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12 August 2011 | 11:00 am
Cure tennis elbow Using Curry
It seems that your grandmother was right — eating curry could cure your tennis elbow by reducing inflammation, says a new study. Researchers have found that a key ingredient found in Indian curries — curcumin — blocks tendon inflammation in the joints, a finding which may pave the way for a remedy for a painful condition.
They have shown that curcumin, which gives the spice turmeric its trademark bright yellow colouring, can be used to suppress biological mechanisms that spark inflammation in tendon diseases, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
For their study, the researchers at the University of Nottingham in London and Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have described laboratory experiments that show the ingredient can switch off inflammatory cell cycle involved. Ali Mobasheri, who co-led the research, said: "Our research is not suggesting that curry, turmeric or curcumin are cures for inflammatory conditions such as tendinitis and arthritis.
It seems that your grandmother was right — eating curry could cure your tennis elbow by reducing inflammation, says a new study. Researchers have found that a key ingredient found in Indian curries — curcumin — blocks tendon inflammation in the joints, a finding which may pave the way for a remedy for a painful condition.
They have shown that curcumin, which gives the spice turmeric its trademark bright yellow colouring, can be used to suppress biological mechanisms that spark inflammation in tendon diseases, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
For their study, the researchers at the University of Nottingham in London and Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have described laboratory experiments that show the ingredient can switch off inflammatory cell cycle involved. Ali Mobasheri, who co-led the research, said: "Our research is not suggesting that curry, turmeric or curcumin are cures for inflammatory conditions such as tendinitis and arthritis.
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9 August 2011 | 8:26 am
Ever wondered why comfort foods have such a pleasurable effect on you? It is because of the fat in them. Fatty foods have the power to enhance your mood irrespective of their taste. A new study sheds light on why we reach for fatty foods like burgers and fries when feeling blue and it may pleasure principle. While the association between comfort foods like macaroni and cheese and deep fried foods — often fatty and highly caloric — and mood enhancement has been studied before. But this study shows that fat can still play a role in lifting spirits even when taste, texture, smell and sight are eliminated.
While exposed to sad or neutral music and images, researchers at the same time injected 12 non-obese, healthy subjects with fatty-acid solutions and saline infusions via gastric feeding tubes. When injected with the fat solution, the subjects reported feeling less sad than those who were administered with a saline infusion. Subjects also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scans so that researchers could chart their brain activity during the experiments.
The study by the University of Leuven in Belgium, appeared in the Journal of Clinical Investigation last week. “Our results may have important implications for understanding the interplay among emotions, hunger, food intake, and meal-induced sensations in health and disorders such as obesity, eating disorders, functional dyspepsia, and depression,” researchers conclude.
Another study published in the journal Psychological Science in March also showed that comfort foods can fight loneliness and serve as a psychological panacea. Researchers from the University of Buffalo found that people often associate comfort foods with the people closest to them. Meanwhile, to get the comfort without the calories, there are many dish recipes, but the classic favourites remain macaroni and creamy herbed mashed potatoes.
While exposed to sad or neutral music and images, researchers at the same time injected 12 non-obese, healthy subjects with fatty-acid solutions and saline infusions via gastric feeding tubes. When injected with the fat solution, the subjects reported feeling less sad than those who were administered with a saline infusion. Subjects also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scans so that researchers could chart their brain activity during the experiments.
The study by the University of Leuven in Belgium, appeared in the Journal of Clinical Investigation last week. “Our results may have important implications for understanding the interplay among emotions, hunger, food intake, and meal-induced sensations in health and disorders such as obesity, eating disorders, functional dyspepsia, and depression,” researchers conclude.
Another study published in the journal Psychological Science in March also showed that comfort foods can fight loneliness and serve as a psychological panacea. Researchers from the University of Buffalo found that people often associate comfort foods with the people closest to them. Meanwhile, to get the comfort without the calories, there are many dish recipes, but the classic favourites remain macaroni and creamy herbed mashed potatoes.
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5 August 2011 | 8:56 am
Children marriage a curse for millions of girls
A girl under the age of 18 is married every three seconds -- that's 10 million each year -- often without her consent and sometimes to a much older man, according to the children's charity Plan UK. Most of those marriages take place in Africa, the Middle East or South Asia.
"This is one of the biggest development issues of our time and we're committed to raising the voices of millions of girls married against their will," Plan UK head Marie Staunton said in her introduction to "Breaking Vows," a recent global report on child marriage.
From horrific childbirth injuries to the secret sale of "drought brides," the consequences of child marriage are explored in a multimedia documentary by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation (childmarriage.trust.org).
