Friday, August 31, 2012

Federal government approves $11m for condoms and family planning

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The Director of Family Health in the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Bridget Okoeguale, stated this during the 47th National Council Meeting of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria, where Mr. Oladele Olaniyi succeeded Mrs. Lami Buba as President.  According to her, “last year, in order to reduce maternal mortality rate, the government proclaimed that reproductive health commodities and family planning commodities like condoms and implants to be made free.”   “So the government along with the partners made a forecast...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Venom from world's deadliest spider could cure erectile dysfunction within 20 minutes

12:55 AM Anonymous
It sounds like a most unlikely aphrodisiac. But scientists have discovered the venom from what’s considered the world’s deadliest spider could be the secret to bolstering a man’s love life. Toxins produced by the Brazilian Wandering Spider, or Phoneutria nigriventer, appear to combat erectile dysfunction within 20 minutes of entering the body.  Tests carried out on rats show the venom boosts performance by increasing the release of nitric oxide, a chemical that dilates blood vessels and improves blood flow. This is similar to how existing...
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Rise of the designer v**g**na

12:49 AM Anonymous
A growing number of young women are seeking v*g**n**l rejuvenation according to experts. The hour-long procedure which was originally popular with patients suffering from incontinence or a sagging of the vaginal canal following childbirth, is now more widely used for cosmetic purposes to either to enhance the appearance of the genitalia or boost s**xu**l satisfaction.  While the average age of those requesting the surgery is between 30-45 some doctors are concerned the trend is causing teenagers to become increasingly 'misled or confused'...
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Exercise can help cancer sufferers beat the disease and stop it returning

12:35 AM Anonymous
Cancer patients can cut the risk of recurrence by half if they exercise, a number of studies have found.  Despite the results the study also showed that many patients are reluctant to make efforts to keep fit and consider their daily activities sufficient exercise.  The study is part of a series of investigations looking at exercise habits among cancer patients conducted by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  ‘As doctors, we often tell patients that exercise is important, but to this point, nobody had studied what...
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Smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day

12:32 AM Anonymous
Smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day almost triples the chances of suffering a potentially fatal brain haemorrhage, research has shown. Quitting reduces the danger but heavy smokers who give up tobacco are still twice as much at risk as people who have never smoked.  Researchers in Korea investigated 426 cases of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) between 2002 and 2004. Patients were compared with a group of 426 people matched for age and sex who had not experienced a brain bleed. An SAH occurs when a bulge in a weakened artery, called...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Regular Use of Marijuana Can Cause Permanent, Irreversible IQ Loss

1:55 AM samizares
Regular use of marijuana during adolescence can lead to irreversible IQ loss, findings from a long-range study suggest. The report, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, relies on data from a series of interviews conducted with over 1,000 residents of Dunedin, New Zealand, who were tracked from birth until the age of 38.  Those in the study group who reported using marijuana more than once a week during their teen years scored, on average, 8 points lower in IQ tests at age 38 than at age 13. Furthermore, friends...
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MEDICAL MYSTERY: New AIDS-like disease in Asians, not contagious

12:51 AM samizares
Patient Kim Nguyen, right, and her husband Quang Nguyen are seen at National Institute of Health in Bethesda Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.The patients’ immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn’t known, but the disease does not seem to be contagious. This is another kind of acquired immune deficiency...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Why having a pot belly 'is a bigger heart risk than obesity'

2:39 AM Anonymous
Having a pot belly – even if you are not overweight – poses a greater risk of death from heart problems than being generally obese, warn doctors. A ‘spare tyre’ around the waist is uniquely dangerous because it is packed with ‘bad fat’, research shows.  The US study found that those who were not overweight but had a bulging midriff were 2.75 times more at risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than normal weight and a proportionate waistline. They were also at 2.08 times the risk of dying prematurely from all causes.  Most...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

New Insights Into Age, Height and S*x Reshape Views of Human Evolution

12:51 AM Anonymous
The study, based on the DNA of around 85,000 Icelanders, also calculates the rate of human mutation at high resolution, providing estimates of when human ancestors diverged from nonhuman primates. It is one of two papers published this week by the journal Nature Genetics as well as one published at Nature that shed dramatic new light on human evolution. "Most mutations come from dad," said David Reich, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and a co-leader of the study.  In addition to finding 3.3 paternal germline mutations...
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Debbie has breast cancer and needs your help urgently(PHOTOS)

12:07 AM Anonymous
Idiagbonya Osarere Debbie is a medical technician who is suffering from 4th grade Invasive Ductal Carcinoma - cancer of the breast and its spreading really really fast. One of the breasts is condenmed already and it has moved to the second breast and her neck.  She desperately needs N6 million for surgery and her family and friends say that she has barely one month more to live without surgery. Please please, donate to debbie, no matter how small, please. Continue to see photos of Debbi's condition right now. To...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Children born to older women have a better start in life

1:14 AM Anonymous
Children born to older mothers appear to have a healthier start in life as they are less likely to be admitted to hospital and more likely to have vital immunisation jabs, say researchers. The study also found children with older mothers experienced faster language development and suffered fewer social and emotional difficulties before the age of five.  Researchers from University College London analysed data from more than 78,000 children born in England between 2000 and 2002. The mothers were between 13 and 57 years of age. In developed...
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I swam with my contact lenses in - now I'm blind in one eye

