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- Quiz on Ear Infections
- New Keyboard Accessory That Shocks You Out of Your Facebook Addiction
- Scientists Discover Receptor Behind Spread of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease
- Fruits, Vegetables may Lower Bladder Cancer Risk
- Enhance Performance With Massage and Moderate Exercises
- Experts Say Myanmar Must Act Fast to Curb Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
- Bachelor Boys - Wash Your Bed Linen Regularly
- Brazilian Fruits Grown In Arid Climates And Conventionally Grown Red Delicious Apples Have Similar Antioxidant Content
- Clinical Trial Reveals That 'Pazopanib' Offers Better Quality-of-Life For Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer
- Researchers Discover Mechanism Behind Equine Encephalitis
- Memory, Mood, Behavior Could Be Affected In Athletes With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- Researchers Suggest That Manner In Which Women Achieve A Healthier Weight Could Have Long-term Impact On Offspring's Health
- Link Between 'Bitterness' and 'Sweetness' Revealed By Fruit Flies
- Pennsylvania University Researchers Discover New Aspects Of Gene-Splicing
- Placement Of Defibrillators In Children Affected With Heart Defects Aided By 'Virtual Heart' Precision-guides
- 20th Century Masterpieces To Be Housed In Yet-to-be Built Museum In Berlin
- Canary Island Receives Bumper Grape Crop, Leading To Demand For Laborers
- Study Reveals Role Of 'Sleep' In Honing Motor Learning Skills
- Woman Gives Birth from an Embryo Frozen for Nearly Two Decades
- Caffeine Spray Promises to Give You Your Daily Fix
- Marijuana may Potentially Cure Depression
- Red Hair Gene Linked to Serious Form of Skin Cancer
- Working for Shorter Hours More Stressful Than Working for Long Hours
- Case of a Canadian Sculptor: Art Preserves Skills Despite Onset of Vascular Dementia
- Lifestyle Modifications can Lead to Improved Cardiovascular Health in Children
- Arsenic Risk in China's Groundwater Estimated by New Risk Model
- Research Says Fetal Tissue-Derived Stem Cells may be Ideal Source for Repairing Tissues and Organs
- Nepal Leader Blames India for Bird Flu Outbreak
- New Weight Control Kit can Reduce Risk of Damage Caused by Weight Loss Supplements
- Counterfeit Drugs Trade Costing Lives Among Africa's Poor
- Arsenic in Groundwater Now Detectable
- US Man Comes Back to Life After Being Declared Dead for 45 Minutes
- Tacking Fears Keep American Teens Away from Smartphone Apps
- Volunteering Could be Good for You, Study
- New Treatment Fights Ebola Even After Onset of Symptoms
- Harvard Scientists Create Vascular Endothelial Cells
- New HIV Prevention Program Reduces Unprotected Sex in Bisexual Black Men
- Improved Response to Cancer Treatment Possible Through Restricted Calorie Intake
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration Caused by Impaired Autophagy
- Things That You Forget on Airplanes Listed Out
| Posted:  Ear infections are generally classified depending upon the part of ear affected. They mostly affect the ear canal and the middle ear. Test your knowledge on ear infections by taking this quiz.         |
| New Keyboard Accessory That Shocks You Out of Your Facebook Addiction Posted:  A new keyboard device developed by two doctoral candidates is capable of shocking users overindulging online. Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff calculated that they were wasting about 50 hours a week on Facebook so to stop that from happening again they turned to Pavlovian method, Discovery News reported. McDuff said that the keyboard is able to monitors application usage and if it senses that too much time is being spent on a particular website or application ...      |
| Scientists Discover Receptor Behind Spread of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease Posted:  A specific type of receptor behind Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other brain-damaging disorders has been identified by scientists. The research suggests that blocking the receptors called heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) may aid in treatment of theses illnesses. Senior author Marc I. Diamond, MD, the David Clayson Professor of Neurology, said that many of the enzymes that create HSPGs or otherwise help them function are good targets ...      |
| Fruits, Vegetables may Lower Bladder Cancer Risk Posted:  Fruits and vegetables consumption may cut the risk of developing bladder cancer in women, say studies. Researchers at the University of Hawaii described in the Journal of Nutrition that they analyzed data collected from 185,885 older adults over a period of 12.5 years, Xinhua reported. Overall, 152 women and 429 men were diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer. After adjusting for variables related to cancer risk, such as age, ...      |
