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- Protein Power of Vegan Diet
- E-Cigarettes Could Cut Tobacco Use, Say Researchers
- Meet the Sleep Walking Artist
- Paracetamol may Increase Heart Failure Risk in Arthritis Sufferers
- Hangover-free Beer Invented
- Lasers Found in Toys Could Cause Serious Injury and Even Blindness
- Report Says Adult Obesity Rate in US Holds Steady
- Time to Check Emotional Health of Children Who Complain of Severe Stomach Ache With No Medical Reason
- Are You in the Habit of Posting Self Portraits on Facebook?
- Researchers Explain How Neurons Get Wired
- Researchers Find A Genetic Answer to the Alzheimer's Riddle
- Chemophobia Shouldn't be on the Menu: Dartmouth Study
- Probiotics Do Not Prevent Relapse in Crohn's Disease Patients: Research
- Mental Health Youth Report Paves the Way for Improved Access to Youth Services: Study
- After the Wenchuan Earthquake Relief Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Found in a Rescue Group
- Acellular Nerve Graft and Stem Cells for Repair of Long-segment Sciatic Nerve Defects: Research
- Future Effects of Climate Change Could Be Predicted With The Help Of Earth's 'Deep Time'
- NAS Panel 'Misled The World' When Adopting Radiation Exposure Guidelines: Toxicologist
- Jennifer Garner: No Calorie Counting and Botox
- Artists Develop Food Helmet That Keeps You Alive by Feeding You Algae
- Chinese Economy Slows Down
- Exorbitant Hotel Prices In Brazil Thanks to the World Cup
- US Universities Outrank Others in Global Annual Rankings
- Soft Drinks May Lead To Behavioral Problems In Children
- Antibiotic Therapy may Prevent TB in People Infected by HIV
- More Effective Anti-Clotting Drugs For Patients With Acute Chest Pain
- How Oxytocin may Help the Brain Take Notice of Faces in Autism
- New Policies in High Schools Reduce Binge Drinking in Gay Students
- Major Poultry Cull in Nepal to Combat Bird Flu
- Lowered Risk of Dementia With an Early Alzheimer's Test
- New App Turns Smartphone into Low-Cost Eye Scanner
- Children can Suffer Lung Damage from Sleeping in a Cold Bedroom for Even One Night
- Exercise is No Quick Fix for Sleeplessness
- People Who Have More Sex Earn More Money
- Men Have Higher Risk of Suffering from Sports-Related Sudden Death Than Women
- Compounds Found in Celery, Artichokes, can Kill Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells
- Study Finds Economic Burden of TB in EU Greater Than Cost of Developing More Effective Vaccines
- Students Interested in Communism to be Provided Free Classes in Vietnam
- Stem Cells in Heart Provide New Hope for Treating Heart Failure
- Sex Drive-In To Be Introduced in Zurich
- Prince William Says He Has Had a 'Few Sleepless Nights'
- Researchers Shed Light on Why We Tend to Lose Our Balance
- Prince William Describes His Son as 'Loud and Very Good Looking'
- Researchers Develop First Animal Model for Heterosexual Transmission of HIV
- For Post-Stroke Depression, Effects of Xingnao Jieyu Capsules are Similar to Fluoxetine
| Posted:  A Vegan diet eaten over the course of a day can meet the human dietary protein requirements and provide all essential amino acids, ensure adequate nitrogen retention and use in healthy adults.         |
| E-Cigarettes Could Cut Tobacco Use, Say Researchers Posted:  E-cigarettes could be a possible aid in getting people to stop smoking and thereby reducing their lung cancer risk, say The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers. E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that provide inhaled doses of nicotine vapors and flavorings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 6 percent of adults have tried e-cigarettes, a number that has nearly doubled since 2010. However, MD Anderson ...      |
| Posted:  Lee Hadwin - the sleep walking artist produces pieces of artwork in his sleep since the age of four and is unable to produce such pieces whilst awake. A series of drawings and paintings by Lee Hadwin as well as videos of him doing them will be shown at the tourist attraction 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not!', the Daily Express reported. Hadwin himself will make an appearance at the Piccadilly Circus venue on Friday and will be meeting his fans. He ...      |
| Paracetamol may Increase Heart Failure Risk in Arthritis Sufferers Posted:  Paracetamol may raise the risk of heart failure and stroke in arthritis sufferers, warn doctors. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said that they are 'seriously concerned' and are proposing new guidelines to curb the paracetamol's use, the Daily Express reported. Earlier, doctors routinely used to prescribe paracetamol as a cheap and effective way to treat the painful condition. A Nice spokesman said that ...      |
| Posted:  A beer that will hydrate rather than dehydrate the drinker has been invented by an Australian scientist. The catch is that it works only with beers with lower alcohol content. That does not worry the inventor, Associate Professor Ben Desbrow, a dietitian at Griffith University in Brisbane. He is actually "quite pleased" he has not come up with a recipe for a hangover-free night out. His aim is to make it safer for people ...      |
