Rsearchers in the United States say their studies suggest that greater consumption of fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of developing invasive bladder cancer in women.
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.
The deadly MERS virus that has claimed many lives has been traced to an insect-eating bat in Saudi Arabia, researchers claim.
A 100 per cent genetic match for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been discovered in the bat in close proximity to the first known case of the disease in Saudi Arabia, researchers said.
The discovery points to the likely animal origin for the disease, although researchers say that an intermediary animal is likely also involved.
Psychotic symptoms such as voices in the head or hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia could be caused by a faulty `switch` within the brain, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found.
The University of Nottingham researchers 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 insula and the lateral frontal cortex.
A new study has found a link between men`s and women`s personalities and the likelihood of them having kids.
Men with neurotic personality traits are having fewer children compared to previous generations, according to the study.
The study examined the effect of personality on how likely a person is to have children, using extensive survey and birth registry data from Norway.
Indian researchers have conducted a data mining exercise to find out important risk factors in increasing the chances of an individual having a heart attack.
The authors 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.
A new research has found that ageing is determined not only by the accumulation of changes during our lifetime but also by the genes we acquire from our mothers.
There are many causes of ageing that are determined by an accumulation of various kinds of changes that impair the function of bodily organs.
Of particular importance in ageing, however, seems to be the changes that occur in the cell`s power plant – the mitochondrion.
This structure is located in the cell and generates most of the cell`s supply of ATP which is used as a source of chemical energy.
Smokers, who have severe nicotine dependence, are more likely to gain weight when they try quitting, according to a study.
Even with nicotine replacement therapy, individuals can gain substantial amounts of weight when they quit smoking.
Koji Hasegawa and colleagues from Kyoto Medical Center, Japan, studied weight gain patterns in individuals who successfully abstained from smoking after nicotine replacement therapy at a clinic.
An Indian American doctor and a fellow physician have co-invented a weight control kit that promises to make weight loss supplements, that risk damage to the liver and kidneys, redundant.
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.
The New York health department has launched a free mobile app to help cooks calculate how many calories are in the food they prepare and find ways to reduce the calorie counts.
Restaurant chefs or home cooks can enter the ingredients and number of servings of a recipe with “CalCutter” and the app will calculate the number of calories per serving in the finished dish, Xinhua reported.
CalCutter will then suggest alternative ingredients or cooking methods to reduce the number of calories in the dish.
A new study has found that asthma sufferers, who are frequently exposed to heavy traffic pollution or smoke from wood fire heaters, experience a significant worsening of symptoms.
The University of Melbourne led study is the first of its kind to assess the impact of traffic pollution and wood smoke from heaters on middle-aged adults with asthma.
The results revealed adults who suffer asthma and were exposed to heavy traffic pollution experienced an 80 percent increase in symptoms and those exposed to wood smoke from wood fires experienced an 11 percent increase in symptoms.
Researchers have discovered the way the protein, eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E), acts upon cancer-promoting messenger RNA molecules.
The results have solved a decades-long scientific mystery and may lead to new, highly specific cancer treatments that will act only on growth-promoting cells as opposed to all cells.
UC Davis assistant Professor Christopher Fraser said that this protein is one the most important initiation factors in this cellular pathway, and there is a lot of energy in the cell that goes into regulating the level and availability of it.
A new study suggests that hitting the gym could help men avoid diet-induced erectile dysfunction.
Christopher Wingard and his colleagues at East Carolina University used rats put on a “junk food” diet to test the effects of aerobic exercise.
They found that exercise effectively improved both erectile dysfunction and the function of vessels that supply blood to the heart.
For 12 weeks, the researchers fed a group of rats chow that reflected the Western diet, high in sugar and with nearly half its calories from fat. Another group of rats ate a healthy standard rat chow instead.
A new study has showed that Chinese herbal medicine Ji-Sui-Kang (JSK), given systemically for three weeks to injured rats, improved locomotor function, reduced tissue damage, and preserved the structure of neural cells.
The report also includes data showing that JSK may first act to reduce inflammation and cell apoptosis and death, and boost local oxygen supply while, later on, it appears to restore function and promote tissue regeneration.
A gene that helps to control the ageing process has now been associated to blood cancer, according to a new study.
