“The virus found in the patient was 90 percent similar to H5N1 viruses previously isolated in ducks in China, which suggested that the man was very likely to have been infected through direct contact with a bird. It is still not transmissible between people,” said the Shenzhen Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in China.

Officials of Disease Prevention and Control in China finally break it silence on issue of virus strain found in a man, who lived in Shenzhen just across the border from Hong Kong. According to the reports, he died from multi-organ failure last Saturday; it was after he was admitted to hospital because of fever. It is said that the virus brought on the disease; it is according to the state media reports.

According to the researchers, the virus is normally found in birds but the possibility of the virus mutation is very much possible, it could mutate into a form that makes the spread easily between humans.

Marijuana Weed

“The federal government has instituted a policy to dismantle the medical marijuana laws of the state of California and to coerce its municipalities to pass bans on medical marijuana dispensaries. To this end, the government has pursued an increasingly punitive strategy, which has involved criminal prosecutions of medical marijuana providers with Draconian penalties and letters threatening local officials if they implement state law,” this is according to the lawsuit filed by medical marijuana advocacy group.

This move is in hope to resolve issue on one of the most critical legal matters that up to the present embark into a long journey of arguments and dispute. Though voters approved medical marijuana that dates back in 1996, problems escalated on how to regulate it for medical purposes.

Chief Counsel for Americans for Safe Access, Joe Elford, also said, “They’re not just enforcing marijuana laws, they are doing something extremely unusual in an effort to quash the medial marijuana programs in the various states.”

Python on a tree

“It’s this amazing biology. They’re not swelling up. They’re building (hear) muscle,” said Leslie Leinwand, Molecular Biologist, University of Colorado Boulder.

Snakes’ hearts doubled in size, too, s they’re digesting – and now scientist are now considering it as great value for clues about human heart. Python’s heart has great resemblance to the large-than-normal hearts of the Olympic-calibre athletes. Their research has just recently found out how the snakes make it happen.

According to Leinwand, python’s heart has implications for people’s heart. For human, enlarged heart is caused by chronic high blood pressure and other ailments. That makes it flabby and unable to works well. But  for athletes, vigorous and regular work outs gives them muscular and large hearts, similar to how python hearts are during digestion. When a python swallow that big meal, something bizarre happens, their metabolism reaches up to 40-fold, and their organs starts to enlarge to cope up with the digesting process, the heart alone grows almost double.

Aspirin tablets

“This is one more piece of evidence that there are some very positive effects of aspirin, and it should be considered very seriously for people who are at risk of colorectal cancer, “says Tim Bishop, one of the authors of the research, Professor of Epidemiology, Leeds University in England.

According to their studies, aspirin reduce the risk of colorectal cancer; however, this is the first randomized controlled trial to find its effect on human in relation to some cancer. Their study involved 1,000 patients from 43 medical centres in 16 locations. They all had Lynch syndrome, genetic condition that predisposes people to develop colorectal cancer and other types of cancer.

Bishop also added, “If I had a family history of bowel cancer, I would feel quite strongly about taking aspirin regularly. There are certainly lots of benefits of taking aspirin. But people have to weigh the tradeoffs. With larger doses of aspirin comes the increase danger of ulcers and vascular bleeds.”

Hunger Hormones and Obesity

“The finds suggest that the high rate of relapse among obese people who have lost weight has a strong physiological basis and is not simply the result of the voluntary resumption of old habits,” these is according to the lead author, Joseph Prietto, PhD, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Australia.

Prietto and his Colleagues research shows that heavy patients who lose weight dieting often fail to keep the pounds off, the researchers explained. They said that restricting calories can reduce levels of the hormones leptin—this is gives message to the brain that the body is full—and gheril—hormones that stimulates cravings for foods.

Their study involved 50 obese patients and they enrolled them into a 10-week-loss program that involved a very low energy diet. They observed at the activity of levels of ghrelin, leptin, peptide YY, and gastric inhibitory peptide, amylin, pancreatic polypeptide, and insulin at three different stages: starting at baseline, 10 weeks, and 62 weeks.

