Shy Properties Can Make Longevity

Luckily if it has a shy nature. A study reveals the relationship between personality with the metabolic system, which causes shyness can live longer.

Scientist Vincent Careau PhD from the University of Sherbrooke trying to see the relationship between personality and various aspects of biology in dogs. Tests on animals could be a reference to humans how animals could be due to its longevity.

Quoted from Topnews, Monday (05/24/2010), scientists use the data obtained by comparing the various studies ever done before.

In menangkarkan dog race, humans unwittingly been doing experiments on personality. Election races for breeding is not only based on physical appearance, but the attributes including whether the dog is a dog vicious or not.

As a result of captive breeding, several types of dog breeds have their own kepriabadiannya such fierce, meek, had the instinct to fight, and so forth. Other factors such as age and energy needs of course not taken into account when menangkarkan.

The results obtained showed a significant relationship. Race dog with submissive nature can live longer than a bad dog. Similarly, aggressive or vicious dog, it has more energy consumption that makes it die faster.

"It's hard to imagine, aggressive personality, if not offset the adequacy of energy and metabolic systems will not survive much longer," says Careau.

The properties of the dog is in human nature. People who are meek will not issue such as excessive energy aggressive than people who are usually easy to stress.

The study, published in the journal The American Naturalist is considered successful in uncovering relationships crucial aspects related to the age of the animal.

Subsequent research is expected to reveal another personality type and the effect on life expectancy.

New Ways of HIV Prevention

During this the way to avoid contracting the AIDS virus is by using condoms. But the researchers revealed that the tablet and vaginal ring could effectively protect a person from AIDS.

Researchers reported that the vaginal tablet, vaginal ring and the film layer containing a drug to help protect women and men from infection with the AIDS virus.

Such approach is called the microbicide. This possibility may help overcome some of the usual risk of drug resistance arises when someone uses pills to prevent infection.

Several findings have been reported in the International Microbicides Conference in Pittsburgh, as quoted from Reuters, Tuesday (25/05/2010), namely:

1. A flexible vaginal ring

A flexible ring that is designed for use in the vagina can continually just like giving two AIDS drugs for a month. This tool is found by Andrew Loxley from Bethelem, Pennsylvania. These rings are tested in the laboratory to determine the effect of the drug and inhibitor maraviroc dapivirine. However, this tool has not been tested in humans.

2. Vaginal tablets

A vaginal tablet works almost the same as that by releasing vaginal ring drug maraviroc and other HIV drugs called the DS003. These results are found by Sanjay Grag from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The tablet uses a polymer coating designed to withstand moisture in the vagina.

3. Using a layer (film)

This tool is found based on the results of research Anthony Ham ImQuest BioSciences of Frederick, Maryland. Imquest is HIV drug testing IDP-9528 contained within a small layer and thin, even thinner than a gum strip or similar to mouthwash.

Susan Schader and colleagues from McGill University in Montreal, Canada tells us that people will have drug-resistant infections in microboside when the person is already infected.

Based on data from the United National AIDS (UNAIDS) to the HIV virus has now infected more than 33 million people worldwide and has caused 25 million deaths. In addition more than half of people with HIV are women and most are infected from their husbands or their permanent partner who does not want to use condoms.

Actually, AIDS experts have long been looking for microbicide in the form of creams, gels, or rings that can be used by men or women and serves as a shield to protect themselves from sexual transmission of the deadly virus and this can not be cured.

Canary Trees Have Women's Hormones

During this may be people already know that the hormone progesterone is owned by humans and animals. But recent studies have found a walnut tree hormone progesterone.

Progesterone is a female sex hormone produced in the ovaries. Of this steroid hormone influences on female menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis.

Progesterone serves to increase epidermal growth factor, increases core temperature during ovulation, reduces spasms and to relax smooth muscle (widen bronchi and regulate mucus), anti-inflammatory, reduces gallbladder activity, normalization of clotting blood and blood vessels.

And recently, researchers have found these female sex hormones in the walnut tree. This is a great discovery, because before people only know that progesterone is found only in humans and animals.

Until now, researchers thought that the only animals besides humans that can produce progesterone. A steroid hormone secreted by the ovaries, progesterone prepares the uterus for pregnancy and maintaining pregnancy. A synthetic version, progestin, used in birth control pills and other drugs.

"The importance of a clear indication of progesterone can not be overstated," wrote F. Guido Pauli and his colleagues in the journal of the American Chemical Society, Natural Products, as reported from LiveScience, Tuesday (05/25/2010).

According to Pauli, although the role of progesterone in biology has been widely studied in mammals, but the reason for its presence in plants is still unclear.

Researchers speculate that the hormone progesterone, like other steroid hormones, may be an ancient bioregulator evolved billions of years ago, before the advent of modern plants and animals.

The new findings could alter the scientific understanding of evolution and function of progesterone in living organisms.

Previous investigators to identify progesterone-like substances in plants, and speculated that hormones in the plant itself.

Pauli and his colleagues used two power engineering laboratory, namely nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy, to detect progesterone in Common types of walnut tree leaves or Bahasa Walnut Walnut.

Pauli also identified five progesterone-related steroids in plants, including buttercups family.

Bacteria That Can Increase Intelligence

Environments provide anything for humans to become more intelligent. Including a type of bacteria that live in soil, which, according to research can improve the intelligence in mammals.

The main habitat called Mycobacterium vaccae bacteria that is on the ground. Because the overwhelming numbers, the bacteria are believed to be very easy to get into the human body through food or air when on the move outdoors.

