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Intense care

Intense care

• In a new studies its found that Intense care for premature may cause the life of babies in risk. The study of 1,974 found aggressively treating rising bilirubin levels reduces the rate of brain injury in the form of cerebral palsy, blindness, severe hearing loss and poor cognitive development.
  

A second team found that early insulin therapy offers little clinical benefit in very-low-birth-weight infants, putting them at risk of dangerous hypoglycemia or low blood sugar.

Their trial of more than 300 babies showed that putting them on continuous insulin from birth raised the risk of death, with nearly 12% dying after four weeks, compared to 5.7 % of infants not given insulin.

Too much weight in pregnancy

Too much weight in pregnancy

In a recent research US researcher said the child become more fat of those women who gain more than 40 pounds (18 kg ) during pregnancy. The research made on 40,000 US women who gain more than 40 pounds weight and it was found that women gains too much weight during pregnancy causes their child to born fat.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, babies who weigh more than 9 pounds at birth are considered heavy.

The researchers suggest all women should avoid excessive weight gain during pregnancy.

So, Weight gain during pregnancy may give a new life to death sentence. So avoid to kill your child and remove this misconcept.

Lower blood pressure

Lower blood pressure

(http://inextworld.blogspot.com) -US researchers said: Grapes helped lower blood pressure as well as improve heart function.

"These findings support our theory that something within the grapes themselves has a direct impact on cardiovascular risk, beyond the simple blood pressure-lowering impact that we already know can come from a diet rich in fruits and vegetables," Mitchell Seymour of the Cardioprotection Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan said in a statement. Seymour and colleagues examined the effects of ordinary grapes on rats that develop high blood pressure when fed a salty diet.

Some of the rats ate a diet containing a powder from red, green and purple table grapes and a high-salt diet. The powder, which contained the same nutrients in fresh grapes, allowed the scientists to measure the rats' intake carefully. After eighteen weeks, the rats that ate the grape-enriched diet had lower blood pressure, better heart function, reduced inflammation throughout
their bodies, and fewer signs of heart muscle damage.

• Dr. Steven Bolling said : "The inevitable downhill sequence to hypertension and heart failure was changed by the addition of grape powder to a high-salt diet". He thinks flavonoids, beneficial chemicals found in grapes, green tea, cocoa and tomatoes, could be having an effect on blood pressure. Grape powder comprised about three percent of the rats' diet that would be about nine servings of grapes a day. One serving is about 15 grapes.
  
  The California Table Grape Commission provided financial support for the study and supplied the grape powder. High blood pressure can lead to heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney failure and ultimately death.

Love and hate : Science Discover

Love and hate

(http://inextworld.blogspot.com)-Love and hate there is rivalry but pats of every emotion and now scientists discovered why?
Semir Zeki and John Paul Romaya (University College London) reported: brain scans shown images of how brain activity that partly occurs in areas and activated by romantic love and hate.

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  In their study, the researchers showed: "This linkage may account for whylove and hate are so closely linked to each other in life," Actually there is a unique pattern of activity in the brain in the context of hate." Research in 17 men and women pictures of someone the volunteers said they hated along with 3 familiar, neutral faces.
  
  

  
  The researchers wrote : "As far as we can determine it is unique to the sentiment of hate even though individual sites within it have been shown to be active in other conditions that are related to hate". One part of the brain that switched on was an area considered critical in predicting other people's actions, something that is likely key when confronting a hated
  person. The brain activity also occurred in the putamen and insula, two areas activated when people viewed the face of a loved person. But there were important differences as well. A bigger part of the cerebral cortex an area linked to judgment and reasoning de-activates with love compared to hate. The researchers said : while both emotions are all-consuming passions, it may be that people in love are often less critical and judgmental about their partner but need to maintain their focus when dealing with a hated
  rival.

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Most influential man

Most influential man

In an online poll Barack Obama had voted the most influential man of 2008 that asked men to decide who most impacted the way they behave.

US Democratic presidential candidate was ranked No.1 by readers beating Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, Republican presidential candidate John McCain ranked No. 10 on the list. Last year's winner, British soccer star David Beckham, fell to No. 25 on the 2008 list. James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen.com, said: Obama's top place was not so much a political endorsement of his candidacy as "a reflection of the interest the presidential race has ignited in the US."

The Top 10 on the AskMen.com Most Influential Men list:

• Barack Obama (Democratic presidential nominee)
  
• Steve Jobs (Apple CEO)
  
• Michael Phelps (Olympic swimmer)
  
• Robert Downey, Jr (actor)
  
• Stephen Colbert (political TV commentator)
  
• Gordon Ramsay (celebrity chef)
  
• Christian Bale (actor)
  
• Rob Kay ("Rock Band" video game designer)
  
• Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer player)
  
• John McCain (Republican presidential nominee)
  

Makes men crazy

Makes the men crazy

• (http://inextworld.blogspot.com)-US researchers said: Women can make the men wild by wearing red dress. Men becomes more sexually attractive if she was wearing red cloth or if she was shown in an image framed by a red border. In a study psychology professor Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester in Rochester, confirm red is the color of romance, so as far this many Valentine's Day card makers & lipstick sellers have believed for years.
  
