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Meet the Man Who Cannot Feel Fear

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Jordy Cernik has been devoid of fear since he got rid of the gland that produces adrenaline. Adrenaline makes us feel scared. Jordy Cernik, from Jarrow, near Newcastle, was suffering from a rare condition called Cushing's syndrome and in order to treat the disease he had to undergo an operation to remove the adrenalin-producing gland, the Mirror reported. Since then the dad-of-two has not feared any of his daredevil exploits and is planning on ...

Conditions Most Likely to Kill Encephalitis Patients-Identified

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People suffering from encephalitis are more likely to die if they develop intractable seizures, low blood platelet counts or swelling of the brain, a new study from John Hopkins claims. The Johns Hopkins investigators say the findings suggest that if physicians are on the lookout for these potentially reversible conditions and treat them aggressively at the first sign of trouble, patients are more likely to survive. "The factors most associated with ...

Energy Boosters Before a Workout

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Eating foods that boost your energy before a workout helps in delaying fatigue. It allows you to push harder for better performance.

Arsenic in Drinking Water may Lead to Lung Damage

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Exposure to moderate amount of arsenic in drinking water could impair lung function, a new study claims. Doses of about 120 parts per billion of arsenic in well water-about 12 times the dose generally considered safe-produced lung damage comparable to decades of smoking tobacco. Smoking, especially by males, made arsenic-related damage even worse. This is the first population-based study to clearly demonstrate significant impairment of lung function, in some cases ...

'Bat' Linked to MERS Outbreak in the Middle East

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A bat may be responsible for the potentially fatal coronavirus that is currently plaguing the Middle East, a new study claims. Researchers said they detected a 100 percent genetic match in an insect-eating bat close to the home of the first known victim of the disease in Saudi Arabia. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has killed 47 people worldwide, 39 of them in Saudi Arabia. "There have been several reports of finding MERS-like viruses in ...

Elfi-Tech MDLS Sensor Good to Spot Variety of Blood Characteristics

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A company from Israel, Elfi-Tech, has come out with a minute sensor which is capable of detecting several blood characteristics. For instance, it can detect the level of vascular ageing, pulse and velocity of blood flow below the skin, and coagulation status. Namedas Elfi Tech mDLS Sensor for Consumer Devices uses dynamic light scattering for detection, and is versatile as it can be used anywhere on the body. "The mDLS sensor is easily deployed, simple ...

Electronic Assistant for the Seniors

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Robots find themselves useful in many ways and now they have been found to help the elderly as in-home helpers. In this league are Twendy-One and GiraffPlus. Recently, a group of European research institutes and companies have come together to make a robot as part of their Mobiserv project. This robot which took researchers three years to make, comes with sensors, a touch screen interface, and stereoscopic cameras. It can speak, and understand human ...

Jaw Dislocates After a Bite of Triple-patty Hamburger

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Biting into a triple-patty hamburger landed 25-year-old British woman Nicola Peate with a dislocated jaw. She found that as she bit into the burger, her jaw got locked and dislocated. This is due to a medical condition, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which has made her joints sensitive. This condition increases the risk of dislocation. But she was shocked and least expected that biting into a burger could get her into this problem. "I didn't think I'd dislocated ...

Simple Urine Test Helps Predict Kidney Transplant Outcomes

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Levels of CXCL9 protein in the urine of kidney transplant recipients can differentiate those at low risk of developing kidney injury from those at high risk, say researchers. The results also suggest that low levels of this protein, called CXCL9, can rule out rejection as a cause of kidney injury. The study appears online Aug. 22 in the iAmerican Journal of Transplantation/i. The work was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ...

Children Among Over 1,000 Civilians Gassed to Death in Syria, Say Reports

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In a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, a number of children were also slaughtered among over 1000 civilians who were gassed to death, show reports. The slaughter - the worst atrocity of the nation's brutal civil war - came just days after a United Nations weapons inspection team arrived in Syria. According to the Mirror, responsibility for the sarin-style nerve gas bombardment in the Al Ghouta area, east of the capital Damascus, was ...

Single Injection may Revolutionize Melanoma Treatment: Study

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A recent study finds that a single dose of PV-10 injection can shrink tumors and reduce the spread of cancer. PV-10 is a solution developed from Rose Bengal, a water-soluble dye commonly used to stain damaged cells in the eye. Early clinical trials show PV-10 can boost immune response in melanoma tumors, as well as the blood stream. "Various injection therapies for melanoma have been examined over the past 40 years, but few have shown the promising ...

