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Trypophobia

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Discover all about trypophobia, the strange condition that affects quite a lot of people in the world. Read on...

Instant Noodles may Help Combat World Hunger, Say Researchers

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Instant noodles could help satiate hunger, claim researchers. Deborah Gewertz, the G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology at Amherst, and her co-authors examined the history, manufacturing, marketing and consumption of the foodstuff and make the case that instant noodles are going to have an increasingly significant global role in the coming years. Deborah Gewertz said that as a protean food designed for quotidian consumption, instant ...

Chicken Meat Extract Improves Cognitive Function and Brain Health

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A component of chicken meat may improve cognitive or mental function, claims a recent study. A number of natural products have been used from time immemorial to improve memory and learning capabilities. Some of these like a href="http:www.medindia.net/news/ginkgo-biloba-extract-helps-treat-dementia-122524-1.htm" target="_blank"gingko biloba/a have been found to provide some benefits. Many others are popular without any evidence. An ...

New Biological Target for Combating Parkinson's Disease Identified

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Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered a new compound that eases Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice. Their discoveries, described in a paper published online in iNature Neuroscience/i on August 25, also overturn established ideas about the role of a protein considered key to the disease's progress. "Not only were we able to identify the mechanism that could cause progressive cell death in both inherited and non-inherited forms of Parkinson's, we found ...

Coronavirus MERS Kills 41 in Saudi Arabia

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The government revealed that a Saudi man has died of the coronavirus MERS, bringing the kingdom's death toll from the SARS-like virus to 41, while two new cases were registered. The 51-year-old, who had previously been diagnosed with MERS, died in Riyadh, the health ministry said on its website, adding he also suffered from cancer and other chronic diseases. The two new cases of infection were registered in the southwestern region of Asir. They ...

Eat Healthy Stay Fit

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Iron, vitamins or carbohydrates are nutrients essential to keep our body fit. But be careful about the quantity, warns an expert. Annapurna Agrawal, nutritionist at Snap Fitness India, recommends a list of nutrients that are required by our body. Focus on the quantity to avoid health problems. Carbohydrate: Whole grains cereals, legumes, fruits, milk, sugar, honey and potatoes are sources of carbohydrates. Quantity should be 40 percent to 60 percent ...

Women Spend 8,000 Pounds on Hair Removal in a Lifetime

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A new study reveals that hair removal is a must for every woman and women spend 8,000 pounds on it in a lifetime. The study of 3,000 women conducted by supplier of hair care and personal care appliance company Remington shows that women spend 8,000 pounds on hair removal in a lifetime. The findings also show that 88 percent of women will spend four months of their entire lifetime removing body hair with products like razors, epilators and waxing, reports femalefirst.co.uk. ...

Young Binge Drinkers Find Hard to Quit the Habit in Adulthood

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People who binge drink in their youth are more prone to continue with their drinking habit at dangerous levels in adulthood, reveals a new study. Lead author Professor Louisa Degenhardt from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW said that over 90 percent of men, who drink excessively as teens keep doing so throughout their 20s, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Degenhardt said that the survey shows that binge drinking ...

Yorkshire Terrier: World's Most Pampered Dog

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A miniature Yorkshire terrier has bagged the title of the world's most pampered pet dog. It was revealed that the pooch has had 250,000 pounds spent on her wardrobe, beauty treatments, luxury food and massages. Lola's owner Louise Harris provides her fashionable pet with Reiki sessions and a massage each week, and most recently splurged on a 100-pound breakfast for the pooch and her siblings, at her wedding, the Daily Star reported. Also, ...

Four-Year-Old Boy Went Through Successful Liver Transplantion

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A four-year-old boy was successfully treated with a complex liver transplant procedure, doctors treating the boy here said. His mental and physical growth was retarded by a rare metabolic genetic disorder. Rishi suffered from citrullinemia, a condition seen in one of about 60,000 children across the globe, characterised by a deficiency of enzyme ASS1 in the liver, which metabolises protein. "The child was unable to metabolise proteins ingested in the ...

New Radiotherapy Machine can Destroy Cancer Cells Without Any Side Effects

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UK scientists have developed a revolutionary radiotherapy machine with a beam so intense it can destroy the most aggressive tumours without harming surrounding healthy tissue. The technology, being developed at the Cern physics laboratory in Switzerland, will allow more patients to have aggressive anticancer treatment without harmful side-effects, the Daily Express reported. The equipment is being hailed as the next generation in cancer-fighting technology ...

Top 10 Places to Visit Before You Die

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News Corp Australia's national travel editor Brian Crisp has made the ultimate bucket list for you, if you are planning your dream vacation. Crisp has compiled a list of total 100 places which are a must visit before one dies, News.com.au reported. The remote Kimberley Region of Western Australia has made the top of the list. Crisp said that the Kimberley region was largely undiscovered by Aussies as it is hard to get to but travelers will ...

