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Monday, 12 January 2015

Slingshot pencil makes list of 10 most dangerous toys

The CataPencil marketed for children of all ages and is a warning to the "safe and enjoy." Sharpened pencils are designed slings are not marketed as toys on the market, warns CLOCK.


As we approach Thanksgiving and foot shopping in second gear Festivals, monitoring group of world consumption against damage Toys (CLOCK) did his best to warn buyers of products, "designed and marketed for distribution by the security. "
The group hopes its annual "10 Worst Toys" list to keep toy bows and arrows and pen spinning on the hands of children - especially those who are too young to handle responsibly as dangerous goods.

Safety advocates say the CLOCK, the holidays are a time when companies ramp toys marketing efforts and capital to new trends, popular movies and TV shows did. Security is often behind the scenes to maximize profits, the group argues.

"To ensure toys look attractive marketing efforts are often not specific warnings and notes is a toy," the group wrote in a statement. "For example, the packaging of a toy vehicle of a child may also interact with the toy no safety equipment when the separate instructions for the product require a child to wear a helmet."

According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, there were 11 deaths related to children's toys to the age of 15 in 2012 reported 265,000 more children showed in the emergency room with injuries related to toys.

In addition fronds, rockets and bow and arrows bottles - to warn any results CLOCK eye injury - the list includes toys, like dolls and tools, with strangulation and choking hazards.

The list also includes the gun e SWAT, a replica weapon. Toy package contains the following warning: "This toy is a replica of a real weapon and is for entertainment purposes only, it is can not be used against all living beings price can be mistaken for a real weapon by officials of law enforcement and other ... "

Police shot and killed a young man in Ohio earlier this year, Airsoft gun confusion there. In a Walmart with a loaded gun


Western diet, diabetes could spawn tuberculosis epidemic


New research suggests people with diabetes are three times more likely to contract tuberculosis, worrying health officials, the increasing size could increase the return from a long illness at the decline in the United States and around the world.
Despite decline of tuberculosis in recent decades, the disease was still millions of people each year. In 2013, nine million people have been diagnosed with a bacterial disease that primarily attacks the lungs. More than 1.5 million people died.

Now, experts from the World Health Organization and other concerns efforts, life-threatening illness could control the rise in obesity and diabetes affect rates worldwide. Since TB strains are not exactly rare - less than a third of the world population carries the seed - and because diabetes suppresses the immune system, there is the very real possibility of a co-epidemic.

This reality is increasingly likely that more and more countries of Western diets, fat and sugar to accept higher - and ultimately increased rates of diabetes.

Presented in a White Paper at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona last month, the researchers wrote that. "Diabetes is the engine of the spread of tuberculosis"

"With diabetes increases the risk that a person is sick with TB is," the report continues. "Diabetes is also more difficult for people who manage tuberculosis. And a sick person with both diseases likely complications that are not usually available when one is alone in this. "

"The reduced immunity peoples diabetes," repeated Dr. Anthony Harries, Senior Advisor to the CNN International Union said recently, a weakened immune system is more vulnerable to the threat of latent TB germs.

"Overall, we have more than 2 billion people latent TB," said Harries. "Put diabetes in this equation, and you can immediately see, there is a problem."

Harries and others say that we already have an idea of what a co-epidemics like tuberculosis and HIV destroys many African communities in the last two decades. Health authorities must act quickly, experts say, to prevent the same thing happening with tuberculosis and diabetes.

You can do this by waiting on the prevention and early detection test work in countries, increased rates of diabetes, how to experience India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia. Health authorities assume that life by 2035, 592 million people with diabetes.

You may be ruining your back by staring at your smartphone all day


The researchers of the National Institutes of Health are concerned about the American attitude. Apparently it is damaged by the smartphone addictive and can cause injury to the spine in later life in the series.
The head is heavy, about a dozen pounds on average, and all that weight requires the support of the neck and vertebrae. In other words, when we present the right attitude - the human spine, of course, is well equipped to work in a sitting or standing position.

But the burden of our dome is damaged greater than our attitude we SLOUCH or sit in front of our neck and head. In fact, as the neck leans forward 45 degrees, the relative weight of the head more than quadrupled - 12-49 pounds. At 60 degrees, its relative weight 60 pounds.

Relying more and more smartphone users to put undue pressure on his spine, researchers say. And physical consequences of this pressure builds up over time. Sometimes called "text neck" condition can carry on the back, eventually requiring surgery.

In a subject at the National Library of Occupational Medicine, study author Kenneth Hansraj - as chief of spinal surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation - Text says neck is now a growing epidemic.

"It's an epidemic, or at least it is very common," said Hansraj the Washington Post. "Only around you, everyone upside down."

Many chiropractors and physical therapists say they are already seeing the effects of text neck and other diseases related to technology.

Hansraj solution is not neo-Luddite, he said technology users simply need to be more about his position. Use your eyes, neck and head on the screen look down, he advises. And try to stretch his head from side to side at regular intervals to maintain loose and flexible.

"I love technology. I'm not bashing technology in any way "Hansraj said," My message is :. Just be aware where your head is in the room continued to enjoy your smartphones and continue to benefit from this technology. - So make that your head is in place. "

Scientists sequence brain-dwelling tapewor




A parasitic worm in your brain - is this the stuff of nightmares. But for some unfortunate is a reality. Recently, it was reality for a man in Britain.

The human brain holds the rare tapeworm, Spirometra erinaceieuropaei for four years. The infection was only 300th appearance - only the second in Europe - from the particular parasite was discovered in 1953, now has 300. tapeworm, a human brain penetrate the first to be genetically sequenced.


