Cut to reality. Scientists in Britain have developed a blood test which they claim can assess the level of a cancer marker, called Prostate Specific Antigen, in ten minutes, the Daily Mail reported.

Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) is a protein which leaks out of the prostate gland when it is damaged. A raised
PSA level does not necessarily mean the patient has prostate cancer, but could suggest the need for further investigation.

Vitamin D deficiency has already been linked to several diseases including increased rates of multiple cancers and diabetes.

In the new study scientists examined a small number of patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, a chronic skin disease that affects 10 to 20 per cent of children and one to three per cent of adults.

This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body turns into serotonin known to help us relax, improve mood and up your happy vibes.

Banana are great for tons of other health-related problems too. Did you know they are great for curing PMS symptoms, constipation, the terrible hangovers, heart burn, anaemia and morning sickness?

Don’t like them raw? Throw one in your protein shake or slice one up and mix in into a small bowl of fat-free yoghurt.

Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908.

Previously, scientists had estimated the origin at around 1930. AIDS wasn’t recognized formally until 1981 when it got the attention of public health officials in the United States.

The new result is “not a monumental shift, but it means the virus was circulating under our radar even longer than we knew,” says Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona, an author of the new work.

This is especially true when you’re working toward long term goals that might not be realized for a few months or even years. I’ve been working on building my blog for the past seven months. I eventually want to turn this into the main source of my income, so I can quit my job and stop selling my time to someone else. While I feel very passionate about this goal, it probably won’t be realized for a few months or a year (at the most). It’s difficult for me sometimes to stay excited about my goals, when I’m currently working toward someone else’s to pay the bills (see this article).

It’s time like these when I get bored with work. I get bored with routines and monotony. The opposite of happiness after all isn’t sadness or depression.

It’s boredom.

I recurrently have to keep myself in check. I have to balance my goals that will be realized in the future, with being happy now. After all, isn’t now all we’ve got?

So how can we stay excited about life? How can we remain passionate about living, and not get trapped in the cycle of routines?

Here are some things that I personally do to help keep me stay excited about life.

The authorities must not make the same mistakes over possible links between mobile phones and brain cancer as they did with cigarettes and lung cancer, experts warned a powerful U.S. congressional committee.

Researchers in Sweden have carried out the study and found that kids are five times more likely to get brain cancer later in life if they use mobile phones, a leading British daily reported.

According to them, kids are more at risk because their brains and nervous systems are still developing and as their heads are smaller and their skulls are thinner, the radiation penetrates deeper into their brains.

The average waistline of the Indian population has increased by two centimeters since the 1970s according to a recent study conducted by AIIMS and Max Healthcare.

Viktor Matveev said on Thursday that scientists around the world are currently considering a proposal by their Russian colleagues to build a new collider. The idea was put forward by scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, who suggested that a new device be built in the Moscow region.

But in India, where the practice of aborting female fetuses is widespread, such advertisements for prenatal gender selection kits are neither innocuous nor legal.

Researchers led by Sudhir Paul at The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, believe that they have found the weak spot of the virus, a tiny stretch of amino acids numbered 421-433 on gp120, which is now under study as a target for therapeutic intervention.

In a public hearing held in Manipur by NGO’s and Manipur Network of Positive People in presence of Santha Sinha, Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, the parents of the HIV infected and affected children revealed that the needy are not actually getting the benefits.

The Giant Mine in Canada is in the sub-arctic region. The presence of over 230,000 tonnes of arsenic-containing dust makes it one of the most polluted places on earth, as well as one of the most inhospitable.

“Water seeps through the mine cracks carrying the arsenic with it as it drips down the walls,” said Thomas Osborne of University College London. “We discovered new types of bacteria living in biofilms on the walls of Giant Mine that consume arsenic compounds contained in the polluted water seeping through.”

Amanda Feilding is one of those people. Last week she started an investigation that will examine the changes in blood flow during meditation, and how this prompts states of relaxation.

But a cholesterol-lowering statin drug had no beneficial effect in a parallel heart failure trial.

“This confirms what we’ve been seeing for a couple of decades in observational studies,” Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, said of the fish oil trial. “There is a benefit of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids for heart failure patients.”

Researchers at the University of London have found that babies as young as four months are able to recognise emotions in faces of people – in fact, they are able to pick up on “non-verbal” signals adults use to communicate before they start talking.

The association between low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and risk of developing cancer remains controversial and largely unexplored for people not receiving statin therapy. To examine this association, researchers from Canada studied 6107 type 2 diabetics aged 35 years and older with no history of cancer at the start of the study. Cholesterol levels of the participants were studied over time.

In their study, a team at Northwestern University has discovered a new mechanism for cell fate determination — how one cell, the daughter, becomes dramatically different from the mother.

In fact, the study of yeast has shown why mothers and daughters differ in how they express their genes, the ‘PLoS Biology’ journal reported.

Many of the fundamental mechanisms for cell division in yeast are conserved, or very similar, in mammals; many of the proteins involved in human disease are related to proteins that are involved in yeast cell division.

After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations, says Virpi Lummaa, an ecologist at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Lummaa presented her findings last week at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology’s annual meeting in Ithaca, New York.

Rather than a call to polygamy, the research might solve a long-standing puzzle in human biology: Why do men live so long?

