Chicken Able to Reveal Allergy

Chickens are not only delicious when made into dishes. The birds were also able to reveal allergies suffered by humans.

The study researchers at King’s College London show that animals have an important molecular version of 'ancient' responsible for allergic reactions.

"This molecule is like a living fossil. Learn it like retrace allergic reaction to revolution 160 years ago," said Dr. Alex Taylor, one of the team of researchers.

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Multiple Benefits of Aloe Vera

Aloe vera has long been recognized as a multi-plant efficacy. The plant is able to update the cells that die and useful as antibacterial and antifungal.

Aloe vera sap contains magnesium lactate that can reduce itching. Therefore, aloe vera is widely used to cope with insect bites, acne, and skin that are sunburned.

Now, recent research reveals other properties of aloe vera.
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Aromatherapy Is Not Effective

Efficacy of aromatherapy to relax and calming effect on the body and mind was not always evident. This was especially the lemon and lavender aromatherapy.

Ronald Glaser and Janice K Kiecott, professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics from Ohio State University, found no significant changes in the rate of pacemakers, blood pressure, stress hormones and immune function before and after the kiss or the use of aromatherapy.

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Omega-3 Lowers Risk of Eye Disease

Eating fish and foods rich in fatty acid omega-3 will reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or macular degeneration in the retina of the eye that can lead to blindness in the elderly.

That is the findings of researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Alcohol and Drugs Cause Suicide

Drugs and alcohol abuse are two things that make people's tendency to commit murder or suicide.

Research from Manchester University also showed the numbers of mental health patients commit suicide or homicide is higher in Scotland. Report found that the north-south is a region with most teenagers.

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Hormone Ghrelin and Appetite

Have you ever noticed when hungry all the food looks more appealing? According to Alain Dagher, neurologist at McGill University in Montreal, it is because the hormone ghrelin in our bodies.

Ghrelin in the gut, improve the perception and memory of the brain when looking at the food and the levels will go up and down before and after meals.

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Cervical Cancer Victim Still Height

Cervical cancer remains a major concern in developing countries. Its preventive vaccine has not been reached because the price is relatively expensive. More than half the population in developing countries cannot afford the vaccine.

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Avoid Overweight Lighten Osteoarthritis

Obesity, in addition to disturbing appearance, can trigger and aggravate the disease. The case of calcification of the joints (osteoarthritis/OA), for example, will get worse if the person is overweight.

Calcification of the joints is a joint disease caused by thinning of joint cartilage due to aging and the deterioration of the function of joint cartilage.
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Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Disease

Excess uric acid will accelerate the death of someone, especially if he is also potentially a heart attack. This is the result of the study Dr Eshar Krihnan of 9100 middle-aged man.

Krishnan suggest to those who are in a condition to always control the circumstances of cholesterol and blood pressure to heart conditions to stay healthy.
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Lead Levels in Blood Cause Criminal

A study in PLOs Medicine has recently stated levels of metals (lead) in the blood are high on pregnant mothers and in children can potentially lead to criminal behavior when the child is growing up. The study is the first time able to provide evidence empirically.


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Parents Brain Power

The phrase stating the older is not necessarily wiser now challenged. A study published in the journal neurology Progress in Brain Research reveals the latest issue, brain power decline with age.

In addition, it may lose the ability to understand a few things. But really old people do not lose their brain power. The results showed that the brains of people-parents have a broader focus and takes time to process information.

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Mixed Paint Disturb Fertility

If you like painting, be careful. Chemicals in the paint turned out to potentially interfere with male fertility. Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, England, found it in a study of 2000 people who visited the fertility clinic.

Of the visitors, on average that has problems with fertility are those whose job using glycol solvent, such as the painter or artist.
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Women Live Longer than Men, Really?

Women were likely to have a longer life than men. Evolution may play a role, so the researchers note in the journal Human Nature. But other factors also worked against the 'reward' for this woman, it also can happen to anyone, both men and women to live longer, are healthier life.

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Mobile Phone Use by Japanese Children Restricted

Japan is known as a country that has a culture of discipline and high work ethic. Progress of this country cannot be separated from it. However, recently the Japanese government started worrying about the erosion of these values in school children due to mobile phone usage.

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MRSA, the Antibiotic Resistant Bacterium

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium that causes infections in several different places on the body. It’s very difficult to heal wounds that most caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, or staph for short, because of its resistance to various antibiotics.

Symptoms of MRSA itself depending on which part you are infected. Mostly are due to minor skin infections.
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More Children More Tooth Loss

Old myth that more children more tooth loss is has a point. An assistant professor at the University of New York Dr. Stefanie Russell found the more often a woman pregnant, the greater the potential risk tooth loss.

Russell researching the 2635 women aged 18-64 years who have been pregnant at least once. The research found a number of pregnancies or the child turned out to affect the cases of tooth loss in women. This was due to biological and behavioral changes in women during pregnancy and childbirth.

The first factor, pregnancy can make women prone to gingivitis (gum inflammation). On second or subsequent pregnancy, women at risk of gingivitis are greater than ever before.

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Printer and Danger for the Health

Printers in the office issued a very fine particles of toner, the scientists say the printer or the printing of documents commonly used in offices can damage the lungs, the way similar to the particles of smoke that damage the lungs, thus according to a team of Australian scientists.

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Eight Million Deaths Due to Stroke

A study published last week in the Lancet, Mexico, concluded that stroke and heart attack caused by high blood pressure has resulted in nearly 8 million deaths worldwide instantly. Half of them aged between 45-70 years.

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Sleep Patterns Cause Obesity

One more study supporting the theory that the duration of sleep affects a person's body weight. A study conducted the National Center for Health Statistics United States concluded that people who sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9 hours per day potentially more overweight (obesity) than those with normal sleep time.

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Baby Sitting Long Fatal Risk

Be careful when you sit the baby while driving. "Babies who are in a seated position for too long will be very risky cause sudden death," said Dr. Aurore Cote of McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada.

The conclusion was obtained after Cote and colleagues, for 10years researching the babies who died were seated in the backseat of the car.

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