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Manipur Youth Attend Anti-Drugs Seminar Held by Assam Rifles
Eating Smaller Bites can Help Dieters Lose Weight
Sri Lanka To Unleash Stringent Punishments Against Child Abuse
Tough Battle Against Surge In TB Cases in Madagascar
Employees' Interests is an Indicator to Employee's Likely Performance At Work
'Mad Cow Disease' In Cattle Can Extend Extensively In ANS Before Detectable In CNS: Study
Living On 'Caveman' Diet Helps 'Fitness-Mad' Button Stay Fit
Study Says Contraception Saves 250,000 Lives Each Year
Obesity Does Not Increase Death Risk
Frankincense as an Alternative Medicine
Molecule Identified That Makes Fat Cells Fatter
Study Says Diabetics Face Four Times Greater TB Risk
Gastric Bypass Surgery Induces Changes in Gut Microbiota
Respect is the Key to Happiness, Not Bank Balance
Pediatric Tumors Traced to Brain Stem Cells
Kiwis Initiate Facebook Organ Donor Scheme
Researchers Explore Link Between Obesity and Circle of Friends
Patients With or Without Rheumatoid Arthritis Receive Routine Cancer Screening: Study
Iron Supplements Help Ease Fatigue in Nonanemic Women
Sitting Less may Boost Life Expectancy
Smoking Adds to Air Pollution

Manipur Youth Attend Anti-Drugs Seminar Held by Assam Rifles

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A daylong seminar in Manipur was organized by Assam Rifles to spread awareness against the use of drugs expecting to see a drug free society in Manipur. Hundreds of scholars, army personnel and school students participated in the "Think Health -Not Drugs" seminar organized at Assam Rifles Headquarters. It served as a platform to discuss the dangers of consuming drugs and ways to combat it. The speakers discussed the role of different agencies ...

Eating Smaller Bites can Help Dieters Lose Weight

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Cutting food into smaller pieces can help people shed those extra kilos, say scientists. Researchers found that both humans and animals judge the amount of food they are eating by the number of pieces in front of them. A serving cut into several pieces will appear more filling even if contains the same number of calories. During the research, the scientists observed that when rats were trained to associate one part of a maze with a 300mg ...

Sri Lanka To Unleash Stringent Punishments Against Child Abuse

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The government of Sri Lanka is planning to impose severe punishments against offenders, with the advent of mounting cases of child abuse, an official said on Monday. Discussions are underway with the Ministry of Justice and other law enforcement officials to introduce severe punishments on culprits, said Asoka Alawatta, acting Secretary of the Child Development and Women's Affairs Ministry. Meanwhile the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA), a government ...

Tough Battle Against Surge In TB Cases in Madagascar

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Following six months of pain that grew so intense Perline Razanadravao could no longer work, she then eventually decided to go with her equally sick baby to visit a doctor. "I had pain everywhere, in my muscles," said the 26-year-old rice grower. She went first to the local health centre near her home village of Lakatu, which sent her to the nearest clinic to her home, the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, run by Catholic nuns on the outskirts ...

Employees' Interests is an Indicator to Employee's Likely Performance At Work

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Interests of an employee could be a better way to deduce who will perform well on the job suggests a new study. When evaluating job applicants, employers want to be sure that they choose the right person for the job. Many employers, from consulting firms to federal agencies, will ask prospective employees to complete extensive tests and questionnaires to get a better sense of what those employees might be like in an office setting. Although ...

'Mad Cow Disease' In Cattle Can Extend Extensively In ANS Before Detectable In CNS: Study

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Mad Cow Disease or Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a deadly disease in cattle that results in fractions of the brain to turn resembling a sponge. This transmissible disease is caused by the propagation of a misfolded form of protein known as a prion, rather than by a bacterium or virus. The average time from infection to signs of illness is about 60 months. Little is known about the pathogenesis of BSE in the early incubation period. Previous research has reported ...

Living On 'Caveman' Diet Helps 'Fitness-Mad' Button Stay Fit

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Dietitians have asked Jenson Button maintain a diet like that of a caveman, and Button added that consuming loads of red meat is helping him stay fit. The McLaren ace, who is in his 13th season in F1, is the sixth eldest on the grid behind the likes of veteran Michael Schumacher. The fitness-mad 32-year-old says he has been working with dietitians, who have analyzed his blood group and discovered he functions best on a diet of red meat. "I've ...

Study Says Contraception Saves 250,000 Lives Each Year

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Contraception saves more than a quarter of million lives each year, show results. In 2008, 355,000 women died while giving birth or from illegal or dangerous abortions, a study published by The Lancet said. But more than 250,000 deaths were averted that year because contraception reduced unwanted pregnancies, it said. "If all women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy use an effective contraceptive method, the number of ...

Obesity Does Not Increase Death Risk

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Being overweight/obese doesn't increase risk of death, say University of California-Davis researchers. Compared to those with normal weight, people who were overweight or obese had no increased risk of death during a follow-up period of six years. People who were severely obese did have a higher risk, but only if they also had diabetes or hypertension. The findings question previous studies, using data collected when obesity was less common, ...

