Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Medicines hold the disease!

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

As the food style changes with the advancement of world, new diseases also comes into play. Since people are lacking in nutrient food, the important content from foods are coming in terms of medicines. These kinds of medicines are available with ortho molecular products. It is normally used to prevent or treat a disease by strengthening the body with exact nutritional molecular quantity. Pure encapsulation is medical firm which provides all clinical essentials and medical support products.

These products will induct the needed nourishment to the human body. Metagenics also provides the lifestyle medicines with supreme medical support and counseling. People can find all kind of metagenics products via online. Cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal are the specific area of consultations provided. Improve your health and stop the illness from striking you. All that people need to do is to consume the orthomolecular products regularly within certain time interval.

The products or medicines should be taken only with the prescription from the physicians. Customers can get use of the health library available at the official website of pure encapsulation. Medicines are playing their vital role as most of people lives their life with the help of metagenics products. Hence take care of your body with these medicines.

Convenience of maternity clothes

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Petite maternity clothes do not sport buttons, zips and tie-ups that may cause discomfort, when sitting or maintaining a posture. They have special seams that do not stick to the body and are hardly felt, when exercising.

Such clothes are available at shopping malls, local stores and online. A number of manufacturers present single colored ranges that are soothing to the eye. These clothes include tees, vests, camisoles, shorts and pajamas. Material selections are user friendly and mainly cotton and fine, woven fabrics. These fabrics allow air-circulation, free movement and comfort, while practicing and sitting in the different postures.

It is natural for people to be very attentive when selecting office- wear. Psychologists and researchers have related this phenomenon to the increased importance of appearance, in recent times. Smart dressing enhances the presence and increases the confidence-level of the person. Manufacturers carry out detailed market research to focus on what nursing clothes sells. This helps to determine market demands and supply accordingly. Though many plus sized people opt for diet plans, demand patterns reveal that they are a considerable percentage of the American populace.

When shopping for plus sized career clothing for men, shoppers may not experience as much difficulty as women of the same category who need plus size maternity clothes

Scientists use fruit fly to screen for lethal brain cancers

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Researchers have turned the fruit fly into a lab model for an innovative study of gliomas, the commonest of malignant brain tumours, since the insect shares most of the genes with humans.

“Gliomas are a devastating disease but we still know very little about the underlying disease process,” explained John B. Thomas, professor in the molecular neurobiology lab of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and senior co-author of the study.

“We can now use the power of Drosophila genetics to uncover genes that drive these tumours and identify novel therapeutic targets, which will speed up the development of effective drugs.”

Better models for research into human gliomas are urgently needed. Last year alone, about 21,000 people in US were diagnosed with brain and nervous system cancers, Senator Edward M. Kennedy the most famous among them.

About 77 percent of malignant brain tumours are gliomas and their prognosis is usually bleak. While they rarely spread to elsewhere in the body, cancerous glial cells quickly infiltrate the brain and grow rapidly, which renders them largely incurable even with current therapies.

Gliomas originate in brain cells known as “glia” and are categorised into subtypes based on how aggressive they appear, with glioblastoma being the most common and most aggressive form of glioma.

Like most cancers, gliomas arise from changes in a person’s DNA that accumulate over a lifetime. Most, if not all human glioblastomas carry mutations that activate the EGFR-Ras and PI-3K signalling pathways. Such mutations are also thought to play a key role in developing drug resistance.

Salk researchers are now using their fly model to search for genes and drugs that might block EGFR/PI-3K-associated brain tumours, said a Salk Institute release.

The drug tests are being done with co-authors Webster Cavenee, porfessor and associate professor Frank Furnari, both experts in brain tumour biology at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego.

These findings were published in the current edition of the Public Library of Science Genetics.

Tests Gauge Alzheimer’s Patients’ Ability to Drive

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

The loss of driving privileges can be a blow to a person’s independence, including people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Now, new cognitive tests may help doctors determine whether people with the illness are fit to drive.

