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The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on their health, researchers have suggested. Full Article

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Victoria Bacon, wife of a Tory MP, appeals on behalf of her disabled niece over proposed cuts to Disability Living Allowance���� Full Article

Thank the olive oil or the nuts, but something about the Mediterranean diet could help older brains to act young again. There’s plenty of evidence that the Mediterranean diet can contribute to a lower risk of heart attacks, stroke, childhood asthma and even cancer. In fact, in a recent study, researchers assessed about 200 traditional Greek Mediterranean  foods and reported that taken together, the foods could make 1,024 relevant health claims. (MORE: Mediterranean Diet Improves Memory, But Not In Diabetics) And in May, a team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Athens, Greece found that people around age 64 who primarily ate a Mediterranean diet had a lower risk of memory loss. So perhaps it’s not that surprising that in the latest study, published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, researchers reported similar brain-boosting findings. Except this time, the results showed that the Mediterranean diet was significantly better than a low-fat diet in preserving brain function. The researchers, from the University of Navarra in Spain, studied 522 men and women between the ages of 55 and 80 who did not have heart disease, but were at a higher risk of having circulation-based events like a stroke because of diabetes or a combination of risk factors such as high blood pressure, a family history of stroke, or being overweight. The participants were split into three diet groups: one consumed a Mediterranean diet with extra-virgin olive oil, another ate a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts, and the control group was assigned a low-fat diet. The typical Mediterranean diet includes plenty of olive oil, fruits, vegetables, grains and fish, with moderate amounts of dairy and meat. All of the participants agreed to complete extensive cognitive tests after about 6.5 years, in which the researchers assessed their higher cognitive functions such as their language skills, their ability to orient themselves to time and place, their capacity for abstract thinking, and their memory. (MORE: It’s the Olive Oil: Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke) By the end of the study, 60 Full Article

Washington, May 22 (IANS) Scientists have engineered nanoparticles derived from grapefruit lipids that could be used to deliver anti-cancer and other drugs to tumour cells, says a study. Full Article

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A recent study has found that teens in a relationship that involves dating violence are likely to be both a victim and perpetrator, as opposed to being just one or the other. Full Article

London, May 22 (ANI): Researchers have claimed that mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy could be dimming the intellect of some babies born in the UK. Full Article

Times of IndiaPinning down diabetesTimes of IndiaBariatric surgery isn't just for the obese. Docs recommend it to diabetics too, now. At 129 kg, 32-year-old IT professional Rajdeep Roy (name changed to protect identity) had been battling not just obesity but even Type 2 diabetes for three years. "My pre-meal ...Nova bariatric surgeon to deliver lectureMuscat DailyDr. Hanna returns home to offer life-changing surgeryThe Freeport Newsall 3 news articles�� Full Article

(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it will spin off its majority stake in animal health business Zoetis Inc to shareholders by allowing them to swap Pfizer stock for Zoetis stock at a 7 percent discount. Full Article

Daily News & AnalysisBet on it. Your mango is ripened using carbideDaily News & AnalysisIn its biggest haul this year, AMC destroys 22,700 kg mangoes at Naroda wholesale fruit market. AMC officials at a godown. If you have ever wondered if your fruit vendor uses carbide to ripen the mangoes, the answer is yes, there is a very good chance he ...AMC Destroys Mangoes Ripened with CarbideTopNews Arab EmiratesThe toxic truth about ripe mangoesThe New Indian Expressall 4 news articles�� Full Article

ADHD has been linked to struggles with drugs and alcohol, less schooling and more arrests, but the latest study shows it may also contribute to problems with weight as well. In the study published in Pediatrics, researchers connected the impulsive behavior that can characterize attention deficit-hyerpeactivity disorder (ADHD) with the over-eating that contributes to calorie-overload. In the 33-year study that tracked boys with ADHD into adulthood, men who were hyperactive as children were twice as likely to have higher body-mass index (BMI) readings and rates of obesity than men who didn’t have the condition as children. Of men diagnosed with ADHD as kids, 41% were obese compared to 22% of men who didn’t have ADHD as children. The average rate of obesity for men in this age group was 24%. The researchers say they did not set out to explore the relationship between ADHD and weight; the study was actually designed to investigate new insights into brain structures differences among people with ADHD. But in 2003, when researchers received a grant to perform brain MRI scans on the men to evaluate their psychiatric health, many of the study participants were too large to fit in the scanner. “One of these gentlemen really wanted to help out, but we had to squeeze him in, inch by inch,” says Dr. Francisco Xavier Castellanos, the study’s senior author and a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. (MORE: Majority of Doctors Do Not Follow Treatment Guidelines for ADHD) For practical reasons, the scientists began asking the men for height and weight measurements to see if they would fit inside the MRI machine, which has a diameter of about 2 feet. They found that nearly three times as many men from the childhood hyperactivity group couldn’t fit in the scanner — 17 men compared to six who did not have the disorder. Intrigued, they decided to systematically collect data on the men’s weight. “There had been suggestions in the past that ADHD might be related to obesity,” says Full Article