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found a genetic variant that influences the ageing process among four new variants they linked to myeloma – one of the most common types of blood cancer.
The study more than doubles the number of genetic variants linked to myeloma, bringing the total number to seven, and sheds important new light on the genetic causes of the disease.
Pilots, who fly at high altitudes, may be at an increased risk for developing brain lesions, according to a new study.
For the study, 102 U-2 United States Air Force pilots and 91 non-pilots between the ages of 26 and 50 underwent MRI brain scans.
The scans measured the amount of white matter hyperintensities, or tiny brain lesions associated with memory decline in other neurological diseases. The groups were matched for age, education and health factors.
Researchers have created the first risk score that predicts the 10-year individualized dementia risk for patients with type 2 diabetes.
Scientists at Kaiser Permanente and the University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands developed and validated the Diabetes-Specific Dementia Risk Score by examining data from nearly 30,000 patients with type 2 diabetes aged 60 and older over a 10-year period.
Children who have higher levels of Bisphenol A, a chemical used in plastics, are more likely to become obese and have abnormal waist circumference, a new study has suggested.
The University of Michigan researchers studied the levels of BPA found in children`s urine and then measured body fat, waist circumference, and cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors, in a study published today in Pediatrics.
A new study has revealed that copper is one of the main environmental factors that is responsible for the onset and enhancement of Alzheimer`s disease.
The study by University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Neurosurgery showed that copper can accumulate in the brain and cause the blood brain barrier to break down, resulting in the toxic accumulation of the protein amyloid beta, a by-product of cellular activity.
A recent sex survey has revealed that 61 percent of men and 62 percent of women have faked an orgasm.
When the New York Post asked its respondents whether they described their sexual liasons to their best friend, 57 percent of women said no versus 50 percent of men.
‘Mad Men’ and ‘True Blood’ ranked the highest when people were asked to pick out a TV show from which they wanted to live out a sex fantasy.
49 percent said that they had texted or e-mailed nude or lewd photographs of themselves to someone else.
Researchers have found that calcium and vitamin D supplementation does not reduce the severity of joint symptoms in postmenopausal women.
Lead investigator Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD, PhD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and his team used data from the Women”s Health Initiative (WHI) calcium plus vitamin D supplementation trial.
Lifestyle, mounting work pressure and over-ambition are leading to increasing cases of brain hemorrhage among the 20-30 age group, doctors say.
According to Dr K B Shankar, assistant professor of Neuro Surgery at Safdarjung Hospital, brain strokes were earlier noticed in the elderly age group with high blood pressure and diabetes being the main causes.
“But recently there have been increasing cases of patients with brain hemorrhages at an early age primarily because of the lifestyle that we follow,” Shankar told PTI.
Scientists have been able to uncover the molecular mechanism by which the deadly Ebola virus assembles, providing potential new drug targets.
The study also showed that the same molecule that assembles and releases new viruses also rearranges itself into different shapes, with each shape controlling a different step of the virus`s life cycle.
Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbial Science at TSRI, said that like a `Transformer`, this protein of the Ebola virus adopts different shapes for different functions.
A new study suggests that individuals who contract sexually transmitted infections during their teen years have a greater HIV risk into young adulthood.
Furthermore, the greater the number of STIs contracted during their teen years, the greater the risk of subsequent HIV.
Researchers analyzed a large sample of Philadelphia high school students born between 1985 and 1993 who participated in the Philadelphia High School STD Screening Program.
The program, which includes education about STIs and HIV and STI screening, was studied between 2003 and 2010.
A new study suggests that increased caffeine intake may reduce fatty liver in people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Worldwide, 70 percent of people diagnosed with diabetes and obesity have NAFLD, the major cause of fatty liver not due to excessive alcohol consumption.
It is estimated that 30 percent of adults in the United States have this condition, and its prevalence is rising in Singapore. There are no effective treatments for NAFLD except diet and exercise.
A new study found that the risk of death due to obesity increases as individuals grow older, despite past findings that predict a weaker association.
Researchers reviewed data from the National Health Interview Survey linked to the National Death Index to understand the association between obesity and early adult mortality.
The sample included survey respondents between the ages of 40 and 84.9.
The study uniquely accounted for not only the age of the respondent, but also the period in which they were observed and the birth cohort that they were a member of.