Although many of them are repetitive, the kind of "recently sequenced genome is ten times longer than other scientists hope tapeworm genome analysis, it will help them better understand the strategies of strange worm life cycle and invasion -. And also how to better fight its presence with modern medicine.


"For unknown group of tapeworms is the first genome sequenced and allowed us to some predictions about the likelihood activity are known drugs," said Dr. Matt Berriman, a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, . said in a press release "the genome sequence suggests that the parasite is a natural resistance to albendazole - .. an existing anti-tapeworm, many new drug targets that are being studied for other tapeworms are present in this parasite, however, and future clinical options could offer "


Berriman is the lead author of a new study on the worm, which was published this week in the journal Genome Biology.


Scientists believe that the tapeworm enters the brain of patients who consume infected freshwater shellfish or raw meat of reptiles and amphibians. People can also be infected if you poultice to soothe a sore eyes first frog, an ancient Chinese remedy. The infection is more common in Asia. This particular type of tapeworm not take the host tissue - it is without a mouth - but simply absorbs nutrients the brain.


Scientists have noticed the strange worm mass in the brain scans after the 50-year-old man of Chinese origin but lives in East Anglia, continue to complain of headaches. Through a series of analyzes, they saw the worm passage of the brain on the right side to the left. You he finally extracted a biopsy and sent by the worm geneticist at Trust Sanger.


"We do not expect to see an infection of this type in the UK, but global travel means that unknown parasite sometimes appear," said Dr. Effrossyni Gkrania Klotsas-author of the study and physician at 'Addenbrookes hospital Division of Infectious Diseases, Cambridge. "We can now diagnose Sparganosis with MRI, but that does not mean that the information that we need to get the exact tapeworm species and their vulnerability to us."


"Our work shows that even when only small amounts of DNA from clinical samples, we can know what we need to identify and characterize the parasite," added Gkrania-Klotsas. "This highlights the importance of a global database to the genomes to enable us to identify the pest and the best course of treatment."


Consumer Reports: Gluten-free isn't necessarily healthier


In a new study, Consumer Reports gluten researchers say is wrongly demonized in recent years, and many Americans now "gluten free" consider the words to be synonymous with "healthy" adjective.
Gluten-free products, the new report argues, are not always the healthiest option, and in many cases even less nutritious.

The report - titled "Is a gluten-free diet actually make you healthier?" and will appear in the January issue of consumer magazine - makes himself available to solve a number of misconceptions about reduced food component in most cereals. Not only is gluten free is not always healthier and more nutritious option, the report warns, but it is often more expensive, the weight gain can allow and even increase their own exposure to arsenic.

"If you go completely gluten free without the advice of a nutritionist, you can develop deficiencies quickly enough," Laura Moore, a nutritionist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said Consumer Reports.

After the reaction, more than 1,000 Consumer Reports surveyed, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe eating a gluten-free diet is "to improve the physical and mental health."

The report is not necessarily against gluten free products or diets. Millions of Americans have celiac disease. For them digest gluten is unhealthy and dangerous for the long-term health complications. Millions are gluten free and are satisfied with the result. But Consumer Reports warns that when people go for gluten free, they should do it intelligently.

Recommend authors, eat whole grains and whole foods like fruits, vegetables, lean meats and poultry, fish, dairy products, legumes and nuts. Also, read the label. Many gluten-free products are actually more sugar, sodium and calories, the report warns.

Reports suggest people go gluten free, without knowing all the facts. But it's looking much newer than cutting carbs is broad suggests a good idea for better health. At least one study has shown smear carbohydrates, not fat, help people lose weight and reduce their risk of heart disease.

But some experts suggest that gluten will just encourage people to eat healthier. In other words, it is the influx of whole healthy foods that are good, is - not necessarily the absence of gluten.

"When people lose weight on a gluten free diet, it could be because they cut calories, eat less processed foods or sweets or parts of starchy cut like pasta and bread," said Samantha Heller , senior clinical nutritionist at NYU Langone Medical Center, "Instead of a cookie, she eats an apple. instead of pasta, eat a high-fiber, whole grains like quinoa gluten. eat more fiber satiety and help can help to lose weight. "

Vancouver to begin prescription heroin trials


The City of Vancouver, BC, Canada will soon be experimenting with the layout of the heroin to addicts.
After his death, 31 heroin addicts during two days in October, health officials realized something drastic be done in about heroin problem in the city, according to The Atlantic.

Use the drug treatment clinics wean addicts off heroin usually methadone to help, but some people do not respond to replacement. Thus Providence Medical Clinic is to test the supply of small quantities of heroin in 120 patients during treatment.

Heroin addiction is a growing problem in North America, with places like Vermont has increased by 250 percent in people, drug treatment since 2000th

The agency on EU drugs (EMCDDA) has been experimenting with heroin as a second option after trying methadone and saw promising results.

More education leads to more stress, study says


A new study from the University of Toronto has done more education gives people a sense of control, but also more stress.
First, they studied "championship", or how people feel much control over their lives. They asked how anyone agree or disagree with statements such as: ". You have little control over the things that happen" or "Do you often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life"

The graduates had the highest level of control which associated with higher income and lower risk of a financial burden, compared to non-graduates. researchers

Although the graduates that they felt more control than people who had not completed college had also felt more stressed. The study participants showed signs of overwork, subject to a high working pressure and work to family conflict.

"While training is very critical for control, higher education is introduced to the stressors that can alleviate the psychological benefits," said Professor Scott Schieman.
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