This question only makes sense after asking the same for women, who – unlike nearly all other animals – live long past the menopause.

The three organizations further said that the response levels of volunteers suggested that the vaccine, whose trail was relied on a Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) based AIDS vaccine candidate (TBC-M4), holds promise to fight the virus effectively.

The two doses of the Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) were used on trial basis. 82% of the volunteers were given a low dose and 100% of the volunteers were given high dose. They registered immune responses to the vaccine after three injections were given.

This nanoscale analysis is seen as the key to the next generation of shampoos, conditioners, and other products for repairing damaged, dry and lifeless hair.

The advanced presented today to one of the biggest gatherings of scientists on the planet, the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in Philadelphia, could end frizzy perms, over-bleached waves and other mishaps that affect a global industry now worth some $60 billion annually.

Authorities Friday morning arrested Vinod Chandrashekm Patwardhan, 58, at his medical office on the 900 block of West Foothill Boulevard.

The arrest culminated an investigation that began in April, when one of the doctor’s medical assistants contacted a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, authorities said.

Infected at least 10 years ago by her husband, the woman is able somehow to naturally control the deadly and incurable virus — even though her husband must take cocktails of strong HIV drugs to control his. She is a so-called “elite suppressor”, and studies of her immune cells have begun to offer clues to how her body does it, the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said on Tuesday.

“This is the best evidence to date that elite suppressors can have fully pathogenic virus,” said Joel Blankson, who led the study. “The feeling was initially that they had defective virus,” Blankson added in a telephone interview.

2. The Man Who Can’t Get Fat
Mr Perry, 59, can eat whatever he likes – including unlimited pies, burgers and desserts – and never get fat. He cannot put on weight because of a condition called lipodystrophy that makes his body rapidly burn fat.

This is the classic not-so-shut-eye experience of many Americans who think they are sleep-deprived and possibly need pills or other treatment to fix their insomnia, teeth grinding, jet lag, restless or jerky legs, snoring, sleepwalking and so forth.

Reality is quite different.

For instance, insomnia is said to be the most common sleep disorder, but these dissatisfying sleep experiences only get in the way of daily activities for 10 percent of us, according to the National Institutes of Health. And in almost half of those cases, the real underlying problem is illness (often mental) or the effects of a substance, like coffee or medication.

Here are five recent findings that might help you rest easier:

The researchers did a series of experiments on rats, which have brain structures similar to humans. They identified the specific dopamine receptor subtype that controls the brain’s initial sensitivity to nicotine’s rewarding and addictive properties.

The center, a U.S. consumer group, examined the menus at 13 popular restaurants that promote children’s meals.

The finding “certainly shouldn’t be over interpreted, but nevertheless points in a direction where further research is needed,” Leeka Kheifets of the UCLA School of Public Health, who helped conduct the study, said.

According to data released here on Tuesday, about 56 percent of the anaemic children under five years of age are too short for their age, which indicates that they have been undernourished for some time. The survey, conducted between 2005 and 2006, revealed that the number of anaemic children is seven percent higher than seven years ago.

Results will be published in a future issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are released Friday at its Early View.

“Previous research had shown that fast music can cause fast drinking, and that music versus no music can cause a person to spend more time in a bar,” said lead investigator Nicolas Gueguen.” This is the first time that an experimental approach in a real context found the effects of loud music on alcohol consumption.”

Medtronic, a US-based medical technology service provider, opened its first therapy and procedure training centre (TPTC) in South Asia, in Chennai Saturday.

A recent report in the premier medical journal The Lancet has said that by 2010, 60 percent of the world’s heart patients will be in India. The majority of these patients will suffer from cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure and coronary artery diseases.

Implantable cardiac devices such as pacemakers, de-fibrillators, cardiac therapy devices and coronary stents play a major role in the treatment of these life-threatening conditions.

The process of implanting these cardiac devices is complex and requires highly specialised and technically skilled practitioners.

Launched in 2004, Medtronic has a TPTC mobile unit that

Feeling betrayed, Dipu Ghosh lodged a complaint to the police who are now looking for Ajit Mondal, Dipu’s estranged partner, officer-in-charge of New Jalpaiguri Police outpost, Pankaj Thapa said on Thursday.

Dipu, a resident of Rangapani near Siliguri, alleged in the complaint that Ajit had convinced him to go for a gender change and get married. He has been in the process for the past three months but his counterpart was now avoiding him.

A team at Imperial College London has developed the porous glass which acts as an active template for new bone growth, dissolving in the body without leaving any trace of itself or any toxic chemicals.

At the world’s leading baby brain research lab at Harvard University, Elizabeth Spelke’s team is conducting experiments that reveal not only that humans are born with a range of innate skills, but that our prejudices are formed within the first few months of life. By Roger Highfield

Tests on monkeys infected with a similar virus shows the treatment controlled the infection, although it does not cure it, and tests are already planned in people.

The treatment is called OPAL, for Overlapping Peptide-pulsed Autologous Cells, and would be categorized as an immunotherapy technique, or a so-called therapeutic vaccine, Stephen Kent of the University of Melbourne and colleagues said.

Writing in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Pathogens, they said the treatment involves mixing a patient’s own blood cells with tiny bits of protein from the virus.