Researchers in Spain have taken a step closer to finding a blood test to help in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
With approximately 75 percent of the estimated 36 million Alzheimer’s sufferers worldwide yet to receive a reliable diagnosis, the potential impact on the lives of possible sufferers, present and future, could be huge.
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease most frequently affecting the elderly.
High heels may increase the risk of a woman suffering from serious medical conditions, which includes arthritis, muscle damage and trapped nerves, a study has suggested.
According to a study conducted by The College of Podiatry, women start feeling the pain after wearing the heels for just one hour and six minutes, on an average and a fifth of them feel the burn after walking for just 10 minutes.
The study also found that almost 50 percent of women have suffered from foot problems and a third have worn heels they knew did not fit simply because they looked good.
‘Basic Instinct’ star Michael Douglas believes his throat cancer was triggered by oral sex.
It has been widely thought that the 68-year-old Hollywood star’s years of drinking and smoking were to blame for the stage four cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2010.
Douglas said he initially thought that stress was behind his near fatal condition but now he has come to believe that HPV virus, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for it, the Guardian reported.
Tata Memorial Centre, a premier cancer treatment institute in the country, today announced that its researchers have found an inexpensive way to screen for cervical cancer — the most common cancer among Indian women — which can prevent 72,600 deaths worldwide each year.
The procedure, involving use of vinegar, curbed the deaths caused by the cancer by 31 percent in a group of 1.5 lakh women, it said.
A first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device that could forestall the spread of AIDS in Africa has reportedly received approval from World Health Organization.
According to The New York Times, The PrePex is the only circumcision method, aside from conventional surgery, to gain approval from the international health organization.
WHO reportedly gave its approval to the device on Friday, Fox News reported.
Dr. Eric P. Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, subsequently told the paper that the device would “truly help save lives.”
We know that there are many health benefits of getting enough sleep, and that the negative impacts of sleep deprivation can be severe.
But many of us have a tough time actually making it happen by following earlier-to-bed schedules.
People who are night owls and shift workers do have more medical and mental health problems, but it’s not clear if this is just the genetic makeup of night owls or that those who stay up late have these issues, Michael Breus, Ph.D., told the Huffington Post.
A new study has shown that death rates from breast cancer can be slashed further by extending drug therapy for longer.
Researchers have found that women who took the drug tamoxifen for ten years rather than the usual five halved their risk of dying from the disease, the Independent reported.
Discovered in the 1960s, Tamoxifen has transformed the treatment of breast cancer and resulted in nearly 50 per cent fall in death rates in the last 30 years.
An Indian origin scientist and her team have made a breakthrough that could lead to development of artificial livers for transplantation.
The liver can indeed regenerate itself if part of it is removed. However, researchers trying to exploit that ability in hopes of producing artificial liver tissue for transplantation have repeatedly been stymied: Mature liver cells, known as hepatocytes, quickly lose their normal function when removed from the body.
An estimated 35 per cent of the 45,000 new cancer cases registered in Gujarat every year are that of the head and neck due to high tobacco consumption, according to Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI).
“An estimated 30-35 per cent of cancer cases recorded in the state every year are that of head and neck cancer. More than 50 per cent of the men in state show symptoms of this cancer because of high tobacco consumption,” Associate Professor, Department of Community Oncology, GCRI, Dr Parimal Jivrajani said.
Researchers have come a step closer to fighting malaria by isolating a chemical that causes kidney failure in mosquitoes leaving some of the mosquitoes too bloated to survive after feeding.
The research, a collaboration that includes Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Ohio State and Cornell Universities, was conducted on species known to carry malaria, West Nile virus, dengue and yellow fever.
London, Jun. 2 (ANI): 73 percent people believe that they look more attractive in summer compared with in winter, a survey has claimed.
The survey conducted by match.com found that blue skies and warm temperatures made people come across as more confident and healthy, the Daily Express reported.
The survey also showed that females are likelier than men to radiate an attractive glow during warmer weather.
54 percent of Britons believe that their appearance is enhanced in summer compared with just two percent in winter.
Spouses and long-term partners of patients with mouth and throat cancers related to infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) appear to have no increased prevalence of oral HPV infections, a new study has found.
