Space

Immune cells halt round in space

An immune cell swallows a small capsule-shaped bacteria. The immune cells which help protect us from disease does not generally work the way they should in space travellers and it could be something to do with their shape. Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) have been studying how immune cells behave in microgravity as part of their research on the health effects of space on astrona...

Space research leads to needle-free blood tests

In the future, infra-red light may enable assessment of blood chemistry without needing to take a sample.Space medicine has many potential spin-offs for health on the ground.// One of the latest, described by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, is needle-free blood tests. The space researchers want to take blood samples in space, for medical research. For this purpose, they are lo...

Doctors Ask MPs To Protect Human Rights By Banning Smoking In Enclosed Public Spaces

The BMA Chairman, Dr James Johnson has urged all MPs in England to exercise their free vote to ensure that smoking was banned in all enclosed public spaces. In a letter to all MP's, Dr Johnson said, “A partial ban on smoking in public place// disregards the human rights of workers and customers whose health will not be protected by the proposed legislation. It will bring nothing short...

Space suit technology to Protect Against Heat Strokes

The technology is behind the protective clothing to astronauts going to space and indulging in spacewalks in sunlight is now forming as the basis to design// protective clothing for fire fighters and steel workers who need to work in extreme heat and dangerous circumstances. This project nicknamed as “safe cool” will look at distinct protective material that encompasses an inbuilt coo...

Effect of Prolonged Stay in Space Studied Using Fruit Flies

Recently a study was conducted by the researchers at the University of Central Florida and University of California, Davis, to understand the effect of prolonged stays// in space and how it affects the astronauts' health. Hence they studied the effect by using Fruit flies aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. The flies will need little care during their 12-day stay aboard the shuttle, w...

Exercise in Space Prevents Kidney Stone Formation in Astronauts

Researchers at the University of Minnesota said that astronauts have to exercise and it is the only way to reduce the risk of developing kidney stones in space// . Exercise simulates gravity and thereby helps the astronauts to combat bone loss. Astronauts lose calcium in their bones and strength in their muscles while in space because of the zero-gravity environment. This calcium can en...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

With debutant Indian director Homi Adajania's English film "Being Cyrus" coming up, the number of films// in recent times depicting older women in roles that explore their sexual side has shot up once more. The made-in-Mumbai film features Dimple Kapadia as Katy, a Parsi woman, who is attracted towards Cyrus, essayed by Saif Ali Khan. The film also stars Naseeruddin Shah and Boman Iran...

Spacers Score Over Nebulizers in Childhood Asthma Treatment

Spacers and nebulizers-- two treatment methods for asthma attacks are found to be equal in staving off hospital admissions, a new review shows//. Spacer plays shorter stays in emergency departments usually for children. The review authors, led by Christopher Cates, M.D., of the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, analyzed information from 25 studies of 2,066 children ages 2 year...

Astronauts Spacewalk On The International Space Station – NASA Report

The first spacewalk was successfully by two crewmen in the early April. Followed by them two astronauts finished up their maintenance jobs on the international space station within 6.5 hours on Thursday. // In 2001, a spacewalk was scheduled by 8 hours and 56 minutes. Except for a video camera to be fixed for another was left undone which is placed on a transport platform....

Headspace to the Rescue of Mentally Ill Youngsters

A program called Headspace is being introduced by the Federal Government in Australia to provide early intervention and treatment for youngsters whose mental// ailments have been largely glossed over or ignored. Establishment of 30 centres across the country in cities and rural spots will ensure that the program will reach even the remote areas. It will be run under the gu...

Experiments In Outer Space To Determine single Cell Survival

Far above the heads of Earthlings, nanostructures of single-cell creatures are encircling Earth.// These nanostructures, harboring yeast or other unicellular organisms are riding on the International Space Station, to test if they can secure safer homes for their occupants amidst the vacuum and radiations of outer space, than those created by standard chemical procedures....