Poor Oral Health Linked to HPV Infection

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Poor oral health has been associated with cancer-causing oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, finds study published in Cancer Prevention Research. "Poor oral health is a new independent risk factor for oral HPV infection and, to our knowledge, this is the first study to examine this association," said Thanh Cong Bui, Dr.P.H., postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. "The ...

Save Your Life from Fake Diet Tips

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Getting that desirable envious figure is everyone's dream. Every time you look in the mirror your desperation for acquiring that dream physique increases more and more. You follow difficult diet regimes, sweat for long hours in the gymnasium and almost starve yourself. In order to keep fit, people go for early morning walks and avoid oily and a href="http:www.medindia.net/news/healthinfocus/spicy-food-lovers-tend-to-have-more-outgoing-personalities-study-shows-123121-1.htm" ...

Gene Variants That May Cause Kidney Problems in Lupus Patients Discovered

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Scientists have identified gene variants that are linked with an increased risk for kidney complications in lupus patients. The findings could lead to better treatments to protect the kidney health of patients with the disease. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects many different body systems, including the central nervous system, joints, skin, heart, lungs, and kidneys. Kidney involvement-termed lupus nephritis-occurs in about 50% to 75% of patients, ...

Mums- Did You Know That Cow's Milk is Healthier?

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It appears that toddlers' parents prefer to spend more than 500 a year on specialist children's milk, even though ordinary cow's milk is a healthier, inexpensive and easily available option. Parents seem to be taken up with the marketing of these products which claim that this milk contains all the nutrients needed by toddlers. Some of the milk brands publicize that they contain children iron and omega 3 fatty acids for better growth and development. A ...

Risk of Prediabetes Increases by 26 Percent In People With Family History Of Diabetes

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Risk of prediabetes increase by 26% in people with a family history of diabetes reveals a study involving more than 8,000 participants. The research is published in iDiabetologia/i, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and is by Dr Andreas Fritsche and colleagues from the German Center for Diabetes Research*. Prediabetes is a condition most often described as the 'state between normal blood sugar control and full diabetes', and ...

Tuberculosis Genomes Shed Light On TB's Prevalence And Resistance

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a wildly successful pathogen by any measure. As many as two billion people in every corner of the world are affected by it, with a new infection of a human host estimated to occur every second. Now, thanks to a new analysis of dozens of tuberculosis genomes gathered from around the world, scientists are getting a more detailed picture of why TB is so prevalent and how it evolves to resist countermeasures. Writing today (Aug. 21, 2013) in the ...

City Traffic, Home Cooking Contribute Towards Air Pollution In China

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City traffic and other forms of fossil-fuel combustion, such as home cooking with coal briquettes contribute towards almost 80 percent of air pollution involving soot that spreads from China over large areas of East Asia - impacting human health and fostering global warming. That's the conclusion of a study in ACS' journal iEnvironmental Science (and) Technology/i, which resolves long-standing questions about sources of air pollution responsible for Asia's infamous atmospheric ...

Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets can Eradicate Filariasis

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New research suggests that bed nets treated with insecticide are a simple and economical way to eradicate filariasis, a mosquito-born tropical disease that threatens 1.4 billion people worldwide. The researchers, whose study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, found that the nets could reduce the debilitating disease's transmission to undetectable levels. Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is caused by a parasitic ...

New Treatment may Offer Relief to Those With Crohn's, Colitis

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New findings published in the United States suggests that a new treatment could offer relief to those with the inflammatory bowel conditions Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Vedolizumab, an intravenous antibody medication, offers new hope for the approximately four million people who suffer from the auto-immune diseases, say researchers who led two clinical trials, the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday. The ...

Recent Studies Suggest That Intestines Are Protected from a Variety of Injuries By HB-EGF

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One treatment offering therapeutic potential for multiple conditions doesn't happen too often. However, this may just be the case with HB-EGF, or heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor. This finding was made after more than two decades of research, Gail Besner, MD, principal investigator for the Center for Perinatal Research and pediatric surgeon for the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Having discovered the growth factor in 1990, ...

Aquatic Embryo Development Explored By Scientists

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Significant parent-offspring similarities in the timing and sequence of that development were discovered by scientists using a pioneering bio-imaging system to record simultaneously the development of hundreds of aquatic embryos. Researchers at Plymouth University have found the timing of key developmental milestones - such as the first beating of the heart, formation of the eyes and movement - differs markedly between individuals in a species of aquatic snail, ...