University of Iowa researchers studied 40 drivers with early Alzheimer’s disease and 115 elderly drivers with no diagnosis of dementia. All the participants completed a series of lab tests that measured thinking, movement and visual skills, and they also took a 35-mile driving test in and outside the city. A driving expert reviewed videos of the road tests and noted any driving safety errors.

The drivers with Alzheimer’s committed an average of 42 safety mistakes, 27 percent more than the average of 33 safety errors made by those without Alzheimer’s. Drivers with Alzheimer’s who did better on the cognitive tests made fewer on-road safety mistakes, the team found.

Lane violations were the most frequent mistakes made by all participants. For every five years older the driver was, the number of safety errors increased by about 2.5, whether or not they had Alzheimer’s.

The study is published in the Feb. 10 issue of Neurology.

“The number of people with dementia is increasing as our population ages, and we will face a growing public health problem of elderly drivers with memory loss,” study author Jeffrey Dawson noted in an American Academy of Neurology news release.

“The goal is to prevent crashes while still maximizing patients’ rights and freedom to be mobile. By measuring driver performance through off-road tests of memory, visual and motor abilities, we may be able to develop a standardized assessment of a person’s fitness to drive,” he said.

Steps for Preventing Thinning Hair

Monday, February 9th, 2009

A bald head or white hair damages your appearance. It makes your appearance dull. Hair loss treatment is the best way to prevent hair loss. A good hair loss product will rejuvenate the lost shine in your hair and supply essential nutrients for growth of your hair.

Thinning hair can be cured by consulting a good dermatologist. He will be able to give you good suggestions and tips for reducing hair fall. Here is the list of vitamins required for preventing your hair loss. Vitamin A is responsible for growth in the air. Most of the doctors suggest vitamin A tablets for preventing hair fall. Immense tension or high blood pressure is also responsible for hair fall.

Using B-complex tablets will reduce blood pressure and increase growth in hair. These B-complex tables consist of Vitamin B3 which helps in improving the blood circulation in your head. Vitamin B6 and Vitamin B12 are also necessary for hair growth. They improve the melanin content in your hair and bring back lost shine in it. Vitamin C tablets are also good for hair fall. These tablets contain special antioxidants which stop the hair fall. These ingredients are responsible for increasing the strength of hair.

Scientists discover a new way ‘to starve out malaria’

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Researchers have developed a way to starve out malaria parasites by targeting a digestive enzyme that the disease needs to feed on blood cells, a major breakthrough in the global fight against malaria which claims the life of a child across the world “every 30 seconds”.

An international team has been able to deactivate the final stage of the malaria parasite’s digestive machinery, effectively starving the parasite of nutrients and disabling its survival mechanism. And, this process of starvation leads to the death of the parasite.

According to the researchers, the results had laid the scientific groundwork to further develop a “specific class” of drugs to treat the disease that’s contracted by half-a-billion people and causes around one million deaths a year worldwide.

Lead author Sheena McGowan said: “We had an idea as to how malaria could be starved and we’ve shown this, chemically, can be done. A single bite from an infected mosquito transfers the malaria parasite into a human’s blood stream.

“The malaria parasite must then break down blood proteins in order to obtain nutrients. Malaria carries out the first stages of digestion inside a specialised compartment called the digestive vacuole — this can be considered to be like a stomach.

“However, the enzyme we have studied (known as PfA-M1), which is essential for parasite viability, is located outside the digestive vacuole meaning it is easier to target from a drug perspective.”

Added researcher Professor James Whisstock of Monash University: “About forty per cent of the world’s population are at risk of contracting malaria. It is only early days but this discovery could one day provide treatment for some of those 2.5 billion people across the globe.”

Female Companionship Extends Sex Lives of Male Mice

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

When male mice live with female mice, their reproductive years are extended by up to 20 percent, a new study finds.

A similar effect might or might not occur in humans - it has yet to be tested - but the finding has “significant implications for the maintenance of male fertility in wildlife, livestock and even human populations,” the researchers say.

The scientists housed one group of male mice with females for up to 32 months, while the others were forced to live like monks. Each of the males was placed with a female at two-month intervals to see if they could get the job done. The males that lived constantly with females stayed fertile for six months longer, on average.