Injectable Antibiotics

“We are investigating the circumstances of this tragic incident and express our condolences to the Ahmmad family,” said Ruth Richman, Hospital Representative. Brookdale hospital refused to answer questions by the reporters but they issued these statements.

Ahmmad family from New York pointed to a nurse who allegedly administered antibiotics to their 6-month-old baby; they said it is an overdose of antibiotics. “My baby turned blue and went to coma after that,” the mother said.

Baby Ahmmad was brought to Brookdale University Hospital last Friday morning and doctors said, it is to be pneumonia. “Not even a second. The medicine went in, and he is finished,” Baby Ahmmad mother’s said. The baby was placed on life support until Tuesday. Allegedly, the baby was given 500 mg of the antibiotic instead of 80 mg proper dosage. According to a report by Health Affairs, as many as one-third of hospital visits, eventually lead to a tragic or hospital-related injury.

Spilled pills

“It is difficult not to conclude that combinedoral contraceptive with desogestrel, gestodene, or drospirenone confer a higher risk of venous thromboembolism than those with levonorgestre. Many clinicians will choose to minimize the risk by prescribing a combined oral contraceptive with levonorgestrel whenever possible,” said Dr. Philip Hannaford, University of Aberdeen.

According to a new study, those who have previous history of taking “third-generation” style developed in the 80’s should change to different brand, this is after the research on the health of million of women in Denmark. However, company insisted the contraceptive bills remain safe and not linked to risk of cancer, there are issues pointing to the link between birth control pills and blood clot in deep leg vein.

This blood clot in leg vein or venous thromboembolism is known to be fatal if they travel to the lungs. The research shows that they found the risk was increased almost three fold among those who took the “third-generation” style pills.

A cup of coffee

“Given the nearly 1 million new cases of (basal cell carcinoma diagnosed each year in the United States, daily dietary factors with even small protective effects may have great public health impact. It is likely that caffeine has a protective effect. BBC risk was inversely associated with caffeine,” said Fengju Song, PhD, Co-author of the study, Postdoctoral fellow in Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

According to a new research, drinking more than three cups of coffee a day can lower the risk of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC) compared to women who drank less than one cup a month. The research also shows that men, who drink more than three cups of coffee on a daily basis, had a 9 percent reduction in their risk of getting basal carcinoma.

Song also said, “Mouse studies have shown that oral or topical caffeine promotes elimination of UV-damaged keratinobytes via apoptosis and markedly reduces subsequent SCC development. However, in our cohort analysis, we did not find any inverse association between coffee consumption and the risk of SCC.”

Spilled Pills

FDA is now saying “YES” to the first generic versions of the drug Zyprexa. Zyprexa is an expensive medicine for treating schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder.

Now, family inflicted with the disease with low income generating salaries can now have the option to use the drugs. This new low-cost versions of the drug will be utilizing an Indian Generic drugmaker Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries which is based in Israel.

Zyprexa generated sales of $5.7 billion in last year alone, the happy drugmaker is the Eli Lilly and Co Inc, the information is based on the data provided by the IMS Health- a prescription tracking Company.

The cost efficiency of the new drug is incomparable to the very expensive Zyprexa. Generic version of Zyprexa is only 20%-30% of its price, a wooping 80% discount value. Zyprexa is used to control the levels of dopamine in the brain, it is a brain chemical responsible for behaviour, movement, and moods.

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Antidepressant Pills from the bottle

“It is surprising to learn that only about one-third of those taking one antidepressant have seen as mental health professional within the past year. The numbers of those who have seen a mental health professional do appear to improve for those taking two or more antidepressants,” said Dr. Tolu Olupona, not part of the research, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital Adolescent Health Centre, New York City.

According to the research, the data of 2005-2008 from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys stated that antidepressants are considered the third most common prescription drug generally used by American for all ages. One-third of individuals with severe depression take antidepressant prescription. In addition, more than 60 percent of them used the medication for two years or longer. The researchers also found out that women are 2.5 times more likely to be in antidepressants medications than men.