Research Sheds Light on the Brain Mechanisms

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When you plan on shopping for groceries, you tell yourself to remember to take the grocery bags with you, but when you reach the checkout counter, you realize that you've forgotten the bags. New research from Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on the brain mechanisms that underlie a type of memory, known as prospective memory, revealing two distinct processes that support our ability to remember. "These findings suggest that people could ...

Edinburgh Comics Tackle Independence

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At Edinburgh's famous Fringe festival, comedians are bringing some light relief to Scotland's big debate over whether to split off as an independent state. As breaking up the United Kingdom is a serious business. "Scottish independence? You'll regret it when you're sober," read a huge inflatable blimp that floated this month above Scotland's elegant capital, which hosts thousands of theatre and comedy shows every August for the Fringe, the world's largest arts ...

Find Out What Tobacco and Menthol Vodkas Taste Like

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Yes, tobacco vodka does exist. Once the team over at Foodbeast discovered this, Huffington Post took the next logical step to see what it really taste likes. First, there are 4 things you should know about Tobacco Vodka. Firstly, it comes in a plastic bottle. Secondly, there is also a "Menthol" version. For those of you who prefer your cigarette-flavored liquor to carry a minty aftertaste. Thirdly, the company that makes it ...

UAE to Intensify Anti-Drug Campaign Among School Children

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UAE's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan has directed authorities to intensify efforts to create awareness about the perils of drugs and drugs addiction among school children. Presiding over a recent meeting of the Higher Committee for Combating of Drugs, Sheikh Saif said all capabilities should be mobilised to confront and eliminate dangers posed by drugs. During the meeting, the committee discussed a proposal ...

Five Decades Since March on Washington Marked by Americans

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It is five decades since the the March on Washington, the civil rights watershed where Martin Luther King Jr famously declared: "I have a dream." This occasion was marked by tens of thousands of people in the US on Saturday. Under a cloudless blue sky,the predominantly African-American crowd swelled around the Reflecting Pool for a parade of speakers and entertainers who took their turn at the lectern on the white marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "It's ...

New Wristband can Make It Easier to Find Romance

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Spotting people who are single and searching for a new romance may soon be easy thanks to a bright-colored silicone wristband developed by an American couple. The wristband has been designed by Rob Young and Rina Mardahl, founders of the 'MY Single World', the New York Daily News reported. The concept of bracelets was inspired by Young and Mardahl's own love story, who admit that they wouldn't have been together, had they not greeted each other with ...

Study Confirms Football Fans are Superstitious

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Majority of football fans are indeed superstitious, a new study reveals. With college football set to launch next week, BTN-the joint venture of Fox Networks and the Big Ten football conference, has released a study aimed at learning how and where football fans like to watch games on TV. According to the survey, 62 percent prefer watching college games at home, while 30 percent prefer going to a friend's house, Contactmusic reported. Where ...

German Students Develop a Special Drink That Claims to Cure 'Kebab Breath'

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Worrying about bad breath after eating a kebab may soon be history after three German students claimed that they have developed a drink that can help overcome the 'kebab breath'. Jan Plewinski, Roman Will and Tobias Balke say that their drink has the ability of making the unpleasant mouth odour disappear, Metor.co.uk reported. They told German newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung that it took them several months to perfect the Papa Turk mixture, ...

Japanese Researchers Claim to Have Successfully Transplanted Liver Cells in a Baby

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A team of Japanese researchers at the National Center for Child Health and Development (NCCHD) in Tokyo revealed that it has managed to successfully transplant liver cells into a baby. NCCHD hospital chief Akira Matsui said that they safely conducted an operation that may develop into regenerative medicine using embryo-stem or induced pluripotent stem cells, the Japan Times. The center used surplus liver cells left frozen after 14 living liver transplantations ...

Greeks Turn to Dancing for Respite from Recession Problems

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Hundreds of Greeks are turning towards 'swing' dancing in order to cope with the struggles of dealing with the problems of recession that has affected their country for the past six years. Greeks of all ages are signing up for courses at swing academies to learn a dance that -- with a bit of historic irony -- was itself born during an even deeper crisis, the Great Depression that gripped the United States in the 1930s. "Five years ago, there was no ...

Men Who Believe in Hostile Sexism Adopt This Attitude in Intimate Relationships as Well

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Researchers have found that men who believe in hostile sexism, where women who challenge men's power are thought to be manipulative and subversive, often carry over these attitudes into their intimate relationships. In two studies, researchers gathered behavior data from committed heterosexual couples either five times across a year or daily for three weeks. They found that men who endorse hostile sexism perceived their female partners to behave more negatively ...