New York TimesNavajo Confront an Increase in New HIV InfectionsNew York TimesGALLUP, N.M. — A surge in H.I.V. infections on the Navajo reservation here has doctors and public health workers increasingly alarmed that the virus that causes AIDS has resurfaced with renewed intensity in this impoverished region. National Twitter Logo.Bihar's HIV narrative in the light of red candlesTimes of IndiaIncrease in HIV infections among Navajo prompt fears of epidemicFox NewsRally expresses solidarity with PLHAThe HinduMorungExpress�-KanglaOnline�-The New Indian Expressall 71 news articles�� Full Article

About 6,000 Indians are diagnosed with leukaemia each year. Full Article

PSC is an inflammatory disease of the bile ducts that results in inflammation and subsequent fibrosis that can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and biliary cancer Full Article

Acid attack victim to be shifted to Bombay HospitalIndian ExpressMumbai:Acid attack victim Preeti Rathi (24) will be shifted to Bombay Hospital, Marine Lines, for surgery of the food pipe. Dr Ashok Gupta of Bombay Hospital will be undertaking her treatment. She was admitted to Masina Hospital. Dr R B Dastur, director of ...Acid attack victim to undergo first surgeryTimes of Indiaall 2 news articles�� Full Article

Severe asthma is currently treated with steroid tablets, which can have harmful side effects. Full Article

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The High Court in London is judging whether a pregnant woman with bipolar disorder has the mental capacity to request an abortion. Full Article

The recent turn of events with the Obama Administration and a lack of transparency are a significant red flag to the impending catastrophe of how the proposed changes under the Affordable Care Act could be the next ensuing disaster Full Article

Breathing in pollutants released into the air isn’t healthy for developing lungs, but a new study says it’s harmful for developing brains too. Kids exposed to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution in childhood scored higher on measures of hyperactivity at age 7, according to a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers say it’s believed the most comprehensive study to date on the effect of traffic-related air pollution on children’s behavior. “It appears that air pollution is part of the story of childhood behavior but it’s not the whole story,” says the study’s lead author Nicholas Newman, director of the Pediatric Environmental Health and Lead Clinic at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “We don’t know if air pollution is causing this or if it’s something else that people who live near main roads are also being exposed to.” Researchers followed 576 children from the time they were born in the Cincinnati metro area until they reached age 7. The children were separated into two groups — those who lived near a major highway or bus route — defined as less than four football fields away — and those who lived more than a mile away from heavily trafficked areas. Cincinnati, it turned out was an ideal location to the study the long term effects of exposure to air pollution since it sees a relatively high amount of truck traffic and has many hills and valleys that encourage pollution to linger in the area. Previous research suggested that the effect of traffic-related air pollution is greatest within a few hundred meters — a football field, for example — of the source of the pollution. About 11% of Americans live within a football field’s length of a four-lane highway, and 40% of U.S. children go to school within four football fields of a bustling highway. (MORE: Car Pollution Linked To Childhood Cancers) When the children were 7, their parents were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their kids’ behavior, including symptoms that could indicate attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Full Article

According to a study by Initial Washroom Hygiene, handbags have up to ten times the level of microbiological activity on them than an average toilet seat. Willem Marx reports from London. Full Article

Checks for predisposition to disease are now common, but so are fears for what might come next, says Richard Gray���� Full Article

Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, eloquently described life from the perspective of someone living with autism in her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, which served as the basis for an Emmy-winning HBO movie. With her latest book, The Autistic Brain, Grandin uses her own experience to take readers from the first diagnoses of the developmental disorder to the latest research involving neurological imaging and genetics that are helping to reveal more about the condition. In the following excerpt, Grandin addresses the importance of identifying and encouraging the strengths and talents of people on the autism spectrum to highlight the measurable ways they can contribute and participate in society. (MORE: Q&A: Temple Grandin and the Autistic Brain) I don’t know how my own brain might have changed over the years, but I do know that as my career has shifted, so have my abilities. I haven’t been doing drawings for more than 10 years now, partly because of changes in the industry. The fax machine was the ruination of good architectural drawings. Clients would say to me, “Oh, just shove it in the fax,” and then they’d use the fax as their blue-print. I lost the motivation to make a really nice drawing. But at the same time, my professional priorities were changing. I was becoming a lot busier giving lectures, and many people have told me that my speaking style became more and more natural. That was hard work. I knew I had to train myself to be someone I wasn’t naturally, and what is training yourself at a new skill but “rewiring” your brain? This generation is fortunate in an important way. They’re the tablet generation—the touchscreen, create-anything generation. I’ve already talked about how these devices are an improvement over previous computers because the keyboard is right on the screen; autistic viewers don’t have to move their eyes to see the result of their typing. But tablets also have other advantages for the autistic population. First, they’re cool. A tablet is not something that labels you as handicapped to the rest of the world. Tablets are things Full Article

New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) Monday said that cell phone towers in the city were not illegal and that radiation from them doesn't affect health adversely. Full Article

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Hardly anyone doubts the power of prayer and almost everyone has a turnaround tale - maybe personal, or of someone else's - that credits the "miracle" to a prayer. Now while science and spirituality may not always see eye to eye, holistic treatment is now finding greater acceptance, and spirituality, among everything else, is recommended by doctors as part of the healing process. Full Article

A baby was left deaf and blind because a trainee midwife did not recognise signs of jaundice within days of his birth, a health trust admits. Full Article

BERLIN (Reuters) - A monkey which belonged to popstar Justin Bieber has become German national property after the singer failed to provide authorities with the documents needed to reclaim the pet seized by customs officials. Bieber had until Friday to hand in the necessary paperwork which included health and species protection certificates after "Mally" his capuchin monkey was confiscated at Munich airport in March while the singer was on tour. ... Full Article

Women who are pregnant or planning to have children should ensure they consume the right amount of iodine or risk their child having a low IQ, according to researchers.���� Full Article

There are few clinically proven reasons why one should take red wine in moderate quantities 1. Red wine reduces the risk of heart ailments The study was done by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and results showed that those suffering from high blood pressure and have the habit of drinking red wine have 30% lesser chances of heart attack than those who don’t drink red wine. This is because of presence of procyanidins in red wine which protects the heart from various diseases. 2. Red wine lessen the chances of cataract A study was conducted in Iceland in 2003 which included 1,379 individuals. The results showed that those who were in the habit of consuming red wine were 43% less likely to be effected by cataract problem. Also those who drank beer instead of red wine were 32% less likely to develop cataract. 3. Red Wine lessen the chances of colon cancer The set of 2,291 individuals were examined over a period of 4 years and the results were published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology in the year 2005.The report showed that red wine reduces the risk of colon cancer by 45%. 4.Red Wine improves the health of brain The study done on 1,416 individuals in Columbia showed that brain of non drinkers deterrents in its functioning capacity much faster as compared to those who imbibes red wine in moderate quantity. 5.Moderate quantity of red wine reduces the chances of Type 2 Diabetes Those who consume red wine regularly have 30 percent lesser chances of developing Type2 diabetes. The research was done at Amsterdam’s VU University Medical Center in 2005 on 369,862 individuals whose data was examined for a span of 12 years. 6. Red wine increases life span The wine drinkers have 34% lower mortality rate and this was concluded after a long study done on 2,468 men over a period of 29 years. The detailed study of this research was published in the Journal of Gerontology in 2007. 7.Red wine reduces the risk of stroke Study to find out the effect of red wine on blood clotting was done in Columbia University and included the data points of 3,176 individuals over a span of 8 years. It was found that risk of suffering from blood clot was dropped by 50% in those individuals who have the habit of consuming red wine regularly. 8.Red wine reduces the risk of prostate cancer Consumption of one glass of red wine a day reduces the chances of prostate cancer in men by 50 percent. To elaborate the effect of red wine on men’s health the detailed study revealed that those who consumed four or more glassed of red wine in a week’s time had 60% lesser chances of more aggressive types of prostate cancer. AttachmentSize redwine.jpg32.7 KB Tags:�Red wineheart diseasecataractColon Cancerbraintype2 diabetesdiabetesheart strokeSection:�Editor's ChoiceNews:�Misc.Region:�USArticles:�Diet Guide Full Article

Johns Hopkins researchers have published findings from an osteoarthritis study that could eventually make joint replacement an obsolete treatment for the debilitating disease. Full Article