"Young children have babies -- your life is ruined, your education is ruined," said Kanta Devi, who was 16 when she married in Badakakahera village in India's Rajasthan state.
"You become upset with everything in your life," she told TrustLaw.
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child considers marriage before the age of 18 a human rights violation.
But according to the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), there are more than 50 million child brides worldwide, a number that is expected to grow to 100 million over the next decade.
RIPPLE EFFECT
Rights activists say six of the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 are directly affected by the prevalence of child marriage -- the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; achievement of universal primary education; promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women; reduction in child mortality; improvement in maternal health; and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
The ripple effect is devastating, experts say.
Girls forced into early marriage rarely continue their education, denying them any hope of independence, the ability to earn a livelihood or of making an economic contribution to their households.
The practice also reinforces the concept of girls as worthless burdens on their families to be jettisoned as soon as possible.
Girls who complete secondary school are six times less likely to become child brides than contemporaries with less or no education, according to the ICRW, a Washington-based think tank.
But distance from schools and a lack of school fees often preclude education for the poorest girls, who are twice as likely to marry young as those from wealthier homes.
In Niger, Chad and Mali, more than 70 percent of girls are married before the age of 18, according to ICRW analysis of demographic and health data last year.
Bangladesh, Guinea, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Nepal have child marriage rates over 50 percent, the data showed.
Ethiopia, Malawi, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Eritrea, Uganda, India, Nicaragua, Zambia and Tanzania are all above 40 percent.
The reasons child marriages occur vary with the country and are rarely simple.
"Very often people are sort of quick to demonise, in some ways, the family members and the people who make the decisions about the marriage of girls," Jeffrey Edmeades, a social demographer with ICRW, told TrustLaw.
"But we're finding, for the most part, that people are making these decisions because they feel it's best for their daughters. Parents love their children and they do want the best for them. They're just not sure what the best is."
Edmeades, who has been working with aid agency CARE on a project to tackle child marriage in Ethiopia, gave the example of children in that country being betrothed before birth to cement strategic alliances between families.
In other cases, girls are married off early to ensure that their virginity, and thus their economic value as brides, is intact and the honor of the family is protected.
Meanwhile, debts and natural disasters, such as tsunamis and drought, can lead to girls being sold off as brides as families scramble for survival.
'SILENT HEALTH EMERGENCY'
Girls under 15, their bodies still developing and their pelvises narrow, are five times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women over 20, the U.S. Agency for International Development estimates.
The vast majority of those deaths are in the developing world, where a lack of pre- and post-natal care and advanced procedures such as Cesarean sections makes pregnancy and childbirth far more risky than in rich countries. In Africa, for example, 60 percent of women and girls give birth without a skilled medical professional present, according to the U.N. World Population Fund.
Worldwide, 70,000 girls aged 15-19 die each year during pregnancy or childbirth, UNICEF says. The U.N. World Population Fund considers pregnancy the leading cause of death in that age group, citing complications of childbirth and unsafe abortions as major factors.
Children of child brides are also at risk. Babies born to mothers younger than 18 are more likely to be underweight or stillborn, Plan UK says.
Girls forced into early marriage are also at an increased risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS because they are unlikely to be able to negotiate safe sex with their husbands.
"Child marriage is a silent health emergency in the sense that it's often overlooked as a root cause of maternal mortality and morbidity (illness)," the ICRW's Edmeades said.
DRAWING MORE ATTENTION
While it is a subject still little known and rarely discussed in much of the Western world, the issue of child marriage is drawing greater attention from international aid and humanitarian organizations, as well as governments.
In the United States, where child marriage is rare, the U.S. Senate has reintroduced legislation aimed at curbing global child marriage that was unanimously passed in the Senate in 2010 but blocked in the House of Representatives.
The International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act would establish a strategy over several years to prevent child marriage in developing countries.
It would also require the State Department to report on child marriage in its annual human rights report and integrate efforts to prevent the practice into current development programs.
The bill will be reintroduced in the House this autumn, according to Betty McCollum, a Democrat representative from Minnesota, who is its lead sponsor there.
It was blocked in the House last December primarily due to Republican concerns that it would help organizations supplying abortions, which "couldn't have been farther from the truth," McCollum told TrustLaw.
"It has nothing to do with abortion," she said. "It has everything to do with saving 12-year-old girls from being sold into slavery or sold to settle a family debt."
Not only will it make aid dollars more effective, she added, but "it's a win for the child, it's a win for the community the child lives in and it's a win for the international community."
The Elders, an influential group of global leaders founded in 2007 by former South African President Nelson Mandela, gathered dozens of organizations for a two-day meeting in Ethiopia in June and have launched a campaign called "Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage."
