Day January 29, 2017

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed’s father said his son was…

Biologist Shaun Clements counts down the seconds before emptying a vial of synthetic DNA into a stream near Alsea, Oregon. Jes Burns/Oregon Public Broadcasting/EarthFix hide caption toggle caption Jes Burns/Oregon Public Broadcasting/EarthFix Biologist Shaun Clements counts down the seconds before…

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani court acquitted 112 suspects in the 2013 torching of hundreds of Christian homes in the eastern city of Lahore over a rumour that one of the residents there had blasphemed, a lawyer said on…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-majority U.S. Senate Finance Committee will vote on Tuesday on the nomination of Representative Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the panel’s chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, announced on Sunday. Price, a…

January 29, 2017, 9:24 AM|The Seeing Eye, a pioneering organization that trains guide dogs for the blind, was founded on January 29, 1929. Jane Pauley reports on its legacy.

In this June 13, 2016 photograph, Wanda Downs, left, assists Christie Purvis of Tallulah, La., with an incline bench press using dumbbells during their training session at Wyatt’s Gym in Vicksburg, Miss. Health clubs and gyms have dropped their rates…

Health news from AskDrManny I know that expectant mothers have a lot on their minds as they prepare to welcome a baby, but I urge all mothers out there: please don’t forget about the flu and getting the flu shot.…

Every week, we’re on the lookout for thought-provoking and off-the-radar bits of health news. Here’s a selection of stories from this week’s health newsletter, Second Opinion. Get the full newsletter in your inbox every Friday morning. Subscribe to Second Opinion. Medical rift over…

Source: Angewandte Chemie International Edition A tiny self-propelled drug-delivery device might someday make taking antibiotics safer and more efficient. Think of it as a tiny submarine scooting around inside your stomach, fueled by the acid there. Oral antibiotics are commonly…

Like many pregnant women preparing for the birth of their first baby, Brianna Quasius, 32, of Chaska, Minnesota, wanted to use natural ways to cope with the pain and avoid a long labor, medical interventions and a cesarean section. “We…

Emilio Nares was just 5-years-old when he died following a two-year battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). His parents, Richard and Diane, collected the pain they felt over the loss of their only child and channeled it into building a…

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alcohol abuse is one of the top three causes of health related problems apart from child underweight and unsafe sex [1]. In low and middle income countries, AUDs cause 19.5 million Disability Adjusted…

Received: 1 November 2016 Accepted: 18 January 2017 Published: 28 January 2017

Using a novel form of gene therapy, scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital have managed to restore partial hearing and balance in mice born with a genetic condition that affects both. The new model overcomes a…

Working as a bedside nurse requires extensive physical effort — pushing wheelchairs and beds, twisting and lifting, and long periods on your feet. Jennifer Thomas, who’s been a nurse at UK HealthCare for six years, can attest to this. In…

Microscopic shifts in metabolism and increases in tiny transport vesicles out of tumor cells preface larger changes to the tumor environment and could prepare the way for cancerous cells to spread and metastasize, University of Illinois researchers report. They saw…

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Cancer patients are living longer and in many cases the disease is becoming chronic rather than acute. Access to drugs that help extend life and improve quality of life, and fair prices for those drugs are therefore essential for more…

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – On the afternoon of Jan. 24, a black BMW pulled out of a 16th century palace in Rome, crossed the Tiber River and headed for the Vatican, a short trip to end a…

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has been released from prison for three months to have surgery to remove a brain tumor, his lawyer said on Saturday. Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, left prison…

Liver function tests usually comprise ALT, AST, ALP, GGT, other nonenzymatic proteins (e.g., albumin), and heme metabolites, such as bilirubin. Among these markers, AST and ALT are often elevated in patients with STEMI [17]. Serum ALT is predominantly found in…

In this qualitative examination of the treatment- and care-related needs of BMSMW living with HIV, we found that participants are prioritizing their basic, more immediate needs, such as food security and housing, ahead of maintaining their provider appointments and medications.…

Previous studies show that patients with increased CIMT have a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases than the unaffected patients [22, 23]. The elevated RDW is a potential predictor of carotid artery atherosclerosis in patients with ischemic stroke [16]. Early identification…

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to explore LS in NHR based on objective, sensor-based assessment with a high spatiotemporal resolution. Key findings of the current study were that (1) LS was very limited in…

In recent decades, atherosclerosis CV disease has become one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Despite great efforts to reduce risk including medical or primary prevention strategies, the risk remains high and new therapeutic strategies…

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The paper appeared in Scientific Reports. The co-authors from the Russian side are Oleg Gusev (Extreme Biology Lab, Kazan Federal University) and Vladimir Sychyov (Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of RAS). As is well-known, space flights bring with them…

FRESNO, Calif. –  A battle over the main ingredient in Roundup, a popular weed killer sprayed by farmers and home gardeners worldwide, is coming to a head in California, where officials want to be the first to label the chemical…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Knights of Malta, an ancient Catholic order which operates as global charity, has its headquarters on one of Rome’s most exclusive streets, the cobble-stoned Via Condotti where red-and-white flags bearing the Maltese Cross fly above…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are fearful about the potential political fallout if their eventual replacement of President Barack Obama’s health law doesn’t deliver, and they didn’t hold back at their recent policy conference. “We’d better be sure that we’re…

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Clinical trials of a new immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, have shown that it prolongs life significantly for patients with bladder cancer and is active against a rare sub-type of melanoma, called mucosal melanoma. The findings were presented in two…

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: By 2050 the death rates from malignant melanoma will have decreased from their current levels but the numbers of people dying from the disease will have increased due to the aging of populations. However, if new treatments…

Despite increasing demand for emergency care, there is a decreasing supply of emergency rooms. Over the past decade, financial burdens have caused hundreds of our ERs to close their sliding double doors for good, leaving people without options for emergency…

The Doomsday Clock has inched closer to and farther from nuclear Armageddon since the Manhattan Project in 1947. On Thursday, the clock moved closer to Midnight — the closest it has been since 1954.

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database that includes metadata and citations of biomedical literature. Although it covers articles in varying areas, including medicine, pharmacy, and biology from around the world, it does not categorize those articles by specific research area. The…

Over the last decades, the incidence of cancer in “Adolescents and Young Adults” (AYAs) has increased both in Europe and North America [1–3]. The National Cancer Institute defined the age range of AYA as being 15 to 39 years at the…

Received: 29 June 2016 Accepted: 19 January 2017 Published: 28 January 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman impersonated the wife of a GOP lawmaker and snuck into the congressional Republican retreat in Philadelphia Thursday, the same day President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appeared, retreat organizers told lawmakers late Saturday.…

Received: 5 May 2016 Accepted: 20 January 2017 Published: 28 January 2017

Coconut oil is known as a natural health product [33, 34]. No published study as yet has indicated the safety of coconut oil in pregnancy and infancy. Coconut oil is known to be a natural source of Medium Chain Triglycerides…