say researchers. The biochip, designed by Brown University researchers, zeroes in on the infected RNA sequence and separates it from the larger strand with the help of tiny magnets. SMART stands for "A Simple Method for Amplifying RNA Targets". Physically, it is essentially a series of tubes with bulbs on the ends of each, etched like channels into the biochip, ...      |
| Menstrual Periods - Symptom Evaluation Posted:  An understanding of the causes of menstrual period abnormalities is necessary for correct diagnosis and effective treatment.      |
| Human Clinical Trial of Artificial Pancreas System Shows Positive Results Posted:  Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Minimizer (HHM) System - first human clinical trial setting automatically predicts the rise and fall in blood glucose and corresponding increase/decrease in insulin delivery, say scientists. The HHM System included a continuous, subcutaneous insulin pump, a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and special software used to predict changes in blood glucose. The study was conducted by Animas Corporation in collaboration with JDRF as part of an ongoing ...      |
| Fear of the Dark Contributes to Sleep Disturbances in Some Adults: Study Posted:  Though hard to admit a contributing factor of insomnia is an adult's fear of the dark, shows result of a small study of Toronto college students. Nearly half of the students who reported having poor sleep also reported a fear of the dark. Researchers confirmed this objectively by measuring blink responses to sudden noise bursts in light and dark surroundings. Good sleepers became accustomed to the noise bursts but the poor sleepers grew more anticipatory when the ...      |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Heightened by 'Bad' Dieting Posted:  Regional and national dietary intervention to lessen fat intake, reduced cholesterol levels, but a shift to the popular low carbohydrate diet was paralleled by in an increase in cholesterol levels, shown premiering in a 25 year study in Northern Sweden, published in BioMed Central's open access journal iNutrition Journal/i. Over the entire 25 year period the population BMI continued to increase, regardless of either diet, and both the increase in body mass and increased ...      |
| Experts Say Arctic Ice Melt may Lead to Severe Winters in US Posted:  Melting Arctic ice may lead to severe winters in the United States, say experts. That's because melting Arctic sea ice can trigger a domino effect leading to increased odds of severe winter weather outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere's middle latitudes. "Everyone thinks of Arctic climate change as this remote phenomenon that has little effect on our everyday lives," Charles H. Greene said. "But what goes on in the Arctic remotely forces ...      |
| Four Inherited Clues To Migraines, Gene Search Turns on the Floodlight Posted:  Four more genes that highlight an inherited cause for common migraine trapped by European and Australian scientists on Sunday. The genetic variants were spotted in a trawl through the DNA code of 4,800 people with a history of "migraine without aura," which accounts for two-thirds of migraine attacks. But the telltales were absent among more than 7,000 counterparts who did not suffer from these debilitating headaches. In previous work, researchers ...      |
| Sorcery Shrouds African Sleeping Sickness Posted:  Feeble 65-year-old woman resting under the mango trees in a rural village in Chad is a victim ailing from a tropical disease that eats into the brain, and the village folks blame it on witchcraft. "I've been suffering for more than two months now. I have headaches, fever, and I just feel very tired," said Lea Sadene, who has just been tested and diagnosed. She has Human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, which is transmitted ...      |
| Verdict On First Drug To Avert HIV Infection Deferred by FDA Posted:  A decision on whether to approve Truvada as the first pill that prevents HIV infection is postponed until mid-September by US health regulators. Drug maker Gilead Sciences said on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would take an additional three months to review its drug application, after the California Company submitted additional materials to the agency earlier this month. In May, a panel of experts recommended approval of the daily ...      |
| Loads of Money Still Insufficient In Particular For Neurotics Posted:  Money pouring in probably will not make you happier particularly if you are neurotic, suggests a new study. In a working paper, economist Dr Eugenio Proto, from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick, looked at how personality traits can affect the way we feel about our income in terms of levels of life satisfaction. In the study, which used data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German ...      |
| After A Night Shift Drowsy Medical Staff Face Amplified Danger Of Accidents Driving Home Posted:  State of drowsiness felt by medical staff, who are on night shift can make their driving unsafe, French find researchers. The first study to use simulated driving tests on medical staff returning home after a night shift showed that, under the monotonous driving conditions similar to those experienced on autoroutes (motorways or highways), it was more difficult for them to hold a straight line while driving than it was when they had not been working overnight. They also had ...      |