A girl under the age of 18 is married every three seconds -- that's 10 million each year -- often without her consent and sometimes to a much older man, according to the children's charity Plan UK. Most of those marriages take place in Africa, the Middle East or South Asia.
"This is one of the biggest development issues of our time and we're committed to raising the voices of millions of girls married against their will," Plan UK head Marie Staunton said in her introduction to "Breaking Vows," a recent global report on child marriage.
From horrific childbirth injuries to the secret sale of "drought brides," the consequences of child marriage are explored in a multimedia documentary by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation (childmarriage.trust.org).
"Young children have babies -- your life is ruined, your education is ruined," said Kanta Devi, who was 16 when she married in Badakakahera village in India's Rajasthan state.
"You become upset with everything in your life," she told TrustLaw.
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child considers marriage before the age of 18 a human rights violation.
But according to the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), there are more than 50 million child brides worldwide, a number that is expected to grow to 100 million over the next decade.
RIPPLE EFFECT
Rights activists say six of the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 are directly affected by the prevalence of child marriage -- the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; achievement of universal primary education; promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women; reduction in child mortality; improvement in maternal health; and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
The ripple effect is devastating, experts say.
Girls forced into early marriage rarely continue their education, denying them any hope of independence, the ability to earn a livelihood or of making an economic contribution to their households.
The practice also reinforces the concept of girls as worthless burdens on their families to be jettisoned as soon as possible.
Girls who complete secondary school are six times less likely to become child brides than contemporaries with less or no education, according to the ICRW, a Washington-based think tank.
But distance from schools and a lack of school fees often preclude education for the poorest girls, who are twice as likely to marry young as those from wealthier homes.
In Niger, Chad and Mali, more than 70 percent of girls are married before the age of 18, according to ICRW analysis of demographic and health data last year.
Bangladesh, Guinea, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Nepal have child marriage rates over 50 percent, the data showed.
Ethiopia, Malawi, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Eritrea, Uganda, India, Nicaragua, Zambia and Tanzania are all above 40 percent.
The reasons child marriages occur vary with the country and are rarely simple.
"Very often people are sort of quick to demonise, in some ways, the family members and the people who make the decisions about the marriage of girls," Jeffrey Edmeades, a social demographer with ICRW, told TrustLaw.
"But we're finding, for the most part, that people are making these decisions because they feel it's best for their daughters. Parents love their children and they do want the best for them. They're just not sure what the best is."
Edmeades, who has been working with aid agency CARE on a project to tackle child marriage in Ethiopia, gave the example of children in that country being betrothed before birth to cement strategic alliances between families.
In other cases, girls are married off early to ensure that their virginity, and thus their economic value as brides, is intact and the honor of the family is protected.
Meanwhile, debts and natural disasters, such as tsunamis and drought, can lead to girls being sold off as brides as families scramble for survival.
'SILENT HEALTH EMERGENCY'
Girls under 15, their bodies still developing and their pelvises narrow, are five times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women over 20, the U.S. Agency for International Development estimates.
The vast majority of those deaths are in the developing world, where a lack of pre- and post-natal care and advanced procedures such as Cesarean sections makes pregnancy and childbirth far more risky than in rich countries. In Africa, for example, 60 percent of women and girls give birth without a skilled medical professional present, according to the U.N. World Population Fund.
Worldwide, 70,000 girls aged 15-19 die each year during pregnancy or childbirth, UNICEF says. The U.N. World Population Fund considers pregnancy the leading cause of death in that age group, citing complications of childbirth and unsafe abortions as major factors.
Children of child brides are also at risk. Babies born to mothers younger than 18 are more likely to be underweight or stillborn, Plan UK says.
Girls forced into early marriage are also at an increased risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS because they are unlikely to be able to negotiate safe sex with their husbands.
"Child marriage is a silent health emergency in the sense that it's often overlooked as a root cause of maternal mortality and morbidity (illness)," the ICRW's Edmeades said.
DRAWING MORE ATTENTION
While it is a subject still little known and rarely discussed in much of the Western world, the issue of child marriage is drawing greater attention from international aid and humanitarian organizations, as well as governments.
In the United States, where child marriage is rare, the U.S. Senate has reintroduced legislation aimed at curbing global child marriage that was unanimously passed in the Senate in 2010 but blocked in the House of Representatives.
The International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act would establish a strategy over several years to prevent child marriage in developing countries.
It would also require the State Department to report on child marriage in its annual human rights report and integrate efforts to prevent the practice into current development programs.
The bill will be reintroduced in the House this autumn, according to Betty McCollum, a Democrat representative from Minnesota, who is its lead sponsor there.