According to research quoted by the ScienceDaily, Wednesday (05/26/2010), the bacteria M. vaccae has antidepressant effect also can improve learning ability in mammals (mammals). The study was conducted by a team from The Sage Colleges in New York.

In previous studies, the bacteria that can be easily killed if exposed to heat it to a group of mice injected. Inside the brain tissue, the bacteria stimulated the formation of neurons that can increase serotonin production, so

reduce anxiety.

"Because serotonin also plays a role in improving learning ability, then it should also be educated the M. vaccae rats," said Dorothy Matthews, one of the researchers.

Matthews is in the study had collaborated with his colleague Susan Jenks then continued experimentation. Mice that were fed bacteria tested for its ability to traverse a maze, and compared the speed with which the control rats did not eat the bacteria.

The result, mice that ate the bacteria can get through the maze faster than the control rats. Similarly, the level of anxiety, in rats fed the test bacteria was observed lower.

In the second experiment, the diet of bacteria is stopped, and the tests to be done through the maze again. The result, the speed test to get through the maze of rats decreased on average though still faster than the control rats.

The third experiment performed after a diet of bacteria is stopped for three weeks. Although the speed through a maze test in rats is still faster, but the difference was not statistically significant.

This last experiment also shows that the effect of bacteria is only temporary or temporary. When the diet was stopped, the intelligence obtained by the test rats is reduced.

Although only temporary, the results of this study led to speculation. If activities outside the classroom learning propagated, then the possibility of inhaling the bacteria M. vaccae effect is getting larger and the students became more intelligent.

The study was presented at the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 110th held in San Diego.

Diarrhea Bacteria Spread Through the Air

Diarrhea-causing bacteria spread more easily than was previously known. Not only through human feces, the bacteria are apparently able to spread through the air.

Quoted from HealthDay, Sunday (05/30/2010), this fact was revealed in a study at the University of Leeds. Review was also published in The New York Times.

The bacteria Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a trigger diarrhea, one of the most deadly infections that occurred in the digestive tract. During this time, direct contact with patients known to dirt as the only means of transmission.

Direct contact is enough easily transmit the bacteria, so always be isolated from diarrhea patients when treated by the hospital. Place of isolation must always ensure clean and sterile.

But apparently in the observation of 50 patients, the bacteria spread more easily form the more active again when the infection. C. difficile can live on the air, and landed in places that could be touched by human hands.

This is a challenge for health care places, to more accurately treat patients of diarrhea. Nosokomal control of infection (infection that occurs in the hospital) should be tightened.

Center for disease control and prevention of USA (CDC) urged hospitals to immediately isolate the patient's diarrhea. Besides isolation room cleanliness also be a higher priority.

Even so, Dr. L. Clifford McDonald of the CDC also calls for the results of this study addressed was not excessive. Apart from the isolation of patients with diarrhea have become the standard of the first, the highest contamination still occurs through direct contact with feces.

Rare Parasites Attacking Gay Couples

Rare disease caused by parasites are now attacking a gay couple (gay) living with HIV. Transmission occurs through unprotected anal or oral sex.

Amebiasis, which is the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica infection is actually very rare. Usually never happens in industrialized countries, only happens in countries that have endemic amoebic substandard sanitation.

But now the assumption was changed, since the research conducted by Mrs. Chieng Ching Hung in Taiwan. Quoted from Medical News, Monday (5/31/2010), the study was a dissertation for my doctorate at the University of Antwerp.

During the time of transmission of E. histolytica occurs through contaminated water. Amoebic infection has become very dangerous when attacking the intestines and cause diarrhea. In addition, E. histolytica can also enter the bloodstream and cause abscesses in the liver.

In that study, it was revealed that not only is now transmitted through contaminated water. These diseases are also transmitted in the previous homoseksial men are HIV positive.

According to research Hung, gay men seropositive (HIV) in Taiwan more prone to infections than healthy population amoebae. Even still higher than the heterosexual seropositive.

In conclusion, Hung suspected amebiasis associated transmission through oral sex and anal sex that occurs in a gay couple. While its appearance in non-endemic industrialized countries amoeba, is the impact of globalization, which allows migration occurs more easily.

Not only against amebiasis course, Hung also confirmed that several other diseases become more deadly when combined with HIV. Including tuberculosis and hepatitis B.

Breast Cancer Prevention Vaccines Appear Soon

The threat of breast cancer continues to haunt women. Start Now there are bright spots after scientists discover a vaccine that could be used to prevent and treat breast cancer.

"All women over the age of 40 years can be given this vaccine to prevent them from breast cancer," said Dr. Vincent Tuohy who created this vaccine as reported by the Telegraph, Monday (05/31/2010).

This vaccine will begin to be tested in a year. Currently a study of mice has revealed that this vaccine can stop tumor activity either never appear or the tumor was being attacked.

If testing is successful in one year will be carried out against women in clinical trials next year. Researchers will invite doctors to give the vaccine in women aged 40 years, the age when the risk of breast cancer began to rise.

In current testing, the vaccine can eliminate 70 percent of breast cancer. But Dr. Vincent promised to pursue the manufacture of vaccines that provide substantial protection and remove the disease completely.

"We really believe that breast cancer preventive vaccines will work like a vaccine to prevent polio," said Dr Vincent of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

"We try to provide substantial protection and we believe breast cancer is a disease completely preventable," continued the inventor of the vaccine.

The vaccine material made of protein called alpha-lactalbumin which is the main cause of breast cancer proteins. The basic ingredients are the same proteins are known to be a vaccine against the disease.

