New findings for Alzheimer`s disease victims by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu
It was discovered that offering simple training to people struggling to care for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease eases their burden. Moreover, it even can keep patients out of nursing homes for an extra 1 1/2 years. Alzheimer`s disease afflicts one in eight people 65 and older, and nearly one in two people over 85 and is frequently met, because more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. As the time passes and population ages, Alzheimer's is steadily rising. Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging said "I don't think society and policymakers have fully grasped the future magnitude of what we're up against, and how massive an operation we have to begin ... to deal with this." NYU's Mittelman says customized training can help caregivers ease the chaos that the Eckerts battled through, and proved it with a one-of-a-kind experiment. She made a test on 406 elderly New Yorkers caring for spouses with Alzheimer's and were divided in two: half received training tailored to their family's unique needs and half Half got today's standard: a list of Alzheimer's resources.Mittelman tracked these families for up to 17 years. Custom-trained caregivers kept their loved ones out of a nursing home for an average of 1 1/2 years longer than their untrained counterparts. The caring of one pacient cost $60,000 per year and that's a savings of $90,000 per patient, Mittelman reported last fall in the journal Neurology. The training was simple:there were weekly meetings with social workers, who assessed each family's circumstances, discussed how Alzheimer's worsens, and tought coping skills. Caregivers were given phone numbers to call counselors for more advice whenever they wanted. Trained caregivers experienced less depression and fewer physical health problems. A similar program that mixes in-home and telephone training, sessions that include role-playing to let caregivers practice the coping skills they're learning at the National Institutes of Health. The results of the study reflected better results:trained caregivers report improved quality of life, and feel they do a better job.
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Legionella contamination declared "insignificant" by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu
The IHA declared levels of Legionella contamination at the Institute for Animal Health at Pirbright, to be insignificant, and not worth the effort of further action. The investigation on the Legionella case was also declared a "regretable distraction" for those testing foot-and-mouth disease. It is believed the case of Legionnaires' disease pre-dates the outbreak of foot-and-mouth, and the HPA have already confirmed that the two are not linked. It was first discovered during an inspection of the research centre, by the Health Protection Agency. The IHA stated : "This level is so low that the HSE require no further action, other than maintaining our current monitoring regime. However, we have taken positive action and have taken the relevant water system out of use and this is being disinfected as we speak." they also added: "It has been a regrettable distraction for our scientists currently working 24 hours a day on testing samples from the current foot-and-mouth outbreak to underpin the Government's contain, control and eradicate policy." The Leggionaire's disease is caused by a water to aerosol converted bacteria, such as in showers, and inhaled.
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According to the latest statement made by the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology there has been created a test to detect early liver cancer, one that could give a more accurately diagnose of the major killer in Asia and Africa. The test detects HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) that often appears after chronic inflammation of the liver caused by hepatitis B or C virus infection or cirrhosis of the liver. Only in China every year half a million patients die because of this. The creation process was made in partnership with research centers in Beijing and Shanghai in China and developed on Chinese patients suffering of cirrhosis of the liver due to hepatitis B. There are two particular sugar groups in blood proteins and their levels indicate the stage of the disease. The test gave accurate results in 70 percents of the cases and when it is combined with the current procedures of detecting the disease, the accuracy increases dramatically. Scientists are working now to make the new test viable with the clinical practices in order to be accepted on the market. However, the date when the test will be available is not yet known. It is a good step towards the discovery of a cure, because the main goal is to save people of the terrible disease, not only to detect it- that sometimes might not be sufficient enough. The HCC is becoming prevalent in the West too and definitely there will be researches into the creation of a treatment. Stay connected to find more!
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Worst flood in South East Asia for 30 years by Corina Ciubotaru
The monsoon season this year made hundreds of victims in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Many more were left marooned, waiting for rescuers to bring boats and take them to safety and firm ground. Among them, millions of children, as they make up 40% of South Asia's population; they are also the worst hit by this tragedy because the water carries diseases like cholera and diarrhea, possibly lethal for young children. UNICEF is doing its best to help them along with other international institutions working together to alleviate the dramatic situation, as this is the worst flood to hit South Asia in the last 30 years. Wells have been infected if not completely covered by water, so efforts are being made to get fresh water to the people stranded on rooftops, elevated highways and railways and other tall places. Aids are difficult to transport to the region because the roads aren't accessible anymore. In India alone, more than 20 million people have been affected by the flood, mainly in the regions of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Half of Nepal is under water, but rains stopped a few days ago, so the worst has probably passed, and with a bit of help from local authorities and international organizations, the people will be able to get on with their lives soon. It's admirable the way people can come together in the face of adversity and help those in need. The countries affected by these floods are poor and surely they would have had an even harder time recovering if they hadn't received any outside help.
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Coffee to slow memory declines in women? by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu
A research conducted by a French group and revealed on Monday gives women more reasons to love the world's most popular stimulant. According to researchers 3 cups of coffee a day slows down some age-related memory declines. Men on the other hand don't seem to enjoy these benefits of coffee. Researchers followed the health and mental functions, of more than 7,000 men and women in 3 French cities, and asked them about they're past and current drinking and eating habits, daily activities, etc. They found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, had a 33 percent lower odds of having verbal memory declines and 18 percent lower odds of having visual and spatial memory declines, compared to women who drank one cup or fewer per day. Karen Ritchie, the lead-researcher of the team is not sure why only women benefit from caffeine. "Our best guess is that women don't metabolize coffee in the same way (as men)," she said in a telephone interview. Although coffee has these benefits on memory, Ritchie says people should weight them against other effects of the stimulant including high blood pressure.
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China city traffic cops given 43 years to live by Delia Cruceru
The Chinese Government reported yesterday that city traffic police have an average life expectancy of just 43 years due to their dire working conditions. According to a survey of 8 Chinese cities police officers who had worked the streets for more than 20 years were the most at risk. One year distance from the Olympic Games, authorities try to clean up their crowded cities, especially the capital, Beijing. In the southern city Guangzhou, almost every traffic police officer suffered from nose or throat infections caused by dirty air. The China Daily reported that the Guangzhou Hospital of Vocational Disease Control and Prevention said that more than 90 percent of the 2,746 traffic police who underwent a check-up in Guangzhou had infections. "Vehicle emissions and excessive heat were the major contributors to the condition. Traffic police have to work in a polluted environment for many hours a day, so their health is bound to be affected," Liu Yimin, vice-president of the hospital said in a report. With cities like Guangzhou, with a population of about 10 million and where 1.8 million cars circulate the streets, China will have to face the big problem of pollution, to find new ways to protect its people and the nature too.
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Is the confession of Margaret Wegner, wife of German boxing coach Ulli Wegner, to the famous German newspaper Bild. Her case is unique and has recently come into media's attention. At the age of four she fell and her pencil went through her cheek and into her head. The medicine was not that evolved at that time and the pencil could not be removed by anyone and therefore she had to live with terrible headaches and nosebleeds until now, at the age of 59. Dr. Hans Behrbohm, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Berlin's Park-Klinik Weissensee, who also operated to remove bullets, glass from the brains of shooting victims, of people involved in car accidents, succeeded to remove almost all the pencil, except 0.79-inch piece that, according to him represents no danger to Wegner's health. Modern technology has prevailed again and a person life has been relieved of the burden. After enduring the sufferings induced by the pencil lodged in her head, the German woman finally got rid of it and despite the fact that her body developed 55 years with the pesky object, the doctor with the help of modern devices has managed to take it out. There is no doubt that miracles are possible and this world as twisted as it is, still reserves some wonderful surprises. Stay close, there are more intriguing news to come!
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