Studying Gene Combinations and Their Interactions Key to Understanding Risk of Crohn's Disease

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A new study published in the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases reveals that the development of a statistical model, which accounts for dozens of different genes in combination, including interactions between them, is key to understanding the genetic factors that affect the risk of Crohn's disease. It's not just how many risk genes are present but how those genes interact with each other that determines the inheritance of CD risk, suggests the report by a research group ...

Empathy is an In-Built Quality in Humans

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Humans are hardwired to empathize because they closely associate people who are close to them with themselves, a new study has said. "With familiarity, other people become part of ourselves," James Coan, a psychology professor in University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences who used functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans to find that people closely correlate people to whom they are attached to themselves, said. "Our self comes to ...

Report Lists Everything You Wanted to Know About the Bra

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Some tips for helping females buy a better-fitting bra have been listed by the New York Daily News. The majority of the support is provided by the band, which should fit firmly against the body of the women at the loosest set of hooks. The shoulder straps should not be made to take majority of weight and if they are digging into the shoulders, the female needs a better-fitting band. Another important thing is that they shouldn't slip off ...

Heart Patient's Own Heart Cells can Help Provide Personalized Treatment in Future

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A new method through which the damaged heart muscle could be treated by converting cells derived from patients into heart muscle cells has been developed by a group of researchers, including one of an Indian origin. The investigators previously reported the ability to convert scar-forming cells in the heart (called fibroblasts) into new, beating muscle in mice that had experienced heart attacks, thereby regenerating a heart from within. They accomplished ...

Perelman Researchers Say BMI is Not an Accurate Measure of Body Fat Content

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While body mass index (BMI) is the popular measure used by health experts for body fat content, researchers at Perelman School of Medicine said that it does not take into account critical factors, such as fat distribution, proportion of muscle to fat and racial differences, which contribute to health or mortality. Obesity predisposes to diabetes, heart diseases, sleep apnea, cancer and other diseases. Although several studies have shown an increase in mortality ...

Free Supply of Nicotine Patches can Increase Number of Patients Who Quit Smoking Before Surgery

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A new study published in the journal Anesthesia (and) Analgesia suggests that introducing patients to a simple four-part program, which includes referral to a quit-smoking hotline and a free supply of nicotine patches, can help increase the number of patients who manage to quit smoking before they undergo surgery. The "easily implemented and inexpensive" program significantly improves preoperative smoking cessation rates, according to the new research by Dr Susan M. ...

Retired Individuals More Generous Than the Youth

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Retired people are more generous and tend to support charities, a new study has revealed. The over-65s donate 0.7 percent of their income despite many not getting a wage, the Daily Express reported. The research from mutual Foresters found older people - used to supporting families and grandchildren - are the most generous in helping good causes. Individuals estimate they will have donated 142.53 pounds to charity by the end of 2013, nearly ...

'Tin Rush' in Cornwall Sparks War With British Surfers

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From its long-gone mining industry, dotted chimney stacks are left over from the dramatic coastline of Cornwall in Southwest England. But out to sea lies another legacy -- thousands of tons of tin, waiting to be mined. "There's 22,000 tons of tin there," said Mike Proudfoot, chief executive of the mining firm Marine Minerals, looking out over the stunning north Cornish coast and stretching a hand over the deep blue expanse of the Celtic Sea. Proudfoot's ...

Being Part of Social Media can Have Unforeseen Consequences During Divorce Settlements

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Participating in social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram can prove to have unforeseen consequences during divorce settlement negotiations, a new study reveals. Jeff Landers, author of 'Divorce: Think Finacially, Not Emotionally- What Women Need to Know about Securing Their Financial Future Before, During, And After Divorce' explains that as e-mails and text messages, activities on social media and networking websites are admissible ...

Favourite Music While Driving can Increase Accident Risk in Teens

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Listening to favourite music while driving can increase the risk of accident in teens . According to a new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers, male novice drivers in particular make more frequent and serious mistakes listening to their preferred music than their less aggressive, female counterparts. The BGU study evaluated 85 young novice drivers accompanied by a researcher/driving instructor. Each driver took six challenging 40-minute ...

Zurich's First Sex Drive-In

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To regulate prostitution and sex trade, Zurich opens the first sex drive-in. The nine so-called "sex boxes" will be available to prostitutes and their clients from Monday onwards, in a former industrial zone in the west of the city. Inspired by a a similar initiative in Germany, the Zurich authorities want to alter the image of the city's Sihlquai district, where sex workers openly ply their trade each night, to the dismay of residents. "Prostitution ...