In tests conducted in mice, this vaccine may liberate tumor as reported in the journal Nature Medicine.

Injections of this vaccine will stimulate the immune system, which will destroy the alpha-lactalbumin that stops tumor formation.

Vaccines are also used as an immune system that could shrink the pre-existing tumors by half.

Researchers are now looking for ways how to do injections and the provision of a safe dose that could hit targets on diseased cells.

If this research work will provide important benefits for preventing breast cancer in the future.

To be sure women are also advised to adopt healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of breast cancer such as reducing alcohol consumption, maintaining a healthy weight and exercise regularly.

Incurred risk of blood Weddings

Of all the world's population, probably about 20-50 percent of marriages between relatives to live with a partner originating from the same ancestor. True blood wedding (close bloodlines) risky to bring the defective offspring?

Marriage is meant here is incest between cousins, one clan or family lines near, but not the blood-bladder or incest.

Incest marriage the couple usually a lot happening just realized after tracing his family line. Incest marriage also happened to Charles Darwin, who married his first cousin Emma.

"One of the dangers that could arise from incest marriage is difficult to prevent diseases associated with bad genes a parent to his children someday," said Debra Lieberman of the University of Hawaii, as quoted from LiveScience, Monday (31/05/2010) .

Lieberman said the marriage with siblings or close relatives who could improve dramatically the possibility of getting two copies of harmful genes, than if married to someone who comes from outside the family.

This is due to each person to bring a copy of the bad gene and no normal gene that can replace it, so there must be some problem that could eventually cause the child to have a short life time.

Professor Alan Bittles, director of human genetics center in Perth, Australia has been collecting data on the mortality of children born of marriages between cousins from around the world.

It is known that there is an additional risk of death increased approximately 1.2 percent compared to marriage was not a close relative. Meanwhile there was an increased risk of birth defects around 2 percent in the general population and 4 percent in the marriage that her parents have a close kinship.

Genetic conditions more common in relatives of marriage are rare recessive disorder that can cause various problems, such as blindness, deafness, skin diseases and neurodegenerative conditions.

"Nearly all men carry the genetic mutation, but when a population has a smaller scope then the gene mutation will become more common," says Prof. Bittles, as quoted from the BBC.

If two people who carry a recessive gene reproduce, their children will have a one in four chance to have these disorders and one of the two children have the opportunity to be the bearer of properties (carrier).

This is a dangerous marriage or blood relatives who have close family relationships, because the risk of certain diseases or genetic conditions becomes greater.

Professor Bittles explains very important for people to be married to conduct genetic testing beforehand in order to prevent negative impacts that may occur in children. This method is selective filtering much more effective.

Prostate Cancer Treatment with Radiation Cause Fragile Bones

One of prostate cancer treatment with radiation is three dimensional. However radiation generated can cause fragile hip bones so easily cracked or broken.

The risk of bone fragility in cancer treatment has actually been studied before. Treatment with androgen-suppressing drugs weaken bones in men. While radiation exposure trigger hip fracture in women.

To view the radiation risk in men, as quoted from HealthDay, Monday (05/31/2010), researchers looked at medical records of more than 166 000 cancer patients aged 66 years porstat upward. The data is then compared with the risk of bone fractures.

The risk of hip fractures was observed in bone is directly exposed to radiation. As a comparison, the locations that are not directly exposed to radiation, namely at the wrist were also observed.

After adjusting statistically, factors such as race and age are considered not affect the data. The result, researchers found the risk of hip fracture in the bone increased 58 percent while the wrist there is no increased risk.

"Maintaining healthy bones is one of the most important part in treating prostate cancer," said Dr. Jeff Holzbeierlein, spokesperson for the American Urological Association.

In suppressors of androgens, the risk of bone fragility has been known in advance so there is always a step of anticipate. Given these findings, Holzbeierlein suggested the same steps on treatment with light

radiation.

The results of this study will be presented at the American Urological Association, which takes place this weekend in San Francisco.

The prostate is a gland below the bladder that produces semen men. Cancer that affects the rest of the number three cause of death in men, compared to other types of cancer.

Symptoms that accompany prostate cancer include:

1. Urinary problems, such as pain and hard to control

2. Pain in lower back

3. Pain that accompanies ejaculation

Women is Main Target Cigarette Company

Cigarettes are not becoming more rare among men. And to widen its market, women are now also become the main targets of tobacco companies and the tobacco industry to increase the number of new smokers.

On World No Tobacco Day 2010 is commemorated each year on May 31, Board of Health

World (WHO) with the theme 'Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women'. It is designed to anticipate the effects of hazards of tobacco marketing, especially for women and young girls.

"Now the tobacco companies targeting women and young girls as their new target markets as well as making it a prime target," said Dr. Soepandi Sp.P Priyanti Z (K), Director of department of Friendship, in a press conference to commemorate World No Tobacco Day (HTTS) in Dr Friendship, Jakarta, Monday (05/31/2010).

According to WHO data, from one billion smokers in the world, as much as 20 percent or about 200 million people are women, and this number will continue to increase if not skeptical.

Data from 151 countries showed that about 7 percent of teenage girls smoking and 12 percent of adolescent boys to smoke. Even in some countries, more girls smoke than boys.

Statistics smokers in Indonesia, when seen from among children and adolescents for 24.1 percent of adolescent boys and four girls, or as a whole amounted to 13.5 percent of Indonesian teenagers are smokers.

Even for the Jakarta area alone, smoking prevelance data from the Demographic Institute at the University of Indonesia in 2008 showed that there were eight percent of women smokers in the capital.

