Adding fresh-cut herbs are a great way to instantly enliven any meal. Not only to they add flavor, fragrance and zest to your dishes but many possess therapeutic properties. Herbs have long-since been used medicinally and have health-enhancing as well as natural beautifying benefits. Popular…
Spring Beauty Recipes Made By Your Herb Garden
For every 15 healthcare providers who receive the influenza vaccination, one fewer person in the community will contract an influenza-like illness, according to a study using California public health data from 2009 – 2012. In an abstract that will be presented on June 7 at the 41st Annual…
Source:When hospital workers get vaccines, community flu rates fall
One of the biggest challenges for medical researchers studying the effectiveness of stem cell therapies is that transplants or grafts of cells are often rejected by the hosts. This rejection can render experiments useless, making research into potentially life-saving treatments a long and…
Source:Scientists successfully transplant, grow stem cells in pigs
Non-obstructive coronary artery disease was associated with a 28 to 44 percent increased risk of a major adverse cardiac event such as a heart attack or death, in a new study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research 2014 Scientific…
Source:Heart disease without coronary plaque buildup linked to heart attack risk
Limiting saturated fat could help people whose genetic make-up increases their chance of being obese. In a new study, researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University identified 63 gene variants related to obesity and used them to…
Source:Saturated fat intake may influence a person’s expression of genetic obesity risk
I did it. I said I wouldn’t, but I did. I caved. Emily talked me into buying her a bikini. My mom refused to let me wear one, because her own mom had refused to let her wear one. So I was never able to show off the toned, swimmer physique my hours and hours in the pool had earned…
Source:Why I Gave In and Bought My Daughter Her First Bikini
Now’s the time you’re probably thinking of bringing your feet out of winter hibernation. To make sure they’re sandal-worthy, we gathered some pointers from the experts. Check Your Nails If yours are yellow, brittle, or thick, see a podiatrist. According to New York…
Source:How To Get Your Feet Sandal-Ready (Without A Pricey Pedicure)
You promise yourself (and your cat) that you’ll be better next time. You’ll remember to shower your beloved pet with affection. You’ll rub her belly and pat her on the head 100 times tonight. But then, the business of life gets in the way. The sun sets, another day…
Source:How To Hug A Cat — Perfectly, Every Time
Adding fresh-cut herbs are a great way to instantly enliven any meal. Not only to they add flavor, fragrance and zest to your dishes but many possess therapeutic properties. Herbs have long-since been used medicinally and have health-enhancing as well as natural beautifying benefits. Popular…
Source:Spring Beauty Recipes Made By Your Herb Garden
I recently visited a friend who runs a business, is a local politician, has a side business, has a home with a big yard he cares for, loves his wife and child, sees his parents and siblings who live in the same town often, plays on a softball team, and tries to get together with his…
Source:Why Men Are Stressed Out More Than Ever
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Joan Robinsonjoan.robinson@springer.com 49-622-148-78130Springer Bariatric surgery not only helps reduce weight, but lowers cancer risk among obese people Weight loss surgery might have more value than simply helping morbidly obese people to shed unhealthy extra…
Source:Weight loss surgery also safeguards obese people against cancer
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Margaret Allenmallen@smu.edu 214-768-7664Southern Methodist University Known as a gamma-ray burst, the rare, intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang …
Source:Observed by Texas telescope: Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Abby Abazoriusabbya@mit.edu 617-253-2709Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT professor suggests a rethinking of homogeneity as the baseline used to study diversity When people work in socially homogeneous groups, they overestimate their own contributions to…
Source:A new approach to diversity research
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Lauren Ruganinews@nas.edu 202-334-2138National Academy of Sciences WASHINGTON Arguing for a continuation of the nation’s human space exploration program, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council concludes that the expense of…
Source:NASA should maintain long-term focus on Mars as ‘horizon goal’ for human spaceflight
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Emily LevesqueEmily.Levesque@colorado.edu 720-432-4054University of Colorado at Boulder In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a “theoretical” class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and…