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| Experts Say Myanmar Must Act Fast to Curb Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Posted:  Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading rapidly in Myanmar where nearly 9,000 people catch the strain of the infectious disease each year. Treatment programmes in the impoverished nation -- where the healthcare system was left woefully underfunded during decades of military rule -- are expensive and ineffective leaving the deadly illness to spread unchecked, experts warned at a Yangon forum on the issue. "Forms of TB that cannot be treated with ...      |
| Bachelor Boys - Wash Your Bed Linen Regularly Posted:  Can you take a guess as to how many times a year the average single man actually washes and changes their bed sheets? It is an appalling 4 times a year! Among the bachelor boys, the youngest of the lot, in the 18-25 age groups, happen to be the ones who play truant with respect to hygiene and are the dirtiest of the lot. The couples usually change their sheets once every two weeks, while single women do so once in two and a half weeks. When the men were ...      |
| Posted:  New research has found that native Brazilian fruits grown in arid climates and poor soil have similar antioxidant activity to conventionally grown Red Delicious apples. The research was published on August 21 in the open access journal iPLOS ONE/i and was undertaken by Sandra Fernandes Arruda from the University of Brazil and colleagues from other institutions. Twelve fruit species grown on the Cerrado, a savanna with acidic soils, were compared to conventional ...      |
| Posted:  A large international clinical trial led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/a found that two oral targeted drugs approved for metastatic kidney cancer worked equally well, but one proved superior in tolerability. Pazopanib (Votrient) and sunitinib (Sutent), both recently approved as first-line treatments for advanced renal cell cancer, had similar benefits in delaying progression of the disease, but the safety profile and many measures of quality ...      |
| Researchers Discover Mechanism Behind Equine Encephalitis Posted:  A human outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis struck the the eastern Panamanian province of Darien in the summer of 2010. The phenomenon had never been seen before in Latin America. The mosquito-borne virus that causes the disease is found all over the Americas, and infects horses throughout its range. Human infections are diagnosed every year in North America and are taken quite seriously; they carry a 50 percent chance of mortality, and can result in lifelong ...      |
| Memory, Mood, Behavior Could Be Affected In Athletes With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Posted:  Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a brain disease associated with repeat brain trauma including concussions in athletes. CTE may affect people in two major ways: initially affecting behavior or mood or initially affecting memory and thinking abilities, reveals new research. The study appears in the August 21, 2013, online issue of iNeurology (Regd) /i, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. CTE has been found in amateur and professional athletes, members ...      |
| Posted:  The healthy weight and glucose control women achieve through weight-loss surgery don't necessarily translate into health benefits for their future children suggests news research from the University of Cincinnati (UC). An animal study featured in the Aug. 21, 2013, edition of the journal iScience Translational Medicine/i suggests that treatment with vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) weight loss surgery of a female rat prior to conception has no positive impact ...      |
| Link Between 'Bitterness' and 'Sweetness' Revealed By Fruit Flies Posted:  We can learn a lot about the complexity of food from fruit flies. When bitter compounds are added, most animals are deterred from eating it though they are attracted to sugar like these tiny creatures. A new study conducted by UC Santa Barbara's Craig Montell, Duggan Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, explains a breakthrough in understanding how sensory input impacts fruit flies' decisions about sweet taste. ...      |
| Pennsylvania University Researchers Discover New Aspects Of Gene-Splicing Posted:  A gene-splicing machine can be turned into a switch that controls the expression of hundreds of human genes using a rare, small RNA. An entirely new aspect of the gene-splicing process that produces messenger RNA (mRNA) was discovered by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of Biochemistry Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, and his team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The investigators found that a scarce, small ...      |