Severe Nicotine Dependence Correlates With Post-Smoking Weight Gain

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Smokers with more severe nicotine dependence are more likely to gain weight when they try to quit. This is according to research published August 21 in the open access journal iPLOS ONE/i by Koji Hasegawa and colleagues from Kyoto Medical Center, Japan. Even with nicotine replacement therapy, individuals can gain substantial amounts of weight when they quit smoking. Here, researchers studied weight gain patterns in individuals who successfully abstained ...

Cancer Patients Empowered By Survivorship Care Plans Reveals Study

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The idea of a survivorship care plan: a roadmap for the group of patients, today numbering nearly 12 million, who are beginning new lives as cancer survivors was first described in 2005 by the Institute of Medicine, who were surveying the outlook for the growing number of American cancer survivors. Care plans aims to arm cancer survivors with a customized road map for their lives as cancer survivors: tips for follow-up screenings, information about possible late ...

Early Use of Antiretroviral Drugs Helps Children Fight AIDS

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Doctors reported that a landmark five-year trial has strengthened evidence that early use of antiretroviral drugs helps children combat the AIDS virus. Conducted in South Africa, the so-called CHER trial made history in 2007, after only two years, when it discovered that early treatment slashed the risk of disease and death from AIDS by 75 percent. The astonishing finding prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to overhaul its treatment guidelines ...

Bubbles of Carbonated Beverages Not Actually Necessary

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At the Monell Center, new research reveals that bubbles are not necessary to experience the unique 'bite' of carbonated beverages. Bubbles do, however, enhance carbonation's bite through the light feel of the bubbles picked up by our sense of touch. The refreshing bite of carbonation is an integral part of beverages consumed around the globe. Carbonated beverages are produced when carbon dioxide is dissolved in a liquid, typically under high pressure. ...

Iron Accumulation Might Be Behind Alzheimer's Disease Suggests UCLA Study

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Since aging is the No. 1 risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and there's no stopping that, the disorder has proven to be a difficult enemy to defeat. Most researchers believe the disease is caused by one of two proteins, one called tau, the other beta-amyloid. As we age, most scientists say, these proteins either disrupt signaling between neurons or simply kill them. Now, a new UCLA study suggests a third possible cause: iron accumulation. Dr. ...

McGill Researchers Discover That Sodium Acts As 'On/Off' Switch For A Major Neurotransmitter Receptor In Brain

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Researchers at McGill University have found that sodium - the main chemical component in table salt - is a unique "on/off" switch for a major neurotransmitter receptor in the brain. This receptor, known as the kainate receptor, is fundamental for normal brain function and is implicated in numerous diseases, such as epilepsy and neuropathic pain. Prof. Derek Bowie and his laboratory in McGill's Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, worked with University ...

Clinical Trial Reveals That Patients With SAH Face Complications Associated With Continuous CSF Drainage

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A randomized clinical trial was conducted in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) by researchers at Duke University. The researchers, in this study, compared two approaches to intracranial pressure management-continuous and intermittent drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-and outcomes associated with those methods, focusing specifically on the incidence of cerebral vasospasm. The study had to be closed approximately midway due to a high rate of complications ...

Alzheimer's Test Results Could be Released to Research Participants

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Alzheimer's researchers contends that, as biomarkers to detect signals of the disease improve at providing clinically meaningful information, researchers will need guidance on how to constructively disclose test results. And track how disclosure impacts both patients and the data collected in research studies. A survey conducted by a group including experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that a majority of Alzheimer's ...

What are the Important Risk Factors of Heart Attack

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In India, researchers have carried out a data mining exercise to determine which are the most important risk factors in increasing the chances of an individual suffering a heart attack. Writing in the iInternational Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology/i, they confirm that the usual suspects high blood cholesterol, intake of alcohol and passive smoking play the most crucial role in "severe", "moderate" and "mild" cardiac risks, respectively. Subhagata ...

Schizophrenia Symptoms may be Caused by Faulty 'Switch' in Brain

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At The University of Nottingham, scientists have shown that psychotic symptoms experienced by people with schizophrenia could be caused by a faulty 'switch' within the brain. In a study published today in the leading journal iNeuron/i, they have demonstrated that the severity of symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations which are typical in patients with the psychiatric disorder is caused by a disconnection between two important regions in the brain - the ...