Frankincense as an Alternative Medicine

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The resin from the trunk of Boswellia trees contains anti-inflammatory substances, say scientists. The chair of Pharmaceutical and Medical Chemistry is convinced that these substances can be very beneficial in therapies against diseases like asthma, rheumatoid arthritis or atopic dermatitis. However, so far the active substances in frankincense cannot at present be found in drugs in German pharmacies, as the pharmacological impact of frankincense ...

Molecule Identified That Makes Fat Cells Fatter

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A group of scientists at the University of Michigan carried out a study to understand why the fat-storing cells get fatter and takes a long time to metabolize fat in obese individuals. Obesity is a fast becoming a world -wide phenomenon and the morbidity and mortality burden due to obesity is increasing globally at an alarming rate. Ormond MacDougald and his colleagues tried to study the signals sent by fat-storing cells to each other in ...

Study Says Diabetics Face Four Times Greater TB Risk

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The risk of tuberculosis is four times higher in diabetics, reveals study conducted by the University of Copenhagen. As a diabetic, a person is five times as likely to die during tuberculosis treatment. The growing number of diabetics in Asia and Africa increases the likelihood that more people will succumb to and die from tuberculosis in the future. University of Copenhagen researchers have just completed a major research project in Tanzania in ...

Gastric Bypass Surgery Induces Changes in Gut Microbiota

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Gastric bypass surgery alters gut mircobita and peptide release that resemble those seen after treatment with prebiotics, states recent study. Previous animal research demonstrated that ingestion of a high-fat diet produces weight gain and profoundly affects the gut microbiota composition, resulting in a greater abundance of one type of bacteria called Firmicutes, and a decrease in Bifidobacteria spp and Bacteroidetes. A similar pattern has also been ...

Respect is the Key to Happiness, Not Bank Balance

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According to a new research, a person's overall happiness is not based on his bank balance but on the degree of respect and admiration he commands in his immediate circle and society. Psychological scientist Cameron Anderson who works at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues explored the link between different types of societal status and a person's well-being. "We got interested in this ...

Pediatric Tumors Traced to Brain Stem Cells

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Brain stem cells fuel the growth of brain tumors, say Washington University School of Medicine researchers. Scientists showed in mice that disabling a gene linked to a common pediatric tumor disorder, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), made stem cells from one part of the brain proliferate rapidly. But the same genetic deficit had no effect on stem cells from another brain region. The results can be explained by differences in the way stem cells from these regions ...

Kiwis Initiate Facebook Organ Donor Scheme

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Facebook users in New Zealand will be able to share their organ donor status with their FB friends. The potential donors can now display "organ donor" as a life event on their timeline. New Zealand is the fifth country to be a part of the online project that has been initiated to increase awareness regarding organ donation and to motivate the public to become registered organ donors. Other countries that are already a part of this project are United ...

Researchers Explore Link Between Obesity and Circle of Friends

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A person's circle of friends influence his/her body weight, reveals study. Students were more likely to gain weight if they had friends who were heavier than they were. Conversely, students were more likely to get trimmer -- or gain weight at a slower pace -- if their friends were leaner than they were. Results of the study by David Shoham, PhD, and colleagues are published in the journal iPLoS ONE/i. Shoham is an assistant professor in the Department ...

Patients With or Without Rheumatoid Arthritis Receive Routine Cancer Screening: Study

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Rheumatoid arthritis and non-rheumatoid arthritis patients get routine screening for breast, cervical and colon cancer at similar rates, states study. The ACR estimates that 1.3 million adult Americans are affected by RA-a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by systemic inflammation of the joints that over time may damage joints, impair daily function, and cause significant disability. Medical evidence confirms that despite early and aggressive ...

Iron Supplements Help Ease Fatigue in Nonanemic Women

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In a recent study published in CMAJ it was found that iron supplements help reduce fatigue in women who are low in iron but not anemic. "We found that iron supplementation for 12 weeks decreased fatigue by almost 50% from baseline, a significant difference of 19% compared with placebo, in menstruating iron-deficient nonanemic women with unexplained fatigue and ferritin levels below 50 (and) #956;g/L," writes Dr. Bernard Favrat, Department of Ambulatory Care ...

Sitting Less may Boost Life Expectancy

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Sitting less than 3 hours a day may extend American lives, reveals study. Reducing television viewing to under two hours a day could similarly add 1.4 years, the US team said in a paper in the online journal BMJ Open. A recent study found that US adults spend about 7.7 hours per day engaged in "sedentary behaviour". "Yes, this would be a challenge," co-author Peter Katzmarzyk of the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre told AFP of the ...

Smoking Adds to Air Pollution

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Smoking in public places increases the level of fine harmful particles in the air, reveals a recent study. Study by researchers from Otago University has found that cigarettes elevate the risk of a number of dangerous fine particulates which are connected to lung cancer and heart disease. "Smoking is adding to air pollution. People are being exposed to this all the time, as well as industry pollution and home fires. If we had smoke free streets that would be ...