That is, there are 240 thousand women smokers among the three million active smokers in the capital. The number of women smokers in Indonesia rose five times more than men.

According to Dr Priyanti, there is a tendency to increase the number of women smokers, whereas male smokers stable. This is what has digencarkan by cigarette companies, aiming for new goals and make it a prime target.

This is influenced by an unhealthy lifestyle in today's society that affect women more than men.

Lifestyle, such as interactions with fellow smokers and often visit places of entertainment are much visited among smokers, more easily affect women.

Whereas women should be able to combat the habit of smoking husbands or sons. Combating cigarette with the love a mother may become an efficacious manner. But this would be impossible if the mother is also an active smoker.

Can not be avoided anymore, the role of women as family protector from the danger of cigarettes is very important. This is because the role of women as mothers in families of smokers should be able to provide a good example of exemplary behavior, such as health behavior, honesty, fix the problem in a positive way, and always provide positive support for each family member who wants to quit smoking.

Women are the protectors of the family of the cigarettes, and not even follow the habits of her husband and children who smoke.

UN: Reduce Eating Meat to Save the Planet

Vegetarians not only good for the body but also the environment. Report calls for major UN world population need to change your eating habits and switch to a vegetarian to address climate change issues.

Group of international scientists say the biggest cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the production of food and the use of fossil fuels.

Scientists say the use of coal and oil could be gradually replaced by renewable energy sources like wind and solar. But the world's population will always need to eat.

Because of the growing world population, it is feared that food production will be the main cause of climate change and environmental degradation.

International Panel of Sustainable Resource Management (IPSRM) showed that livestock production contributes 70 percent of global water pollution, 30 percent use of land and 19 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions. The report will be submitted to governments around the world.

Going vegetarian is the only way to feed the world population while reducing climate change. A significant decrease in the impact may only happen with a change of diet and eating patterns are also significant in the entire world.

"People can help fight climate change by eating less meat," said Achim Steiner, Executive Director UN Environment Programme, as reported by the Telegraph, Friday (4/6/2010).

Steiner said that IPSRM has reviewed all existing scientific data and concluded that the current two main areas which have a disproportionately high impact on the planet's life support systems is the energy in the form of fossil fuels and animal husbandry, especially the increase of cattle for meat and dairy products.

He also recommends that the government could encourage people to eat less meat by changing the tax system and give subsidy to a cheap vegetarian food.

Lord Stern of Brentford, author of the Stern Review states in economic action to combat climate change can be trusted with eating less meat.

He also hopes the price of meat and food 'carbon-intensive' More must be raised so that people can turn into a vegetarian and save the earth.

Beethoven's Death Not Due to Lead Poisoning

Famous composer Beethoven's death still mystery. Some medical complications are often associated with death. But the latest findings reveal a cause of lead poisoning could be removed.

Famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827. Based on an analysis of Beethoven's skull fragments conducted by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, Beethoven's death was not caused by lead poisoning.

"Approximately 95 percent lead in the adult body is stored in bones, and tin can survive there for years even after death," said Andrew Todd, a professor of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai School, as quoted from HealthDay, Friday (04/06/2010).

Prof Todd said by measuring the amount of lead contained in the fragments (pieces) of Beethoven's bones, allowing researchers to determine how much exposure he received during his tin life.

The two bone fragments under study are obtained by a composer friend named Dr. Gerhard von Breuning. Pieces of bone were obtained during Beethoven's body reburied in 1863. Reputedly known that von Breuning provides bone fragments at a professor at the University of Vienna.

Prof. Tood and colleagues tried to measure the thickness of the skull and also analyze the surface of a small piece of skull bone. The analysis was performed following the previous test conducted in 2000.

Recent efforts undertaken to gather information is by using a technique known as X-ray flourescence (XRF) by keeping the weight of the bones being examined. This technique uses small doses of radiation to see each tin is still stored in the bones.

Researchers found that of the two bone fragments found at 12 microgram of lead per gram of bone mineral. This amount is not sufficient to support the notion that Beethoven suffered from lead exposure causes renal failure that threatened his life.

"For someone your age should be the amount of tin which Beethoven found more than it is about 21 microgram per gram of bone mineral to cause lead poisoning," says Professor Todd.

Based on some existing theories, Beethoven died from lead poisoning suspected of experiencing colic and kidney failure along with liver failure who was mentioned as a possible cause of his death at the age of 56 years.

But until now the cause of death of the composer Beethoven was still a mystery, because based on testing the bone fragment was found that it is likely he died not due to lead poisoning.

In the beginning, lead poisoning is difficult to detect, even if someone looks healthy he could have been excessively exposed to lead. Symptoms of poisoning is only to be seen if the amount accumulated in the body is high.

Although this tin can attack any part of the body, but usually the main target is the oxygen-carrying protein in red blood cells (hemoglobin), which can eventually attack the person's nervous system.

Many cheerleaders Have Eating Disorders

Cheerleaders or better known as the cheerleader is a team that generally consists of pretty girls and every time there's always highly anticipated sporting event in the school.

But a recent study found that cheerleading in schools at risk of body image problems and eating disorders.

This study was conducted on 136 school cheerleader. The risk of body image problems and eating disorders are influenced by putting cheerleaders ideal necessity and the demands for a special uniform.

To conduct this study, researchers surveyed the participants' weight, because weight and height cheerleaders always considered ideal.

Participants were also asked about what they think the perception of coaches and parents about their body image. Looks like this is very worrying, because what participants think is not in accordance with the expectations of their coaches or parents.

