Essential

Breast milk is essential

Researchers say that mothers who breast-feed their children for less than three months may be preventing them from reaching their full intellectual potential. The results of intelligence tests on 13-month-old babies and five- year-old children showed that those who had breast milk for less than three months were not as bright//as those who had been breast-fed for at least six months. H...

Identifying Virus Found To Be Essential for HIV Patients

Before the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy HAART, the cytomegalovirus was a major problem for AIDS patients, causing opportunistic// infections that spread out of control and led to faster progression of the disease and shorter time to death. Researchers assessed CMV status in about 375 people infected with HIV using a standard test. Investigators followed the patie...

Essential tremor can lead to dementia

In a study done by Spanish researchers of Mostoles General Hospital Madrid, had pointed out that the condition of// essential tremor can be responsible for increased risk of dementia. Essential tremor is a neurological condition that leads to a kind of movement disorder. Involuntary movements of the muscle produce the tremor of the hands, head, neck, face etc. It affects few people aft...

Common drugs to treat essential tremor

Drugs, which are used for treatment of high blood pressure and seizures, can now be used to // treat essential tremors. Essential tremor is a neurological condition that leads to a kind of movement disorder. Involuntary movements of the muscle produce the tremor of the hands, head, neck, face etc. It affects few people after age of 40 and most people after the age of 60. Acc...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

Researchers have found that teenage girls living in temperate countries or colder regions of the world would // benefit later in life if they took supplements of Vitamin D in the winter months when the sunlight exposure to their body is low. The sun is important for formation of the active component of Vitamin D in the body. The vitamin supplement would help to strengthen bones for la...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

Researchers have found that teenage girls living in temperate countries or colder regions of the world would // benefit later in life if they took supplements of Vitamin D in the winter months when the sunlight exposure to their body is low. The sun is important for formation of the active component of Vitamin D in the body. The vitamin supplement would help to strengthen bones for la...

Protein Found to Be Essential For Maintaining Nerve Health

A team of researchers led by Michael Kiebler at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen (now at the Center for Brain Research, University of Vienna), have been able to identify a // protein that seems to play a vital role in maintaining the overall health of the nerve cell. The protein called Staufen2, appears to play a key role in the maintenance of synapses. Th...

MP’s Ask for Reduction of VAT on Condoms, Essential Health Ite

MP’s have petitioned for reduction on VAT for condoms, to be reduced from 17.5% to 5%. Though the rules do not warrant abolishment of VAT on condoms, the best that can be done is to reduce it. // They have strongly invoked a re-categorization of condoms from a luxury item to an essential health item. Emily Thornberry, Labor MP for Islington South, has proposed the motion that also secon...

Easy Access To Healthcare Services Essential For Better Survival Rates

Cancer survival rates have bettered among the teenagers and young adults (TYAs) in countries where people can have easy access to healthcare services// than in those where people have to pay for their own medical insurance It has been found that Australia's system of health insurance for all, regardless of age, meant that TYAs were more likely to survive cancer in Australia than they wer...

C-Myc Gene Essential for Immune System Function

C-myc, a proto-oncogene, the activation of which is associated with cancer formation, has been found to be essential for normal functioning of the immune system, according to a study published in the journal, Blood. //More specifically, c-myc has been found to be important in the immune system's 'memory' of previous infections. In order to rapidly and efficiently respond to new infe...

Regular Exercise Is Essential To Keep Arteries Healthy

According to a research it has been found that in order to maintain ones arteries hale and healthy, it is mandatory for everyone to maintain a regular exercise program//. The disease of the arteries has been found to be the major of cause of death in men, which results in heart attack or stroke. It is the atherosclerosis, in which cholesterol-laden plaques build up in the arteries. As...

Omega 3 Supplements Is Very Essential For the Kids

Omega 3 present in fish oil is found to enhance educational achievements and combat other behavioral problems. The researchers at the University of South Australia //said that it has a positive effect on the kids suffering from Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The kids with ADHD responded better to Omega 3 fish oils than to the drug Ritalin. In Britain also it was found...

