Oceans Rising 60 Percent Faster: IPCC's Latest Estimate

The sea level is rising faster than expected. This could mean that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) sea-level rise projections for the future may be biased low as well. Sea-level rise potentially affects millions of people all around the world in coastal areas as well as megacities like Tokyo. "Global temperature continues to rise at the rate that was projected in the last two IPCC Reports. This shows again that global warming ...

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Female Parasites Should Be Targeted By Malaria Drugs

Researchers have suggested a new way to develop drugs and vaccines to tackle malaria in a new study. Research into malaria parasites, which exist in male and female forms and mate to spread the disease, suggests that treatments would be more likely to succeed if designed to target female forms of the parasite. Scientists found that male parasites can adapt to new surroundings faster than the females. When malaria infects the bloodstream ...

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Cold, mold loom as hazards in Sandy disaster zones

A month after Sandy's floodwaters swept up his block, punched a hole in his foundation and drowned his furnace, John Frawley still has no electricity or heat in his dilapidated home on the Rockaway seashore. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

D.C. Week: Health Spending Cuts Play Big

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- As leaders in Congress continued their back-and-forth over a budget deal to avert the "fiscal cliff," lawmakers examined ways to reduce healthcare spending by cutting benefits. via MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians Read More Here..

Wood stoves, extreme cold blight air at Alaska's "North Pole"

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Santa may need more than Rudolph's bright nose to get through the grimy North Pole atmosphere. North Pole, Alaska - the Fairbanks suburb, not the spot at the top of the globe - has posted some of the nation's worst air-quality readings in recent days, thanks to high levels of wood smoke streaming into stagnant cold air. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

Wide Treatment of HIV Cuts Risk of Transmission (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- A large Chinese study suggests that treating HIV has a real-world benefit in preventing transmission of the virus, even in developing countries. via MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians Read More Here..

Butt Enhancement That Went Bust

A recent video that went viral online is about some of the risks of butt enhancement surgery especially when it goes all wrong. The woman in the video is seen flipping her newly inserted butt implant, and all the while saying : "I don't think it's meant to do that." This woman whose identity is yet unknown found that her butt enhancement surgery got ruined after the interior flat side of the implant flipped and was facing outward, giving her butt a rather odd ...

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New Device Records Vital Signs in Just a Few Seconds

Some tech companies are doing what is need of the hour and perhaps what is on consumer wish lists, of having products that can help people manage their own health. The first on this segment is, Scanadu Scout, which is a mini device which the user can keep against his temple, to measure vital signs such as heart rate, pulse transit time, electrical heart activity, temperature, heart rate variability and blood oxygenation. The readings are out in just 10 seconds which ...

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Indian Couple Face Arrest in Norway for Scolding Their Son

Extreme reaction to a simple and perhaps daily feature in many Indian households of reprimanding children by parents as a way to correct them, turned awry for an Indian couple from the IT city of Hyderabad who went to Norway on work. Early this year, the couple has been charged with child abuse for scolding their seven-year-old son, Sairam, for bed-wetting. The Indian couple, Chandrasekhar and his wife Anupama, has been arrested in Oslo and now the Indian mission ...

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Steroid Injections for Back Pain May Lower Bone Mass

Study found older women who got shots showed greater bone loss in hips six months later via Resurrection Health Care - Daily News More READ

Grand jury probing meningitis-linked pharmacy: newspaper

BOSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury is investigating the compounding pharmacy at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, the Boston Globe reported on Saturday. The grand jury has begun issuing subpoenas to people who worked for the New England Compounding Center, which closed after investigators determined it had produced the tainted injectible steroid that has killed 36 people, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed people who formerly worked for the company. ...

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