Working overtime increases heart risk, a study finds

A study found staff who clock up 10 or 11 hours a day are up to 60 percent more likely to die and suffer heart disease than lazier work-mates.

Researchers who tracked 10,000 UK civil servants aged between 39 and 61 over 11 years, found overtime junkies were more likely to heart attacks and angina – even when factors such as age, weight and smoking were included.

The increased risk was linked to working between 3 and 4 hours extra on top of a normal 7-hour day – but not 1 to 2 hours. Lead researcher Dr Marianna Virtanen, from University College London, said: “Our findings suggest a link between working long hours and increased coronary heart disease risk, but more research is needed.”

Experts said the findings highlighted the importance of work-life balance.

Study: Stomach Cancer Up In Young, White Adults

CHICAGO -- Scientists are mystifying over a surprising increase in stomach cancer in young white adults and rates in all other American adults have declined.

Chances for developing stomach cancer are still very low in young adults ages 25 - 39. But a study found the incidence has climbed in the past 3 decades for whites in this age group.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers and colleagues studied new cases of cancer in the lower stomach. Their findings appear in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA).

Lower stomach cancer has been linked with diets high in salt and salt-preserved foods, also low in fresh fruits and vegetables. Rates have been declining in many countries as of improved food preservation and better hygiene.

Bad habits can age you by 12 years, study suggests

CHICAGO - New research suggests that having 4 common bad habits can age you by 12 years.

The 4 bad habits are smoking, drinking too much, not getting enough physical activity and a poor diet.

The findings highlight yet one more reason to adopt a healthier lifestyle. The study tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years. Of those with all 4 bad habits, 29 % died. That compares to 8 % of the healthier people who didn’t have those unhealthy behaviors.

The study appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: E.coli food poisoning down last year

According to the Health officials, Americans suffered a bit less food poisoning last year.

There were significant drops in infections from “Shigella” and the most hazardous form of E. coli.

But overall food poisoning rates have been flat now for more than 5 years.

Rates of food-borne illnesses fell more dramatically as of the mid 1990s until the early 2000s and that was due mainly to improvements in the meat and poultry industries.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the report Thursday.

The study finds Kidney disease genes

An international team has recognized 20 genes that could help explain the causes of kidney disease.

The study could offer insights into what goes wrong in patients with kidney failure. They said that identifying the genes that control kidney function was a main step in developing new treatments for chronic kidney disease.

The team studied the genes of nearly 70,000 people across Europe & known 13 new genes that influence renal function & 7 other genes that affect the production & secretion of creatinine - a chemical waste molecule that is created from muscle metabolism & filtered through the kidneys.

The findings could let for the creation of new drugs to restore kidney function in people with chronic kidney disease or kidney failure.

Mom's exercise stabilize babies weight

Women who do exercise while they're pregnant have slimmer babies, new research from New Zealand shows. Because babies born to moms who didn't exercise had higher than average weights, exercise could have helped "control" the weights of the exercisers' babies.

The team randomly allotted 84 women pregnant with their first baby to up to 5, 40 minute sessions on an exercise bike at home each week or to a no-exercise group, beginning at 20 weeks of pregnancy through delivery.

While there were no differences in the women's body mass index (BMI) or weight, the women who exercised were healthier than those who didn't. The babies born to the exercisers were about 140 grams (5 ounces) lesser than the control groups, even if their average length was the same, leading to a lower BMI.

The researchers had concluded that exercise might help keep the women's sensitivity to the blood sugar regulating hormone insulin, which leans to decline in pregnancy. But there was no variation in insulin sensitivity among the exercisers & the non-exercisers.

Researchers find the key of viral infection

US researchers have find the solution to how a prolific virus is able to reinfect individuals despite a strong immune response, maybe opening the way for vaccines to deadly pathogens including HIV & malaria.

"In essence, cytomegalovirus (CMV) is able to cutoff an affected cell's call for elimination. This allows CMV to beat this critical immune barrier during re-infection," explained Klaus Frueh, a senior scientist at the university.

CMV infection is severely affected babies and transplant patients. It is not cruelly affected the babies. The result of the study shows how the virus may be useful as a viral vaccine vector, which would hold genetic material from other pathogens into the body.

Most vaccine is used for one time, but the capability of CMV to reinfect could make it useful as a vector for vaccines to a number of diseases, including HIV, hepatitis C, malaria parasites & tuberculosis bacteria.

High Fat Breakfast may be good for you at morning

Metabolic syndrome is described by abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance & added heart disease risk issues. The case, published in the current International Journal of Obesity, inspect how different types of foods & specific timing of eating influenced the development of metabolic syndrome in mice.

