According to Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine who analyzed more than 49,000 U.S. veterans aged 55 and older who developed Alzheimer’s and nearly 200,000 who had no form of dementia, those who were prescribed ibuprofen for more than five years were 40 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared with those who did not.The longer they used ibuprofen, the lower their risk was. Dementia experts said the results were interesting but warned against people taking ibuprofen to reduce their risk.

According to Xinhua,Beijing as officials on Tuesday temporarily closed two kindergartens amid a spreading outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease and the number of children infected in the kindergartens has not been confirmed and the sick are being examined to find out what kind of virus triggered the outbreak.

British scientists universities of Exeter and Oxford said on Wednesday which appears in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences,that Women on low-calorie diets or who skip breakfast at the time of conception are more likely to give birth to girls than boys.

Study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that being born prematurely can cause health problems,such as “higher risk of death in childhood, were less likely to reproduce as adults, had slightly lower educational attainment.”

According to a new study led by Prof. Julianne Holt-Lunstad of the Brigham Young University abd published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, found that happily men and women who were in happy marriages tended to have lower blood pressure compared to single people.

Food and Drug Administration’s center for drug evaluation and research, have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths and is at the point in concluding that the US might be the latest victims of lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting.The unapproved ingredient altered to mimic the real thing in the blood thinner heparin is oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, a chemical that does not occur naturally.Chondroitin sulfate is a dietary supplement made from animal cartilage that is commonly used to treat joint pain.Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s center for drug evaluation and research said that they cannot said definitely whether the contaminant,oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, was introduced intentionally or by accident.

A study, led by Professor Adnan Qureshi at the University of Minnesota, unveiled at the International Stroke Conference, said that cat owners appear to have a much lower risk of dying from a heart attack than their feline-spurning counterparts.According to the findings may be that having a cat may reduce stress and anxiety, and so protect against cardiovascular disease.

According to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association,there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in 2000, and there will be 454,000 new cases a year by 2010.Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Scientists have learned a great deal about Alzheimer’s disease in the century since Dr. Alzheimer first drew attention to it.As many as 5.2 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s and 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime according to the latest Alzheimer’s Association report.

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According to a new scientific statement released Monday by the American Heart Association (AHA), cocaine use can sometimes be the hidden culprit when young or otherwise healthy patients complain to doctors of chest pain.The report noted that, on most occasions, chest pain related to cocaine use occured within three hours of using the drug.Dr. James McCord,cardiology director of the chest pain unit for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, who headed the panel that drafted the statement, said “More commonly, these are younger people. The most common age group is about 35 to 44 for patients who come to the emergency department after cocaine use, having chest pain.” Common heart disease risk factors are high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, obesity and an unhealthful diet.

The Hong Kong’s health have confirmed that the killing of chickens in poultry markets in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was because of the bird flu.Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a Hong Kong University professor said according to Time, that this year have a little bit more seasonal flu, perhaps more widespread,but it is not more virulent.Bird flu has killed more than 230 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation.

She’s only a few days old and already a baby girl in Northern India is being worshipped as a reincarnated god.

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A recent US study Ohio State University and appears in the April issue of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, found that aromatherapy oils had no physiological effect although they may improve mood for some people.Dr Janice Kiecolt-Glaser,Lead author of the study and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University, said that hat the placebo effect can have a very strong impact on a person’s health but beyond that, and added that they wanted to see if these aromatic essential oils actually improved human health in some measurable way.

According to a study published in the March issue of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vitamin E can increase the risk of developing lung cancer.The researchers followed people aged between 50 and 76 for four years and looked at their average daily use of vitamin C and folic acid, and vitamin E supplements.521 people developed lung cancer, during the study.”In contrast to the often assumed benefits or at least lack of harm, supplemental vitamin E was associated with a small increased risk of lung cancer.” said Dr Christopher Slatore of the University of Washington in Seattle, who led the study.

Report, published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) researchers said Sunday that the influenza viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens and protects them in colder temperatures,and when the protective covering melts when it enters the respiratory tract the virus is capable of entering a cell to infect it.This new report could lead to new ways to prevent and treat the flu influenza viruses.

The Dutch and US research, published in the British Medical Journal, found that acupuncture may increase the success rates of fertility treatment.Acupuncture has been used for centuries in China to regulate female fertility, and in recent years, scientists have been looking at whether it could boost IVF chances.

British scientists,Newcastle University,have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.