| Lasers Found in Toys Could Cause Serious Injury and Even Blindness Posted:  ...      |
| Report Says Adult Obesity Rate in US Holds Steady Posted:  In the United States, adult obesity rates held steady in the past year, says report. Arkansas was the lone exception to a trend that offers a glimmer of hope that Americans might finally be turning the corner in their long-term struggle against excess weight. Thirteen states now have adult obesity rates in excess of 30 percent, with Louisiana (34.7 percent), Mississippi (34.6 percent) and Arkansas (34.5 percent) topping the list. Colorado ...      |
| Posted:  Parents must be aware that some unexplained stomach pain in kids could have its roots in emotional problems. This condition is also known as function abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS). Children who experience severe stomach pain for which there is no medical reason could carry a risk of suffering from anxiety and depression, especially during their adult years. A study which monitored 330 children with unexplained chronic abdominal pain revealed that children ...      |
| Are You in the Habit of Posting Self Portraits on Facebook? Posted:  Are you in the habit of posting too many self portraits or selfies on Facebook ? If you thought that will win you more likes from friends and relatives, it might actually have the opposite effect, says a recent study. A new study has said that sharing too many selfies on social networking sites like Facebook, could actually have a negative impact on close relationships. A UK research has revealed that those who post photos too frequently ...      |
| Researchers Explain How Neurons Get Wired Posted:  An unknown mechanism that establishes polarity in developing nerve cells was discovered by the University of Arizona scientists. Understanding how nerve cells make connections is an important step in developing cures for nerve damage resulting from spinal cord injuries or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. In a study published on Aug. 12 in the journal iProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/i, UA doctoral student Sara Parker and her adviser, ...      |
| Researchers Find A Genetic Answer to the Alzheimer's Riddle Posted:  Thanks to a team at the University of Kentucky, we could soon pinpoint a hereditary cause for Alzheimer's, and intervene to reduce the risk of the disease. Researchers affiliated with the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have completed new work in Alzheimer's genetics; the research is detailed in a paper published today in the iJournal of Neuroscience/i. Emerging evidence indicates that, much like in the case of high cholesterol, some Alzheimer's disease risk ...      |
| Chemophobia Shouldn't be on the Menu: Dartmouth Study Posted:  A Dartmouth study finds that when it comes to what's for dinner - or breakfast and lunch for that matter-- many people suffer from chemophobia, an irrational fear of natural and synthetic chemicals that pose no risk to our health. Chemistry Professor Gordon Gribble/a, whose paper appears in the journal iFood Security/i/a, argues that low doses of chemicals in modern food are inherent, typically harmless and often highly beneficial. He says most people don't ...      |
| Probiotics Do Not Prevent Relapse in Crohn's Disease Patients: Research Posted:  The probiotic iSaccharomuces boulardii/i (iS. boulardii/i) does not prevent clinical relapse in patients with Crohn's disease, despite previous data showing beneficial effects, according to a new study in iClinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology/i, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. As more people seek natural or non-drug ways to maintain their health, products containing probiotics have flooded ...      |
| Mental Health Youth Report Paves the Way for Improved Access to Youth Services: Study Posted:  Two in five young people receiving services are experiencing significant concurrent mental health and substance use problems, finds a study of a cross-section of youth mental health services across Canada. The project, led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), also shows that increased collaboration between youth service providers can enhance services for youth. Building on similar pilot projects conducted by CAMH in Ontario, the National Youth Screening ...      |
| After the Wenchuan Earthquake Relief Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Found in a Rescue Group Posted:  The incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in earthquake rescue workers is relatively high suggests previous studies. Risk factors for this disorder include demographic characteristics, earthquake-related high-risk factors, risk factors in the rescue process, personality, social support and coping style. A recent study published in the iNeural Regeneration Research/i (Vol. 8, No. 20, 2013) examined the current status of a unit of 1 040 rescue workers ...      |
