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It is generally believed that mosquitoes basically lay their eggs in just about any body of water that they can find. A team of researchers from Tulane University in collaboration with colleagues from several North Carolina State universities however, revealed that yellow fever mosquitoes require precise concentratio... |
9 July 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Just like the eyes, a closer look at our nails can easily tell us a lot about our overall state of health. If we know how to read them, our nails can easily resemble an open book of minute details: a bluish tint, minuscule white spots, some ripples and bumps or a more pronounced rosy tinge can point to anything from ... |
11 June 2008
10:35 GMT |
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In this modern age of speed and constant change, our increasingly hectic lifestyles are beginning to take their toll on us in ways we would never have expected 20, even 10 years ago. The diseases we once attributed to old age - osteoporosis among them - are now starting to affect younger men and especially women arou... |
13 May 2008
09:33 GMT |
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The pharaoh Amenophis IV (1372-1354 BC) is most known amongst Egyptologists as the pharaoh who intended to introduce a monotheist religion in ancient Egypt. The cult of Aton (the solar disk) officially replaced Amon-Ra's cult. This was clearly an act of authority of the pharaoh, as priests considered the new ori... |
6 May 2008
03:09 GMT |
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We know that pork is not very healthy, but pig brain proves harmful in a very unexpected way. 18 pork plant workers in Minnesota, 5 in Indiana and 1 in Nebraska have been detected so far with a mysterious neurological disease got while removing brains from slaughtered pigs, as signaled at the American Academy of Neur... |
18 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Gonorrhea, together with syphilis and HIV, make a "love triangle" of the most famous sexually transmitted diseases. Indeed, gonorrhea, caused by the Neisseria gonorhoeae bacterium, affects 62 million people, aged mainly 15 to 29, are represents world's second most widespread STDs after the infection with Chlamyd... |
15 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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There are bacteria everywhere around us, and in infinite quantities. Some are good, some are neutral, but most people have in mind only the bad ones. 1. Tetanus is caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. It enters the body via an open wound and releases a powerful toxin, tetanospasmin. The incubation period lasts... |
14 April 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict in us (and this is just a selection of the most common ones):1. Flue is caused by a virus transmitted through air. The incubation lasts 1-2 days. The symptoms include fever, cough, loss of appetite, headaches. Ordinary flue can be treate... |
11 April 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Premature babies are considered those born before 37 weeks. Even if there are a lot of studies showing the short term effect on the health of the babies of the premature births, a new research investigating about 1.2 million births in Norway pointed the effect of a premature birth in the health of the adults. The stu... |
26 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is real. Girls learn to read before boys, get better marks in college, and even their brain contains more gray matter. Moreover, boys are medically clearly weaker than girls, as showed by a new research carried out by a team at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California, and published ... |
25 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Besides the issues concerning penis sensitivity loss (or not), circumcision is regarded by many as being a hygienic operation. Some like to see in it as an anti-HIV weapon. But despite the myth surrounding circumcision, it appears that the procedure does not protect men against common sexually transmitted diseases (S... |
21 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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They call you "old man" 'cause you cannot even remember where you left your keys or what you ate in the morning. The others may be right. The leading cause of senile dementia is Alzheimer's disease. A new research published in "2008 Alzheimer's Disease: Facts and Figures," and carried out by a team fro... |
19 March 2008
04:26 GMT |
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You can be a sexual maniac, a hidden pervert, a sado-masochist or a serial sex killer and not even know it! Now, that's solved: here comes the Garos Sexual Behavior Inventory. It is the result of over a decade of research and observations made by a Texas Tech psychologist. Sheila Garos has gathered 70 sex questi... |
13 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Just talk to the teens about abstinence. And add to the formula teens' sense of invulnerability. Here is the conclusion: at least one quarter of the American teen girls have a sexually transmitted disease.This is the result of a study led by Dr. Sara Forhan with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and... |
12 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It may be deadly, but a peptide in the scorpion venom could be the solution against cystic fibrosis and other secretory diseases, as described by a new research published in the "Journal of Biological Chemistry." The new peptide, GaTx1, controls the ions and water flow out of cells via an essential chloride channel. ... |
15 February 2008
03:42 GMT |
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An ancient Egyptian belief said the lotus flower gave life to the Pharaonic Egypt. At the beginning of the world, on the dark waters, a lotus flower floated with closed petals. The petals opened and out of the flower the Sun God Ra raised, creating the world. In the evening, the Sun went to sleep in the lotus flower,... |
13 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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They may be nasty, but these parasites are intimately bound to humans and may tell a lot of our past. They can only live on humans and die rapidly out of their human hosts, unable to parasitize any other animal. Head lice collected from 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies clearly point that they accompanied humans during... |
7 February 2008
