Reveals

CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

Keeping fit and in to be in shape is not only good for the individuals themselves but also for their siblings. Over weight, which is of course the predisposer of majority of the illness such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension etc., is now being studied in depth, the reason is to attain the destination of disease free environment, that are preventable.// Researchers from the US Cent...

Dental exam reveals stroke risk

More than 60% of deaths from stroke in the US occur among postmenopausal women. Many of them have no warning symptoms. So how can women at risk be detected?// One way may be through having regular and thorough dental exams. A warning sign of stroke risk is atheroma - fatty deposits in the carotid arteries serving the brain. This can be picked up through a dental x-ray. Researchers in...

Study Reveals Better Results in Patients Suffering From Depression.

Patients suffer from various psychiatric disease and they throng the hospitals for treatment. Statistics show that a third of these people // suffer from mental depressions of different levels. The initial results w...

Study reveals how stress can make you sick

It's no surprise that constant stress can make people sick, and now a team of researchers has figured out how. A study focused on 119 men and women who were taking care of spouses with dementia. The health of the caregivers was compared with that of 106 people of similar ages who were not living under the stress of constant care giving. Blood tests showed that a chemical called Interleuki...

Study reveals how stress can make you sick

It's no surprise that constant stress can make people sick, and now a team of researchers has figured out how. A study focused on 119 men and women who were taking care of spouses with dementia. The health of the caregivers was compared with that of 106 people of similar ages who were not living under the stress of constant care giving. Blood tests showed that a chemical called Interleuki...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

Since the start in recent years of intense genetic sequencing, more than 150 species, mostly bacteria, have been completed, but the study appearing this week in the journal Science is the first for a companion animal. // A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that researchers used to sequence the canine genes. <B...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

Since the start in recent years of intense genetic sequencing, more than 150 species, mostly bacteria, have been completed, but the study appearing this week in the journal// Science is the first for a companion animal. A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that researchers used to sequence the canine genes. <BR...

Study reveals that it is easy for people to learn from watching others learn

A Canadian research team from the University of Western Ontario had found out that it is possible to learn// complex physical actions by observing others. The study used a robot arm to show how to perform complex mechanical tasks to a group of people. When the video of this learning process was shown to a group, they learned to do the same action in less time than the people in the vi...

New study reveals how to strike a balance between heart-healthy fats

Food that is good for health, especially the role of fats, had been debated for a long// time. The researchers from Penn State University had found out that the between the various kinds of fats that are heart healthy, it is not possible to have the healthy meal by banishing one kind of fat totally and taking only one particular kind of fats. The right combination of both can help achieve...

SNUPPY – Woo Suk Hwang reveals World’s first dog cloe

Hwang’s team put together 1095 eggs containing the DNA of a three-year-old adult male Afghan, and transferred them into 123 surrogate mothers. Just three pregnancies resulted: one miscarried// , and two others went to term. One of the clones died from pneumonia at 22 days old. “Professor Hwang and his colleagues are to be congratulated on another great success,” says Ian Wilmut, creator...

New Procedure Reveals the Secrets of the Brain

The activity of the brain has been mapped for the first time by MPI researchers using electrical microstimulation//. The new procedure, developed by scientists from the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, accurately maps the activity in primate brains by means of the BOLD-Signal (Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Signal). The combination of electrical microstimulation and FMRT promise...

China reveals new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

Even as China is trying to contain Bird flu, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease forced the killing of 91 cattle in the northeastern part of the country this week // . The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Cattle on a farm in Shandong province developed symptoms this month. The culling commenced on December 29 after cattle were found to have contracted the disease....

Brain Is More Active While Hiding The Truth, Reveals fMRI Imaging

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can help identify if an individual is lying much better when compared to the traditional polygraph tests. // The test further highlights certain specific brain regions that light up when a person tells a lie. Researchers from Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia have conducted the interesting research. The results appear in the latest iss...

Gene Bias: Onomastics of Shared Surnames among Men Reveals Genetic links

What’s in a Surname? There’s a lot you can decipher from surnames, especially from those men who share similar surnames. Gender Bias, if you ask me! Or blame it on the Y chromosome that renders maleness // to a Man; researchers, have now unearthed a mysterious link, that traces the branches of a family tree to common Surnames. DNA of 150 pairs of men with shared British surnames was compa...