| Posted:  Often doctors are forced to place lifesaving defibrillators entirely outside the heart, rather than partly inside in the small size and abnormal anatomy of children born with heart defects. This is a less-than-ideal solution to dangerous heart rhythms that involves a degree of guesstimating and can compromise therapy. Now, by marrying simple MRI images with sophisticated computer analysis, a team of Johns Hopkins researchers says it may be possible to take the ...      |
| 20th Century Masterpieces To Be Housed In Yet-to-be Built Museum In Berlin Posted:  Berlin has resolved a years-long dispute by agreeing to build a new museum for 20th century masterpieces by artists including Rothko, Magritte and Dali donated by a wealthy couple. The state museums foundation put forward a proposal for the cash-strapped city to create a 130-million-euro ( (Dollar) 174 million) home for the collection directly behind the already overflowing New National Gallery at the Cultural Forum in central Berlin. The works themselves belonging ...      |
| Canary Island Receives Bumper Grape Crop, Leading To Demand For Laborers Posted:  An expected bumper wine grape harvest for 2013 began in Spain's Canary Islands. This has begun luring some workers from the unemployment queues to the vineyard. Vineyards in the Atlantic archipelago off Africa are the first to be harvested in Spain, and they are forecasting a large, high quality crop with five of the six big names predicting bigger volumes than in 2012. Together, Canary Island vineyards are reportedly predicting a crop of about six million ...      |
| Study Reveals Role Of 'Sleep' In Honing Motor Learning Skills Posted:  Imagine that you learn how to play a musical instrument and you've practiced all day. You go to bed soon after and then wake up the next morning to practice and find that you remember everything that you'd learned last night. Have you ever wondered how this takes place? A new study helps to explain what happens in your brain during those fateful, restful hours when motor learning takes hold. "The mechanisms of memory consolidations regarding motor memory ...      |
| Woman Gives Birth from an Embryo Frozen for Nearly Two Decades Posted:  A 45-year old NASA research scientist is in the news after she gave birth to a baby from an embryo that had been frozen for nearly two decades. Kelly Burke was struggling to give birth naturally and had tried a number of different procedures without any success. In 2012 she heard about an Oregon couple who had undergone an IVF procedure at the Reproductive Science Center of the Bay Area (RSC) more than 19 years ago in 1994 and were willing to donate their frozen embryos ...      |
| Caffeine Spray Promises to Give You Your Daily Fix Posted:  If you are too pressed for time to drink a cup of coffee for your daily caffeine fix, then Harvard undergraduate Ben Yu and Venture Capitalist Deven Soni may have come out with a perfect product that may make drinking coffee a thing of the past. The Spray Energy is a spray bottle through which your body can literally absorb caffeine. The bottle contains water, caffeine and an amino acid which is then sprayed on your neck or wrists. Four sprays from the bottle can provide ...      |
| Marijuana may Potentially Cure Depression Posted:  A new study published in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that marijuana could be used as a potential cure for depression as it contains an ingredient that can alter our response to negative emotions and images. The study was conducted by researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands who looked into how a compound, tetrahydrocannabinoid (THC), affected our brains. The researchers found that THC, which is a principal ...      |
| Red Hair Gene Linked to Serious Form of Skin Cancer Posted:  A new study published in the journal Molecular Cell suggests that the gene which is responsible for red hair increases the risk of worst form of skin cancer by more than a 100 times. A mutation in the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene has been known to be responsible for the red color of hair. A number of studies have shown the gene plays a key role in protecting melanocytes from UV-induced DNA damage by binding to and protecting another gene, PTEN that is known ...      |
| Working for Shorter Hours More Stressful Than Working for Long Hours Posted:  Working for shorter hours is thought to reduce stress levels, but a new study reveals that it is instead more stressful that working for longer hours. The study was conducted by researchers at Korea University in Seoul who used data from a nationwide study called Korean Labor and Income Panel Survey that surveyed residents between the years 1998 to 2008. The researchers looked at the happiness levels among individuals and families who worked different number ...      |
