Day: July 17, 2016

“We have found cell markers to target HIV reservoirs. This discovery has opened new treatment perspectives to eliminate these reservoirs and perhaps one day cure people infected with the virus,” said Nicolas Chomont, CRCHUM researcher and principal investigator of a study to be published July 14 in the journal PLOS Pathogens. ART prevents progression of the infection to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, the virus persists in a small pool of cells called “reservoirs” during

RIYADH (Reuters) – The Saudi Olympic Committee has approved four female Saudi athletes to compete as part of the conservative Gulf kingdom’s team at the Rio Olympics, a spokesman said on Sunday. Sara Al-Attar, Lubna Al-Omair, Cariman Abu Al-Jadail and Wujud Fahmi will become only the second group of women Olympians to represent Saudi Arabia, where women are barred from driving and are subject to a restrictive male guardianship system. But the historic decision was

RIYADH, July 17 (Reuters) – The Saudi Olympic Committee has approved four female Saudi athletes to compete as part of the conservative Gulf kingdom’s team at the Rio Olympics, a spokesman said on Sunday. Sara Al-Attar, Lubna Al-Omair, Cariman Abu Al-Jadail and Wujud Fahmi will become only the second group of women Olympians to represent Saudi Arabia, where women are barred from driving and are subject to a restrictive male guardianship system. But the historic

By Larry King TROON, Scotland (Reuters) – Phil Mickelson said he had never played better without winning after finishing second in a British Open head-to-head with Henrik Stenson on Sunday that rivaled the epic “Duel in the Sun” between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson in 1977. In his opening round at Royal Troon, Mickelson equaled the record for low round in a major championship, and came within a lipped-out birdie putt of setting a new

By Larry King TROON, Scotland, July 17 (Reuters) – Phil Mickelson said he had never played better without winning after finishing second in a British Open head-to-head with Henrik Stenson on Sunday that rivalled the epic “Duel in the Sun” between Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson in 1977. In his opening round at Royal Troon, Mickelson equalled the record for low round in a major championship, and came within a lipped-out birdie putt of setting

By Anggy Polanco SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans streamed into neighboring Colombia on Sunday to take advantage of a temporary opening of the border to buy food and medicine unavailable at home in their country’s collapsing economy. Socialist President Nicolas Maduro shut the border last year in an effort to crack down on smuggling of subsidized products. Venezuela’s product shortages have since worsened, creating further incentives to buy goods in Colombia and

By Tony Jimenez TROON, Scotland (Reuters) – Record-breaking Swede Henrik Stenson became the first Scandinavian male to capture a major when he won the British Open on Sunday, beating Phil Mickelson in an extraordinary final-round duel. The world number six produced a swashbuckling eight-under-par 63 to finish 20-under on 264, three ahead of playing partner Mickelson (65). The 40-year-old Stenson’s round equaled the lowest in any major championship and his winning total was also a

Several hundred protesting grandmothers gather in Durban, South Africa, Saturday July 16, 2016, and march to the International Conference Center, to demand more government support as caregivers for children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. On Monday, the return of hundreds of AIDS researchers and activists to Durban will highlight how radically the country’s outlook has changed. South Africa now is a global proving ground for treatment and prevention, including a study of an experimental HIV

July 17, 2016, 10:14 AM|There is place in Los Angeles that’s become a sanctuary for both military veterans suffering from PTSD and neglected birds. Tracy Smith has a report on the remarkable connections made at Serenity Park.

The report found the uninsured rate among Hispanics ages 18 to 64 in Texas dropped from 46 percent in September 2013 to 32 percent in March 2016. But even with those gains, researchers estimate approximately 2 million Hispanics remain uninsured across the state. However, nearly half of uninsured Texas Hispanics are currently eligible to get health insurance through ACA plans or other private health insurance, the report said. “We estimate 920,000 Hispanics are eligible for

By Tony Jimenez TROON, Scotland (Reuters) – Record-breaking Swede Henrik Stenson became the first Scandinavian male to capture a major when he won the British Open on Sunday, beating Phil Mickelson in an extraordinary final-round duel. The world number six shot a brilliant closing eight-under-par 63 to finish 20-under on 264, three ahead of playing partner Mickelson (65). The 40-year-old Stenson’s round equalled the lowest in any major championship and his winning total also represented

Miss something this week? Don’t panic. CBC’s Marketplace has rounded up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplace newsletter every Friday. Air Miles rage Please continue to hold. So. Trying to use your Air Miles right now is a bit, well, frustrating.  A whole bunch of customers have miles that are about to start expiring.  Unfortunately, redeeming miles isn’t that user-friendly right now. The flood of people trying to get stuff means callers are being kept on