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We abhor them and only their sight can make us sick. But they represent one of the oldest human companions, that's why the DNA of the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) has proved to be useful in explaining how ancient people and diseases spread together with the ancient black rats. Today, this rat is spread all around t... |
4 February 2008
03:48 GMT |
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This is the main weapon we've got against HIV by the moment, but how effective is it in stopping other STDs too? This is the topic of a recent debate in the British Medical Journal."For people who are sexually active, condoms remain our best solution to reducing risks of acquiring sexually transmitted infections... |
26 January 2008
06:19 GMT |
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Hypertension, high cholesterol, diet, lack of exercising and smoking are factors favoring heart disease. 1. The coronary disease is the most common heart disease. It is caused by the obstruction of the coronary arteries carrying oxygenated blood to the heart's muscle. It can be caused by fat (especially choleste... |
18 January 2008
17:31 GMT |
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This was the disease of the unhealthy morality, the AIDS of the past centuries. Syphilis killed millions of people in Europe, and didn't stop when the antibiotics were discovered. A new DNA investigation on Treponema, the bacterium causing the disease, published in the Public Library of Science Neglected Tropica... |
15 January 2008
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Diseases can be genetic or (most often) determined by the environmental factors. World Health Organization says that annually 25 million adults and children die of causes that could be prevented. 1.Clime. Too hot or too cold is bad. In warm climes, hot weather makes people experience "tiredness", fainting, lack of e... |
11 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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In a few years, it wiped out a quarter of Europe's population. It looked like the end of the world. The Black Death or Plague caused tremendous headaches, great fever, sweating and shivering. But unlike in other cases of fever, the victims had swellings filled with pus on the axillary areas, neck or even inguin... |
4 January 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Syphilis is a gift bacterium from the American Natives: we gave them smallpox (which almost exterminated them), they gave us syphilis bacterium. Syphilis was the sexual scourge of the 19th century. Many famous people died of it, from poet Charles Baudelaire to composer Robert Schumann, or painter Paul Gauguin (in the... |
21 December 2007
05:11 GMT |
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It starts with slight changes of personality and behavior but they gradually begin to be more and more severe. The symptoms include mood swings, irritability, depression and violent rage seizures. The patients can experience involuntary body spasms, hands and feet instability. The coordination ability decreases and t... |
19 December 2007
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It has just entered in the top of human slayers: over 12 million cases of cancer have been diagnosed in the world in 2007, and 7,6 million persons will die because of this: 20.000 daily, according to a recently published report of the American Cancer Society. The most common cancers are that of lung and breast, no ma... |
18 December 2007
03:45 GMT |
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Tired of taking piles of drugs? Here are the alternative (complementary) therapies. They are not largely taught in the colleges and many doctors are still skeptical. Still, over 32 % of the patients appeal to them (up to 33 % in Finland, and 49 % in Australia), in conditions in which they are rarely covered by medica... |
14 December 2007
09:49 GMT |
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Did your father take you to prostitutes when your first pubic hairs appeared? Or, did the dumb shy in and impede you to approach even an ugly duck to the age of 25? Well, in both cases, this is a high risk factor for your sexual performances and sexual health later in life, as found by a new research, published in t... |
8 December 2007
04:27 GMT |
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1.If you're a veggie, perhaps you enjoy uncooked sprouts of bean, soy, trifle or alfalfa. But research shows they can transmit bacterial infections. The most exposed are small children, elderly and those with a weak immune system. Even washing the sprouts with chlorine or alcohol solutions does not remove germs.... |
5 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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1. In Eastern Europe and Italy, mushroom harvesting is a tradition, and the annual number of intoxication cases and deaths is high. Dishes based on wild mushrooms are something common, but there are about 250 species of toxic mushrooms growing in Europe. The most dangerous are death cap (Amanita phalloides) and destr... |
3 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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Man, this wasn't the most handsome American president... This year a research was made on laser scans of a bronze and a plaster copy of two masks of Lincoln's face, belonging to the Chicago History Museum.This revealed a high degree of facial asymmetry: Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right on... |
27 November 2007
06:34 GMT |
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Probably the Americans were looking for these biological weapons in Iraq: 3,300 years old tularemia. A new research suggests that ancient texts coming from the Middle East could describe a biological warfare which happened more than three millennia ago. The Hittites, whose empire dominated Asia Minor (current Turkey)... |
27 November 2007
05:51 GMT |
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AIDS sounds familiar to you, while Lyme may not, but after AIDS, it is the disease with the most rapid development, spreading rapidly in US, Asia, Europe and South America. A new research published online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that mice may not be the main source of Lyme disease in... |
23 November 2007
05:05 GMT |
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We proud ourselves with the latest technological achievements, the performances of the latest computers, or newly discovered galaxies and black holes, but in the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which, with all the medical advances, keep on killing millions of people ever... |
