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The brain loves a surprise

Scientists in Atlanta, Georgia, have opined after an exhaustive study that the brain loves a surprise. The study was conducted on 25 men and women and studied their responses to different stimuli. Dr. Gregory S Berns of Emory University led the study. The fact that some people rely on an orderly routine, while others thrive on never knowing what the day will bring, may have something to d...

Love the sun

Pregnant women who have dark skin or wear veils are at high risk of vitamin D deficiency, which can lead to rickets in children, studies in Melbourne have found.A study reported in the journal of medicine found that a high proportion of dark-skinned and or veiled women had vitamin D levels below the ideal. As well as problems such as rickets for the infants, a deficiency in adults can lea...

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

The myth that eating nuts makes one fat has now been broken by a study that suggests that mono and polyunsaturated fats are good while simple carbohydrates are bad. Nuts contain monounsaturated fat that helps lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the good kind. Monounsaturated fat does not raise triglyceride levels which is another risk factor// in heart disease. Preliminary evide...

A Loving Relationship Found To Improve Heart Health

Doctors can now add one more factor to their prescription for subsequent heart attack prevention: a close relationship.// A new study shows having a close relationship with another person, whether it be a friend, lover or relative, lowers the risk of further heart attacks by 50 percent. This was true even after taking into account the severity of the first heart attack and other risk fa...

Preserving the DNA of a loved one

Researchers say that families can now hang on to their departed loved one's DNA// through a new profile preservation service offered by a US genetic testing company. The service is being offered by a New Jersey-based firm called Orchid Cellmark . Orchid says the DNA information would be useful for medical, legal and genealogy issues as well as generation of reports. An individual's DNA ca...

Red Clover- A Future Remedy For Menopause And An Alternative To HRT

Red clover is being investigated to find out how effectively it can be used to treat the hot flushes experienced during menopause. If successful, it might turn out to be an ideal alternative to the current hormone // replacement therapy instituted. It has been a problem of concern as regarding what to recommend for patients who are not willing for hormone therapy. This study has been...

All Is Far In Love And War

Recent research has shown that marital problems affect men and women equally, contrary to the existing myth that a poor relationship affects the wife more than the husband. Furthermore, spouses in bad marriages // face greater risk for serious health problems. This finding could mean that couples face a greater likelihood of strokes and heart disease. The study results indicate that i...

Passion Fizzling Out? Blame The “Love Molecule

You look at the love of your life and find that the passion has fizzled out. You no longer feel the blood rush to your brain or your heart thud in your chest // and are at a loss to understand this. Well, help is at hand. Blame the "Love Molecule." Italian researchers have found that the first year of romance is the best one since there is a high level of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) that...

Alcohol lovers: It has no role in Heart disease

Contrary to popular belief that drinking one or two glasses of alcohol helps in heart disease, a New Zealand study claims that alcohol has no such effect//. Dr Rod Jackson and colleagues from Auckland University conducted the study and challenged the French paradox that makes believe alcohol has its role in the health and longevity of French population. They termed it a figment of “c...

Love And Drug Addiction Share The Same Chemistry

Researchers have come with a novel finding that love and addiction may go hand in hand due to shared similarities. For example, the physiological effects manifested as a result of dopamine release// (neurotransmitter) after having seen somebody attractive are nothing more than a simulation of the effects observed following drug abuse with cocaine or marijuana. In addition, both love and d...

Lovers Latest Hang Outs – Railway Platform

Mumbai lovers prefer the most crowded railway stations and bus stops to express their romance. Ranjit Narayanan, 27, hangs around with his girlfriend at the Andheri railway station//. He meets her three times in a week and is happy about the venue. As both work, it is the most easily accessible place with lot of crowd moving up and down it is the safest place too. Initially the...

Chocolate lovers rejoice: it is good for the heart!

In a study consistent with the Christmas season says that a serving or two of dark or bitter chocolate can help smokers to prevent heart disease. This comes as a breath of fresh “sweet” air from Swiss // researchers. The spearheads of the study were researchers at Zurich's University hospital. They investigated and found after tests with 20 smokers that dark chocolate with a rel...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

Troubled rocker Pete Doherty says he will have to beat his drug addiction if he wants to get back girlfriend Kate Moss.In September this year 31 year super model Kate Moss // was who I worth $ 30 million was caught snorting cocaine by The Daily Mirror newspaper in a drugs and drink session with her lover Pete Doherty. She had earlier in her press releases denied that she had ever use...

Warts: Spanner in Lover's Works!