Source:Astronomers discover first Thorne-Zytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Brett Israelbrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu 404-385-1933Georgia Institute of Technology IMAGE: Kelsey Poulson-Ellestad, a former graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, now at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, works with a…
Source:How red tide knocks out its competition
Do you ever wonder why you’re doing what you’re doing? Do you wake up and hate the situation you’re in, and wonder what your end game is? If someone were to offer you a way out of your current work situation, would you take it? If you answered yes to any of these…
Source:5 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Discover What You’re Passionate About
Last night, as I guiltily tapped away on my smartphone while lying in bed, I realized something: I didn’t have to feel bad about my post-work smartphone use anymore. It was June 1, which meant my cleanse was over. I have, more or less, officially survived 31 days of restricted…
Source:Here’s What Happened When I Went On A Smartphone Cleanse For 31 Days
It can be tempting to view ambivalence as the enemy of positive change. Today you feel certain about making a change and tomorrow you’re having second thoughts. It’s especially frightening to hear ambivalence in others. Today your husband agrees he will start following the…
Source:Why Befriending Your Ambivalence Can Help You Change
A 6-year-old boy has finally taken his first steps, thanks to surgery in Stanford, California, 7,500 miles from his home in Palestine. Hadi Alkhadra was born with arthrogryposis, a mysterious condition that gave him locked knees and feet that were facing the wrong direction. He had to crawl…
Source:Boy Travels 7,500 Miles for Life-Changing Surgery
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Bariatric surgery not only helps reduce weight, but lowers cancer risk among obese people
Weight loss surgery might have more value than simply helping morbidly obese people to shed unhealthy extra…
Weight loss surgery also safeguards obese people against cancer
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Contact: Margaret Allenmallen@smu.edu
214-768-7664Southern Methodist University
Known as a gamma-ray burst, the rare, intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang
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Observed by Texas telescope: Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
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Contact: Abby Abazoriusabbya@mit.edu
617-253-2709Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT professor suggests a rethinking of homogeneity as the baseline used to study diversity
When people work in socially homogeneous groups, they overestimate their own contributions to…
A new approach to diversity research
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Contact: Lauren Ruganinews@nas.edu
202-334-2138National Academy of Sciences
WASHINGTON Arguing for a continuation of the nation’s human space exploration program, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council concludes that the expense of…
NASA should maintain long-term focus on Mars as ‘horizon goal’ for human spaceflight
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Contact: Emily LevesqueEmily.Levesque@colorado.edu
720-432-4054University of Colorado at Boulder
In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a “theoretical” class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and…
Astronomers discover first Thorne-Zytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star
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| E-mail
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Contact: Brett Israelbrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu
404-385-1933Georgia Institute of Technology
IMAGE:
Kelsey Poulson-Ellestad, a former graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, now at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, works with a…
How red tide knocks out its competition
Do you ever wonder why you’re doing what you’re doing? Do you wake up and hate the situation you’re in, and wonder what your end game is? If someone were to offer you a way out of your current work situation, would you take it?
If you answered yes to any of these…
5 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Discover What You’re Passionate About
Last night, as I guiltily tapped away on my smartphone while lying in bed, I realized something: I didn’t have to feel bad about my post-work smartphone use anymore. It was June 1, which meant my cleanse was over.
I have, more or less, officially survived 31 days of restricted…
Here’s What Happened When I Went On A Smartphone Cleanse For 31 Days
It can be tempting to view ambivalence as the enemy of positive change. Today you feel certain about making a change and tomorrow you’re having second thoughts. It’s especially frightening to hear ambivalence in others. Today your husband agrees he will start following the…
Why Befriending Your Ambivalence Can Help You Change
The truth is: Without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty.