The study shows that cheerleaders are generally experiencing an eating disorder. And about 33.1 percent at risk of eating disorders and self-image ketidakpuasaan.

"Adjustment of body image and eating disorders can be formed since they were young and this will last a lifetime," said Toni Torres-McGehee, chairman of the study, as reported from LiveScience, Friday (6/4/2010).

Torres-McGehee also said that teams and coaches should consider the long-term effects suffered by cheerleaders with their obligation to wear a special uniform with the ideal body shape. Moreover, if the requirement is only based on aesthetic grounds.

"The core of the cheerleading team is to create friendships and how they cheer teams will compete, as well as keeping the body of these girls to stay active and healthy," added Torres-McGehee who is also assistant professor of athletic training at the University of South Carolina.

Coaches should be excited and do not require soraknya guiding team with an ideal body image. Coaches should build confidence in his team. With a team of cheerleaders active, healthy and always excited, its indirect impact is also felt on the ideal body shape.

These findings have been published on knowledge meeting the American College of Sports Medicine.

WHO announcement Swine Flu Pandemic Still Assessed Rushing

World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the H1N1 or pandemic flu is still a pig, although the period of most intense activity seemed to have passed. But according to Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, the announcement was too hasty.

As quoted from its website on June 3, 2010, the WHO announced that the H1N1 or better known as the pig is still a pandemic flu. WHO Director General Margaret Chan said that the current level of pandemic alert is still in the highest possible, ie stage 6. WHO will review this decision in July.

Global updates given to the Emergency Committee on the situation of a pandemic, including a special focus on developments in Africa and the southern hemisphere. The most active areas of transmission of influenza viruses currently in the tropics, especially in parts of the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.

"Announcement of the WHO declared pandemic H1N1 too hasty," said Dr Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, MPH, DR. PH, Health Minister of the Republic of Indonesia, in his speech opening the symposium 'Current Situation and Prevention Influenza' at Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta, Saturday (05/06/2010).

Dr Endang said that these actions were too hasty, because WHO only considers the area affected by the spread, does not take into account mortality rates as well. WHO's actions have also been criticized from many countries because it uses a loose parameters.

According to Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Ministry of Health, Prof. Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama SPP (K), MARS, DTM & H, DTCE, there are inconsistencies concerning the definition used by the WHO pandemic.

WHO has stated that classified pandemic if the cause of death is widespread and spreading. But the announcement of the H1N1 pandemic is only based on the total area affected by H1N1 that much.

But with the announcement of this H1N1 pandemic, the government of Indonesia has taken the national strategies in an effort to prevent the spread of the increasingly widespread.

"WHO announcement about this H1N1 pandemic actually, there are also positive. The government became more alert to deal with doing a lot of prevention," said Prof. Cissy B. Kartasasmita, dr., Sp.A (K), MSc, PhD, Professor of Child Health and an expert UNPAD lung and airway son of Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung.

Influenza was not just about Cough Common Colds

Influenza is often underestimated because it is often considered merely ordinary coughs and colds. In fact the influenza virus can cause disease

Severe and even death.

Influenza or flu is an infectious disease caused by a virus. Each year, 50-10 percent of the adult population and 20-30 percent of the population of children with influenza.

Influenza can be recognized by the occurrence of high fever (39-40 degrees Celsius), headaches, severe cough, extreme fatigue or aches.

Unlike ordinary coughs colds, influenza can cause dangerous diseases and complications that threaten the lives of many people.

Annual influenza epidemics cause approximately 3 million cases of disease severity and causes 250-500 thousand deaths worldwide.

Annual vaccination is the most effective way to prevent influenza infection and complications resulting from it.

"Unfortunately, many Indonesian people who do not know that we need the influenza vaccine each year. In fact, doctors sometimes even less understood this," said Prof. Dr. Samsuridjal Djauzi, dr, Sp.PD, Division of Allergy-Clinical Immunology Department of Internal Medicine FKUI-RSCM, in the event the symposium 'Current Situation and Prevention Influenza' at Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta, Saturday (05/06/2010).

Influenza can lead to secondary infections and exacerbations of chronic medical conditions that already exist, which causes severe complications such as acute otitis media and pneumonia, exacerbation of asthma and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), increasing the risk of cardiovascular events, decline in kidney function, and aggravate the diabetic condition .

Some population groups have a higher risk of morbidity and mortality from influenza:

In both age groups are vulnerable:

1. Children with less than 2 years of age are the group with the risk of complications and hospitalization is higher compared with other age groups.

2. More than 90 percent of deaths from influenza occur in the age group 65 years or older.

Patients with concomitant diseases:

1. With cardiovascular disease, 50 times larger

2. With pulmonary disease, more than 100 times larger

3. With two or more of the accompanying diseases, more than 100 times larger

"In addition to healthy habits, prevention of influenza vaccination is most effective," said Prof. Cissy B. Kartasasmita, dr., Sp.A (K), MSc, PhD, Professor of Health Sciences

Children UNPAD and lung and airway expert Dr Hasan Sadikin children, Bandung.

Influenza vaccination provides significant advantages for high-risk population groups, namely:

1. Children

Vaccination in children showed the effectiveness of 77-91 percent to prevent the symptoms from influenza, morbidity due to influenza virus type A

2. Longevity

Vaccination proved to reduce the number of hospitalization from influenza pneumonia san at 27-34 percent.

3. Patients with asthma

In children with asthma conditions. Influenza vaccination is shown to decrease 22-41 percent of acute asthma exacerbations during the influenza season.