The study exposed that mice fed a meal higher in fat after waking up had normal metabolic profiles. On the other hand, they found mice that ate a carbohydrate-rich meal in the morning & a high fat meal at the end of the day had boosted weight gain, glucose intolerance & other factors related to metabolic syndrome.

"This study advised that if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would help carbohydrate utilization during the rest of the day, but, if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you have metabolic plasticity to transfer your energy utilization among carbohydrate & fat.

Teens programmed for risky actions, research said

Teenagers are programmed to take more risks because they like the thrill of risky states more than others, British scientists said. The findings may clarify why adolescents keep in activities like drug-taking, fighting & unsafe sex.

"The arrival of adolescence marks an blast in 'risky' activities - from dangerous driving, unsafe sex & trialing with alcohol, to poor dietary habits & physical idleness," said Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of University College.

The researchers said boys & men among the ages of nine & 35, who were asked to play computer games where they had to build decisions to make points. After each game researchers calculated the players' expressive responses by recording how satisfied or not they were with the outcome.

They found that the arrival of the teenage years noticeable a rise in how much enjoyment came from winning in a "lucky escape" situation.

X-rays 'can miss lots of fractures', warn doctors

X-rays fail to spot up to almost a third of fractures in the bones of the hip and pelvis, research suggests.

US doctors from Duke University notify that relying on standard X-rays alone to provide a clean bill of health might lead to wrong diagnoses and law suits.

When they re-checked the X-ray results of 92 patients by means of a more detailed scanner, called Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), they found 35 fractures that had been missed. The findings are in print in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

According to Dr Charles Spritzer, who led the research: "The diagnosis of traumatic fracture most often begins and ends with X-rays of the hip, pelvis, or both.

"In some cases though, the exclusion of a traumatic fracture is difficult." He added.

Clinic open for child who addicted the video games: Brittan

Doctors have opened the first dedicated clinic in Britain to care for children who addicted to video games & other technology.

Capio Nightingale Hospital, a private facility, initiated the service after calls from parents worried regarding their children’s use of games, the internet, or mobile phones.

A spokesperson for the hospital say the service would be recommended for children as young as 12 but those aged 15 to 17 are supposed to be the main target group.

Weekly injections help to cure infertility

The two times weekly injections could help "several thousand" women who are affected by infertility in the UK each year, researchers said. The treatment involves a hormone called kisspeptin which scientists say be able to improve women's level of sex hormones.

Now doctors told that they have found a way of making a long-term dissimilarity using the treatment. Early attempts had been unsatisfactory, as daily injections soon led to the women's bodies ceasing to react.

At the end of 8 week research, women getting the hormone showed a 16 times boost in hormone reactions of 2 key hormones, luteinizing hormone & follicle stimulating hormone. "The results of our research are amazing as they show that kisspeptin may be a novel system for restoring fertility to women by certain types of infertility."

Second sign of swine flu possible

Around 30,000 people have been immunized through the free human being swine flu vaccination clinics via Queensland Health. Nearly 90 clinics have been performed, mainly at high schools, in the past 2 weekends & it will continue on tomorrow.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette said it was possible a second wave of human swine flu might hit in April or May. “Queenslanders can shield themselves, their family & their local society by taking plus of these free immunization clinics at state high schools,” she said.

“It is vital children & adolescents are immunized to help protect themselves & the broader community, but all of them in the family above the age of 6 months should be vaccinated.”

Darling Downs- “If you’ve missed the past two weekends try and make plans to attend this Saturday’s clinics. If you take this precaution now it will help you and your family has a healthier winter,” he said.

Women Who Drink Moderately Gain fewer Weight

Women who have a drink or 2 a day seem to gain a smaller amount weight than nondrinkers, a new study suggests.

Researchers studied 19,220 women older than 38 who started at a normal weight; they establish that over a 13-year period, abstainers gained more weight than infrequent or moderate drinkers, HealthDay reports.

Why? Women who drink might substitute alcohol for food calories, or else alcohol may stoke metabolism in women (but not in men), the authors wrote and the results are published in Archives of Internal Medicine.

New Drug Fights against Advanced Prostate Cancer

Cabazitaxel is a new drug gives guarantee for extending the lives of men with prostate cancer who have run out of cure options. In a large learn, men given the experimental drug, called cabazitaxel, lived an average of just over 15 months, while those set standard chemotherapy lived an average of almost 13 months.

Living an added 2 to 3 months might not sound like much, but all the men had prostate cancer that had spread all over the body despite standard treatment, says study head Oliver Sartor, MD, a cancer investigator in New Orleans.