New Research Reveals How We Process Brands And Products

In a new study, researchers from the University of Michigan and Harvard University use cutting-edge brain-scanning technology to explore how different regions// of the brain are activated when we think about certain qualities of brands and products. The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Consumer Research, is the first to use fMRI to assess consumer perceptions and has important impl...

Pink Reveals Her Drug Past

Pop singer Pink has revealed that she used to be a heroin user.Pink started using drugs at the age of 13 after her parents divorced//. She finally stopped in 1995, reported ananova.com. "Heroin is a horrible thing. I have seen first hand what it can do to people and it is not pretty. I was never that much into it to need treatment," Pink said. "But if you are talking about...

India Fashion Week Reveals - 'The Story Of Desire'

The Story Of Desire - showing 20 paintings by renowned masters like M.F. Husain and F.N. Souza - opened// in N.Delhi to complement a similar theme to be etched out at Sunday's grand finale of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. "There are different kinds of desire in a human being. Some have a desire that is fulfilled, some only dream about it. But it's something we can't do wit...

Study Reveals AIDS, Malaria Need More Attention

According to a report published in Geneva it was found that the world needs to pump in more money to conduct research work on diseases such as AIDS and malaria. // Both are among the leading causes of death in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The report was published by the Global Forum for Health Research. Stephen Matlin, one of the authors of the report sa...

Survey Reveals Alarming Prevalence Rates of Diabetes among US Adolescents

A national survey conducted in the US estimates that the type 2 diabetes may be prevalent among nearly 39, 000 adolescents. //More than 2.5 million have been projected to have impaired blood glucose levels (fasting blood sugar) placing them at increased risk of diabetes and other serious health problems. The findings of the study are presented in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Me...

iSTART Brain Model Reveals the possible Cause of Autism

Autism is one of the leading developmental disability. Statistics show that about 1.5 million children and adults suffer from autism. In US there is a 10-17% increase in the disease ratio every year//. Though the disease has been studied widely and its symptoms known to everyone the cause of the disease still remains a mystery. A new model of the brain developed by Dr. Stephen...

Definite Connection Between Receptor Levels and Cocaine Abuse Reveals PET Imaging

Now, researchers adopting the technique of positron emission tomography (PET) have been able to confirm a link between a distinct character in the brain chemistry// and the susceptibility of an individual to resort to cocaine , to the extent of even becoming an addict. The research, in animals, shows a significant correlation between the number of receptors in part of the brain for th...

Computational Model Reveals Working of AZT in Body

A computational model has been developed by researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech which would allow scientists to have a better //understanding of the metabolism and toxicity of the HIV/AIDS drug zidovudine (azidothymidine, AZT). AZT is used successfully as part of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) to control the level of the human immun...

Mummy’s place is at home, reveals surve

Wellington: Ask a child under five, if he prefers a yummy mummy at home or a working mother, the reply is out without a bat of the eyelid; Younger kids// below five years of age find moms yummier if they are at home, a survey reveals. A survey conducted in New Zealand had shown that a measly two percent are okay with mothers getting back to work full time, despite having young childr...

Model of Internal Clocks Reveals How Jet Lag Disrupts the System

Symptoms of extreme jet lag may result from the body overshooting as it tries to adjust to particularly large leaps forward in time, suggests new research// from the University of Massachusetts Amherst that models circadian rhythms in rats. To transition smoothly to a different time zone, the researchers recommend advancing in chunks of not more than four hours, thus allowing the body’s c...

Study Reveals Effects of WBCs on Transplanted Kidney

A recent study in genetically engineered mice has revealed that the dreaded white blood cell chemistry known to damage kidneys used for transplants may also help prevent such damage//, according to scientists at Johns Hopkins. Researchers have long known that when blood flow is cut off and then returned to transplanted kidneys or other organs, immune system cells called T lymphocytes p...

Genetic Map Reveals How Drugs Fight Diseases: Study

US scientists reported an initial success in building an extensive catalog of information about how drugs affect various healthy and diseased cells. // This so-called "Connectivity Map" will be able to reveal links among drugs, genes and diseases, the researchers wrote in the latest issue of Science. The findings, reported Thursday by US scientists and also published in th...

Does C-Section Stand for ‘Concern’? Study Reveals One in Hundred Babies ‘Hut’

New York: While C-section delivery is known to offset birth trauma, fetal injury cannot be totally ruled out, a study has revealed//. Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found that, one in 100 babies who have been delivered by caesarean section undergo some sort of injury during the process. The injuries range from slight skin bruises to...

