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Four More MERS-CoV Deaths, Saudi Arabia Announces Today
Date: Jun-17-2013The death toll from SARS-like MERS-CoV infection reaches 32 today as Saudi Arabia announces four more fatalities. So far, worldwide 37 people have died of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) since September 2012, says the World Health Organization. One of the latest fatalities in Saudi Arabia was a 2-year-old child. She had been hospitalized "suffering from chronic pulmonary disease", according the Saudi Health Ministry...
Vitamin C Reduces Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction (Asthma) Symptoms
Date: Jun-17-2013New research in Switzerland reveals that vitamin C consumption can reduce the risk of developing bronchoconstriction caused by exercise. Since vitamin C was first isolated in the 1930s, it has been proposed for the treatment of respiratory illnesses. Dr. Harri Hemila reported his findings in the journal BMJ Open...
Cancer Spread May Be Stopped By Blocking Development Protein
Date: Jun-17-2013A protein that is active in growing embryos but not normal adult tissue, has also been found in various types of cancer. Now a new US study suggests it may switch on metastasis, the ability of cancer cells to spread and form new tumors in other parts of the body. The researchers say it offers a new target for anti-cancer treatments that block the protein without harming healthy cells...
Risk Of Hypertension In Older Adults Reduced By Volunteering
Date: Jun-17-2013It turns out that helping others can also help you protect yourself from high blood pressure. New research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that older adults who volunteer for at least 200 hours per year decrease their risk of hypertension, or high blood pressure, by 40 percent. The study, published by the American Psychological Association's Psychology and Aging journal, suggests that volunteer work may be an effective non-pharmaceutical option to help prevent the condition...
World Population Could Be Nearly 11 Billion By 2100
Date: Jun-17-2013A new statistical analysis shows the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report . That's about 800 million, or about 8 percent, more than the previous projection of 10.1 billion, issued in 2011. The projected rise is mostly due to fertility in Africa, where the U.N. had expected birth rates to decline more quickly than they have...
Sociologists Believe Literacy, Not Income, Is Key To Improving Public Health In India
Date: Jun-17-2013Pro-market policies for developing countries have long been based on the belief that increasing average income is key to improving public health and societal well-being. But new research on India published in the journal Social Science and Medicine shows that literacy - a non-income good - has a greater impact on public health in India...
Light-Carved 'Nano-Volcanoes' Hold Promise For Drug Delivery
Date: Jun-17-2013Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a method for creating "nano-volcanoes" by shining various colors of light through a nanoscale "crystal ball" made of a synthetic polymer. These nano-volcanoes can store precise amounts of other materials and hold promise for new drug-delivery technologies. The researchers create the nano-volcanoes by placing spherical, transparent polymer nanoparticles directly onto the flat surface of a thin film. They then shine ultraviolet light through the transparent sphere, which scatters the light and creates a pattern on the thin film...
Research Opens Door To New Treatments To Improve ACL Tear Recovery For Athletes
Date: Jun-17-2013Striking the likes of Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose and Detroit Tigers' Victor Martinez, tears in the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) are one of the most rampant and serious knee injuries among athletes. Now, researchers from the University of Michigan Health System have identified a new drug target that may prevent one of the most dreaded consequences of an ACL tear - the weakening or loss of muscle tissue (muscle atrophy) that can be a career-killer in sports and ultimately develop into osteoarthritis...
HEXIM1 Found To Suppresses Breast Cancer Metastasis And Make The Heart Healthier
Date: Jun-17-2013Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found that a single gene poses a double threat to disease: Not only does it inhibit the growth and spread of breast tumors, but it also makes hearts healthier. In 2012, medical school researchers discovered the suppressive effects of the gene HEXIM1 on breast cancer in mouse models. Now they have demonstrated that it also enhances the number and density of blood vessels in the heart - a sure sign of cardiac fitness...
Why Water Quality Tests Don't Always Accurately Capture Health Risks For Swimmers
Date: Jun-17-2013A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive longer in lake water than benign counterparts, a new study finds. Researchers from the University at Buffalo and Mercyhurst University reported these results online in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. "The take-home lesson is that E. coli that produce Shiga toxin persisted longer in recreational water than E. coli that don't produce this toxin," said UB Professor of Biological Sciences Gerald Koudelka, PhD, who led the study...
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