| Acellular Nerve Graft and Stem Cells for Repair of Long-segment Sciatic Nerve Defects: Research Posted:  Peripheral nerve defects are very common in clinical surgery. Freeing nerve, nerve diversions or joint flexion can be used to directly connect the two stumps of nerves by using microsurgical techniques; while for long-segment nerve defects, we require a bridging material to bridge defected nerves. Nerve allograft is the most similar to autologous nerve in structure with rich sources for repair of short-segment nerve defects. Antigenicity-free nerve allografts which ...      |
| Future Effects of Climate Change Could Be Predicted With The Help Of Earth's 'Deep Time' Posted:  Change in climate changes the way in which species interact with one another - a reality applicable not just to today or to the future, but also to the past, claims a new study. Lead author paleoecologist Jessica Blois of the University of California, Merced said that their team found that, at all time scales, climate change can alter biotic interactions in very complex ways. She said that if they don't incorporate this information when they are anticipating ...      |
| NAS Panel 'Misled The World' When Adopting Radiation Exposure Guidelines: Toxicologist Posted:  Toxicologist Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts Amherst describes how regulators came to adopt the linear no threshold (LNT) dose-response approach to ionizing radiation exposure in the 1950s, which was later generalized to chemical carcinogen risk assessment, in two recently published peer-reviewed articles. He also offers further evidence to support his earlier assertions that two geneticists deliberately suppressed evidence to prevent the U.S. ...      |
| Jennifer Garner: No Calorie Counting and Botox Posted:  Actress-producer Jennifer Garner hates calories counting and will not opt for roles that require drastic changes in her body. "There were times I had to watch every calorie that went into my body. Doing something like that again... it's not exactly on the top of my list," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Garner as saying. The 41-year-old, who has two daughters -- Violet, seven, Seraphina, four -- and a son -- 17-month-old Samuel -- with actor-husband Ben Affleck, ...      |
| Artists Develop Food Helmet That Keeps You Alive by Feeding You Algae Posted:  A suit that grows food while the person donning it, goes about their daily routine was developed by two artists. Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta's Algaculture Symbiosis Suit has a series of tubes, which are placed in front of the mouth, which capture carbon dioxide and feed it to suit-embedded algae's ever-growing population, Discovery News reported. The wearer just needs to sit by a window or go outside to help algae grow. The suit made ...      |
| Posted:  A plunge in the Chinese economy has given birth to lesser millionaires, a symbol of the growing wealth of the country, a new survey revealed. The number of millionaires -- defined as those with personal wealth of at least 10 million yuan ( (Dollar) 1.6 million) -- rose just three percent year-on-year to 1.05 million, said the independent Hurun Research Institute and consultancy GroupM Knowledge. The number of "super-rich" Chinese -- with personal wealth of at least ...      |
| Exorbitant Hotel Prices In Brazil Thanks to the World Cup Posted:  A Rio hotel will cost approximately (Dollar) 460 during the next year's world cup, which is around double the price in Johannesburg which hosted the finals in the previous years, officials claim. In Johannesburg in 2010, the average price of accommodation was (Dollar) 200 while in Berlin four years earlier it was (Dollar) 300, according to a report by the state tourism agency Embratur. The report compared current hotel rates with those for 2014 on the websites of hotels and ...      |
| US Universities Outrank Others in Global Annual Rankings Posted:  Universities based in the US dominate the top 20 in the global annual rankings with Harvard ranking first yet again. Only three non-American institutions made it into the top 20, all from Europe, including Britain's Cambridge in fifth place and Oxford in 10th in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities. The highest-ranked continental European university was the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 20th position. The rankings ...      |
| Soft Drinks May Lead To Behavioral Problems In Children Posted:  The per capita sakles of soft drinks is the largest in America. These drinks are consumed by individuals of all ages, including very young children. Although soft drink consumption is associated with aggression, depression, and suicidal thoughts in adolescents, the relationship had not been evaluated in younger children. A new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, University of Vermont, and Harvard School of Public Health in iThe Journal ...      |
| Antibiotic Therapy may Prevent TB in People Infected by HIV Posted:  One of the largest research to combat tuberculosis has revealed how antibiotic therapy could help people suffering from HIV lower their risk of suffering from TB and dying of it. Specifically, they found in men and women already infected with HIV that taking isoniazid reduced deaths and new cases of active TB disease by 31 percent, while new cases of TB alone decline by 13 percent. The research team's findings, to be published in the journal iLancet Infectious ...      |