Father Theophane, a Christian mystic, writes about an incident that happened when he took some time off from his secular duties for spiritual renewal at a remote…
Trance of ‘Unreal Other’
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, which is grappling to contain the spread of a frequently deadly respiratory virus, announced Tuesday that a review of the illness led authorities to sharply revise upward the number of confirmed infections and deaths from the…
Saudi review finds over 100 more MERS infections
Saline (center), after undergoing 10 reconstructive surgeries, with her physicians Dr. Alexander Dagum (R) and Dr. Leon Klempner (R). (Image courtesy of Stony Brook University Hospital)
Saline is pictured here before her reconstructive surgeries. Her face was ravaged by…
New York doctors reconstruct Kenyan child’s face after flesh-eating bacteria
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A man wearing a mask poses with camels at a camel market in the village of al-Thamama near Riyadh. Saudi Arabia said people handling camels should wear masks and gloves to prevent spreading Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that a…
Saudi Arabia has 113 more MERS case than previously thought
Tuesday June 3 2014
Bilingual people scored better in intelligence tests
“Learning a second language can have a positive effect on the brain,” BBC News reports after a Scottish study found that…
Learning second language ‘slows brain ageing’
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The U.S. healthcare regulator has found fault with quality control, training and staff hygiene at Wockhardt Ltd’s plant in Chicago, potentially adding to regulatory problems facing the Indian generic drugmaker.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listed…
FDA criticizes quality control, training at Wockhardt U.S. plant
Babies weighing 12lbs born in 38 of England’s 139 maternity trusts in 2013 Five NHS trusts delivered children who weighed more than 13lbs More than 1,000 babies weighed more than 11lbs, compared with 791 in 2008 National Obesity Forum says larger mothers more likely to have large…
Source:Rise in number of 12lb ‘Sumo Baby’ newborns and obese mothers are to blame
Nurses at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital will be sent on the course The Greek and Italian staff speak English but struggle with the local accent The six week long course will be held at the University of Wolverhampton By Emma Innes Published: 07:13 EST, 3 June 2014 | …
Source:Foreign NHS nurses to learn local dialects on intensive course
Erin saw her weight rise to 15st 8lb after the birth of her two children Was just 21 when she suffered a devastating stroke, due to her weight Placed into coma for 3 weeks and spent 2 months in hospital recovering After discharge joined weight loss group, drastically reducing her calories Now…
Source:Mother-of-two whose weight put her in a COMA turns life around shedding five stone
Non Muscle Invasive Bladder Transitional Cancer (NMIBC) and Muscle Invasive Bladder Transitional Cancer (MIBC)/invasive have different gene profile and clinical course. NMIBC prognosis is not completely predictable, since the relapse rate is higher than 20%, even in the form of MIBC. The aim…
Source:Urotensin II receptor determines prognosis of bladder cancer regulating cell motility/invasion
We have previously suggested a method for proteome wide analysis of variation at functional residues wherein we identified the set of all human genes with nonsynonymous single nucleotide variation (nsSNV) in the active site residue of the corresponding proteins. 34 of these proteins were shown…
Source:A framework for application of metabolic modeling in yeast to predict the effects of nsSNV in human orthologs
The progression of low-risk del(5q) myelodysplastic syndrome to acute myeloid leukemia is increased when associated with mutations of TP53, or with additional chromosomal abnormalities. However, to date the prognostic impact and molecular consequences of these rearrangements were poorly…
Source:FOXP1 and TP63 involvement in the progression of myelodysplastic syndrome with 5q- and additional cytogenetic abnormalities
The bHLH-PAS transcription factors are found in both protostomes and deuterostomes. They are involved in many developmental and physiological processes, including regional differentiation of the central nervous system, tube-formation, hypoxia signaling, aromatic hydrocarbon sensing, and…
Source:Genome-wide survey and expression analysis of the bHLH-PAS genes in the amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae reveal both conserved and diverged expression patterns between cephalochordates and vertebrates
Saudi Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish was criticized by some international scientists for what they saw as a reluctance to collaborate with some specialist laboratories around the world offering to help investigate the possible source of MERS and explore how it spreads. (Fabrice…
Source:Ziad Memish, Saudi deputy health minister, sacked amid MERS outbreak
Patients won’t tolerate long wait times to see a doctor, says the Wait Time Alliance, which released a report saying Canada lags behind other countries with universal health-care systems when it comes to how quickly people get into hospital emergency rooms. (Tim…
Source:How do Canada’s hospital wait times fare with other countries?