4. Patients with diabetes

Influenza vaccination is shown to decrease hospitalization rates for all complications or mortality rate of 72 percent in patients with diabetes for 18-64 years of age.

5. COPD Patients

Influenza vaccination proved effective to reduce exacerbations in patients with mild to severe COPD by 60-75 percent.

6. Cardiovascular patients

In pasein with a history of cardiovascular disease, influenza vaccination reduced the incidence of stroke daoat to 55 percent and reduced the incidence of myocardial infarction by 67 percent.

WHO has set a clear goal for pushing to increase vaccination coverage for high-risk population groups and to achieve vaccination coverage for 75 percent of the elderly population in the year 2010.

Currently ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) recommends the extension of the influenza vaccination to all influenza season.

"In Indonesia alone, influenza vaccination is still not made a national program, possibly next year. The new immunization existing Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)," said Prof. Dr. S. Sri Endang Rezeki Hadinegoro, dr., Sp.A (K), Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of Health Children FKUI-RSCM.

Abnormalities Weird Afraid To Beautiful Women

Women are beautiful and fascinating creatures. Almost everyone likes attention to a beautiful woman. But not for people with caligynephobia, paras beautiful woman who made her fear aka phobias.

According to the American Psychological Association, a phobia is one of the most common mental disorder, which affects more than 11 percent of men and women.

But probably not many people know that there are people who phobia with flawless woman, known as the caligynephobia or venustraphobia.

Like other fears or phobias, caligynephobia created by the subconscious mind as a protective mechanism. This may be caused by past events that connect the beautiful woman with emotional trauma.

Phobias this beautiful woman also can be triggered by various events in addition to personal trauma, like the incident in the film and television or seeing someone else experience associated with beautiful women.

People with caligynephobia will regard women as flawless in a very dangerous creature. People with this disorder will be very panicky when meeting with a beautiful woman.

As quoted from eHow, Monday (31/05/2010), other symptoms experienced by sufferers caligynephobia seeing beautiful women, either directly or on television, photos or videos were:

1. Shortness of breath, breathing becomes rapid and short

2. Irregular heartbeat

3. Cold sweats

4. Nausea

5. Fear overall

Although these symptoms are different between the fellow sufferer caligynephobia, but the effect was clearly going to make the patient unable to concentrate and declining performance when positioned near a beautiful woman.

This phobia is not only a relapse when face to face with a beautiful woman, but also can occur when the patient is seeing a beautiful woman on television, photo or video.

Approximately six percent of patients admitted experiencing significant problems. But there is no drug ever developed specifically to treat phobias beautiful women, drugs are only able to suppress the fear for a while.

When Youth Make Sex In Games

Dizziness headache faced so schools in Poland. Teenage girl 14-15 years of age known to play a sex game 'Star' or 'The Sun' which bear on early pregnancy.

Pregnancy should occur as it was already planned by both partners. But the silly games like that happened in the North of Poland made a lot of young women who become victims.

As happened in junior high school adolescents in Ostroda, North Poland pregnant after playing with his classmates. 14-15 year-old girl known to play a game called the 'Star' or 'The Sun'.

In this game the girl will lie on the floor with a circle whose head was at one point. After that, this girl's eyes closed and his son have intercourse with these girls alternately.

The winner of this game is the children who succeeded the last time to end his relationship. But the game is always produced some pregnancies.

"This year alone there were five girls who became pregnant and gave birth to two of them already," says Anna Czarnocka, principals of junior high school, as quoted from Foxnews, Tuesday (06/01/2010).

The prosecutor who investigated the case complained about the many parents and teachers in Ostroda who are not willing to cooperate.

Besides the lack of conversation about sex in schools and the absence of a psychologist who can explain to students that these games can lead to pregnancy and damaging their future.

Teenagers who become pregnant at an early age is very susceptible to various health risks, which could affect the fetus either contained or for the teenagers themselves.

As quoted from WebMD, there are some risks that can arise from pregnancy at an early age, namely:

Lack of care during pregnancy and before delivery

Teenage girls who become pregnant, especially if you do not get support from his family is at risk of deficiencies in care during pregnancy and before delivery. Though this treatment is very important especially in the early months of pregnancy. This treatment is useful for monitoring the medical condition of mothers and babies and their growth, so that if any complications can be handled quickly.

High blood pressure

Teenagers who become pregnant have a risk of having high blood pressure or called with pregnancy-induced hypertension, compared with women who are pregnant diusia cooked. These conditions trigger preeclampsia, which is a dangerous medical condition that combines high blood pressure with excess protein in urine, swelling of the hands and face of the mother as well as organ damage.

Premature births

A normal pregnancy lasts for 38-40 weeks, so if born before that age is called a premature birth. If a pregnant mother does not care enough or have certain conditions, could trigger a risky preterm delivery on the baby such as respiratory disorders, digestive system is not perfect or other organ disorders.

Low birth weight infants

If the birth occurs prematurely or not getting enough nutrition during pregnancy, there is the possibility of the babies born have a low weight. Infants who have low body weight is usually around 1500-2500 grams, whereas under the 1500 gram weight is then classified as low. This can lead to various complications that can endanger the baby.

Risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)

Teenagers who have sex have the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia and HIV. This is very important to watch out for STDs can cause disturbances in the cervix (the cervix) or infect the uterus and the fetus was conceived.

Postpartum depression (postpartum depression)

Pregnancy which occurs during high-risk adolescents experiencing postpartum depression. The girls will feel down and sad after the baby. Depression can interfere with newborn care and adolescent development. Therefore, teenagers should talk openly with your doctor or other trusted person.

