…ainst the walls of the artery and enmeshes the clot in the wires, allowing doctors to pull the clot back out of the groin. Two similar devices were compared with the current coil methods. One trial of 113 patients showed 58% had good brain function after three months, compared with 33% of those treated with the coil method, as well as a lower death rate. Another study in 178 patients showed almost…
An IBM team in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same pioneering team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings. The new work opens up the prospect of studying imperfections in the “wonder material” graphen…
wept back – as soon as possible after leaving his capsule. But the video showed him tumbling over and over. Eventually, however, the Austrian was able to use his great experience, from more than 2,500 career dives, to correct his fall and get into a stable configuration. Even before this drama, it was thought the mission might have to be called off. As he went through last-minute checks insi…
t, 10 minutes later. The adventurer – famous for jumping off skyscrapers – is under no illusions about the dangers he faces. Where Felix Baumgartner is going, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply. Others who have tried to break the existing records for the highest, fastest and longest freefalls have lost t…
…the eight-storey building, ignoring warnings about cracks. At least 336 people are known to have died after the Rana Plaza in the suburb of Savar collapsed on Wednesday. On Saturday morning, at least 24 more people were rescued from the rubble. Rescuers and volunteers, who worked through the night, cheered as they were brought to safety. Earlier, rescue teams said they had located about 40 surviv…
…to become widely available this summer has earned the nickname “Frotox”. Iovera – a toxin-free alternative to Botox – uses a technique called cryoneuromodulation to banish fine lines. The 20-minute procedure involves placing a device filled with liquid nitrogen next to the nerves that control the muscles that cause wrinkles. “The liquid nitrogen freezes the targeted nerves on the fore…
…s exploration site in Gale Crater, a deep impact bowl on Mars’ equator. This was delivered to the two big onboard laboratories, Sam and Chemin, for analysis. The rock sample was found to contain 20-30% smectite – a particular group of clay minerals. Their high abundance and the relative lack of salt are strongly suggestive of a fresh-water environment for the mudstone’s formation…
…d shoulder muscles, which can trap nerves to the head. Treatment: Teeth grinding can be reduced by wearing a mouth guard at night. A blast of fresh air and painkillers can provide short-term relief. A 2007 Indian study also showed yoga can reduce chronic tension headache pain by 71%. “A relaxing massage or hot bath can help to relieve tension,” says Dr. Andy Dowson. A headache can be a symptom of…
Detective Orlando Martinez, who investigated Michael Jackson’s 2005 death, has revealed that Dr. Conrad Murray was $500,000 in debt and willing to do anything to get paid while he was treating the megastar. Orlando Martinez told jurors on Tuesday that Conrad Murray depended on the $150,000-a-month salary that he received from Michael Jackson’s concert promoter AEG Live. Lawyers for Mi…
A woman, named Reshma, has been pulled alive from the ruins of a building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, 17 days ago. The head of the fire service earlier said Reshma had been found in the remains of the second floor of the eight-storey Rana Plaza. Reshma had no serious injuries and had been talking with rescuers, he added. The dramatic news came after the army s…
…d reporters. The new results stem from a project called UDF12 and centre on a tiny patch of sky in the Constellation Fornax (The Furnace). This is the location where Hubble has repeatedly stared since 2003, trying to build up a picture of objects whose separation from us is so great that their light arrives in dribs and drabs. Richard Ellis’s and colleagues’ work adds more than 100 hou…
news agency. Besse Cooper, the US woman listed as the world’s oldest person, has died aged 116 Besse Cooper was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person in January 2011. The following May, Guinness discovered that a Brazilian woman, Maria Gomes Valentin, was 48 days older, but she died the following month. Born in Tennessee, Besse Cooper moved to Georgia during…
According to scientists, intense exercise for just two and a half minutes a day could help keeps the pounds off. A study shows that concentrated effort can burn as many as 200 extra calories, provided the spurts are broken up with longer periods of easy recovery. It is the latest evidence to support High Intensity Training (HIT), whereby a number of short bursts of intense exercise are teamed wit…
…what I have.” His charitable donations – which benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs – mean his salary is roughly in line with the average Uruguayan income of $775 a month. In 2010, his annual personal wealth declaration – mandatory for officials in Uruguay – was $1,800, the value of his 1987 Volkswagen Beetle. This year, Jose Mujica added half of his wife̵…
