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Skin Pigment Could Revolutionize Medical Electronics: Study

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Melanin is the pigment that imparts colour to the skin, eyes and hair. It could soon be the face of a new generation of bio-friendly devices used in medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments. A study conducted by Paul Meredith and Ben Powell from the University of Queensland and other scientists provides remarkable insight into the electrical properties of this pigment and its biologically compatible "bio-electronic" features. "Semiconductors ...

At Greater Risk of Stillbirth Are Tiniest And Largest Foetuses

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New research has found that the lightest and the heaviest foetuses are at much higher risk of being stillborn than those of average weight. Stillbirth is traditionally defined as the death of a foetus at more than 23 weeks of gestation weighing 500 grams or more. Foetuses which are "severely small for gestational age," disproportionately account for about six percent of all stillbirths, according to researchers of St. Michael's Hospital. Foetuses ...

Boost Your Libido By Hitting The Gym

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A study has found that middle aged men who exercise get a boost to their sex drive along with a higher sperm count and stronger erections. Losing weight reduces the chances of low testosterone levels by up to 50 percent in more mature males. The results come from a study by Dublin doctors of 900 men with an average age of 54 taking part in a US diabetes prevention programme, Daily Mail reported. Weight loss can delay or avoid the onset of ...

Men Are Happiest When Sharing Housework: Study

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According to a study, men are happiest when sharing housework. Arguments decline and general happiness of the home gets better when men do more of the job of looking after the house, it says. Husbands and boyfriends feel guilty when they don't do their share of the work around the home, Daily Mail reported Wednesday quoting Cambridge researchers. But it also said that men prefer a quiet life with the domestic chores to a noisier one with ...

Fidgeting Linked to Longevity

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Fidgeting prolongs lifespan, a new study reveals. Sitting for long periods has been linked to bad health and hence people who keep fidgeting are likely to live longer. Spending too much time on sedentary activities like watching television or working at a computer can shorten lifespan and raise the risk of heart disease and strokes. But breaking up sitting time throughout the day with simple activities like walking or stretching your legs - even if it ...

Drug From Easter Island May Prevent Memory Decline With Age

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People more likely to lose their cognitive skills such as learning and memory decline as they age. Scientists now claim to have found a drug that has Polynesian roots which offers exciting results. The researchers, appointed in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, added Rapamycin to the diet of healthy mice throughout the rodents' life span. The study showed that Rapamycin, a bacterial product first isolated ...

Battle Against Dengue Fever By Sri Lankan Troops

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Officials said that thousands of Sri Lankan troops joined a massive clean up operation to eliminate mosquito-breeding grounds as part of a national effort to contain the dengue virus. Soldiers removed garbage piles and helped clear blocked drains in public schools to fight dengue, which is spread by mosquitoes, after more than 75 deaths from the disease this year. "The clean up operation began in schools with the help of the military," health ministry ...

Helping People Unable to Speak 'Back-and-forth' Communication Using Brain Speller

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Development of a device that may enable people who are completely unable to speak or move at all to nevertheless manage unscripted back-and-forth conversation by researchers. The key to such silent and still communication is the first real-time, brain-scanning speller, according to the researchers. The new technology builds on groundbreaking earlier uses of fMRI brain scans to assess consciousness in people described as being in an unconscious, vegetative ...

Govt Urged To Consider Nation-wide Ban of Use of Animals for Testing Cosmetics By PETA

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A PETA official met the Deputy Drug Controller and urged him to consider the possibility of a nation-wide ban on the use of animals for testing cosmetics. The meeting took place between the PETA Science Policy Advisor Dr Chaitanya Koduri and Guru S Nair of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and the Deputy Drug Controller, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, S. Manivannan. The talks were arranged by Guru S. Nair in support of PETA's ongoing campaign ...

Specialists Say That Alzheimer's Just a Normal Part of Ageing

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Alzheimer's is the second most feared disease after cancer. Despite this fact a mental health specialist has said that it shouldn't be regarded as a tragedy, but as a normal part of the ageing process in people aged 85 and over. Just as other parts of the body degenerate - eyes, bones, heart and skin - our brain is also likely to degenerate as we enter advanced age. David Spektor, a specialist in aged persons' mental health, will address the international ...

