HSA imposes restrictions on use of diabetes drug Avandia
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
Health Sciences Authority (HSA) on Friday, September 24, 2010, announced that the use of diabetes drug Avandia will henceforth be limited. The drug is used to regulate blood sugar in people suffering from the type-2 diabetes.
The annoucement from the Health Sciences Authority comes in the wake of European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) recommendations to ban the [...]
Park Spark project recycles dog poop and lights up a park in Cambridge
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Buzz
An MIT-funded Park Spark project, created in collaboration with City of Cambridge, has a special recycler- a methane digester that converts dogs poop to methane. The methane is then used to power lampposts of a park.
The dog’s poop is thrown into the methane digester (which is a big airtight cylindrical drum containing the anaerobic bacteria) [...]
FDA close to approving transgenic AquAdvantage© salmon as human food
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
Genetically engineered AquAdvantage© salmon, may get FDA approval.
AquaBounty Tecnologies have modified the Atlantic salmon by injecting growth hormone extracted from a Chinook salmon and Ocean tout to help the modified salmon (AquAdvantage© salmon) mature in 16 to 18 months’ time, which is twice as fast as the unmodified conventional Atlantic salmon.
Should the FDA consider approval [...]
Broccoli for arthritis prevention
Posted on 17. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
Eating broccoli regularly could prevent you from arthritis say British researchers. The laboratory research done at the University of East Anglia did show that a bioactive compound, sulforaphane present in the leaves of the broccoli blocks specifically those enzymes that destruct joints resulting in osteoarthritis.
With £650,000 funds from Arthritis Research, UK and Diet and Health [...]
Blood test determines life threatening complications of a pregnancy
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
Single reliable screening test for preeclampsia was not available. However, researchers say that a blood test could predict (much before symptoms are presented) complications of the pregnancy including pre-eclampsia.
Pre-eclampsia is multisystem disorder among pregnant women marked by high BP and high proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation. The high blood pressure and protein in [...]
Playing action paced video games promote faster decision making
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
If you thought playing action video games can only harm people, it’s for you to rethink. A new research finds that people who play action video games can take decisions faster than those who play other games.
Daphne Bavelier who is a professor of brain and cognitive science with Alexandre Pouget and C. Shawn Green, at [...]
South Korea has pink Samsung Galaxy S
Posted on 13. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Technology
Korea loved the Samsung Galaxy S so much so that the smartphone was already sold a million units. Samsung acknowledges the amazing response by launching pink version of the Galaxy smartphone.
The company has launched new pink Galaxy S smartphones to woo the female customers. With this, the smartphone will come in 3 different colors in [...]
High doses of everyday vitamin B reduces brain atrophy in the elderly suffering from MCI
Posted on 12. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
A new research finds linkage between high dose of vitamin B daily and reduced rate of brain shrinking in the those elderly people with MCI (mild cognitive impairment).
The vitamins, folic acid, B6 and B12 regulate homocysteine concentration in the blood where high levels of homocysteine is associated to development of Alzheimer’s disease.
A study conducted by [...]
Researchers identify new neurological deficit that results in amblyopia
Posted on 11. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
A team of researchers from Center for Neural Science, New York University, has found a link between neurological deficit and amblyopia.
Their study has been published in the latest edition of Journal of Neuroscience says that amblyopia is resulted because of cut off links in the brain from normal visual processing.
Lazy eye is a manifestation of [...]
LFO singer and songwriter Rich Cronin died at 35
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Buzz
Rich Cronin died at 35. The very popular US boy band former member succumbed to leukemia after living with it for a long time.
Cronin embraced LFO (Lyte Funkie Ones) in the early 90s, and then he gave voice and words many songs to the American three-man pop and rap group LFO and their Summer Girls [...]