It was blocked in the House last December primarily due to Republican concerns that it would help organizations supplying abortions, which "couldn't have been farther from the truth," McCollum told TrustLaw.
"It has nothing to do with abortion," she said. "It has everything to do with saving 12-year-old girls from being sold into slavery or sold to settle a family debt."
Not only will it make aid dollars more effective, she added, but "it's a win for the child, it's a win for the community the child lives in and it's a win for the international community."
The Elders, an influential group of global leaders founded in 2007 by former South African President Nelson Mandela, gathered dozens of organizations for a two-day meeting in Ethiopia in June and have launched a campaign called "Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage."
OSHO: Marriage and Children
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4 August 2011 | 12:11 pm
A ‘Mediterranean diet’ can increase a woman’s lifespan by as much as 15 years, and increase a man’s life by eight years, says a study.
What is a Mediterranean diet? It is one rich in vegetables, olive oil, fruit, nuts, fish and whole grains, with occasional meat and alcohol.
Those who can combine such a diet with exercise, avoiding smoking and maintaining desirable weight, could expect to live up to 15 years longer, reports the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The 10-year study by the University of Maastricht in Netherlands followed 120,000 men and women aged between 55 and 69 years in 1986, according to the Daily Mail.
Piet van den Brandt, professor of epidemiology at Maastricht, who worked on the study, said: ‘This study shows that a healthy lifestyle can lead to significant health benefits. The effects of a Mediterranean diet were more evident in women than in men.’
The effect is strongest in women, who can live an extra 15 years compared to the least healthy people, while healthy men can enjoy eight years more.
Researchers found that combining the diet with exercise, keeping to a healthy weight and not smoking dramatically cut the risk of dying young.
What is a Mediterranean diet? It is one rich in vegetables, olive oil, fruit, nuts, fish and whole grains, with occasional meat and alcohol.
Those who can combine such a diet with exercise, avoiding smoking and maintaining desirable weight, could expect to live up to 15 years longer, reports the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The 10-year study by the University of Maastricht in Netherlands followed 120,000 men and women aged between 55 and 69 years in 1986, according to the Daily Mail.
Piet van den Brandt, professor of epidemiology at Maastricht, who worked on the study, said: ‘This study shows that a healthy lifestyle can lead to significant health benefits. The effects of a Mediterranean diet were more evident in women than in men.’
The effect is strongest in women, who can live an extra 15 years compared to the least healthy people, while healthy men can enjoy eight years more.
Researchers found that combining the diet with exercise, keeping to a healthy weight and not smoking dramatically cut the risk of dying young.
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2 August 2011 | 10:46 am
Wine Utilization Might Defend Against Cruel Sunburn
Drinking wine may protect against the harmful effects of sunburn, researchers from the University of Barcelon revelaed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. They explained that grapes and grape derivatives have a compound - a flavonoid - that helps protect human skin from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation.
The authors explained that wine has been shown in previous studies to have some effect in protecting against Alzheimer's disease, cavities, and prostate cancer. However, no prior study had looked at the effect it may have on human skin.
The researchers wrote:
"Several studies have demonstrated that human skin can be protected against UV radiation by using plant-derived antioxidants."
Wine Utilization Might Defend Against Cruel Sunburn
The scientists explained that when UV rays hit human skin they activate ROS (reactive oxygen species), which oxidize lipids, DNA and other large molecules, which in turn activate other enzymes that destroy skin cells. Flavonoids, found in grapes undermine the formation of the ROS in skin cells that are exposed to UVB and UVA rays.
Apart from revealing another benefit from consuming wine, lead researchers, Marta Cascante believes that their findings may lead to new ways of protecting skin for harmful sun rays.
The authors wrote:
"These encouraging in vitro results support further research and should be taken into consideration into the clinical pharmacology of plant-derived polyphenolic extracts as novel agents for skin photoprotection."
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1 August 2011 | 5:54 pm
This is Week Of Mothers Breast Feeding - Breast feeding Tips
In the first week of August, Haryana will be participating in World Breast Feeding Week, a week-long campaign to spread awareness about and promote breast-feeding of children in the state.
The event which begins on August 1 and lasts seven days, will be taking place in different districts of the state, and will be specially focused on creating awareness in various villages of Haryana.
"The objectives of this year World Breast Feeding Week were to launch a campaign for creating a breastfeeding friendly environment and reaching out to people, especially the youth with information on breastfeeding," said a spokesman of Women and Child Development Department.
The organizers aim to advocate for community and family support to help enhance breast-feeding, and protect the children against manufactured baby food.