| Obesity Negatively Projects Limited Disease Activity Attainment In People With PSA Posted:  People with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who are initiated into anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) treatment and follow a hypocaloric diet have a notably better chance of reaching minimal disease activity (MDA, an important measure of disease activity) at six months compared to those on a standard diet states study presented at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism. The results of an Italian study of 138 obese PsA patients demonstrated ...      |
| Keying Differential Proteins Found In Maternal Serum With Down Syndrome Posted:  Improvement in prenatal screening for Down Syndrome (DS) is still a requirement of top priority. After much hard word the perinatal medicine experts have found new biomarkers for screening of DS. Dr. Shi he Shao and his co-investigators, from Jiangsu University and Changzhou Woman and Children Health Hospital, report in the May 2012 issue of iExperimental Biology and Medicine/i that they have successfully identified twenty-nine differentially expressed proteins in maternal ...      |
| Study Says Health Woes Persist for Young Cancer Survivors Posted:  Young cancer survivors are more likely to engage in risky behavior like smoking, finds US study. They also are more likely to be overweight and have mental health issues and financial problems than their cancer-free counterparts, said the research in the journal Cancer, a peer-reviewed publication of the American Cancer Society. "There are a lot of factors that play into it," said lead author Eric Tai of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...      |
| HIV Superinfection Rate Comparable To Initial HIV Infection Recommends New Latest Data Posted:  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) superinfection perhaps as familiar as initial HIV infection, in addition is not restricted to high risk-populations, states a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In the first large-scale study of HIV superinfection in a general heterosexual population, researchers examined the rate of superinfection among a community of sub-Saharan ...      |
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| Gene in Programmed Axon Degeneration Identified Posted:  A gene responsible for actively promoting axon destruction after injury has been identified by University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers. The research, published today online by iScience/i, provides evidence of an exciting new therapeutic target that could be used to delay or even stop axon decay. "This discovery has the potential to have a profound impact on our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, much like the discovery of apoptosis ...      |
| Link Between Second-hand Smoke and Urinary Disorders in Kids Posted:  Exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke ups risk of urinary disorders in children, says study. "Our research shows that exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke increases the risk of severe urinary disorders in children, that may otherwise be reduced or even prevented," Joseph G. Barone, said. "Our results emphasize the importance of smoking cessation for parents. Pediatricians and family physicians are urged to discuss with parents opportunities that ...      |
| Treating Esophageal Cancer With Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy Posted:  Esophageal cancer, the eighth-most prevalent cancer globally, causes over 400,000 deaths annually with the 5-year survival rate rarely exceeding 40%. Esophageal adenocarcinoma incidence continues to rise while squamous-cell carcinoma incidence rates have stayed steady. During 2004-2008, clinical investigators studied the efficacy of surgery with or without neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherapy in various esophageal cancers. Neo-adjuvant therapy is the treatment ...      |
| Treat Prostate Cancer in Half an Hour: British Surgeons Posted:  British surgeons have designed a new form of prostate cancer treatment that takes only 30 minutes. The technique is just as effective as surgery but is cheaper and has fewer side effects, Daily Mail reported. This means men are back on their feet and back at work sooner and are much less likely to suffer problems such as impotence and incontinence, the newspaper said Friday. The treatment, pioneered at the Royal Surrey County Hospital ...      |
| Posted:  Among middle age to older adults, sleeping less than six hours a night increases the risk of stroke symptoms, reveals study. The participants had no history of stroke, transient ischemic attack, stroke symptoms or high risk for OSA at the start of the study, being presented today at SLEEP 2012. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham recorded the first stroke symptoms, along with demographic information, stroke risk factors, depression symptoms ...      |
| 'Time Bomb' to Fight Cardiovascular Disease Developed Posted:  Nanocontainers that have the ability to release the vasodilator content to the diseased areas have been developed by researchers. Nanotechnology in medicineThough no biomarker specific to atherosclerosis has been identified, there is a physical phenomenon inherent to stenosis (the narrowing of blood vessels) known as shear stress. This force results from fluctuations in blood flow induced by the narrowing of the artery and runs parallel to the flow of blood. ...      |
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