| Case of a Canadian Sculptor: Art Preserves Skills Despite Onset of Vascular Dementia Posted:  Even as vascular dementia may leave artists struggling to complete simple, everyday tasks, the ability to draw spontaneously as well as from memory continues to be preserved in their brains, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital reveal. The finding, scheduled to be released today in the iCanadian Journal of Neurological Sciences/i, looked at the last few years of the late Mary Hecht, an internationally renowned sculptor, who was able to draw spur-of-the moment ...      |
| Lifestyle Modifications can Lead to Improved Cardiovascular Health in Children Posted:  Intensive lifestyle modification program can significantly improve metabolic and cardiovascular health even with little weight loss in both healthy-weight and obese children, a new study conducted by researchers at UCLA School of Nursing found. "These findings suggest that short-term lifestyle modifications through changing diet and exercise can have an immediate impact on improving risk factors such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes," said Christian Roberts, ...      |
| Arsenic Risk in China's Groundwater Estimated by New Risk Model Posted:  Research has shown that groundwater resources in certain provinces of China are contaminated with arsenic and that the numbers of affected people have risen year by year. In the most recent survey - conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Health between 2001 and 2005 - more than 20,000 (5%) of the 445,000 wells tested showed arsenic concentrations higher than 50 g/L. According to official estimates, almost 6 million people consume drinking water with an arsenic content ...      |
| Research Says Fetal Tissue-Derived Stem Cells may be Ideal Source for Repairing Tissues and Organs Posted:  Italian researchers say that multipotent fetal dermal cells (MFDCs) may be an ideal source for cell therapy for repairing damaged tissues and organs. The team has developed a cell isolation technique for MFDCs and has subsequently published a study that appears as an early e-publication for the journal iCell Transplantation/i, and is now freely available on-line at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct/pre-prints/ct1022chinnici/a."When compared to adult dermal ...      |
| Nepal Leader Blames India for Bird Flu Outbreak Posted:  With health officials in the country struggling to contain an outbreak of bird flu in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu and surrounding districts, a senior leader of Nepal's CPN-UML has blamed India for causing the outbreak. Addressing a press conference here, Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) vice chairman and former home minister Bamdev Gautam accused imported Indian chicken behind the epidemic. "Earlier, we (Nepali side) ...      |
| New Weight Control Kit can Reduce Risk of Damage Caused by Weight Loss Supplements Posted:  A new weight control kit, invented by an Indian American doctor and a fellow physician, promises to reduce the risk of damage to liver and kidneys caused by weight loss supplements. Called SlimPlate System, the "portion control kit" developed by Sandeep Grewal and Myo Nwe, both practising physicians in Rock Hill, South Carolina, marks a radical shift in weight loss planning and control, according to a media release issued Thursday. Portion control, a ...      |
| Counterfeit Drugs Trade Costing Lives Among Africa's Poor Posted:  Africa's poor are struggling to get genuine medications due to a counterfeit drugs market that is thriving, often at the cost of human lives. "Street medication kills. The street is killing (safe) medication," declares a banner outside a pharmacy in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, where the dangerous trade is rampant. The market is saturated with counterfeit anti-malaria drugs, painkillers, antibiotics and even rehydration serum. No domain of the pharmaceutical ...      |
| Arsenic in Groundwater Now Detectable Posted:  Researchers have now developed a new model to help predict the presence of arsenic in groundwater in regions prone to water contamination. The technique can be applied to any region where the problem affects large populations and can also be applied to other pollutants, according to research that appeared in the US journal Science. Moreover, the method promises to save officials who track the dangerous chemical time and money. Arsenic poisoning ...      |