The Human Wart Virus is spelling disaster for the lovers, obvious fallout of the present day sex life which indicates that 70 to 80 per cent of women risk// suffering the genital infection with HPV, at some point in their lives. HPV, among most cases affects the genital tract and thankfully a very small percentage of them actually are responsible for malignant change. HPV infections ar...

Coffee lovers: Here is news to cheer, Coffee may lower diabetes

All the lovers of coffee, it as been found in a study that drinking coffee may lower diabetes risk. // But the catch is that consumption should be moderate. Its moderate consumption every day may lower risk of type-2 diabetes in younger and middle-aged women. Previous studies in US had linked drinking more than two cups of coffee or tea a day with reduction in high risk of ch...

Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece Face Bird Flu Threat: European Union

The presence of the deadly bird flu infection has been confirmed in Greece, Bulgaria and Slovenia by the European Union. Reassurance steps have been initiated by the Italian following detection of the infection in dead swans, last week . // The EU confirmed that samples sent to its reference laboratory in Britain after a first analysis by local research institutes confirmed the H5N1...

Love is blind and Seeing is not Believing – Parents Don’t Believe Their Children Are Overweight!!

Britain: Parents are blind to their children’s obesity, say some researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth. Obesity rates have gone up in recent times, and nearly half of Britons come under the overweight category.// Apart from alarming obesity rates, perhaps what is even more disturbing is the parents’ apathy to obesity amongst their children, which is akin to sitting on...

Good news for kids in love with TV: it may not cause kids' attention disorders

In a contradictory study to previous one it does not seem that children watching a lot of television get behaviour problems in school.// A report from Texas Tech University in Lubbock said that if there is an association, it may be that the exhausted parents of already overly active children are more likely to let them watch TV to give themselves a break, and not that TV itself leads t...

Pet Project: Lifestyle Touch Ups for Senior Citizens and Their Beloved Pets

Blacksburg: Procter & Gamble and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) have forked out a competitive grant of $40,000 to a Virginia Tech team led by Ed Dorsa // , associate professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Affairs for the development of new products and systems that can add more value to the lives of elderly people and their pets. "PAWS: Pet Care Awaren...

Birds of a Feather: Children, Activists and Bird Lovers Join To Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day in Kenya

Kenya – Kenya Is all set to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day. Amid the Avian Flu onslaught and the fear of its spread, birds, especially wild migratory ones are being// looked upon with disdain. This time, children, artists, and environmentalists will add to the gaiety of the World Migratory Bird Day, to be held on the edge of the Great Rift Valley. A worthy effort to narrow the rift wi...

Love Mom More

Recent research from the Douglas Hospital Research Centre (DHRC) in Montreal, Canada, has suggested that mothers who are not stressed make better parents and consequently that their daughters make more attentive mothers. // These findings, from both human and animal studies, highlight the importance of a positive environment not only for the child, but for the mother as well....

Teen Players Urged To Wear Helmets and Gloves to Avoid Sports Injuries

Most adolescent lacrosse and hockey players have been found to indulge in rough games, avoiding helmets and gloves, placing them at increased risk of serious injuries// such as concussions and others. The results of the study have been published in the Journal of Sport Medicine. ‘Helmets and gloves’—sometimes known as ‘locker boxing’ or ‘helmet boxing’—is an underrecognized activity tha...

Loved Ones Could Be Helped To Talk On Prostate Cancer

Men's suffering from prostrate cancer can talk to doctor through their beloved ones, especially wife’s, children, and partners - a survey result shows //. The head of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Leslie D. Michelson said secret weapons for men in the family are daughters, wives and partners whom can realize their role in assisting to express them to doctors about the condition, prost...

EC Warns Tan Lovers Against Skin Cancer

The young and fair skinned tan lovers should give second thoughts to using sun beds as they may induce the development of skin cancer, the European Commission cautioned on Thursday//. The executive arm of the European Union said that its scientific committee on consumer products has concluded that using sun beds, tanning lamps and other ultraviolet radiation devices increases the risk...

First Gay Man Prosecuted On the Charges of Infecting His Lover with HIV

Mark James, of Burgess Hill, West Sussex was prosecuted for intentionally infecting his live in lover with HIV and a warrant was issued to arrest him.// He failed to appear at court and the Judge Jonathan Lowen told Isleworth Crown Court that the 47-year-old businessman would be sentence in his absence. He is facing a lengthy jail sentence for inflicting bodily harm to his lover. James...

Creation of Cytomegalovirus Vaccine by an Innovative Method

Human cytomegalovirus, or CMV infects about 40,000 children before birth and about 8,000 of these children suffer permanent disabilities due to the virus – almost one an hour.// Such disabilities can include vision loss, hearing loss, mental disability, a lack of coordination, and seizures. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CMV is as common a cause of serious...