1:08 AM Anonymous
As a contact lens wearer, Jennie Hurst knew the importance of good hygiene to prevent eye infections. ‘I was meticulous about removing my lenses before bed and making sure I did so with clean hands,’ says the 28-year-old from Southampton.  ‘I wore monthlies — where the lenses are removed each night and replaced once a month — but I was so conscious of getting an infection that I replaced them every two weeks. And I always cleaned them with contact lens cleaning solution, unlike some of my friends who’d run their lenses under the tap...
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Women With Alzheimer’s Deteriorate Faster Than Men

1:02 AM Anonymous
In the paper published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, the researchers discovered that men with Alzheimer's consistently and significantly performed better than women with the disease across the five cognitive areas they examined.  Most remarkably, the verbal skills of women with Alzheimer's are worse when compared to men with the disease, which is a striking difference to the profile for the healthy population where females have a distinct advantage.  The researchers led by Professor Keith Laws...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

West Nile virus kills 17 in Texas

5:17 AM samizares
An outbreak of West Nile virus has killed 17 people in Texas, the US Department of Health has announced. This year alone 465 cases of this mosquito-borne disease have been recorded in Texas, more than in any other American state. The American Center for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a total of 693 cases across the United States. 26 people died as a result of the epidemic.  Dallas has declared a state of emergency over the spreading of West Nile virus, with Mayor Michael Rawlings asking the authorities to allow...
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300 hospitalized with suspected cholera

5:08 AM samizares
 More than 300 people have been hospitalized in the Dominican Republic with suspected cholera symptoms over the past three days.  The authorities have blamed this latest outbreak on the poor quality of drinking water. The country had a cholera epidemic last year. Fortunately, it was quickly curbed thanks to timely precautions, but the disease spilled across the border into neighboring Haiti where it claimed 7,000 lives...
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Eating walnuts daily may improve sperm quality

12:35 AM samizares
 Men who are attempting to make the step into fatherhood may benefit from a daily dose of walnuts.A new study from UCLA researchers and funded in part by the California Walnut Commission shows that men who ate 75 grams of walnuts - about half a cup - a day for 12 weeks were able to improve the quality of their sperm. Approximately 70 million couples deal with subfertility or infertility worldwide, the researchers stated. In 30 to 50 percent of those cases, the problem has to do with the man. Researchers asked 58 healthy men...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Schoolgirl, six, that is allergic to a kiss and must be wrapped in bandages all day

12:12 AM Anonymous
A little girl has such severe allergies that even a kiss could prove deadly. Isla Franks, six, suffers such severe reactions that she is wrapped in bandages from the neck down for 24 hours a day, to protect her super-sensitive skin.  Her condition is so severe that she had to be rushed to hospital after her little sister gave her a kiss - hours after she had drunk a glass of milk. Her parents have to keep her clothes in a freezer instead of a wardrobe - because of her extreme reaction to dust mites.  Isla was diagnosed with...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Consumption of Alcohol/Energy Drink Mixes Linked With Casual, Risky S*x

11:48 PM Anonymous
According to the study's findings, college students who consumed alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmEDs) were more likely to report having a casual partner and/or being intoxicated during their most recent sexual encounter.  The results seem to indicate that AmEDs may play a role in the "hook-up culture" that exists on many college campuses, says study author Kathleen E. Miller, senior research scientist at UB's RIA.  The problem is that casual or intoxicated sex can increase the risk of unwanted outcomes, like unintended...
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Finally, the Promise of Male Birth Control in a Pill

11:41 PM Anonymous
This compound produces a rapid and reversible decrease in sperm count and motility with profound effects on fertility," said James Bradner of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the lead author of the study.  A male birth control pill hasn't been easy to come by in large part because of the challenge of getting any drug across the blood:testis barrier, where it can reach the sperm-generating cells. That lack of contraceptive alternatives for men is partially responsible for the high rate of unplanned pregnancies.  Despite the...
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Birth Control Pills Affect Memory

11:31 PM Anonymous
"What's most exciting about this study is that it shows the use of hormonal contraception alters memory," UCI graduate researcher Shawn Nielsen said. "There are only a handful of studies examining the cognitive effects of the pill, and more than 100 million women use it worldwide." She stressed that the medications did not damage memory.  "It's a change in the type of information they remember, not a deficit." The change makes sense, said Nielsen, who works with neurobiologist Larry Cahill, because contraceptives suppress s*x hormones...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

How Stress and Depression Can Shrink the Brain

1:23 AM Anonymous
The findings, reported in the Aug. 12 issue of the journal Nature Medicine, show that the genetic switch known as a transcription factor represses the expression of several genes that are necessary for the formation of synaptic connections between brain cells, which in turn could contribute to loss of brain mass in the prefrontal cortex.  "We wanted to test the idea that stress causes a loss of brain synapses in humans," said senior author Ronald Duman, the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and professor of...
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South Africa: Citizens Fighting for Access to Safe Water

1:08 AM Anonymous
A decision by the High Court in Pretoria upholding its earlier verdict relating to the supply of water in Mpumalanga was welcomed by the DA on Friday. The court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Chief Albert Luthuli and Gert Sibande municipalities.   Democratic Alliance chief whip in Mpumalanga James Masango said it was evident the municipalities did not intend to abide by the court order issued in July. "The fact that both municipalities had the audacity to appeal and to apply for relief while the appeal process is ongoing,...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Babies born naturally 'have higher IQs than those delivered by caesarean section'

8:39 AM Anonymous
Babies born naturally may have higher IQs than those delivered by caesarean section, new research claims. According to scientists, when women give birth naturally there are higher levels of a special protein in babies’ brains that helps boost intelligence levels as they develop.  Scientists at Yale University in the US say the increased levels of the protein, called UCP2, in babies born naturally could help foster their short and long term memories – key components of the human IQ – as they grow up.  They made the discovery...
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