The study led by Johns Hopkins investigators suggests that long-term couples need not change their sexual practices.
Washington, June 2 (ANI): Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have suggested that measuring blood flow in the brain may be an easy, noninvasive way to predict stroke or hemorrhage in children receiving cardiac or respiratory support through a machine called ECMO.
Early detection would allow physicians to alter treatment and take steps to prevent these complications—the leading cause of death for patients on ECMO.
Doctors have warned that youngsters who may like to act older than their age, shouldn’t undergo using Botox and fillers until they are 30.
Almost a third of Australians using anti-ageing treatments are aged between 18 and 29, new figures show, with doctors reporting 17-year-olds requesting injections and mothers taking their 15-year-old daughters for lip fillers.
Now doctors are urging young people to hold off from such treatments until they turn 30, the Telegraph reported.
Spouses and long-term partners of patients with mouth and throat cancers related to infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) appear to have no increased prevalence of oral HPV infections, a new study has found.
The study led by Johns Hopkins investigators suggests that long-term couples need not change their sexual practices.
A new study has shown that the pattern of brain responses to words in 2-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder predicted the youngsters’ linguistic, cognitive and adaptive skills at ages 4 and 6.
The findings are among the first to demonstrate that a brain marker can predict future abilities in children with autism.
To listen to the grievances of 47 families who had lost their kin seven months back during an outbreak of gastroenteritis in the locality, a team of Scheduled Caste Commission today visited the affected Gandhi
Camp.
Led by Vice Chairman of the Commission, Raj Kumar Verka, the team inspected the living condition of around 20,000
people residing in that locality and also listened to the several causes that led to the death of 47 persons in a month in that slum locality.
Washington, June 1 (ANI): One night of sleep deprivation leads to an increase in men’s perceptions of both women’s interest in and intent to have sex, a new study has suggested.
Results showed that when they were well-rested, both men and women rated the sexual intent of women as significantly lower than that of men.
Researchers have identified a novel approach to create an unlimited number of human red blood cells and platelets in vitro.
The researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), differentiated induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into these cell types, which are typically obtained through blood donations.
It could be possible to predict whether a specific diet and exercise regimen would actually help you lose weight.
Scientists have identified five epigenetic biomarkers in adolescents that were associated with a better weight loss at the beginning of a weight loss program.
Not only could this could ultimately help predict an individual`s response to weight loss intervention, but it may offer therapeutic targets for enhancing a weight loss program`s effects.
Researchers including an Indian scientist have found that a simple program that uses pedometers to monitor how much people move throughout the day is helping them decrease their sitting time and increase physical activity.
Saurabh S. Thosar, an associate instructor at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington and one of the study`s researchers, said that even if somebody works out 30 minutes a day, the fact that they are sitting and not moving for long periods of time for the rest of the day is in and of itself detrimental to their health and well-being, physiologically.
Scientists in Japan have discovered why patients, who are suffering from advanced kidney disease, and undergoing hemodialysis are at high risk to heart attacks and other cardiovascular complications.
New research findings show that uremic toxins, which are not removed by hemo dialysis, increase heart attack risk.
The same scientists also found what reduces this risk: an oral adsorbent called “AST-120.”
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, who are studying a key molecular player called Hsp70 that is responsible for protein homeostasis have uncovered how it binds together with another molecule responsible for intracellular energy transfer to enhance its overall activity and efficiency.
Heat shock proteins, particularly the 70-kilodalton heat shock proteins, Hsp70, are important for cellular processes such as protein folding and protecting cells from stress.
New cases of HIV infections in the Philippines was highest in April at 388, the Department of Health (DOH) said Friday.
In its HIV and AIDS registry, the DOH reported that the 388 fresh cases in April was 67 percent higher than the 233 recorded in April 2012.
HIV infections recorded in April brought the total number of new HIV cases in the first four months of the year to 1,477.
Of the 388 new HIV cases, the DOH said 95 percent, or 368 cases, of those infected were male.
An international team of researchers has found that a singular gene mutation helps brain cancer cells to not just survive, but grow tumors rapidly by altering the splicing of genes that control cellular metabolism.
The team was led by principal investigator Paul S. Mischel, MD, a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.