What could a parrot possibly have in common with veterans returning from combat overseas? Turns out they can be BIRDS OF A FEATHER . . . as Tracy Smith now shows us: You can hear the place before you ever see it. In a lonely corner of Los Angeles is a home for dozens of parrots — many of them neglected, abandoned, abused. The people who care for these birds know something about trauma themselves:

A new type of HIV drug currently being tested works in an unusual way, scientists in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, a collaboration between EMBL and Heidelberg University Hospital, have found. They also discovered that when the virus became resistant to early versions of these drugs, it did not do so by blocking or preventing their effects, but rather by circumventing them. The study, published online today in Science, presents the most detailed view yet

Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of laboratory-generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve stem cells. The tests found that no current protocols lead to truly naïve stem cells, but the guidelines may help researchers achieve that goal by pointing out where each current method falls short. Generating naïve stem cells would

By Tony Jimenez TROON, Scotland (Reuters) – Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson were locked together at the top of the leaderboard on 16-under-par through 12 holes as the pair produced some dynamic golf in the British Open final round on Sunday. Swede Stenson began the day one stroke clear of his playing partner but Mickelson showed he meant business at the first hole, drilling a majestic approach to tap-in range for a birdie. Stenson, who

Most workspaces aren’t designed with non-average heights in mind: “Short people, tall people – they’re all working around the same cubicle or work unit, and that can cause all kinds of back and neck problems,” particularly for the tall ones, who are more prone to spine conditions like scoliosis, says Truumees, director of spine research at the Seton Spine and Scoliosis Center in Austin. While ensuring your workspace is ergonomically correct helps, some environments, like

By Larry King TROON, Scotland, July 17 (Reuters) – The final round of the British Open began at Royal Troon on Sunday much as it had on Saturday, with Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson pulling away from the field and the weather getting worse. “Henrik and Phil are sort of playing their own tournament right now,” Rory McIlroy remarked on Saturday, and their scores so far confirm his view. Mickelson came within a hair’s breadth

Credit: public domain The neural architecture in the auditory cortex – the part of the brain that processes sound – of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical, a new study has found. The study raises a host of new questions about the role of experience in processing sensory information, and could point the way toward potential new avenues for intervention in deafness. The study is described in a June 18 paper published in

The researchers bred mice with orexin neurons that could be selectively and temporally destroyed by a toxin. This specific cell death was controlled by the presence or absence of a chemical added to the animals’ food. Mice lacking orexin neurons were found to be more sensitive to nociception than control mice, as demonstrated by pain-related behaviors such as withdrawing their paws from a hot plate or licking paws injected with a chemical irritant. Conversely, the

Seventeen weeks pregnant with her fourth child, Katie Hauge and her husband Curtis, both of Havre, Mont., decided to have an elective gender ultrasound to find out the sex of their baby. Yet instead of getting happy news, the ultrasound technician urged Hauge, then 28, to go to the emergency room immediately. “He showed me that the baby had a bunch of fluid in places in her body where she shouldn’t,” she recalled. Once at

By Tom Finn DOHA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian laws requiring women to have male guardians have been reformed in recent years but continue to restrict and endanger them, obstructing government plans to reform the economy, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says in a report. The report drew criticism on Sunday from a government rights official, who said the system was designed to protect and help women, and was less restrictive than portrayed by HRW. Women in

The port city is hosting the International AIDS conference for a second time. NPR’s Jason Beaubien tells NPR’s Lynn Neary that much progress has been made in combating AIDS, but more needs to be done.

A single chemical receptor in the brain is responsible for a range of symptoms in mice that are reminiscent of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a Duke University study that appears online in the journal Biological Psychiatry. The findings provide a new mechanistic understanding of OCD and other psychiatric disorders and suggest that they are highly amenable to treatment using a class of drugs that has already been investigated in clinical trials. “These new findings

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A type of immunotherapy that has shown promising results against cancer could also be used against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In a study published July 11 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Virology, researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and Center for AIDS Research found that recently discovered potent antibodies can be used to generate a specific type of cell called chimeric antigen receptors, or CARs, that can be used to kill cells infected

A new finding in experiments studying the dry preservation of living cells — a potentially revolutionary alternative to cryopreservation – has defined a clear limit where continuing dehydration kills cells. The data, combined with molecular dynamics simulations, provides insight into an important processing factor that has limited recent attempts at dry preservation. “What we have done is identified what appears to be a materials constraint in our method of dry preservation. I think this new