The feeling alone and alienated

Teenagers who become pregnant tend to have a mind of fear, feeling isolated or alone. This condition affects fetal development and also his soul is in the womb. Because it has at least one person who could be trusted to provide the emotional support he needed to stay fit during her pregnancy.

10 Most Rare Diseases

Serious illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, stroke or heart already widely known. But actually there is another fee that is a rare disease. Any disease that?

As quoted from DiscoveryHealth, Tuesday (06/01/2010) The following 10 of the world's rarest diseases are most associated with the nerve:

1. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)

PML is a neurological disorder characterized by destruction of myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibers in the central nervous system and spinal cord.

The disease is caused by JC virus. This virus was found in 85 percent of the adult population in general, but the virus remains dormant for people to remain healthy and strong immune system. PML occurs in 1 in 200,000 people.

2. Neurologic Paraneoplastic Syndromes (NPS)

PNS is a condition that affects the nervous system, ie brain, spinal cord, nerves are also muscle. The term 'paraneoplastic' means nerve syndrome is not caused by the tumor itself, but by an autoimmune reaction that produces the tumor. In many patients, the immune response can cause damage to the nervous system that far exceeds the damage done to the tumor.

3. Dercum Disease

Dercum disease is a rare disorder, characterized by a growth of fat tissue (lipoma) is painful. This growth usually occurs on the hands, upper arms, upper legs, also under the skin (subcutaneous).

Dercum disease often causes great pain. In some cases, affected individuals may also experience weight gain, depression, lethargy, and confusion. The exact cause of Dercum disease is not known.

4. Fahr disease

Fahr disease is a degenerative neurological disorder that rarely occurs. It is characterized by abnormal calcium deposits (calcification) and the related loss of cells in certain regions of the brain, such as the basal ganglia.

Fahr disease can cause damage to cognitive abilities (dementia), loss of motor skills, muscle stiffness, paralysis and even blindness.

5. Devic disease

Neuromyelitis Optica or Devic disease is a chronic disorder characterized by inflammation of nerve tissue in the optic nerve (optic neuritis) and inflammation of the spinal cord (myelitis). In the early stages, symptoms may be similar to Devic disease multiple sclerosis.

6. Tardive dyskinesia (TD)

TD is a neurological movement disorder caused by the spontaneous use of dopamine receptor drugs to treat mental conditions or specific digestion. Long-term use of these drugs may produce biochemical abnormalities in brain regions known as the striatum.

Dyskinesia dystonia is a more severe form of TD, which swirling motion over the neck and trunk muscles which stand out more slowly.

7. Landau Kleffner Syndrome (LKS)

LKS characterized by loss of verbal comprehension and expression of language (aphasia), in cooperation with electroencephalic (EEG) is abnormal, causing seizures.

8. Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency (A1AD)

A1AD is derived disorder characterized by low levels of a protein called alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT) which is found in the blood.

Lack of A1AT allows substances that break down protein (proteolytic enzymes) to attack various body tissues. This causes destructive changes in the lungs (emphysema) and may also affect the liver and skin.

9. Cyclic vomiting syndrome Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome or (CVS)

CVS is a rare disorder characterized by recurrent nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting usually lasts for several hours or even days. Another symptom is a pale, listless, abdominal pain and headaches. The exact cause of cyclic vomiting syndrome is unknown.

10. Spinal Muscular atrophy (SMA)

SMA group of inherited disorders characterized by the loss of certain nerve cells called motor neurons. Motor neurons transmit nerve impulses from the brain or spinal cord (brain stem) in the muscle or gland tissue.

The loss of motor neurons causes progressive muscle weakness and throwing muscles (atrophy) of muscles such as shoulders, hips and back. These muscles needed for crawling, walking, sitting and head control. More severe types of SMA can affect the muscles involved in eating, swallowing and breathing.

Telepathy That Myth or Real?

Telepathy means the ability to communicate with people who are in remote places without using the physical senses or other scientific communication tool. Does telepathy really exist?

Today, in the television magician who relies more intense telepathic ability to read minds of others. The audience was made fascinated with the telepathic skills.

The word telepathy comes from the Greek. 'Tele' means far or distance, and 'pathy' is derived from the word 'Pathé' which means feelings. The term was coined in 1882 by a French psychic researcher, Fredric WH Myers, founder of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR).

In the world of metaphysics, such capabilities are classified into the ESP or Extra Sensory Perception. The concept is the process of low-frequency electromagnetic waves penghantaran between one mind with other thoughts.

When an electromagnetic wave is successfully transmit signals from the brain that has been focused, then the person who has received the signal means having a frequency equal to the person who sends the alias signals people doing telepathy.

Folk tales from around the world is full of examples of telepathy, which exist not only between different species, but even among the elements of nature and species.

As quoted from the Psychic, Wednesday (06/02/2010), rationalist psychologists like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and William James testify to the accuracy of the phenomenon of telepathic communication. They believe this telepathy really exists.

Some experiments and research on mental telepathy conducted scientists from various disciplines also prove telepathy exists.

1. American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), which was founded in 1885, made a serious study about this psychic phenomenon. Experiments in mental telepathy conducted in a public scale in the United States and England after World War 1. The conclusion proves that the existence of telepathic communication.

2. In the 19th century, the English chemist and physicist William Crookes, believe that telepathy act like one of electromagnetic waves, ie radio waves.

3. Psychologist John E. Coover from Stanford University conducted tests on telepathy with playing cards. The success rate of participants quite well.