Researchers Discover That Superantigens Are Cause Of A Deadly Heart Disease

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Staphylococcal infective endocarditis - is a serious bacterial infection of heart valves that kills approximately approximately 20,000 Americans each year. Recently, the cause of this infection was discovered by University of Iowa researchers. According to the UI study, the culprits are superantigens -- toxins produced in large quantities by iStaphylococcus aureus/i (staph) bacteria - which disrupt the immune system, turning it from friend to foe. "The ...

China Owns the Latest Rooftop Temple

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In China, the latest rooftop architectural wonder highlighted is a temple that brings worshippers closer to the heavens by being on top of a 21-storey apartment block. Surrounded by foliage, the temple has glazed golden tiles and traditional upturned eaves with carvings of dragons and phoenixes, but defies convention by standing on top of the tower in Shenzhen, the Yangcheng Evening News reported. The publicity surrounding the structure comes after ...

People may Hallucinate About Hearing Music That Isn't Playing

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A new type of hallucinations is being reprted by neuroscientists, where patients start hearing music that is unrecognizable to them though is familiar to people around them. According to Dr. Danilo Vitorovic and Dr. Jose Biller of Loyola University Medical Center, the case raises 'intriguing questions regarding memory, forgetting and access to lost memories.' Musical hallucinations are a form of auditory hallucinations, in which patients hear songs, ...

Safety Concerns Of Children's Health in Vehicles Raised By UAE

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Community members, particularly motorists, were requested by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to show concern for children's safety and security, and protect the kids against any potential risks in private vehicles. The Higher Committee for Child Protection at the Ministry of Interior has called on community members, Major General Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, chairman of the Ministry of Interior's Higher Committee for Child Protection, lauded the noble ...

Oceanic Path Covered By Coral Larvae Recreated Using Computer Simulation

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The epic, ocean-spanning journeys travelled by millimetre-sized coral larvae through the world's seas were revealed by a new computer simulation. The study, conducted at the University of Bristol (UB) and University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, is the first to recreate the oceanic paths along which corals disperse globally, and will eventually aid predictions of how coral reef distributions may shift with climate change. Coral ...

Teen from Atlanta Finally Undergoes Heart Transplant

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A 15-year old teen from Atlanta, whose hopes of a heart transplant were initially dashed because of 'non compliance', finally underwent the surgery. Anthony Stokes was initially denied a place on the heart transplant waiting list after the hospital claimed that he had a history of non compliance, which meant that the doctors had doubts whether he will take his medicine or go to follow-up appointments. However the family claimed that the reason why Anthony's ...

Breastfeeding Newborn Babies Ensures Development of Good Digestive Systems

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A team of Swiss researchers suggests that feeding a newborn baby with breast milk is the best way to ensure development of a good digestive system and lay the foundations of early immunity. The study was conducted by researchers at Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health in Zurich who found the presence of the same strains of Bifidobacterium breve and several types of Clostridium bacteria in breast milk and in maternal and neonatal feces. The researchers ...

Women More Willing to Bare It All at 34 Years of Age

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Women are more willing to bare it all in front of their partners when they are 34 years old as this is the age when they accept their body shape, a new survey revealed. According to the survey, commissioned by Sanctuary Spa, around 40 percent of women said that they looked at their naked bodies every day while another 25 percent said that they looked at their bodies at least once in a week. Just over 16 percent revealed that they were conscious of all the ...

Aging Process Influenced by Genes Inherited from Mother

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Researchers in Sweden have found that our aging process may be partly influenced by the genes that we inherit from our mothers. Researchers led by Professor Nils-Goran Larsson, from the Karolinska Institute, conducted the study which found that mutations in the genes inherited exclusively from the mother led to age-related abnormalities in growing mice. The researchers said that the mutations are not found in the cell nucleus, but in a separate set of genes present ...

Another Flu Virus Identified in Chinese Chickens

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Scientists have revealed that they have discovered another H7-type virus lurking in chickens in China. Dubbed H7N7, the virus was able to infect mammals in a lab experiment, said the team, warning H7 viruses "may pose threats beyond the current outbreak". "The continuing prevalence of H7 viruses in poultry could lead to the generation of highly pathogenic variants and further sporadic human infections," they wrote in the journal Nature. According ...

CM Jayalalithaa Orders Setting Up of Two Gyms to Keep Tamil Nadu Staff Fit

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Government staff in Tamil Nadu will soon be seen sweating it out in the gym after Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa ordered the setting up of two new gymnasiums for the state secretariat staff to remain trim and fit. An official statement said each gym will have around 20 pieces of exercise equipment. According to the statement, around 6,000 men and women work in the secretariat. Their health is affected since they are desk bound for long hours, and at ...