Quiz on Anxiety Disorder

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Those who have experienced anxiety disorder know how awful it can be. This quiz tells you more about this disorder.

Hitting Menopause Before 46 Make Women Prone to Heart Attacks

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Reaching menopause before the age of 46 make women more at risk of suffering from heart attack or stroke as compared to women who go through the change later in life, reveals a new study. The findings from a diverse group of U.S. women supports results of earlier studies, which had focused only on white women. Early menopause was found to double the risk of stroke and heart attack. Lead author Dr Melissa Wellons, from the University of Alabama ...

New Study Confirms Link Between Fish Intake and Brainpower

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An Omega-3 fatty acid called Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in fish boosts our memory and brainpower, says a study. Principal investigator Yves Sauve and his team from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine (and) Dentistry discovered lab models fed a high-DHA diet had 30 percent higher levels in the memory part known as the hippocampus, when compared to animal models on a regular, healthy diet. "We wanted to find out how fish intake improves memory," ...

Rajasthan Government to Distribute 200 New Generic Drugs Free

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Rajasthan has decided to distribute 200 new generic drugs free of cost. Under the Chief Minister's Free Medicine Scheme launched Oct 2 last year, 414 most-used drugs and surgical instruments are at present available at 14,964 distribution centres in government health centres, dispensaries and hospitals across the state. Considering the popularity of the programme, which has so far benefited over 44 million patients, the state government recently ...

Russian Expert Recommends Schools Not To Teach Maths or Physics on Thursdays

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A chief sanitary doctor from Russia has recommended schools to refrain from teaching difficult subjects like mathematics and physics to children on Thursdays because it was "the hardest day of the week". "Children have their own bio-rhythms and Thursday is the hardest day of the week," RIA Novosti quoted Gennady Onishchenko as telling the Ekho Moskvy radio station in an interview. "Therefore, it is not recommended to teach difficult subjects like mathematics ...

Self-chilling Beer To Hit UK Markets Soon!

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Here's cheering news for the beer buffs who crave for chilled bottles during summers. The world's first self-chilling beer can, which turns into ice cold in just two minutes, without the need for a fridge, is likely to hit the UK markets this year. All you need to do is to hit a button at the can's base, which releases pressurized carbon dioxide from a capsule, chilling the can by 15 degrees Celsius within two minutes. The can, its supporters ...

Quiz on Stress

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A quiz which helps you to understand stress overload, identify symptoms of stress and manage stress better.

Effect of High Protein and High Carbohydrate Breakfast in Anorexia and Bulimia Patients

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Ghrelin, obestatin are peptides that play a vital role in maintaining energy homeostasis. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa hamper the secretion of these peptides. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a peptide neurotransmitter that is found in autonomic nervous system and brain and is concerned with energy regulation. Peptide YY (PYY) is a protein released by the cells of colon and ileum. In human beings it reduces the appetite. Peptide YY ...

Immune Responses Play Key Role in Controlling Influenza Virus Infection: Study

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Innate and adaptive immune responses are important to the control of influenza virus infection, reveals study published on PLoS Computational Biology. Influenza, as a contagious respiratory illness remains a major public health problem worldwide. Seasonal and pandemic influenza results in approximately 3 to 569 million cases of severe illness and approximately 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. Although most infected subjects with intact immune systems are ...

H (and) R Johnson to Enter Indian Wellness Industry

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By the end of July, H (and) R Johnson (India) a leading tile manufacturer for floor, bathroom and kitchen is set to enter the wellness industry, say officials. "We are foraying into wellness by end of next month (July). We are all prepared to launch our super-premium wellness products, including enclosures and Jacuzzi products," Ajit Singh, vice-president (Sales), told media persons here. The company, which is infusing around Rs.400 crore as part of ...