In the first week of August, Haryana will be participating in World Breast Feeding Week, a week-long campaign to spread awareness about and promote breast-feeding of children in the state.
The event which begins on August 1 and lasts seven days, will be taking place in different districts of the state, and will be specially focused on creating awareness in various villages of Haryana.
"The objectives of this year World Breast Feeding Week were to launch a campaign for creating a breastfeeding friendly environment and reaching out to people, especially the youth with information on breastfeeding," said a spokesman of Women and Child Development Department.
The organizers aim to advocate for community and family support to help enhance breast-feeding, and protect the children against manufactured baby food.
Breast feeding Tips
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31 July 2011 | 9:37 am
Babies currently have a five-in-one jab at two months to protect against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and Hib.
Now Ministers are considering adding a vaccine for hepatitis B to this.
Each year about 325,000 Britons are diagnosed with the virus – which can cause liver cancer – almost double the number a decade ago.
DR ELLIE CANNON explains why parents should welcome the move
Q. Do we really need a vaccination for hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is thought to be 100 times more infectious than the HIV virus. If a pregnant woman has hepatitis B, the chances of passing it on to her unborn baby are high. Adults contract the virus through sexual contact with carriers, or from infected blood, for example, through a needlestick injury. The vaccine is already widely used in this country for all prisoners and for all adult healthcare professionals, such as myself. It is part of the routine vaccine schedule for children in many parts of Europe, Australia and the USA. Protecting babies in infancy is a sensible way to lower infection rates.
Q. What is the treatment for hepatitis B?
There is no cure which is why prevention is so crucial. Once a person has chronic hepatitis B, medication is used to prevent further liver damage. All chronic hepatitis B patients should be supervised by a liver specialist and will be treated with immune and anti-viral drugs.
Q. At what stage will babies be vaccinated?
This has not been decided yet. In some countries, the vaccine is given at two and four months, when babies are having their other vaccinations. It can also be given as a separate vaccine before babies are one.
Q. How can I find out if I’m a carrier?
Your GP or sexual health clinic can arrange a blood test. These are very accurate and are able to show whether you have ever been infected, if you are immune and if you are a carrier. If you are found to have hepatitis B, you will be offered an ultrasound scan to further assess the state of your liver.
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30 July 2011 | 10:52 am
Progeria
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that produces rapid aging in children. Progeria has been in the news lately because people all across the world have been following the story of Kaylee Halko, who was diagnosed with Progeria and was recently interviewed on ABC by Barbara Walters. The story originally aired several months ago but was ran again on Friday, July 29th by ABC’s 20/20.
Progeria Research Foundation
Many people who watched the story have asked how they can get involved and contribute to the research of potential cures for Progeria. There are a couple of upcoming fundraisers for the Progeria Research Foundation. On Saturday, August 20th, Kaylee Halko and her family will be holding a fund-raiser at the Maumee Festival. All proceeds will go to the Progeria Research Foundation. Expect plenty of entertainment as there will be train rides and a kids gaming area. You can also attend Kaylee’s Course Race for Progeria. This year on Saturday, October 8th in Monclova. You can also visit the Progeria Research Foundation’s website at http://www.progeriaresearch.org/.
About Progeria
Progeria is a very rare genetic condition that has puzzled doctors and scientists because its symptoms directly resemble the normal human aging process. The only difference is that this aging process is occurring in young children. Nine out of ten children with Progeria have a mutation of the gene that is tasked with encoding the protein Lamin A. There is currently no known cause for Progeria and it rarely found to exist within more than one child in a family.
Progeria is directly linked to a shortened lifespan. The average patient that is diagnosed with Progeria can often survive until their early teenage years. Some patients have lived into their early twenties. Patients with Progeria have often died as a result of progressive atherosclerosis. Doctors strongly advise you to contact your health provider if your child does not appear to be developing or growing at a normal rate.
New study could supply aid to kids using a uncommon condition that triggers them to age at 10 times the standard rate. But a brand new research while in the journal Science Translational Research in individuals with progeria shows that this protein has an on-and-off switch, providing scientists insight into how folks, even devoid of the syndrome, age.
There’s presently no set up heal for progeria, nevertheless the study reveals that an immune-suppressing drug referred to as rapamycin may very well be promising in clearing progerin from cells, thus stopping the aging method, Science reported.
Progeria?
According to MayoClinic, Progeria is a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life.
Children with progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), generally appear normal at birth. By 12 months, signs and symptoms, such as slow growth and hair loss, begin to appear.