| More Effective Anti-Clotting Drugs For Patients With Acute Chest Pain Posted:  Currently, medications and artery-clearing procedures are being used for people suffering from coronary syndrome such as heart attacks. In a new report from the TRILOGY ACS trial from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), in patients without artery-clearing procedures, those who had an angiography (a type of x-ray to view the inside of blood vessels) followed by prasugrel (Effient) had fewer heart attacks and strokes compared ...      |
| How Oxytocin may Help the Brain Take Notice of Faces in Autism Posted:  One of the most common issues of people suffering from autism spectrum disorder is difficulty in responding and registering to people's facial expressions. Relatedly, functional imaging studies have shown that individuals with ASD display altered brain activations when processing facial images. The hormone oxytocin plays a vital role in the social interactions of both animals and humans. In fact, multiple studies conducted with healthy volunteers have provided evidence ...      |
| New Policies in High Schools Reduce Binge Drinking in Gay Students Posted:  Gay-straight alliances and anti-homophobic policies in Canadian high schools may have a positive impact on gay and straight student's alcohol binge drinking problems, a new study claims. GSAs are student-led clubs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their straight allies. Their purpose is to provide support and advocacy and help make schools more inclusive. "These strategies appear to be helpful not only for ...      |
| Major Poultry Cull in Nepal to Combat Bird Flu Posted:  To combat a bird flu outbreak on the outskirts of Kathmandu, health workers in Nepal will cull over half a million chickens. The orders come after tens of thousands of birds have already been killed in what government officials describe as one of the Himalayan nation's worst outbreaks of avian flu. Some 62 cases of bird flu have been recorded at 250 poultry farms in three districts in the past few weeks, officials said. Officials at Directorate ...      |
| Lowered Risk of Dementia With an Early Alzheimer's Test Posted:  The earliest biological marker linked to the risk of Alzheimer's has now been discovered by scientists. The breakthrough could lead to people who may not fully develop dementia until a decade later being given drugs immediately. This is crucial as experts believe the key to beating the disease lies in identifying it early when treatment is more effective. Alzheimer's is incurable and currently there are only a few treatments which can ease ...      |
| New App Turns Smartphone into Low-Cost Eye Scanner Posted:  Researchers led by Dr Iain Livingstone, of Glasgow Centre for Ophthalmic Research and University of St Andrews' Dr Mario Giardini have developed a new app that can turn a smartphone into a highly portable and low cost eye scanner to diagnose eye health issues in remote areas. Currently, scanning for poor eye health requires equipment costing over 100,000 and around 15 trained staff to use. The app, called as Peek, on the other hand requires no staff, even ...      |
| Children can Suffer Lung Damage from Sleeping in a Cold Bedroom for Even One Night Posted:  Sleeping in a cold and frigid bedroom for even a single night can affect the lung function of a child for up to a fortnight, a new study conducted by researchers at Otago University reveals. Researchers led by Dr Nevil Pierse looked at more than a million temperature measurements in 405 homes in Bluff, Dunedin, Christchurch, Porirua, and the Hutt Valley and found that spending even an hour in a bedroom that had a one degree drop in temperature affected the lung function ...      |
| Exercise is No Quick Fix for Sleeplessness Posted:  A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests that while exercise may help insomniacs overcome their sleeping problem, it has more of a long-term impact and does not provide any quick fix. The study was conducted by researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who analyzed data from a 2010 clinical trial that looked into the link between exercise and sleep. The researchers observed the daily activities and sleeping ...      |
| People Who Have More Sex Earn More Money Posted:  A new study published by the Institute for Study of Labor in Germany suggests that people who have more sex tended to earn more money. The study was led by Nick Drydakis, an economics lecturer at Angila Ruskin University in Cambridge, who found that people who had sex at least four times in a week earned five percent more than those who did not have sex. Apart from financial benefits, regular sex also provided better emotional stability, lower risk of diseases, such ...      |