"These men truly don't have other alternatives," Sartor tells WebMD."They are only probable to live about a year. Cabazitaxel more than increased the number of men that lived minimum of 2years."

Child Obesity Rates Going Up

New research finds that the prevalence of obesity has grown in recent years among children aged 10 to 17, and certain kids are being especially hard hit. And another study in the same journal points to a possible reason why: Kids are snacking on potato chips, candy and other fattening foods an average of almost three times per day.

The survey found that in 1977-1978, 74 percent of children aged 2 to 18 said they snacked on foods outside of regular mealtime, but by 2003-2006 that number had jumped to 98 percent. The biggest jump occurred with salty treats such as crackers or potato chips, but candy was a favorite snack as well.

Overall, kids consumed 168 more calories from snack foods in 2003-2006 compared to 1977-1978, and the increase was greatest among the very young -- those aged 2 to 6. "Kids still eat three meals a day, but they're also loading up on high-calorie junk food that contains little or no nutritional value during these snacks," Popkin said in the news release.

He advised parents to limit snack-time to just once per day and turn to healthy alternatives such as apple slices, carrots and other fruits and vegetables.

Old cosmetics! Say ‘NO’

Cosmetics owned by more women could be up to 4 years out of date, a research has exposed. It cautioned that reluctance to pitch gone old products was unsafe.

Research gives that eye shadow, blusher, lipstick, lip gloss, eyebrow pencils & perfume were often well past their use-by date, putting women's health at danger. Sara Stern, cosmetics' director at Debenhams that agreed out the study, told: "Reluctance to throw away old products is a dangerous business."

"We wouldn't be uncertain to chuck out moldy or bacteria-ridden food & the same standards must apply to lotions & potions. Confidently this call to action will push women to have ruthless spring dirt free of their cosmetics collections," she said.

Anti-retrovirals curb HIV spread

Anti-retroviral treatments (ARVs) & universal checking could stop the spread of Aids in South Africa within 5 years, a top scientist says.

Dr Brian Williams says the cost of giving the drugs to almost 6 million HIV-positive patients in the state would be $2 to 3bn per year. Only about 30% get the life-saving drugs, he told, but early detection & treatment would avoid transmission.

This should be balancing to the search for an Aids vaccine. An effective vaccine, he told, was still a long way away. Dr Williams, a chief figure in the field of HIV research, is based at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modeling & Analysis in Stellenbosch.

Cigarettes is best; pipes, cigar too bad

People who believe they are caring their lungs by smoking pipes r cigars instead of cigarettes are fooling themselves.

Cigarette smoking is the main cause of chronic lung disease, but there are tiny studies on the giving of other smoking techniques. Several smokers think cigars or pipes are less harmful as the smoke isn't inhaled. To test this view, researchers looked at the effects of cigar or pipe smoking in more than 3,528 American adults, aged among 48 and 90 yrs. Of these, 9 % had smoked a pipe at a few times and 11 % admitted smoking cigars, & 52 % reported smoking cigarettes.

The researchers calculated blood levels of cotinine, a byproduct of metabolised nicotine in the subjects. Between pipe or cigar users, cotinine levels were found lower than those formed by cigarette smoking except were yet important. For pipe smoking, it was 20 % compared to cigarette smoking, and for cigars it was 10 %.

The result of smoking on breathing ability was calculated by spirometry, a lung function test in which people blow into a tube to determine the max amount of air they can exhale in 1 sec. Pipe or cigar smokers had more than twice the occurrence of airway obstruction than nonsmokers, and the degree of obstruction amplified with the amount of smoking. The result show that tobaccos use via cigars and pipes is too bad for health.

key to cancer spread found

Researchers have found a specific protein that switches on the process that releases cancer cells from the creative tumour and allows the cells to spread & expand into new tumours in other parts of the body.

Boffins reported the discovery of disabled-2 (Dab2) in Nature Cell Biology. The work called epithelial-mesenchymal transdifferientiation (EMT) has been identified to play a role in releasing cells on the outside of the solid tumor and transforming them into transient mesenchymal cell: cells with the capability to start to grow a new tumour.

This is regularly the fatal process in breast, ovarian, pancreatic and colon-rectal cancers. Searching to understand how the EMT process begins, Ge Jin, who has combined appointments by the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, began by running backwards from EMT to find its trigger.

The researchers found that a compound called transforming development factor-ß triggers the formation of the Dab2 protein. It was this protein, Dab2 that activated the EMT procedure. He exposed that when the researchers knocked out Dab2, EMT was not triggered. "This is the main piece in cancer investigate that has been missing," Jin said.