Role of FOXO1 Gene in Parkinson's Disease Discovered

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FOXO1 gene may play an important role in the pathological mechanisms of Parkinson's disease, say researchers. These findings are published online in iPLoS Genetics/i, a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science. The study was led by Alexandra Dumitriu, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the department of neurology at BUSM. Richard Myers, PhD, professor of neurology at BUSM, is the study's senior author. According ...

Berlin Hospital Suspends Circumcisions

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A hospital in Berlin suspends circumcisions after court ruling that preforming the procedure on religious grounds is unlawful, say sources. "We are suspending circumcisions until the legal position is clear," Gerhard Nerlich told AFP, citing head of internal medicine Kirstof Graf. The hospital performs 300 circumcisions a year, a third of which are for religious reasons and the remainder due to medical concerns. "We regularly performed ...

Mom's Risk of Early Death Skyrockets After Child's Death: Study

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According to a new study, in the first two years following the death of a child, there is a 133% increase in the risk of the mother dying. The was conducted by the University Of Notre Dame. Titled "Maternal bereavement: the heightened mortality of mothers after the death of a child," the study is published in the current issue of IEconomics and Human Biology. /IResearchers William Evans, a health and labor economist at Notre Dame, and Javier Espinosa ...

Ability to Estimate Quantity Increases in First 30 Years of Life: Researchers

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According to researchers, one of the basic elements of cognition is the ability to estimate quantities that grow more precisely across the first 30 or more years of a person's life. The researchers are supported by the National Institutes Of Health. This intuitive grasp of numbers, also called an approximate number sense, or ANS, is tied to concrete math skills at every stage of life, the researchers found. Previously, the researchers have reported ...

A Step Toward Minute Factories That Produce Medicine Inside the Body: Scientists

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Advance toward treating disease with minute capsules containing the DNA and other biological machinery for making the drug is being reported by scientists. They describe engineering micro- and nano-sized capsules that contain the genetically coded instructions, plus the read-out gear and assembly line for protein synthesis that can be switched on with an external signal in an article in ACS' journal iNano Letters/i. Daniel Anderson and colleagues explain that ...

Joining Hands for New TB Drug Are Pharmaceutical Bigwigs

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Efforts to aid research on a new drug for tuberculosis have been stepped up by pharmaceutical companies and research institutions. These are in association with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Tuberculosis is a disease that annually kills three lakh Indians. "The partnership, TB Drug Accelerator (TBDA), will target the discovery of new TB drugs by collaborating on early-stage research. The long-term goal of the TBDA is to create a TB drug that cures patients ...

Higher Rates of Childhood Obesity Linked To Environmental Chemical

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According to a new study obese children show greater exposure than nonobese children to phthalate. Phthalate is a chemical used to soften plastics in some children's toys and many household products. The study found that the obesity risk increases according to the level of the chemical found in the bloodstream. The study will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. The chemical, di-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), is a common ...

Hindu Women Fight for Divorce Rights In Bangladesh

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Tarulata Rani is unable to inherit anything from her family, cannot divorce and cannot claim maintenance from her absent husband unlike her Muslim compatriots. All these problems happen just because she is a Bangladeshi Hindu. br Unlike Bangladeshi Muslims or Hindus in neighbouring India and Nepal, Bangladeshi Hindu women can't divorce as the legal provisions do not exist and their marriages have not been allowed to be officially registered. "Is it a crime ...

Human Brain Being Mimicked By Google's Artificial Intelligence Computer

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The latest technology that is being touted as a breakthrough by Google scientists is a computer that is able to "learn" like a human brain and recognise the picture of a cat. The computer is based on a "neural network" of 16,000 processing cores with more than a billion interconnections, each very roughly simulating a connection in a human brain. A team from Google's cutting-edge research lab, Google X, and Stanford University, fed the system 10 million ...

Japanese Researchers Create a "human-machine Cooperation System"

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Japanese researchers from the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Tokyo have created a robot which they have called the "human-machine cooperation system." This robot is a winning creation which can always beat the humans at rock paper scissors. This robot has a high-speed camera which can recognize the shape of your hand in just a millisecond before it plays its winning hand. The research is an example of how a robot can react to human motion within a few ...