er daughter. The devoted mother would not institutionalize Edwarda O’Bara, even though the financial burden became a great challenge to the family. Though Kaye O’Bara died at the age of 80 on March 7, 2008, she never gave up hope that her daughter would one day wake up from her coma. Edwarda O’Bara’s father, Joe, had passed away in 1977. He died from a heart attack, believed to have been bro…
…a detox mask (try Daniel Galvin Junior Organics Hair Repair & Gloss, dgjorganics.com). When applying a hair mask at home, gently warm a hand towel in the microwave and wrap it around the hair for 20 minutes – the heat intensifies the treatment, helping it last around three weeks. Remember, if you’re planning a haircut or color before Christmas, book appointments now before salons get bo…
Experts from Edinburgh University found that exercising in your 70’s may stop your brain from shrinking and showing the signs of ageing linked to dementia. Brain scans of 638 people past the age of retirement showed those who were most physically active had less brain shrinkage over a three-year period. Exercise did not have to be strenuous – going for a walk several times a week sufficed,…
Austrian skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest free-fall jump. Felix Baumgartner, 42, is aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles. The adventurer lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581 feet &#…
Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has been visited by The Queen at Papworth Hospital following his emergency heart surgery to treat a blocked coronary artery. The Queen arrived at the hospital this morning from her Sandringham estate, where the Royal family is spending Christmas. The Duke of Edinburgh was this morning recovering after being airlifted to hospital for emergency heart surgery….
A team of medical scientists, led by a cell biologist from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Bruce M. Spiegelman, discovered a hormone, called irisin, that appears to increase fat burning and to improve glucose homeostasis. These findings might play a great role in fighting obesity and controlling hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The study was published this month in Nature, International…
Andy Atkins, his wife Jenny and their four-year-old son Logan miraculously escaped unscathed after their plane plunged into the sea – and doctors passing by in a boat jumped in to save them. The Texas family was on a sightseeing flight along the coast of Roatan, off Honduras, when the plane’s engine cut out and the craft plummeted into the sea. There was panic as the plane was sucked…
…pushed down towards the heart. A sample of heart tissue, about “half the size of a raisin”, was taken. This was taken to the laboratory where the stem cells were isolated and grown. Up to 25 million of these stem cells were then put into the arteries surrounding the heart. Twenty five patients took part in the trial. Before the treatment, scar tissue accounted for an average of 24% of…
Maria de Nazare from Brazil has given birth to a baby with two heads, as she had initially expected twins. Maria de Nazare, 25, gave birth by caesarean at a hospital in Anajas, in Brazil’s northern Para state, with her newborn weighing 9.9 lbs. In a tribute to the religious celebrations at Christmas, Maria de Nazare has decided to call the pair Emanoel and Jesus. Following the birth of her…
…s the cheap and easily available medicine could also be deployed in the fight against cancer. Earlier this year the same team found foxglove could reduce the spread of prostate cancer in men by around 24%. Research leader, Dr. Gregg Semenza, from the Institute for Cell Engineering at the university said: “This is really exciting.” “Our findings warrant clinical trials to determine if the doses (us…
…rients. Cancerous tumors use the blood supply to spread around the body and it is hoped that the treatment, called ICT2588, will also combat this. The first tests on humans could start in as little as 18 months. If the treatment will be successful, the drug could be on the market in 6 to 7 years….
Hilaria Baldwin joins husband Alec at Cannes Film Festival 2013 to promote his documentary Seduced and AbandonedAlec Baldwin famously lost his cool with film producer Harvey Weinstein at last year's Cannes film festival. But it appears that Alec Baldwin, 55, has managed to keep his…
Jennifer Lawrence wears blue body paint to portray X-Men's MystiqueJennifer Lawrence has hit the X-Men set like a bolt from the blue and her fans have been given a glimpse of the 22-year-old star in all her painted glory as she reprises her…
Ray Manzarek dead: The Doors co-founder dies aged 74 after long battle with cancerRay Manzarek, keyboardist and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 74. He formed the band with lead singer…
Christine White dies in a nursing home in Washington at the age of 86Actress Christine White, who played a calming wife on a classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode that featured a young William Shatner, has died at age 86. Christine White…
Macaulay Culkin at risk of lung cancerMacaulay Culkin is said to be smoking a whopping 60 cigarettes a day, leading to new health fears for the troubled former child star. “He's put his nicotine addiction into…
Eurovision 2013: Azerbaijan inquiry into "nul points" for RussiaAzerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia "nul points" at Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Voters and the official Azerbaijan…
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