Symptoms of Progeria
Signs and symptoms of this progressive disorder include:
Slowed growth, with below-average height and weight
A narrowed face and beaked nose
Hair loss (alopecia), including eyelashes and eyebrows
Hardening and tightening of skin on trunk and extremities (scleroderma)
Head disproportionately large for face
Thin lips
Visible veins
Prominent eyes
Small lower jaw (micrognathia)
High-pitched voice
Delayed and abnormal tooth formation
Diminished body fat and muscle
Stiff joints
Hip dislocation
Insulin resistance
Irregular heartbeat
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that produces rapid aging in children. Progeria has been in the news lately because people all across the world have been following the story of Kaylee Halko, who was diagnosed with Progeria and was recently interviewed on ABC by Barbara Walters. The story originally aired several months ago but was ran again on Friday, July 29th by ABC’s 20/20.
Progeria Research Foundation
Many people who watched the story have asked how they can get involved and contribute to the research of potential cures for Progeria. There are a couple of upcoming fundraisers for the Progeria Research Foundation. On Saturday, August 20th, Kaylee Halko and her family will be holding a fund-raiser at the Maumee Festival. All proceeds will go to the Progeria Research Foundation. Expect plenty of entertainment as there will be train rides and a kids gaming area. You can also attend Kaylee’s Course Race for Progeria. This year on Saturday, October 8th in Monclova. You can also visit the Progeria Research Foundation’s website at http://www.progeriaresearch.org/.
About Progeria
Progeria is a very rare genetic condition that has puzzled doctors and scientists because its symptoms directly resemble the normal human aging process. The only difference is that this aging process is occurring in young children. Nine out of ten children with Progeria have a mutation of the gene that is tasked with encoding the protein Lamin A. There is currently no known cause for Progeria and it rarely found to exist within more than one child in a family.
Progeria is directly linked to a shortened lifespan. The average patient that is diagnosed with Progeria can often survive until their early teenage years. Some patients have lived into their early twenties. Patients with Progeria have often died as a result of progressive atherosclerosis. Doctors strongly advise you to contact your health provider if your child does not appear to be developing or growing at a normal rate.
New study could supply aid to kids using a uncommon condition that triggers them to age at 10 times the standard rate. But a brand new research while in the journal Science Translational Research in individuals with progeria shows that this protein has an on-and-off switch, providing scientists insight into how folks, even devoid of the syndrome, age.
There’s presently no set up heal for progeria, nevertheless the study reveals that an immune-suppressing drug referred to as rapamycin may very well be promising in clearing progerin from cells, thus stopping the aging method, Science reported.
Progeria?
According to MayoClinic, Progeria is a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life.
Children with progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), generally appear normal at birth. By 12 months, signs and symptoms, such as slow growth and hair loss, begin to appear.
Symptoms of Progeria
Signs and symptoms of this progressive disorder include:
Slowed growth, with below-average height and weight
A narrowed face and beaked nose
Hair loss (alopecia), including eyelashes and eyebrows
Hardening and tightening of skin on trunk and extremities (scleroderma)
Head disproportionately large for face
Thin lips
Visible veins
Prominent eyes
Small lower jaw (micrognathia)
High-pitched voice
Delayed and abnormal tooth formation
Diminished body fat and muscle
Stiff joints
Hip dislocation
Insulin resistance
Irregular heartbeat
Ashley Hegi Progeria
30 July 2011 | 10:51 am
Progeria
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that produces rapid aging in children. Progeria has been in the news lately because people all across the world have been following the story of Kaylee Halko, who was diagnosed with Progeria and was recently interviewed on ABC by Barbara Walters. The story originally aired several months ago but was ran again on Friday, July 29th by ABC’s 20/20.
Progeria Research Foundation
Many people who watched the story have asked how they can get involved and contribute to the research of potential cures for Progeria. There are a couple of upcoming fundraisers for the Progeria Research Foundation. On Saturday, August 20th, Kaylee Halko and her family will be holding a fund-raiser at the Maumee Festival. All proceeds will go to the Progeria Research Foundation. Expect plenty of entertainment as there will be train rides and a kids gaming area. You can also attend Kaylee’s Course Race for Progeria. This year on Saturday, October 8th in Monclova. You can also visit the Progeria Research Foundation’s website at http://www.progeriaresearch.org/.
About Progeria
Progeria is a very rare genetic condition that has puzzled doctors and scientists because its symptoms directly resemble the normal human aging process. The only difference is that this aging process is occurring in young children. Nine out of ten children with Progeria have a mutation of the gene that is tasked with encoding the protein Lamin A. There is currently no known cause for Progeria and it rarely found to exist within more than one child in a family.
Progeria is directly linked to a shortened lifespan. The average patient that is diagnosed with Progeria can often survive until their early teenage years. Some patients have lived into their early twenties. Patients with Progeria have often died as a result of progressive atherosclerosis. Doctors strongly advise you to contact your health provider if your child does not appear to be developing or growing at a normal rate.
