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PuzzlePhone Modular Smartphone

November 4, 2015 By Michael Turner Leave a Comment

When it was disclosed by the company in 2013, Google’s Project Ara immediately turned heads because it promised to produce a modular smart phone which would greatly reduce costs, allow users to swap just the malfunctioning or no longer working modules with new ones (instead of the total replacement of the phone), allow them to customize what modules they would want on a given phone in the first place and not least of all, help in the quest for sustainability and taking care of the environment, by greatly reducing the waste caused by throwing away such precious resources as those found in a phone.

This project is supposed to have its first pilot testing in 2016.

But it seems like another company has moved a bit faster towards the same goal, though with a different approach.

I am talking about the PuzzlePhone modular smartphone first announced by the Finnish-based companies developing it a year after Project Ara was announced (in 2014). However, despite announcing their intentions later than Google by a year, they seem to have actually managed to up-end them.

Because the first finalized PuzzlePhone is set to launch sometime in September 2016. And a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo is already open to interested early buyers.

True, Google’s Project Ara has in mind developing a series of interchangeable, individual components so you can make your phone however you like, while the PuzzlePhone modular smartphone is based on a simpler approach, namely having the same three modular components for each phone (the “brain”, “spine” and “heart”), that can each be replaced with an homologous component.

But homologous is the keyword, because these new components, apart from replacing malfunctioning or no longer working ones, can actually be upgraded, better versions of the former. So, in essence, though simpler than Project Ara, the PuzzlePhone is efficient and serves the purpose of having a functional modular phone on the market as soon as possible.

It also has some pretty cool functionalities and features, namely: 1080 x 1920 pixels 5 inch display, an octa-core processor, 3 GB of RAM, two cameras (the primary a 12 MP, the secondary a 5 MP) and 16 GB default internal storage, or 32 GB or 64 GB internal storage (depending on how much you are willing to pay extra).

It runs on Android and is made out of eco-friendly materials, both traits which will surely appeal to a wide range of users.

The starting price for the basic model, on Indiegogo, is 333$. The priciest version features engraved words of your choice and the 64 GB internal storage and costs 777$.

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Inventions That Improve Water Quality

March 29, 2015 By Roxanne Briean Leave a Comment

World Water Crisis

The lack of clean, fresh water is one of the worst problems worldwide today, due to its impact on economy and day-to-day life of the people that are affected by it.

Water scarcity, the lack of clean water resources in different parts of the world derives from various economic interests in those specific areas and/or on the climate of those areas. In some cases the issue is excessive drought (like in Sub Saharan Africa and Central America) or floods (South East Asia, Eastern Europe and South America).

Big corporations (Nestle for example) use even the water resources of normally dry areas to produce more bottled water for economic profit. The best example is the recent activities of the above mentioned company in the Sacramento area, where the Bottling Plant is draining around 320 million liters of water per year.

All these factors are responsible for over 1 billion people’s lack of access to clean drinking water alone, not considering other basic uses for potable water. Several organizations around the world, most of them under the direct guidance of the United Nations are trying to diminish the effects of the water crisis through special programs. Both economic and physical water scarcity are tackled with fundraising actions and awareness programs.

Contaminated water is the number one issue in areas with water shortage. The most affected countries are in Sub Saharan and Saharan areas of Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan and Ethiopia), South and Central America (Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico) and Central East Asia (China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).

Amongst the direct effective actions carried by people concerned with these problems, an important role is played by a few ingenious but very useful inventions.

Here are five inventions that improve water quality.

UTEC’s Water-generating Billboard

This invention is the result of the bright minds of future engineers from the University of Engineering and Technology from Peru’s capital, Lima. The AirHuerta is one of the most efficient innovations in a place where the lack of potable water or any kind of water is affecting about 1.5 million people. One of the driest places on Earth, the capital of Peru, started benefiting from the billboards that transform the humidity from the air into clean, potable water in 2013 and since then, a series of such Huertas started producing clean water for the population. With the help of a local publicity agency, the inventors of the billboards began advertising their work. Using electricity provided by Lima’s city power lines, the billboards turn condensed humid air into an average of 90 liters of water daily. What started as an ambitious yet ingenious college plan might grow in the near future into a viable long term solution for other areas which suffer from water shortage. It’s great to think that all of this due to the joint efforts of engineers and advertising agents.

The Drinkable Book

A unique invention, the Drinkable Book is a revolutionary asset for people living in areas where drinking water is contaminated. Created by a group of American scientists, “The Book” combines a basic, very efficient water filter contained in each of its pages, with special tips & tricks on how to handle being raised in an area where water is not safe to drink.

The people using this invention have access to potable water with minimal effort and they can benefit from the instructions printed on the filter “pages”. The Water is Life foundation concentrates its efforts on a very fast and efficient spread of water filters and alternative ways of producing water safe to drink for affected communities, especially in very poor communities from areas with harsh climates.