Researchers explore medicine in space

Researchers want doctors to be ready to handle medical problems and surgeries in space before astronauts start moving further into it. //In the present state, what happens when a person develops a problem say, in Mars? He or she can't get back to normal conditions for treatment in time simply because it takes over three years to reach Mars! Preliminary findings from a UF study show there is lit...

Spacer Insertion May Offer Less Invasive Option for Lumbar Problems

Implanting a small spacer between lumbar vertebrae during a procedure called interspinous process decompression may be an effective and minimally invasive way to treat spinal// stenosis, according to a new report. The report is published by ECRI, an independent nonprofit health services research agency that produces systematic reviews on medical devices, drugs, biotechnologies, procedu...

Space-Age Bandage Monitors Patients With Raynaud's Disease

Clinicians from Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center together with engineers from the university's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) came up with this nifty monitor that// checks a patient's finger for symptoms of Raynaud's disease. Early results from the evaluation of the device seem to be promising: The Ambulatory Raynaud's Monitor wraps around a patient's finger and is secured with a ba...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Trustees Support Smoking Ban In Public Spaces

The governing board of Medicine of Johns Hopkins today unanimously voted to support behind Maryland legislators’ efforts to ban smoking// in all indoor public spaces in the state. A resolution passed at a regular meeting of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Trustees stated that the Board 'confirms and states its commitment to the public health of the citizens of Maryland and reques...

Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

Walmex, the popular retailer in Mexico has opened the channels to make available a line of 150 inexpensive generic drugs costing// as less as $3.50. This move has elevated the position of the shopping conglomerate as a great way to avail facilities under one roof. Last year, Walmex's parent company, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. led the way with a similar move of providing generic drugs for $...

My Space Pressured into Sharing Data on Sex Offenders

A concerted attempt is on in the US to rein in sexual offenders misusing popular networking sites and thus make the internet safer for everyone. Social networking sites allow users to create online profiles with photos, music and personal information, and let them send messages to one another and, in many cases, browse other profiles. The hugely popular MySpace had in...

Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored from Space

Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESAs environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over Australia during the wildfire season largely originated from South American wildfires some 13 000 kilometres away. Using SCIAMACHY, Annemieke Gloudemans from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and her colleagues at Utrec...

Lily Allens MySpace Alcoholic confession was made Up

Lily Allen has hit out at media reports claiming that the she admitted to being an alcoholic. The 22-year-old insisted that whatever was written on her Myspace blog was made up and not written by her. "It never was on the Myspace blog. Someone made it up, Contactmusic quoted Allen, as saying. The Smile singer revealed that her statement in an interview i...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

Indian American astronaut, Sunita Williams is all set to return home June 21 after a record breaking 194-day space odyssey by a woman with the mission managers giving the green signal. Sunita and six other astronauts who came June 10 to fetch her bid farewell to her replacement Clayton Anderson and two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) before the hatches b...

US Astronauts Successfully Complete Fourth Space Walk

(RIA Novosti) Astronauts from the Atlantis space shuttle have completed a fourth space walk on the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesperson for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Monday. During the space walk, astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson managed to activate a Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), allowing solar arrays installed...

Spacesuits of the Future Will Be as Flexible as Spidermans

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working towards constructing a space suit that promises to be more flexible allowing astronauts superior mobility when they reach Mars or return to the Moon. Since Yuri Gagarins time spacesuits have seen scant improvement. They continue to remain the bulky, gas-pressurized outfits of yore, which provide astron...

Lindsay Lohan's Lesbian MySpace Conversations Leaked

Rehabbing actress Lindsay Lohan's MySpace conversations with alleged lesbian pal deejay Samantha Ronson has been leaked . Apparently, the 'Mean Girls' star kept in touch with her friends and relatives through the site and one of them gave Star magazine the access to the starlet's passionate conversations with Ronson. In the conversations that appear under the title Lin...

Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space

Malaysia's first astronaut, involved in a 25 million dollar space programme, will carry out scientific research including a study on the growth of cancer cells in outer space, reports said Wednesday. The astronaut would conduct research on cells, bacteria and the crystallisation of protein, said Abdul Rahman Abdul Jamal, director of the Molecule Medical Institute at the National Un...