4. JBRhine from Duke University also conducted experiments in mental telepathy between 1927-1930 by using Karl Zener ESP cards and involve participants. He uses sophisticated statistical tools to evaluate results, and the results have been published in a book called Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). This is what makes ESP the term became popular.

5. Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, the Apollo 14 mission crew members, in 1971, is also experimenting with a four-person telepathy is 150 000 miles from earth. The surprise was two communicators responded with 51 percent successful.

The most obvious example is the telepathy between mothers with their children. Mom was always able to understand the feelings and thoughts of the child, although they are separated by vast distances. In addition, there are also mental and telepathic bond between twins.

Dogs Able to Detect Prostate Cancer

Dog's olfactory acuity is no need to doubt. The advantage is now used for health purposes, because the dog was also able to detect through urine samples of prostate cancer patients.

Several previous studies have also concluded that dogs can detect a number of diseases

, Among others diabetes. But in cancer, these findings are very important because many cases of cancer detected too late, so hard to treat.

Early detection for prostate cancer is still difficult to do. Existing method that is Prostate Specific Antigent (PSA) is considered less accurate, because they can not distinguish between benign tumors with a dangerous cancer.

Another method being developed is through a urine sample. But the difficulty is some molecule other than cancer also creates a special smell, and there is no tool that can distinguish the smell of cancer cells.

Quoted from HealthDay, Wednesday (02/06/2010), the problem is now to find a bright spot when researchers from France succeeded in doing experiments with dogs. Intelligent animals known it was able to distinguish the odor in question.

"Dogs are able to recognize the odor molecules produced by cancer cells. It's just that we do not yet know what molecules and the dog can not tell," says Jean Nicolas Cutaneous, researchers at the Hospital Tenon, France.

In these trials the researchers trained Belgian Malinois dog, the kind that is also used to track bombs and drugs. These dogs are taught to sniff urine samples of patients with prostate cancer, then

compare it with some healthy human urine samples.

At the end of training, researchers gave urine samples randomly utnuk recognized by these dogs. The result is encouraging, the dog can guess correctly the presence of cancer cells in 63 of 66 samples provided.

A urology specialist, Dr. Anthony Y. Smith is optimistic with these findings. If the results are valid, according to him in the future a biopsy (tissue sample) are no longer required to detect prostate cancer.

The next step is to make sure what the actual molecular kissed by a dog on the urine samples of prostate cancer patients. Researchers are also developing tools such as 'electric nose' with capabilities similar to a dog.

But to hire a dog in the hospital, seems less attractive because the cost is considerable. According Cutaneous, the cost required to train a dog is equivalent to two people scientist honorarium.

Selecting 'Seeds of Excellence' in Between Million Sperm

In the process of fertilization, the egg just choose the best one sperm and then refused to millions of others. Researchers in America found a way to separate the sperm excel, to improve the success of artificial insemination.

During this time, semen analysis to see the fertility is only based on the concentration and mobility of sperm cells. The assumption, he said fertile if they have a lot of sperm with active mobility.

This method does not provide enough information, sperm Which has the highest fertility. Because only one sperm that will best be able to penetrate the egg defense, for then membuahinya.

This becomes a problem when men with sperm counts less to do artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization (IVF) or test tube baby known to have descendants. When injected sperm that only a few that, doctors do not know whether the sperm is superior or not.

Quoted from Dailymail, Wednesday (02/06/2010), researchers from Yale University to develop biochemical markers for the selection of sperm, so that only superior sperm are injected into an egg cell. For testing, researchers used sperm samples from 50 men.

The idea is based on the theory that sperm will bind themselves superior to hyaluronic acid. While the sperm is damaged, defective, and infertile, will not be bound by these compounds.

In addition to infertility, sperm was also not bound to hyaluronic acid when it has a chromosomal aberration. Usually these deviations associated with hereditary disease.

Researchers claim, these techniques can separate sperm DNA integrity is best. Effectiveness similar to natural selection that occurs in the egg.

The study will be published in the Journal of Andrology edition June or July.

Classical Music Waste parse Faster

What to do with the waste of classical music? It turns out there are right, the vibrations generated classical music can make the microbe more swiftly aroused that accelerate the decomposition of impurities.

Quoted from the Guardian, Thursday (03/06/2010), this crazy idea was conceived by Anton Stucki, operator of a wastewater treatment plant in Treuenbrietzen household. He believes, tone and composition of classical music can stimulate the activity of microorganisms.

"We think the key is the vibration produced by each tone. Resonance generated can stimulate the microbes, so that could work better in the break down dirt," said Stucki.

To that end, he designed a sound system that is able to present the effects of acoustic orchestra building into the sewer pipe. Design a series of speakers that sounds simultaneously from different angles.

Illustrations might like this, microbes that had a lot of sleep directly 'gelojotan' when listening to music.

For testing, Stuci choose the composition of The Magic Flute. There is no particular reason why the composition is selected, because in the future he plans to try another song for the same purpose.

Although still in the testing stage, this technique has meninjukkan claimed positive results. The process of decomposition of waste and sewage at the plant which is located one hour southwest of Berlin was more effective than ever.

Actually Stuki not be the first to do it. He previously reported, small-scale waste treatment in Austria was also never used a similar method. When the manager also admitted that the decomposition of waste becomes more effective.

But in this time trial, Stucki try to develop these findings. When he adds oxygen into the exhaust pipe, she found that microbial activity increased again rather than just classical music.

Hopefully, this method can save maintenance costs of household waste treatment plant up to 1000 Euros per month. Stucki not refuse if there are scientists who are interested to develop the experiments done.