More needs to be done to raise awareness of a little-known eye condition which causes hallucinations, according to the Macular Society. Charles Bonnet Syndrome, which affects 300,000 people a year, causes people with sight loss to see vivid images and some sufferers wrongly assume they have…
Source:AUDIO: ‘I hallucinate tapestries and monks’
3 June 2014 Last updated at 14:36 Welsh ministers say there is not enough capacity to meet demand for cardiac surgery First Minister Carwyn Jones has said he would rather patients be treated outside the Welsh NHS than wait. He was responding to rising numbers of patients dying…
Source:NHS border choice to cut wait lists
3 June 2014 Last updated at 12:29 Mr Dorrell has written to the Commons Speaker to inform him of his decision Former Conservative cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell has stepped down as chair of the Commons health select committee with immediate effect. In a letter to Commons…
Source:Dorrell leaves Commons health role
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have developed a unique next-generation sequencing test for the gene linked to retinoblastoma. The new approach is both more comprehensive and can be conducted in less time than existing tests – enabling early detection of the…
Source:Novel NextGen sequencing test developed for retinoblastoma
A British mining company says some of its personnel have left Sierra Leone amid an outbreak of the Ebola disease that has killed at least five people. London Mining Company spokesman Osman Lahai said Tuesday that eight of their non-essential staff left the country over the weekend as a result…
Source:Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak death toll now five
Chinese stroke patients were less likely to acquire pneumonia or die from the stroke when hospitals followed treatment guidelines, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2014. Closer adherence to the…
Source:Chinese stroke patients fare better when hospitals follow guidelines
Two-volume reference is a ‘living textbook,’ updated with the most current procedures and techniques and includes access to the enhanced eBook through Elsevier’s Expert Consult
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and…
Elsevier to publish new edition of Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery
Babies weighing 12lbs born in 38 of England’s 139 maternity trusts in 2013
Five NHS trusts delivered children who weighed more than 13lbs
More than 1,000 babies weighed more than 11lbs, compared with 791 in 2008
National Obesity Forum says larger mothers more likely to have large…
Rise in number of 12lb ‘Sumo Baby’ newborns and obese mothers are to blame
Nurses at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital will be sent on the course
The Greek and Italian staff speak English but struggle with the local accent
The six week long course will be held at the University of Wolverhampton
By
Emma Innes
Published:
07:13 EST, 3 June 2014
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…
Foreign NHS nurses to learn local dialects on intensive course
Erin saw her weight rise to 15st 8lb after the birth of her two children
Was just 21 when she suffered a devastating stroke, due to her weight
Placed into coma for 3 weeks and spent 2 months in hospital recovering
After discharge joined weight loss group, drastically reducing her calories
Now…
Mother-of-two whose weight put her in a COMA turns life around shedding five stone
Non Muscle Invasive Bladder Transitional Cancer (NMIBC) and Muscle Invasive Bladder Transitional Cancer (MIBC)/invasive have different gene profile and clinical course. NMIBC prognosis is not completely predictable, since the relapse rate is higher than 20%, even in the form of MIBC.
The aim…
Urotensin II receptor determines prognosis of bladder cancer regulating cell motility/invasion
Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma presents with a preference for the head and neck region, and shows a distinct aggressive behavior, with frequent local recurrences, regional and distant metastasis. The alterations in the cadherin-catenin complex are fundamental requirements for the metastasis…
Expression of E-cadherin and beta-catenin in basaloid and conventional squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity: are potential prognostic markers?
We have previously suggested a method for proteome wide analysis of variation at functional residues wherein we identified the set of all human genes with nonsynonymous single nucleotide variation (nsSNV) in the active site residue of the corresponding proteins. 34 of these proteins were shown…
A framework for application of metabolic modeling in yeast to predict the effects of nsSNV in human orthologs
The progression of low-risk del(5q) myelodysplastic syndrome to acute myeloid leukemia is increased when associated with mutations of TP53, or with additional chromosomal abnormalities. However, to date the prognostic impact and molecular consequences of these rearrangements were poorly…
FOXP1 and TP63 involvement in the progression of myelodysplastic syndrome with 5q- and additional cytogenetic abnormalities