| US Man Comes Back to Life After Being Declared Dead for 45 Minutes Posted:  "Dad, you're not going to die today," these words were enough to bring a US man, declared dead, back to life. Anthony Yahle was rushed to the hospital after his wife, who is a nurse by profession, found her husband's breathing irregular, ABC News reported. At the center, doctor's surprisingly found that Yahle's arteries were clear and they expected him to survive until late in the afternoon, when Yahle's heart stopped. Doctors tried to revive ...      |
| Tacking Fears Keep American Teens Away from Smartphone Apps Posted:  Privacy and location tracking fears are keeping American teens away from their 'loved' smartphone apps. A Pew Research Center survey released Thursday found 58 percent of US teens surveyed have downloaded phone or tablet apps, but half of teen apps users have avoided using some due to privacy concerns. The survey conducted with the Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society found 26 percent of teenage apps users have uninstalled an application ...      |
| Volunteering Could be Good for You, Study Posted:  A systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter Medical School has revealed how volunteering could be good for your health. Volunteering can improve mental health and help you live longer, finds the study which is published in the open access journal iBMC Public Health/i. The research pools and compares data from multiple experimental trials and longitudinal cohort studies. Some observational evidence points to around a 20 per cent reduction ...      |
| New Treatment Fights Ebola Even After Onset of Symptoms Posted:  Researchers have announced that a new treatment can help primates fight the Ebola virus, even after the symptoms have set in. The finding could pave the way for therapies against the virus in humans, said scientists, whose work appeared online on Wednesday, in the journal Science Translational Medicine. To date, no treatment or vaccine is available for Ebola, which kills between 25 and 90 percent of humans who fall sick, depending on the strain of the ...      |
| Harvard Scientists Create Vascular Endothelial Cells Posted:  Scientists from Harvard Stem Cell Institute have successfully grown vascular endothelial cells from pluripotent stem cells, thereby shedding light on the functional aspects of these cells. Using a unique approach, the researchers induced the differentiation of specific cell types by generating mechanical forces on the surface of the iPSC-derived endothelium mimicking the flow of blood. For example, cells that felt a stronger "flow" became artery cells, while those that felt ...      |
| New HIV Prevention Program Reduces Unprotected Sex in Bisexual Black Men Posted:  A new tailor-made HIV prevention program tested by investigators has shown notable results in reducing unprotected sex in bisexual black men. The innovative approach, called Men of African American Legacy Empowering Self, or MAALES, is described in an article in the peer-reviewed journal iAIDS/i. The rate of HIV/AIDS among African-Americans is significantly higher than it is among any other ethnic or racial group. (According to the Centers for ...      |
| Improved Response to Cancer Treatment Possible Through Restricted Calorie Intake Posted:  The success of a cancer treatment can be increased by restricting the calorie intake of the patient for a definite period, a new study reveals. Lead study author Jean-Ehrland Ricci, PhD, of the French Institute for Health and Medical Research in Nice, France, said that it is known that consuming excess calories is associated with increased cancer risk, far less clarity exists in the scientific literature about how calorie restriction and the body's metabolism can ...      |
| Age-Related Macular Degeneration Caused by Impaired Autophagy Posted:  Impaired function of autophagy, or the lysosomal clean-up mechanism, in the fundus of the eye is responsible for the degenerative changes and loss of vision in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a new study published in the journal PLoS One. The results open new avenues for the treatment of the dry form of AMD, which currently lacks an efficient treatment. The University of Eastern Finland played a leading role in the study, which also involved ...      |
| Things That You Forget on Airplanes Listed Out Posted:  A bag full of diamonds, handcuffs, a live parrot and underwear are some of the more bizarre things that people have left on airplanes when disembarking, a new survey reveals. The survey, which was conducted by a travel website Skyscanner.com on flight attendants, revealed that it's common for cabin crew to come across forgotten pets, including a frog, falcon and tortoise, News.com.au reported Other strange items discovered on board include dentures, ...      |
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