A new study led by Assistant Medical Professor Philip Smith of The City College of New York’s Sophie Davis Biomedical Education/CUNY School of Medicine, and conducted in collaboration with researchers at Yale University and Yeshiva University, found important differences between women and men in their ability to quit smoking when taking medications commonly prescribed to help smokers quit. The study, Sex Differences in Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy Comparative Efficacy: A Network Meta-analysis, which reviewed and analyzed

The study, published in Nicotine Tobacco Research, suggests that “recent claims by some scientists that e-cigarettes are likely to act as a gateway to the use of tobacco products are overstated,” says the study’s lead author, population scientist David Levy, PhD, a professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. If used instead of smoking, e-cigarettes provide the potential to reduce harm and improve public health, Levy says. But they also have the potential

The neural architecture in the auditory cortex – the part of the brain that processes sound – of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical, a new study has found. The study raises a host of new questions about the role of experience in processing sensory information, and could point the way toward potential new avenues for intervention in deafness. The study is described in a June 18 paper published in Scientific Reports. The

By Larry King TROON, Scotland (Reuters) – The final round of the British Open began at Royal Troon on Sunday much as it had on Saturday, with Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson pulling away from the field and the weather getting worse. “Henrik and Phil are sort of playing their own tournament right now,” Rory McIlroy remarked on Saturday, and their scores so far confirm his view. Mickelson came within a hair’s breadth of shooting

BEIJING (Reuters) – Air quality in China’s largest cities continued to improve during the first six months of 2016, the country’s environment ministry said on Sunday. China’s largest 338 cities enjoyed more clean air days in the first half compared with the same period of 2015, the ministry said on its website. It said 76.7 percent of January-June days had clean air, an increase of four percentage points from a year earlier. In the capital

LONDON (Reuters) – Czech Tomas Berdych has become the third high-profile tennis player to withdraw from the Olympics in two days, saying his concerns over the Zika virus prompted his decision. The world number eight’s announcement follows the decision by Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic and Simona Halep to withdraw from next month’s Rio tournament. “It was a hard decision for me to take after a long and painstaking discussion with my dearest,” Berdych, 30, said

Overview of IgG4-related disease IgG4-RD is a fibroinflammatory disease that can affect almost any organ, with nearly identical histopathologic findings in all tissues: a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate of polyclonal lymphocytes, IgG4+ plasma cells, and eosinophils 1], 2], often most prominent in the early stages of disease, and fibrosis, more commonly seen in the chronic phase of the disease. The pathophysiology is complex and incompletely understood; aberrant T helper type 2 (Th2)/T regulatory cells are responsible for

The newly developed method focuses on enhancers, DNA segments responsible for enhancing transcription of RNA at specific locations and developmental times in an organism. The research started with a database of three-dimensional images showing individual enhancer activity. The team used an automatic pattern finding algorithm to identify genetic activity patterns shared across the images. They noticed that, in some cases, these patterns seemed to correspond with specific brain regions. To demonstrate the functionality of their

The findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and provide the foundation for future antiviral drug and vaccine development against the virus, rhinovirus C. “Rhinovirus C has been the ‘missing link’ in explaining illness caused by the common cold,” says Michael Rossmann, Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Science at Purdue and co-lead of the study with UW-Madison’s Ann Palmenberg, professor of biochemistry and with the Institute for

Sydney (AFP) – US Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday unveiled a series of agreements between the US and Australia to create an “unprecedented” international research database of cancer patients as he kicked off a three-day visit in Melbourne. Fighting cancer is a personal goal for Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer last year, with the opening of an Aus$1 billion (US$760,000) medical facility his first event on his Australia tour,

And Roberts says selfies are becoming one of the top reasons why lice infestations are increasing this summer, making us reconsider whether we really need another pic with our BFF in front of the sunset. Who actually wants to call in sick to work for contracting tiny parasites that grade-school kids get? RELATED: Take Cover! ‘Super Lice’ Have Invated 25 States While head lice are mostly known as an issue for kids, Roberts points out

The research team, led by Professor Yoshiaki Ito, Senior Principal Investigator at CSI Singapore, found that a modification called phosphorylation made to RUNX3 promotes cancer progression by allowing cell division. Uncontrolled cell division in the body is a process by which tumours form and hence is a hallmark of cancer. RUNX3 is a tumour suppressor gene that prevents the formation of tumours by binding to DNA. The phosphorylation, or the addition of a phosphate group

The recently published consensus definitions for sepsis [1] have raised a lot of discussion and controversy. We had the privilege of being part of this consensus group and fully support the final definitions. We are pleased that a definition has been developed that closely reflects everyday clinical language, recognizing that sepsis is most simply described as a “bad infection” associated with some degree of organ dysfunction, as proposed earlier [2]. The article conveying the consensus