New study could supply aid to kids using a uncommon condition that triggers them to age at 10 times the standard rate. But a brand new research while in the journal Science Translational Research in individuals with progeria shows that this protein has an on-and-off switch, providing scientists insight into how folks, even devoid of the syndrome, age.
There’s presently no set up heal for progeria, nevertheless the study reveals that an immune-suppressing drug referred to as rapamycin may very well be promising in clearing progerin from cells, thus stopping the aging method, Science reported.
Progeria?
According to MayoClinic, Progeria is a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life.
Children with progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), generally appear normal at birth. By 12 months, signs and symptoms, such as slow growth and hair loss, begin to appear.
Symptoms of Progeria
Signs and symptoms of this progressive disorder include:
Slowed growth, with below-average height and weight
A narrowed face and beaked nose
Hair loss (alopecia), including eyelashes and eyebrows
Hardening and tightening of skin on trunk and extremities (scleroderma)
Head disproportionately large for face
Thin lips
Visible veins
Prominent eyes
Small lower jaw (micrognathia)
High-pitched voice
Delayed and abnormal tooth formation
Diminished body fat and muscle
Stiff joints
Hip dislocation
Insulin resistance
Irregular heartbeat
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that produces rapid aging in children. Progeria has been in the news lately because people all across the world have been following the story of Kaylee Halko, who was diagnosed with Progeria and was recently interviewed on ABC by Barbara Walters. The story originally aired several months ago but was ran again on Friday, July 29th by ABC’s 20/20.
Progeria Research Foundation
Many people who watched the story have asked how they can get involved and contribute to the research of potential cures for Progeria. There are a couple of upcoming fundraisers for the Progeria Research Foundation. On Saturday, August 20th, Kaylee Halko and her family will be holding a fund-raiser at the Maumee Festival. All proceeds will go to the Progeria Research Foundation. Expect plenty of entertainment as there will be train rides and a kids gaming area. You can also attend Kaylee’s Course Race for Progeria. This year on Saturday, October 8th in Monclova. You can also visit the Progeria Research Foundation’s website at http://www.progeriaresearch.org/.
About Progeria
Progeria is a very rare genetic condition that has puzzled doctors and scientists because its symptoms directly resemble the normal human aging process. The only difference is that this aging process is occurring in young children. Nine out of ten children with Progeria have a mutation of the gene that is tasked with encoding the protein Lamin A. There is currently no known cause for Progeria and it rarely found to exist within more than one child in a family.
Progeria is directly linked to a shortened lifespan. The average patient that is diagnosed with Progeria can often survive until their early teenage years. Some patients have lived into their early twenties. Patients with Progeria have often died as a result of progressive atherosclerosis. Doctors strongly advise you to contact your health provider if your child does not appear to be developing or growing at a normal rate.
New study could supply aid to kids using a uncommon condition that triggers them to age at 10 times the standard rate. But a brand new research while in the journal Science Translational Research in individuals with progeria shows that this protein has an on-and-off switch, providing scientists insight into how folks, even devoid of the syndrome, age.
There’s presently no set up heal for progeria, nevertheless the study reveals that an immune-suppressing drug referred to as rapamycin may very well be promising in clearing progerin from cells, thus stopping the aging method, Science reported.
Progeria?
According to MayoClinic, Progeria is a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life.
Children with progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), generally appear normal at birth. By 12 months, signs and symptoms, such as slow growth and hair loss, begin to appear.
Symptoms of Progeria
Signs and symptoms of this progressive disorder include:
Slowed growth, with below-average height and weight
A narrowed face and beaked nose
Hair loss (alopecia), including eyelashes and eyebrows
Hardening and tightening of skin on trunk and extremities (scleroderma)
Head disproportionately large for face
Thin lips
Visible veins
Prominent eyes
Small lower jaw (micrognathia)
High-pitched voice
Delayed and abnormal tooth formation
Diminished body fat and muscle
Stiff joints
Hip dislocation
Insulin resistance
Irregular heartbeat
Ashley Hegi Progeria
26 July 2011 | 1:24 pm
Government Hospitals Refer Private Hospitals Without Charge Treatment Awaiting
The Supreme Court on Monday ask the filled to capacity government hospitals in Delhi to refer poor patients to private hospitals for free treatment awaiting finalization of a system by the Sheila Dikshit regime.
"Private hospitals will give them with essential treatment free of cost and keep a separate account of the cost incur," said a bench of Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik intending to inspect the basis of private hospitals' claim that allowing total free treatment to poor would leave them bankrupt.