The decline in fertility appeared to be due in part to defects in the sperm-production process, the researchers figure.

“It appears that housing females with a male mouse delays the decline of reproductive processes at the cellular level by somehow affecting the cells surrounding the stem cells that produce spermatozoa in the testes,” said study leader Ralph Brinster at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

The finding was detailed this week in the journal Biology of Reproduction.

“The effect may occur in any species,” Brinster told LiveScience. “One does not know without controlled experiments.” And that presents a problem. “It would be extremely difficult, probably impossible, to study directly in humans,” he said.

If this reproductive effect occurs in livestock, it could suggest ways to extend the mating life of males, Brinster said, adding that “this finding may also have relevance for the protection of some large endangered species.”

Understanding Accident Lawyers

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

You are going to need legal help to handle an accident. You will need a large insurance settlement to handle the high costs of the recovery. You won’t just have this handed to you on a silver platter though. You are going to have to earn it. This means that you’ll need the aid of personal injury lawyers Los Angeles. Good legal aid can make all of the difference.

You should understand just what you are gaining though. Legal aid can streamline the whole process, as the insurance company will be forced to handle it privately with your lawyer for the most part. If you are alone in the struggle, then they will often try to get you to hurt your own case. This could be in fairly friendly ways too. A simple recorded phone conversation might accidentally do grievous harm to your case. Misleading paperwork is also a popular way to limit their future settlement. If you have injury attorneys Los Angeles on your side, then they will be able to review anything that the insurance company wants you to do. It will save you a lot of trouble in the beginning.

The biggest help will come in the end though. Neither you nor the insurance company will want to go to court. Court costs are very expensive and usually unnecessary. Most cases end in a negotiated settlement. Having a car accident attorney in Los Angeles on the case at the start will usually result in early negotiations and larger settlements. What more could you want?

Vitamin D deficiency ‘raises C-section risk’

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Pregnant women who are vitamin D deficient are at an increased risk for delivering a baby by caesarean section, say researchers.Over a two-year period, experts from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Centre (BMC), analyzed the relationship between maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and the prevalence of primary caesarean section.

In total, 253 women were enrolled in this study, of whom 43 (17 per cent) had a caesarean section. The researchers found that 28 per cent of women with serum 25(OH)D less than 37.5 nmol/L had a caesarean section, compared to only 14 per cent of women with 25(OH)D greater than 37.5 nmol/L.

“In our analysis, pregnant women who were vitamin D deficient at the time of delivery had almost four times the odds of caesarean birth than women who were not deficient,” said senior author Michael Holick, MD, PhD, director of the General Clinical Research Centre and professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at BUSM and Anne Merewood assistant professor of paediatrics at BUSM and lead author of the study.

Study sheds light on deadly childhood cancer

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

A gene involved in cell division also helps fuel a deadly childhood cancer called neuroblastoma and could offer a new way to develop drugs to treat the disease, German researchers said on Monday.

The study published in the journal Cancer Cell found that a protein produced by the AURKA gene feeds a different gene called MYCN, which scientists know plays a key role in fuelling tumor growth in children with neuroblastoma, the researchers said.

“The MYCN gene is one that no pharmaceutical company have been able to target,” Martin Eilers, a researcher at Wurzburg University in Germany, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.

“Our finding offers hope we can make new (drugs) to attack this cancer.”

Neuroblastoma accounts for 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths, with just a 40 percent survival rate, even though it only causes about seven percent of all pediatric cancers.

In August U.S. researchers said they had found a variation in a gene called ALK that causes most inherited forms of the disease by helping cells proliferate. Out-of-control proliferation is the hallmark of cancer.

Eilers and his team screened 200 genes dependent on MYCN in children with neuroblastoma and found that the protein produced by AURKA was key to the wild cell growth.

Current drugs that inhibit cell growth will not work but AURKA is a promising target for new treatments because there are already substances in the body that attack the protein. That means, in theory, newly developed drugs could do the same.

“This is potentially a way you can get at and interrupt these tumors,” Eilers said in a telephone interview.