Autism Affects Half a Million Australians -Survey Reveals Startling Facts

Australia’s first national autism study has grim facts to state. The study estimates that more than 10, 000 children aged between 6 and 12 have autism// and that it also takes more than two years to diagnose the complex developmental disorder. In addition, around 125,000 Australians suffer from some sort of autism indicted by impaired communication problems, social interaction and stilt...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the bodys ability to sense cold. The finding, reported on-line in the journal Nature (May 30, 2007), reveals one of the key mechanisms by which the body detects temperature sensation. But in so doing it also illuminates a mechanism that mediates how the body experiences in...

Sexual Behavior is inclined towards monogamy, reveals survey

A world-wide survey which has sought to understand sexual behaviors has revealed, the abiding worries about the rise in pre-marital sex //in the present day are baseless and monogamy is still very popular and sacrosanct. The results of this survey are published in The Lancet. The research has collated information from 59 countries, which showed that many had just a single recent sexua...

Plague Proteome Reveals Proteins Linked to Infection

Recreating growth conditions in flea carriers and mammal hosts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have uncovered 176 proteins and likely proteins in the// plague-bacterium Yersinia pestis whose numbers rise and fall according to the disease’s virulence. The team, led by the Department of Energy laboratory staff scientists Mary Lipton and Kim Hixson, identified the prote...

Survey Reveals Rejection of NHS Database Scheme

The department of health, in England had proposed to set up an elaborate national database to store all medical records from hospitals.They had set aside ￡12 billion pounds for// this computerization project. GPs across Britain, however, are opposed to this project. 52% of GPs opined that they would not like to upload confidential data dealing with patient information, without the prior...

Study Reveals That Americans are Keeping Better Tabs on Their Blood Pressure

A new study has found that more Americans, especially the senior citizens have become sensitive to health issues, and to begin with have managed// to bring their blood pressure under control. Study author, Bernard M.Y. Cheung, said,"It is hard to attribute the improvement to any particular factor. We have tried to see if the explanation lies in better awareness, detection or treatment...

Study Reveals That Folate Does Not Prevent Heart Attacks

Patients having history of cardiac problems are not protected from attacks or stroke by taking a supplement of folate according to a recent study.// Folic acid or folate is one of the B Vitamins used for production of new cells by the body. Some medical practitioners prescribe it to prevent cardiac problems. Dr. Lydia Bazzano, working at Tulane University School of Public...

How to Bell the Fat? –Most U.S Citizens Concerned, Reveals Surve

An insightful nation wide survey conducted by a US research company has highlighted the overriding opinion of people, about what they consider a formidable health// problem facing society and their children today. The telephonic survey detailing the response from 800 adults, found that nearly 27% named 'obesity', as the most worrying health factor; inadequate health care or insurance...

Elderly Patients Usually Keep Mum About Use of Alternative Medicine , Reveals Survey

Representatives of AARP and the National Center for Complementary //and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health, are urging consumers and physicians to communicate better, especially about alternative therapies they are trying out in order to ensure safe and integrated health care. This is the outcome of a survey conducted by NCCAM, by examining the telephonic c...

Birth Defects, an Important Reason Behind Infant Death, Study Reveals

The primary reason for infant death in the United States is due to birth defects, a study has found.// Researchers at the University of Arkansas analyzed the medical records of babies under 10 days old, which revealed that birth defects in the heart, such as, pulmonary valve stenosis, happen to be important reasons for hospitalization. The study, enabled by the U.S. Center...

Study Reveals 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer Injuries

Soccer, one of the most prevalent sports in the world, has continued to grow in popularity in the United States. As the number of children participating in organized and// unorganized soccer leagues increases, so does the number of children at risk for injury. A study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) at Columbus Children’s Hospital is the first...

New Study Reveals That Firefighters Are Prone To Heart Attack

A new study done in the United States suggests that the odds of firefighters dying from coronary heart disease within 24 hours of fighting a fire, //are 10 to 100 times higher than during non-emergency duties such as rescuing a cat from a tree. Stefanos Kales of Harvard Medical School and colleagues say episodic physical and psychological stress, carbon monoxide and toxic chemicals in...

Brain Tissue Reveals Possible Genetic Trigger for Schizophrenia

A study led by scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may have identified a molecular mechanism involved// in the development of schizophrenia. In studying the postmortem brain tissue of adults who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, the researchers found that levels of certain gene-regulating molecules called microRNAs were lower among schizophrenia patie...