Kathmandu's Murals Highlight a Social Cause

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A group of artists in Kathmandu has been giving Nepal's capital a facelift by painting dozens of meters high murals that depict social issues such as caste discrimination and child trafficking. Gone are political flyers, movie posters and other advertisements slapped on some of Kathmandu's drab walls, replaced by colourful paintings, some as high as 25 feet (7.6 metres). Some 60 artists have been involved in the project called "Kolor Kathmandu" which ...

Cyclists Pedal Eritrea Onto World Stage

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Eritrea's Natnael Berhane's victory on the Tour of Turkey in May means that the 22-year old became the first person from sub-Saharan Africa to win a race of that class. But he is only one of several Eritreans in this cycling-mad Horn of Africa state making his mark on the sport, showing another side of a nation that makes headlines more for brutal repression than world-class athletes. Eritrea offers ideal training ground for serious cyclists, with its ...

Study Lists Factors That Influence a Happy Relationship

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Researchers have found that while sex and good communication can be significant in a relationship, other factors, such as being able to support yourself or knowing your partner's favorite pizza topping, are also important. Scientists tested 2,201 participants, head to head, in seven "relationship competencies" that previous research had found to be vital for promoting happiness in romantic relationships. The researchers' idea was to rank them in order ...

China's Corruption Crackdown Affects Seafood Market in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong's seafood sellers are blaming China's corruption crackdown for the decline in the sales of expensive banquet foods like shark fin and abalone. Such items have fallen off the menu since China's new leadership came to power demanding austerity from Communist Party and military officials as a means of reigning in graft and dampening public anger over corruption. Suppliers, restaurants, and hotels in the trading hub of Hong Kong all say the loss ...

Seeking Clarity in Traumatic Events

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Avoid social media and news reports to adopt a more simple understanding of the traumatic event, a new research suggests. According to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, in the wake of a negative event, people are more likely to find clarity by considering the larger picture. Lead author Jae-Eun Namkoong, marketing graduate student in Red McCombs School of Business, said that such a firm understanding helps to diffuse negative emotions ...

Majority of People Do Not See Their Long-Term Partners as the Love of Their Lives

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Nearly three quarters of adults do not believe that their long-term partners are 'the love of their lives', a new survey reveals. As per the research, 1 out of every 7 adults are not completely in love with their 'better half' and a significant number of people said that they compromised while choosing their partner as they had lost their 'soul-mates', Metro.co.uk reported. According to the Siemens Festival Nights poll, some people fell in love with ...

Seeking to Cleanse Spirit, Pilgrims Flock to Bulgarian Mountains

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Bulgaria's Rila mountains echo with the sounds women singing to the strains of violins as 2,000 white-clad pilgrims move gracefully in a series of rhythmic meditation exercises. Every August, followers of the Universal White Brotherhood converge from across the world on the Rila lakes, at an altitude of 2,100 metres (6,900 feet), to celebrate the beginning of their new year at the height of summer. The highlight of the day is "paneurhythmy", a dance-like ...

Rules Againts Spurious Medicines Tightened

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The Global public health organisation Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM)is now tightening its rule for safe medications against spurious medicines by patients and healthcare professionals "We have evaluated the programme launched in 2010 to protect patients from spurious medicines and identified challenges in ensuring a secured drug distribution system across the country," PSM India Initiative founder Bejon Misra said at a national training workshop here Saturday. ...

Declining Sea Ice Causing Arctic Region to Get Greener

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Warming trends and sea ice decline are causing vegetation changes in the arctic coastal areas, Indian researchers claim. Uma Bhatt, an associate professor with University of Alaska Fairbanks's Geophysical Institute, and Skip Walker, contributed to a recent review of research on the response of plants, marine life and animals to declining sea ice in the Arctic. The review team analyzed 10 years worth of data and research on the subject. The ...

Fido the Dog Uses His Wet Nose to Run IPad Apps

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Fido the 'super' dog, can use an iPad!. New York dog trainer Anna Jane Grossman has done just that, with success -- although a lack of apps limits the possibilities. "It's a novelty. It's just sort of a fun thing to do," Grossman told AFP at School for the Dogs, the canine classroom she runs with partner Kate Senisi near Manhattan's Union Square. "There's not a huge amount of purpose to it -- but the way I see it, we're playing games all the ...

BMI May Not Be The Best Measure of Body Weight

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BMI-the standard metric for finding out normal weight and detecting obesity, is not an accurate measurement and doesn't explain poor health, scientists claim. Dr Rexford Ahima, a medical professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and co-author of the editorial said that most studies depend on BMI, asserting that it's not a very accurate measure. According to many studies, people having BMIs above 30 are at an increased risk of dying ...