  
  

He said : Scientists have shown certain male primates are especially attracted to females of their species displaying red. For example, female baboons and chimpanzees show red coloring when nearing ovulation, sending a sexual signal that the males apparently find irresistible.

The study involved more than 100 men who were shown pictures of women and asked them to rate..

1. How pretty they look
   
2. How much the men would like to kiss and
   
3. How much the men would like to have sex .
   With some of the pictures in red men showed tremendous attraction and rated her as more attractive than when she was bordered by another color. Men were then shown photographs of a woman that were identical except that the researchers digitally made her shirt red in some versions or blue in others. And once again, the men strongly favored the woman in red.

   The men also were asked, "Imagine that you are going on a date with this person and have $100 in your wallet. How much money would you be willing to spend on your date?" When she was clad in red, the men said they would spend more money on her.

   
   Researchers distinguished that the color red did not alter how men rated the women in the photographs in terms of likability, intelligence or kindness only attractiveness. Then the researchers go for a survey to a group of women how they rated the women in red and found that Red had no impact on whether women rated other women as pretty, they found.

790,000 years ago humans made fire

790,000 years ago humans made fire

(http://inextworld.blogspot.com) -In a study of a skull its found that humans make fire nearly 790,000 years ago. Researchers at Israel's discovered that early civilizations learned to light fires.

• In a previous study in 2004 showed that human had been able to control fire but researchers now say that ancient man could actually start fire, rather than relying on natural phenomena such as lightning. That independence helped promoted migration northward.
  


• Archaeologist Nira Alperson Afil said The new data shows there was controlled use of fire and that they were not dependent on natural fires.
  


• Alperson-Afil said the patterns of burned flint found in the same place throughout 12 civilizations was evidence of fire-making ability, though the methods used were unclear. And because the site is located in the Jordan valley -- a key route between Africa and Europe it provides evidence of the human migration.

Surfing the Internet altering your brain?

Surfing the Internet altering your brain?

(http://inextworld.blogspot.com)-The Internet is changing way people working but side by side altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change. Researcher found that Internet searching and text messaging has made brains more adept at filtering information and making snap decisions. But while technology can accelerate learning and boost creativity it can have drawbacks as it can create Internet addicts whose only friends are virtual and has sparked a dramatic rise in Attention Deficit Disorder diagnoses.

Gray Small a researcher said "We're seeing an evolutionary change. The people in the next generation who are really going to have the edge are the ones who master the technological skills and also face-to-face skills". Small also said: the brain was very sensitive to the changes in the environment such as those brought by technology.

On a study of 24 adults it found that experienced Internet users showed double the activity in areas of the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning as Internet beginners.

"We are changing the environment. The average young person now spends nine hours a day exposing their brain to technology. Evolution is an advancement from moment to moment and what we are seeing is technology affecting our evolution." There is also the big problem of neglecting human contact skills and losing the ability to read emotional expressions and body language. So It is important to understand how technology is affecting our lives and our brains and take control of it.

Tai chi helps cut pain of knee

Tai chi helps cut pain of knee

(http://inextworld.blogspot.com) - Researchers said: the traditional Chinese form known as tai chi help to reduce pain of knee arthritis. In their study, one group of people in their 60s with severe knee osteoarthritis performed tai chi for an hour twice a week for 12 weeks while a similar group did the same amount of conventional stretching exercises over the same period.

Those who did tai chi experienced greater pain reduction,less depression and improvements in physical function and overall health,researchers led by Dr. Chenchen Wang of Tufts Medical Center in Boston reported at a meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in an Francisco.

• "Tai chi mind-body exercise appears to provide an important approach for self-care and self-management for knee (osteoarthritis)," Wang said in a statement.
  


• Tai chi is a form of exercise developed in China centuries ago. With tai chi, a person slowly performs a series of postures or movements that are low impact and put little stress on the muscles and joints. It can improve muscle function, balance and flexibility. 40 people took part in the study, and Wang said the findings should be confirmed in a larger study.

Aggressive vaccine effort

Aggressive vaccine effort cut cervical cancer


US researchers said: an aggressive strategy of vaccinating could deliver a crippling blow against the disease, cutting rates for that type of cancer in half for women through age 45.

Using mathematical model, they showed that vaccinating women in the USA by ages 12 through 45 against the cancer causing humanpapillomavirus or HPV, could reduce cases of cervical cancer by 85% for 12 year olds and up to 55% for 45 year old women. It could lower rates by 34 to 67% for 25 year old women. The model assumed 100% vaccination rates, which would be tough to achieve in the USA.

Merck and Co's Gardasil vaccine is designed to protect against HPV types 16 and 18, which are known to cause about 70% of all cases of cervical cancer. Gardasil is approved in the USA for use in girls & women ages 9 to 26, but Merck is seeking to expand its use to older women. The thinking has been that girls must be vaccinated before they are sexually active, because HPV is so common.The vaccine does not protect anyone who has already been infected with one of the strains of HPV.

Huh's calculations included clinical trial data on GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix vaccine, which is not yet approved for sale in the United States but which is approved in Europe. He assumed Cervarix gave 95 percent protection against HPV types 16 and 18, and 27 percent efficacy against all other high-risk HPV types. Vaccinating women over age 26 has not been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and is not included in US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.