Suitable Culturing Medium, essential for Stem Cell Development

Scientists indicate that in embryonic stem cell development, nurturing medium plays an important role than nature and environment//. Researchers at the University of Florida have found that only by interacting with a suitable culturing surface, the developing stem cell attained ability to form any type of cell in the body and acquired its identity. Using an animal model of embr...

Sleep Essential For A Strong Memory

Researchers have said that sleep would probably help the human brain to enhance memories like the ability to recall recently learned facts.// It was reported that previous studies had established the benefits of sleep for non-declarative memories, like the steps of learning to tap numeric sequences on a keyboard. It was explained that the new experiment focuses on the declarative memo...

Early Diagnosis of Postpartum Depression Is Very Essential Among New Mothers

According to a study conducted by Linda Chaudron, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical Center// postpartum depression is a disorder which is fast rising among new mothers. The researcher says that the women should be screened for a period of 12 months after childbirth. Such an extended period of follow up is very much essent...

Face-lift: Essentials for a youthful look

A center that promotes 'well-being' has been instituted in Kensington, West of London, founded by Carolan Brown, famous for being late Diana, The Princes of Wales’, personal trainer,// is fast gaining popularity for its one day programme that claims to make its clients look and feel nearly 80,000 years younger. The programme encompasses a combination of consultation and therapy. The...

Early Intervention Of Smoking In Teens Essential To Avoid Dependence

A research study on smoking has revealed that nicotine dependence can develop in some smokers right after the first puff even before they become regular users.// Smoking cessation programs for teenagers have had little success and this finding needs to be integrated into the cessation programs aimed at youngsters for the programs to be successful. The natural course of cigarette use h...

Majority Of People In US Seek Essential Changes In Health Care System

A new survey done in New York shows that patients, who experience the health care system on a first-hand basis, find there should //be a lot done for its improvement, with almost half the middle class families reporting problems paying for health care. According to the survey by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, an astonishingly high amount of Ame...

Complete Vaccination Of Poultry Flock Essential to Check The Spread Of Avian Flu

Scientists have explained that the risk of incomplete vaccination on the poultry flocks could be the probable spread of the deadly strains of avian flu.// Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Warwick have found, in their research that there could be a risk of spreading of the deadly strains of bird flu like H5N1 due to the incomplete vaccination of the poultry flocks. The r...

Proper Fitting Of Football Helmets Essential To Prevent Concussion

A new study exploring the helmet fitting techniques and concussions among high school athletes found that proper fitting of helmets could help reduce the risk of// concussion. In the current study, Dr. Eugene Hong of Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia and co-author Dr. Tracey Covassin of Michigan State University analyzed responses from 289 surveys of directors of...

Protein Essential for Kidney-to-Bladder Urine Transfer

Tests of a protein's role in the immune system have revealed a surprising connection to a kidney problem that occurs in approximately one percent of all live births//. "This condition, which is known as functional obstruction, impairs the ureter’s ability to pump urine from the kidney to the bladder," says senior author Wojciech Swat, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immuno...

Effective Marketing of Multivitamins Essential

More work on vitamins necessary for making beneficial, standardized recommendations for public health.// Irwin Rosenberg, MD, University Professor at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University in his paper “Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention,” outlines challenges and opportunities in advancing the scientific know...

Optimum Folate and Vitamin B12 Levels Essential for Cognitive Function in Seniors

Folate and vitamin B12, two important nutrients for the development of healthy nerves and blood cells, may work together to protect cognitive function// among seniors, reports a new epidemiological study. According to Martha Savaria Morris, PhD, epidemiologist at the USDA HNRCA, "we found a strong relationship between high folate status and good cognitive function among people 60 and...

Health Workers in Developing Countries Undermines Essential Services

A chronic shortage of health workers in developing nations is undermining essential health services, including treatments for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria// , World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan said on Tuesday in Singapore ahead of World Health Day on April 7. Thousands of health care professionals have left their homes in developing nations in search of higher...

Essential Tones of Music Rooted in Human Speech

The use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech, according to researchers at the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. The particular notes used in music sound right to our ears because of the way our vocal apparatus makes the sounds used in all human languages, said Dale Purves, the George...