A Delhi High Court judgment had asked private hospitals to provide treatment to 10% indoor and 25% outdoor patients for free.
The hospitals have submit unstable scheme to the bench. While Dharamshila Hospital tell the court that it was ready to spend 2% of its earnings on poor patients, Devki Devi Foundation said it was for providing poor patients with free bed and secondary level of treatment, including free diagnostic tests.
The bench asked the 10 private hospitals - which had appeal in the apex court against the HC judgment, and are yet to implement the direction for free treatment to poor - to submit to Delhi management their scheme. It asked the management to frame a final
system in consultation with the private hospitals within four weeks and submit it to the court.
Provision for free treatment to poor patients arose from an agreement between the government and the private hospitals, which were offered land at cheap rates. As no one was enforcing it, an NGO Social Jurist had moved the high court.
If senior advocate R F Nariman, appearing for Dharamshila, argued for a 2% of turnover cap on hospitals' spending on poor patients, senior advocate Rajeev Dhawan said Devki Foundation was prepared to provide free of cost facilities to poor patients till secondary level of treatment, which include blood tests and other diagnostic procedures.
Counsel Ashok Aggarwal, appearing for the PIL petitioner, told the bench that most of these private hospitals had not admitted the requisite number of poor patients and suggested that the HC order be implemented
for three months to find out the liability incurred by private hospitals.
During the last hearing on July 5, the court had said private hospitals were acting like star hotels and wriggling out from their promise to treat the poor - 25% outdoor and 10% indoor - free of cost. "You got the land at a very cheap rate from the government because of this promise. If you admit a poor patient but ask him to pay for everything, it is not free treatment," it had said. It had given two weeks to the hospitals to come out with a comprehensive plan to give meaningful free treatment to poor patients under the agreement and if not, then it would vacate stay on Delhi High Court order directing hospitals not to charge a single penny from poor patients.
Other hospitals which had moved the apex court against the HC order include Jaipur Golden, Escorts Heart Institute, Bhagwati Hospital, Balaji Action Medical Institute, Deepak Memorial Hospital and Sunderlal Jain Hospital.
The Supreme Court on Monday ask the filled to capacity government hospitals in Delhi to refer poor patients to private hospitals for free treatment awaiting finalization of a system by the Sheila Dikshit regime.
"Private hospitals will give them with essential treatment free of cost and keep a separate account of the cost incur," said a bench of Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik intending to inspect the basis of private hospitals' claim that allowing total free treatment to poor would leave them bankrupt.
A Delhi High Court judgment had asked private hospitals to provide treatment to 10% indoor and 25% outdoor patients for free.
The hospitals have submit unstable scheme to the bench. While Dharamshila Hospital tell the court that it was ready to spend 2% of its earnings on poor patients, Devki Devi Foundation said it was for providing poor patients with free bed and secondary level of treatment, including free diagnostic tests.
The bench asked the 10 private hospitals - which had appeal in the apex court against the HC judgment, and are yet to implement the direction for free treatment to poor - to submit to Delhi management their scheme. It asked the management to frame a final
system in consultation with the private hospitals within four weeks and submit it to the court.
Provision for free treatment to poor patients arose from an agreement between the government and the private hospitals, which were offered land at cheap rates. As no one was enforcing it, an NGO Social Jurist had moved the high court.
If senior advocate R F Nariman, appearing for Dharamshila, argued for a 2% of turnover cap on hospitals' spending on poor patients, senior advocate Rajeev Dhawan said Devki Foundation was prepared to provide free of cost facilities to poor patients till secondary level of treatment, which include blood tests and other diagnostic procedures.
Counsel Ashok Aggarwal, appearing for the PIL petitioner, told the bench that most of these private hospitals had not admitted the requisite number of poor patients and suggested that the HC order be implemented
for three months to find out the liability incurred by private hospitals.
During the last hearing on July 5, the court had said private hospitals were acting like star hotels and wriggling out from their promise to treat the poor - 25% outdoor and 10% indoor - free of cost. "You got the land at a very cheap rate from the government because of this promise. If you admit a poor patient but ask him to pay for everything, it is not free treatment," it had said. It had given two weeks to the hospitals to come out with a comprehensive plan to give meaningful free treatment to poor patients under the agreement and if not, then it would vacate stay on Delhi High Court order directing hospitals not to charge a single penny from poor patients.
Other hospitals which had moved the apex court against the HC order include Jaipur Golden, Escorts Heart Institute, Bhagwati Hospital, Balaji Action Medical Institute, Deepak Memorial Hospital and Sunderlal Jain Hospital.