Nearly 7.8 Million Young Adults Gained Better Coverage Through Affordable Care Act

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Of the 15 million young adults, an estimated 7.8 million who were enrolled in a parent's health plan last year likely would not have been eligible for this coverage without the health reform law's dependent coverage provision. This is according to a new Commonwealth Fund survey. However, the survey also found that only 27 percent of young adults were aware of the state health insurance marketplaces that are launching October 1. Moreover, millions of low-income ...

Health Ministry Says Over 6,000 Vials of Yellow Fever Vaccine Distributed to Overcome Shortage

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The health ministry informed the Lok Sabha that over 6,000 vials of yellow fever vaccine were distributed in the country during the month of July in order to overcome its shortage. In addition, the government ordered for 2.57 lakh doses from the World Health Organisation, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Tuesday. The first consignment of 128,530 doses was received at the Central Research Institute at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh. Earlier, ...

Kaiser Permanente Program Linked to Improved Blood Pressure Control

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Through one of the largest community-based hypertension programs in the nation, Kaiser Permanente Northern California nearly doubled the rate of blood pressure control among adult members with diagnosed hypertension between 2001 and 2009. This was reported in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. The rate of hypertension control throughout Kaiser Permanente Northern California increased from 43.6 in 2001 to 80.4 percent in 2009, as measured by ...

Education Chief's Bid to Conduct Virginity Tests of High School Girls Sparks Outrage in Indonesia

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The education chief from Indonesia's Prabumulih city has proposed conducting virginity tests for teenage schoolgirls before they enter senior high school, sparking outrage in the country. Activists accused Muhammad Rasyid of promoting "sexual violence against women" after he suggested the plan following the arrest of six high-school students for alleged prostitution. "If it is possible, the virginity tests will be carried out next year," said Rasyid, ...

Mayoral Candidate Comes Out With an App That can Report Sexual Harassment on NYC Streets

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Christine Quinn, who hopes to contest the mayor elections in New York City, has come up with a new app through which users can report incidents of sexual harassment on the streets of the city. The app, called as Hollaback allows victims to report cases in real time and instantly send information on where, when and how they were harassed not only to the Hollaback database but also to the City Council and the mayor's office. According to New York Daily ...

Development of Guideline for Non-Specialist Mental Health Services in Nigeria Initiated

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Previous research has shown that mental health conditions contribute to approximately 14% of the total global burden of disease. However, there is a substantial treatment gap in both developed and developing countries. Treatment of mental health conditions in low resource settings such as Nigeria, one of Africa's most populous countries, is particularly challenging where that are few mental health professionals. For example Nigeria has a population of -150 million ...

Treating Adult Patients Like Children can Help Improve Patient Quality of Life and Health Outcomes

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Patient quality of life, satisfaction and health outcomes can be improved if adult hospitals follow the example of children's hospitals by adopting multiple items from paint color to practice patterns, according to an opinion piece written by a Penn Medicine fourth-year medical student Mark Attiah than has been published in JAMA. "Adult hospitals, as they begin to fully realize the importance of the environment to a vulnerable patient''s well-being, can take a page ...

Gypsum Wallboard Does Not Keep Out Carbon Monoxide, Says Research

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Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is linked to 500 accidental deaths annually in the US. It is also associated with a risk of 18 percent to 35 percent for cognitive brain injury 1 year after poisoning. Most morbidity and mortality from CO poisoning is believed to be preventable through public education and CO alarm use. States have been enacting legislation mandating residential CO alarm installation. However, as of December 2012, 10 of the 25 states with statutes ...

Russian Runners Angry Over Questions Regarding Their 'Gay' Kiss on Podium

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With their celebratory kiss on the podium after winning the gold medal at the Moscow World Athletics Championships being hailed as a symbol of gay defiance against a new Russian law banning homosexual "propaganda", the two Russian runners have tried to set the record straight by saying that they are just good friends. Kseniya Ryzhova and Yulia Gushchina, who kissed each other on the lips after receiving their gold medals, said they were offended by any suggestion ...

Antipsychotic Drugs Linked to Diabetes in Children

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Children and adolescents who are administered antipsychotic medications for the treatment of mood disorders appear to have a three-fold increased risk for type 2 diabetes, says study. While other studies have shown an increased risk for type 2 diabetes associated with the use atypical antipsychotic medications, this is the first large, well-designed study to look at the risk in children, said Wayne A. Ray, Ph.D., professor of Preventive Medicine, and senior author ...