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Heart failure could also be linked to thinning of bones (osteoporosis), an offshoot of old age.

“Our study demonstrates for the first time that heart failure and thinning of bones go hand in hand,” said Sumit Majumdar, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who led the study.

“Understanding the mechanism between heart failure and osteoporosis might lead to new treatments for both conditions,” added Majumdar, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports.

“Part of screening for osteoporosis should involve looking at chest X-rays of patients with heart failure,” he said, according to a university statement.

“Heart failure patients get a lot of X-rays and they often incidentally show many fractures of the spine that would automatically provide an indication of severe osteoporosis and need for treatment.”

Researchers conducted a population cohort study comprising 45,509 adults undergoing bone mineral density testing for the first time and followed them for up to 10 years. Of them, 1,841 had recent onset of heart failure.

After adjusting for traditional osteoporosis risk factors, researchers found that heart failure was associated with a 30 percent increase in major fractures.

Cancer cells, which kill nearly 12,000 people in the US alone every year and affect more than half a million worldwide, could be eradicated with grape seed extract, reveals a study.

The extract creates conditions unfavourable for the cancers’ growth by damaging both their cells’ DNA and stops the pathways that allow repair.

“It’s a rather dramatic effect,” said Rajesh Agarwal, study investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Centre and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

“Cancer cells are fast-growing cells. Not only that, but they are necessarily fast growing. When conditions exist in which they can’t grow, they die,” said Agarwal, according to a university statement.

“I think the whole point is that cancer cells have a lot of defective pathways and they are very vulnerable if you target those pathways. The same is not true of healthy cells,” added Agarwal.

For all those who love to work late! To get the exact word, People who love their job so much that they work for 11 to 12 hours a day, you have a very high risk of getting depression, as per recent study.

A study of civil servants in England found that working excessive hours was linked with more cases of major depressive episodes. The 2,123 men and women observed in the study, published this week in the online journal PLoS One, were followed for an average 5.8 years and assessed for depression.

Working 11 or more hours a day was associated with a 2.3- to 2.5-fold increased risk of having a major depressive episode compared with those who worked a standard seven- to eight-hour day.

Often, people stay out late to finish a deadline or to make a name for themselves in front of their boss, but in the end though its their mental pleasure which they sacrificed for gaining some cents.

You can find the detailed report on the research Here

What do you think on the study? Do you think you are affected by working late? Share your views with us.

Indian Health department has shown serious concern over the continual availability of adulterated or diluted Milk all over the country.

The study, conducted this month by the food safety and standards authority of India, found milk was adulterated with skimmed milk powder and glucose, or more shockingly hydrogen peroxide, urea and detergent.

Hydrogen peroxide is used in bleach, while urea is commonly used in fertilizer.

“Consumption of milk with detergent may cause health hazards and indicates lack of hygiene and sanitation in the milk handling,” the regulator said in a report.

“Addition of water not only reduces the nutritional value of milk but contaminated water may also pose health risks.”

Almost 70 percent of the 1,791 samples taken nationwide were contaminated or watered down, according to the report.

Che, this is sick. Milk, is a basic essential of human life next to water. Its the only food for infants. Adulteration of such a pure gift from God, is a crime worthy to be punished.

The Culprit behind the scenes will surely earn millions but the death that occurs from it will definitely leave the blood stain all over them as a evidence of Murder!

Cognitive skills can start to fall from the age of 45, not from around the age of 60 as is commonly thought, according to research published on Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

For our readers who are not aware of the meaning for Cognitive Skills, A simple way to define cognitive skills is to describe them as the underlying brain skills that make it possible for us to think, remember and learn.

Coincidentally, we come across few incidents in our life where people tag some old age people saying they lose the general reasoning skills. The Mythical age where people loses their capacity of thinking and understanding is 60 but, the research conducted by researchers from the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health in France and University College London speaks otherwise.

The research finds out that the process of Memory skills depletion begins from 45 and not 60.

Over a period of 10 years, the researchers made the details investigation over 5,198 men and 2,192 women, the volunteers aged between 45 and 70.

The participants were tested three times — for memory, vocabulary, and skills in aural and visual comprehension.

During this time, there was a 3.6-percent decline in mental reasoning in men aged 45-49 and a 9.6-percent fall in those aged 65-70. The corresponding figures for women were 3.6 and 7.4 percent.

“Cognitive decline is already evident in middle age,” says the paper, which defines this as the years from 45 to 49.

The findings should spur further research into spotting and braking cognitive “These changes are likely to have a profound influence on individuals’ lives and society at large. Poor cognitive status is perhaps the single most disabling condition in old age.”

If you are planning to have one kid in your family and are uninterested in larger family then this article might interest you.

A latest study has discovered that mothers with four or more children may have a reduced risk of heart disease. The study finds that the pregnancy hormones could protect blood vessels for years after giving birth and help reduce the risk of getting the disease.

Marieclaire reports Dr Bradley Van Voorhis, President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility as saying, ‘The physiological changes a woman experiences in pregnancy can have lasting effects on her health’.

‘A large, relatively healthy and affluent group of women showed a cardiovascular benefit from more than four pregnancies.’

The study, involving 1,300 women in California, suggested that mothers with larger families were almost 50 per cent less like to die of a stroke and one third less likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease.

Feeling sleepy at work? The recent research done on the common problem that a person undergoes on work might ignite you readers especially those who work in front of the computer all day in the office.

Scientist says, “the presence of abundance of proteins in the white layers of Egg might tremendously assist an individual from falling asleep in the work or from feeling sleepy.”

Wait a min, i thought Coffee helps us from falling to sleep. Alas, the scientist have other opinions.

The Researchers at Cambridge University have found that egg proteins are much more effective than carbohydrates found in the chocolates, biscuits and sweets often relied on for a quick energy boost.

The researchers, who wanted to know how nutrients affect the brain cells that keeping us awake and burn calories, found that a mixture similar to the protein content of egg whites activated these cells, triggering the release of the stimulant orexin, the Daily Mail reported.

Researcher Dr Denis Burdakov said, “What is exciting is to have a rational way to ‘tune’ select brain cells to be more or less active by deciding what food to eat.

“Research suggests that if you have a choice between jam on toast, or egg whites on toast, go for the latter. Even though the two may contain the same number of calories, having a bit of protein will tell the body to burn more calories out of those consumed.”

Researchers found that the type of cholesterol found in eggs has minimal effect on raising the risk of heart disease . Previous research has also shown that it is healthy to go to work on an egg, contrary to popular perception.