Innovative Method for Creating a Human Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Outlined

Each year, about 40,000 children are born infected with human cytomegalovirus, or CMV, and about 8,000 of these children suffer permanent disabilities due to the virus – almost one an hour. These disabilities// can include hearing loss, vision loss, mental disability, a lack of coordination, and seizures. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CMV is as common a caus...

Fear of Condom but Love of Risk

Michael John Neal, 48, of Coburg, Melbourne, who is HIV positive, is in the ring after accusations of being condom phobic have been heaped on him//. The fear of using condoms led him to engage in unprotected sex willfully, with several male partners and thus became a transmitter of the disease. The man in question has been slapped with 30 or more charges, which also includes a grave...

Denim Lovers Beware, Fertility Could Be in Danger, Says a New Study

Fertility declining among men of north India. And thanks to tight jeans. So says a study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences// (AIIMS), New Delhi. A ten-year study by the premier medical institution actually reveals a dramatic fall in fertility, reports say. The sperm count of a normal adult male in India has plunged to around 20 million per ml as agai...

A treat for nurses who chip in with tender loving care!

A NHS trust hospital in London has devised a new plan by which nurses are lauded and appreciated for their kind affectionate demeanor by gifting them with ‘thank you// cards’ and later to coffee and chocolate chip cookies as an incentive every time a head nurse or other senior nursing staff note that a patient has been considerably cheered up by the nurses’ effusive nature. Recent surv...

Lost That Lovin' Feeling? Don't Blame the Pill

When your sex drive is sputtering, you may want to take a closer look at several factors in your life.// In fact, it’s natural for people to ask: Is the loss of sexual desire due directly to taking the birth control pill? The answer to this question – which has been asked for more than 40 years, since the oral contraceptive was introduced – may now be less murky, according to research...

To Russia With Love-Bird Flu Strikes

Bird flu has come to Russia after quarantine measures were lifted August 2006. The incidence of bird flu in 2006 resulted in an epidemic that called for the culling// of 1.5 million birds. The present outbreak is near the country’s Black Sea coast. “A laboratory analysis has uncovered the H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry at three locations in the southern Krasnodar region,” says...

New Brain Cells Love to Learn: Study

Researchers have found that wisdom in old age depends on a fresh supply of new brain cells.// Canadian researchers found that when mature mice learn a new task, their newly generated brain cells are three times more active than their old ones, the New Scientist reported on its website. A team of researchers led by Paul Frankland at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

Infants and preschool-aged children who live in daily circumstances of potential trauma and danger can develop the resilience to cope through treatment that focuses on// strengthening parent-child bonds, according to an expert in child development. Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco, Alicia Lieberman, PhD, explored how...

Good News For Chocolate Lovers

According to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Associate for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco//, flavonol, a cocoa component is said to enhance the functioning of brain. Mars a private firm involved in the manufacture of CocoaVia chocolates has a procedure which retains flavonols, an active constituent of cocoa drink in them. This has been used in a lot...

Chinese-food Lovers, Beware

A report from the consumer group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says not much has changed since it reviewed Chinese// food 15 years back. It is still unhealthy. According to the report, a plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day. The batter...

Animal Lovers Protest Brutal Dog Killings

New Delhi: The recent reports of stray dogs in metropolitan cities killing small children and following this the killings of these animals has brought out protests from hundreds of animal lovers. // Recently it was reported that a six-month-old baby was mauled by stray dogs in Hyderabad. Authorities had caught about 22,000 dogs last year. A similar drive against stray dogs in Bangalore...

Friend’s Love Turns Out to Be Gay Admiratio

New York-"Jack & Lem" is a book written by David Pitts. Larry Quirk was a lover of Billings, who was a closet gay.// Quirk told author David Pitts: “Lem Billings was a close friend of Late US president John F. Kennedy and was infatuated with him but never took it further.” "There was a sexual element to his attraction to Kennedy. Billings loved Kennedy all his life beginning...

Top UK Surgeon Who Loved Himalayas is Dead

Robert Roaf, one of the world's leading spinal surgeons who was keenly interested in Buddhism and traveled to India in pursuit of his love for the Himalayas, has died at the age// of 93. Born in 1913, Roaf spent his early childhood in London and won a scholarship to Winchester College at the age of 13 and received a further scholarship in 1931 to Balliol College, Oxford, to study physio...

Relationships are Built on Love and Power

Human relationships are built on not only love but also power according to a //recent report. "You always decide where we go," she complains and he retorts, "And you always decide which movie we see." Arguments like this are normal in a relationship. They are a problem only when they are not about specific grievances, but about power. "There's no relationship without power...