Factors associated with utilization of youth friendly services In the bivariate logistic regression analyses, being in the age group of 15–19 years [COR?=?0.68, 95 % CI (0.51,0.92)], being a muslim [COR?=?0.71, 95 % CI (0.53–0.96)], being illiterate [COR?=?0.28, 95 % CI (0.12,0.61)] and being 1- 8th grade [COR?=?0.50, 95 % CI (0.33,0.76)], having negative perception about the importance of RH for youth [COR?=?0.34, 95 % CI (0.17–0.68)] and not knowing RH itself [COR?=?0.08, 95 %

Guzzling enough H2O every day isn’t always easy (half a gallon is A LOT, people!). But water does have some pretty awesome health benefits, so it’s worth it. For starters, it can make your skin glow in a major way. That’s because it plumps things up, causing wrinkles and pores to get filled in. RELATED: Does Drinking Water Really Give You Glowing Skin? And that’s not all. Agua can help you lose weight, too. Yes,

2. Doubt It’s about 4 p.m. and you start to wonder, “Wait…why does my skin feel so warm? Did I maybe get a bit of a burn?” You shrug it off and continue lying there since the sun is fading away by now. RELATED: Are You Wearing the Right Sunscreen for Your Skin Type and Tone? 3. Pain It’s shower time. Before hopping in you look in the mirror one last time and wonder how you didn’t

One of the most common causes of itchy nether regions is bacterial vaginosis (a.k.a. BV). The uncomfortable condition is caused by an imbalance of the healthy, naturally occurring bacteria in your vagina and can feel a lot like a yeast infection. With BV, though, the change in pH levels causes a watery discharge (different from the thick white discharge characteristic of yeast infections), which usually has an odor, says Lauren Streicher, M.D., associate clinical professor

Mary Todd Lincoln had a lot of tragedy in her life. She lost two young children — and, of course, was sitting next to President Lincoln when he was assassinated. All of that contributed to years of depression, but now a medical expert believes there was a physical cause for her mental struggles. Pop Culture Sally Field on role as first lady in “Lincoln” Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field is up for her third

July 16, 2016, 6:52 PM|Abraham Lincoln’s wife saw a lot of tragedy in her years. That contributed to years of depression for Mary Todd Lincoln, but there may have been a physical cause for her mental anguish as well. Dr. Jon LaPook has more.

By Larry King TROON, Scotland, July 16 (Reuters) – Henrik Stenson will start the final round of the British Open leading the championship, and trying not to think about how it’s going to end. “Thoughts of outcome are never really helping you,” he said at a news conference after his third round at Royal Troon, where he gained a one shot advantage over American Phil Mickelson. “I know what I would like to see tomorrow.

PARIS (Reuters) – The first delivery of a new version of Airbus’s A320 jet to Pegasus Airlines has been postponed following the thwarted coup attempt in Turkey, the European planemaker said on Saturday. Turkey’s leading budget carrier had been scheduled to take delivery of the first revamped A320neo powered by CFM engines on July 19. “Due to the terrible and unforeseen circumstances in Turkey, we came to a mutual decision with the Pegasus management to

Psychologist Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of Our Nature explains that the world is actually growing less violent, even though the media may give a different impression.

Among the drugs that block weight loss are: • Beta-blockers: metoprolol, atenolol, carvedilol, and propranolol • Antidepressants: amitriptyline (Elavil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), doxepin, paroxetine (Paxil), trazodone, and others • Steroids such as prednisone and hydrocortisone (but not inhaled or nasal steroids for allergies) RELATED: Common Drugs Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease • Antihistamines—diphenhydramine (Benadryl), fexofenadine (Allegra), cetirizine (Zyrtec), cyproheptadine (Periactin), and others; note that the widely used sleep aid Tylenol PM contains diphenhydramine • Lyrica for fibromyalgia and pain • Valproic

What she does: Fitness Professional. I teach indoor cycling, rowing and high-intensity interval based classes in New York City (some of which include TRX, kettlebells strength + functional training). I am a coach, personal trainer and athlete.What she wants you to know: My passion for teaching others is unparamounted and I thrive coaching them to be the best versions of themselves. For me, the most powerful thing is having the ability to lead a workout,

Check out Women’s Health’s FitGIF Friday every week for fun and challenging new moves to make your sweat sesh really count. Here’s this week’s exercise: Plank jack: You know performing planks is one of the best ways to light up those abs. But let us introduce you to the plank’s sassy sister: the plank jack. This exercise packs some serious attitude and abs-sculpting power. Crank these out for a stronger six pack—stat. (Work even more towards