| Men Have Higher Risk of Suffering from Sports-Related Sudden Death Than Women Posted:  A new study conducted by French researchers has found that men were 20 times more likely to die during exercise or playing sports compared to women. Researchers at Paris Descartes University questioned emergency workers across France about their experience in dealing with sudden cardiac death and found that in total, around 775 people died during exercising, of which only 35 were women. Cycling seemed to be the most lethal form of exercise for men with 6.6 ...      |
| Compounds Found in Celery, Artichokes, can Kill Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells Posted:  Two new studies conducted by researchers at University of Illinois have found that flavonoid compounds, such as apigenin and luteolin, present in celery, artichokes and herbs, can kill human pancreatic cancer cells by inhibiting an important enzyme. "Apigenin alone induced cell death in two aggressive human pancreatic cancer cell lines. But we received the best results when we pre-treated cancer cells with apigenin for 24 hours, then applied the chemotherapeutic ...      |
| Study Finds Economic Burden of TB in EU Greater Than Cost of Developing More Effective Vaccines Posted:  A new study published in the European Respiratory Journal that estimated the average cost per case of tuberculosis in the European Union found that the economic burden of TB far outweighs the cost of investing in more effective vaccines. Researchers used a systematic review of literature and institutional websites for the 27 EU member states to summarise economic data on the treatment cost of TB cases in 2011. The researchers separated the countries ...      |
| Students Interested in Communism to be Provided Free Classes in Vietnam Posted:  Vietnamese students interested in communism will now be provided with free classes that teach Marxism, Leninism and the teachings of Ho Chi Minh with the government hoping that it will revive interest in the ideology behind the country's system of government. Philosophy students will not have to pay university tuition fees under a new scheme aimed at encouraging more people to embrace the unpopular classes. "We have not received enough applications for ...      |
| Stem Cells in Heart Provide New Hope for Treating Heart Failure Posted:  A group of stem cells present in the heart is responsible for the repair and regeneration of muscle tissue damaged by heart attack, a new study conducted by researchers at King's College London reveals. The study, published today in the journal iCell/i, shows that if the stem cells are eliminated, the heart is unable to repair after damage. If the cardiac stem cells are replaced the heart repairs itself, leading to complete cellular, anatomical and functional ...      |
| Sex Drive-In To Be Introduced in Zurich Posted:  Authorities have said that the launch of a sex drive-in at Zurich will enable them to keep closer tabs on prostitution. Due to be opened officially in a ceremony on August 26, the nine so-called "sex boxes" are located in a former industrial zone in the west of the metropolis, Zurich city hall said in a statement. The site will be open daily from 7:00 pm to 5:00 am, and only to drivers, who must be alone in their vehicle if they want to pass the gate. ...      |
| Prince William Says He Has Had a 'Few Sleepless Nights' Posted:  ...      |
| Researchers Shed Light on Why We Tend to Lose Our Balance Posted:  Researchers at University of Michigan reveal that understanding what happens during the critical window of time between the brain sensing a fall and muscles responding could be key to explaining why a large number of elderly suffer from serious falls. A better understanding of what happens in the brain and muscles during this lag could go a long way toward prevention. To that end, researchers at the U-M School of Kinesiology developed a novel way of ...      |
| Prince William Describes His Son as 'Loud and Very Good Looking' Posted:  ...      |
| Researchers Develop First Animal Model for Heterosexual Transmission of HIV Posted:  Even though a number of animal models have been developed over the last three decades to study aspects of HIV infection, pathogenesis and control, none of the models had managed to replicate the physiological environment of the most common route of HIV transmission worldwide, vaginal intercourse. Now researchers led by Mary Jane Potash at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and New York's Columbia University Medical Center have come up with a new approach for modeling ...      |
| For Post-Stroke Depression, Effects of Xingnao Jieyu Capsules are Similar to Fluoxetine Posted:  Several biological, psychological, and social factors have been linked to the occurrence of post-stroke depression. These factors involve neurotransmitters, neuroendocrine effects, nerve anatomy, neurotrophic factors, neural regeneration, inflammatory reactions, and social psyche factors. Synaptotagmin promotes neurotransmitter release, regulates the transfer of synaptic vesicle to synaptic active zones, and is a key factor in information transfer among neurons. ...      |
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