12 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Sooner or later, this problem affects about 80 % of the population, putting people in embarrassing situations, and creating frustration and sufferance. Medically, it is called halitosis, but people just call it offensive-smelling breath or bad breath.It is easy to detect the bad breath of the others, but most likely ... |
9 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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You hear about AIDS everyday, while the Lyme disease may sound unknown to you. Still, after AIDS, it is the disease with the most rapid development, spreading rapidly in US, Asia, Europe and South America. The disease was discovered three decades ago near the city of Lyme (Connecticut). There was a mysterious outbrea... |
30 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Since you were a child you've been told that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat; well, now, scientists in fact recommend chocolate as being even more efficient than many drugs in preventing and treating various conditions. On one condition, though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even 60-75%... |
17 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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It may not be recommended to eat garlic before going on a date, but a new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has found it to be one of the best methods to decrease high blood pressure and defend yourself against cardiovascular disease. This protective effect could be due to the interaction be... |
17 October 2007
05:55 GMT |
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People are said to be 'social monkeys' and loneliness inflicts severe effects on them. Far beyond what we've imagined, a new research shows that loneliness changes the expression of certain genes, so that chronically lonely people have less effective immune systems and are more exposed to infections. T... |
8 October 2007
08:38 GMT |
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Lead is quite a dangerous material, but it's worse without it. Its absence in electronic devices has ruined missiles and stopped from gadgets to communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants. The cause is to be found in the tiny splinters, called whiskers, that develop by themselves from tin solder p... |
8 October 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Heterochromia is a condition best recognized by the different coloring of one's eyes, hair or skin. The most common type is heterochromia iridis or heterochromia iridium, where the irises can either have an entirely different hue from one another (complete heterochromia) or only differently discolored spots (par... |
4 October 2007
14:51 GMT |
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Bad sleep is worse than low cognitive abilities, weight gain, bad sex and car crashes. A team from the University of Warwick, and University College London, has discovered that less sleep doubles your chances of dying from cardiovascular disease. But too much sleep also doubles the risk of death. The research was mad... |
25 September 2007
05:36 GMT |
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There are freaks paying big sums of money for silicon injections that allegedly help them develop huge genitalia. Some got it naturally, cost-free and really unwittingly. It's about elephant people, patients with elephantiasis, a parasite disease induced by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vesse... |
24 September 2007
06:07 GMT |
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1. Elephant people. Elephantiasis is a parasite disease caused by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vessels. When the lymph vessels cannot be drained, the accumulated liquid induces changes into the surrounding tissues translated into grossly enlarged or swollen arms, legs, breasts and genitalia. Ther... |
15 September 2007
13:16 GMT |
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HIV, syphilis or gonorrhea may sound more familiar for you, because these STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) are severe, but chlamydia, also called the "Silent Epidemic" (as in women, it may not induce any symptoms and will linger for months or years before being detected), is the most widespread STD. Now a team at... |
13 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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There isn't any other way which is more efficient in impeding sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) like chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. And it is the best solution for casual sex for impeding unwanted pregnancies. Still, convincing men and women to use condoms consistently and correctly is still a tric... |
11 September 2007
15:26 GMT |
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We all know why gamers play World of Warcraft... It's because the game features a virtual world that allows you to be whoever you want to be and really live a character's virtual life. While many see WoW as a method of social isolation, it turns out that the game can help scientists save lives. You might r... |
21 August 2007
06:16 GMT |
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If you are afraid of HIV, malaria, cancer or obesity induced diseases, you'd better find out what's the direct or indirect human killer worldwide: water, air and soil pollution. 40% of humans are exterminated by it."Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major cause... |
15 August 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Surprisingly enough, there's no reason for laughing at all. The laughing gas or nitrous oxide, employed as an anesthetic for over 200 years in childbirth and emergency medicine can enhance pneumonia, fever and wound infections, as found by an Australian survey. The chemical's name comes from the euphoric se... |
10 August 2007
04:59 GMT |
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We know the case of that Romanian woman, Lucica Bunghez, with a tumor of 80 kg (176 pounds), heavier than her own body, but when the tumor actually hangs on the face, it does not need to grow that big to induce more severe effects. Huang Chuncai, 31, a Chinese man from the southern province of Hunan, has a crippling ... |
31 July 2007
14:41 GMT |
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