LUV Water

A very enthusiastic group of students at the Carnegie Mellon University created a water purification mechanism called LUV Water. It is capable of creating energy to power ultraviolet LED lights which kill about 99% of the germs and pathogenic bacteria from the water. But this doesn’t stop here. The team is working on getting even further in the field, the next step being a solution that incorporates ultraviolet LEDs to water bottles.

The device is still in an incipient phase, but those who came up with the idea are searching for funding solutions that will drop the costs of producing these devices very fast and very soon. The idea behind the product is to bring a fast, scientific option to tackle health problems in areas where climate and poverty unfortunately join hands.

LifeStraw

Created by the Vestegaard Company, the LifeStraw is basically a tubular device through which impure water is turned into safe to drink water by simply sucking it from the source. The company’s official goal is providing real alternatives for the health problems of the people living in poverty and improper conditions.

The LifeStraw was recognized by the Forbes magazine as one of the most important inventions of the contemporary science. It was designed and used since 2005, with immediate effects on the quality of life and health of the people from deprived areas.

Dean Kamen’s Slingshot

A well-known and respected inventor (with the iBot wheelchair and the Segway among his creations), Dean Kamen brought to light in 2009 in collaboration with Coca Cola, the Slingshot. Initially called the Freestyle, the device could produce drinkable water with the help of a Sterling engine (a regenerator engine that converts heat into mechanical work) from any type of water source (Kamen claims that the machine can transform up to 97 % of the undrinkable water into safe, reliable potable water).

Being vapor condensed, the contaminated water is turned into over 900 liters of potable water a day. In partnership with the Coca Cola CEO, Kamen’s company, DEKA, sent 15 units to schools in Ghana as a test in 2011. The result was a huge success, due to the ease of the Slinghshot’s use and its efficiency.

Encouraged by this positive outcome, the inventor and his partner planned to implement by the end of this year a number of 2000 units in places where these kinds of inventions are needed the most (Central and South America, Asia and Africa).

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American Nursing Gender Pay Gap: Male Nurses Earn More than Female Nurses, New Study Shows

March 26, 2015 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

A new study has revealed yet another example of the gender pay gap: it appears that male nurses earn around $5,000 more than their female counterparts.

Nursing is mostly a woman’s profession, as nine out of ten nurses in the United States are women; yet men in this profession earn higher salaries than their female counterparts. A new study has come to this conclusion and has revealed that the gender pay gap has remained constant over the last 25 years in America.

According to a new report published in the journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, the typical gender pay gap has been around $5,000 after adjusting for education, experience, work hours, parental and marital status and clinical specialty.

Ulrike Muench, from the University of California, San Francisco and lead author of the study, said that nursing is indeed the largest female dominated profession, so naturally, one would think that if any profession could have women earning the same as men, it would be the nursing profession.

For the study, Muench and his colleagues use two data sets from the United States to examine earning over a large period of time. One data set was the American Community Survey, from 2001 and 2013, that had information gathered from around 206,000 registered nurses and the other data set was the National Sample Survey of Registered nurses, from 1988 to 2008, with information from around 88,000 nurses.

After careful examination of the data, the scientists found that every single year, each set of data showed that men earned more than women did. The gender pay gap ranged from a whopping $10,243 to $11,306 in one of the studies and from $9,163 to $9,961 in the second study.

The largest gender pay gap was experienced by nurses in the outpatient settings ($7,678), followed by hospital nurses ($3,783).

Overall, men earned more than women in all but one specialty (orthopedics), with the gender pay gap ranging from $3,792 in chronic care to $17,290 in anesthetics.

This present study provides data over enough time to reveal that the gender pay gap isn’t as random as it was thought. Muench concluded:

My hope is that this raises awareness and can start a discussion about what additional steps could be taken to achieve equal pay.

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Wishbone Allows Taking Body Temperature Without Physical Contact

February 23, 2015 By Nancy Young Leave a Comment

New gadget that changes the whole process of taking you baby’s temperature. Wishbone allows taking body temperature without physical contact.

Technology and new gadgets are something that will always ease our lives, especially when it comes to situations involving our children. Trying to put a thermometer in the mouth of an upset baby can be quite a task and sometimes requires a lot of patience and cool.

A new gadget called Joying Wishbone will spare you from all that work, as it only has to be pointed at the kid to manage to read his/hers temperature.

The Wishbone thermometer, most probably named after its Y shape, can be attached to any Android of iOS smartphone and reports the temperature back to its companion apps. The creator of Joying Project, Harry Hu, said that he was very aware of the difficulties encountered when trying to take a baby’s temperature, which can turn into a real challenge. He is a parent and owns a store that sells products for babies.

Users only have to hold the smartphone attachment close to the child, for two seconds in order to receive the temperature reading. They can also take the temperatures of the bottles of their babes, the outside weather or themselves.
Even tough in ear thermometers are faster, Wishbone is less demanding as it doesn’t require physical contact and it wont disturb your baby while sleeping, or get contaminated. Its very accurate, and much smaller than any other thermometer.

The features of Wishbone, allow users to create a history, giving them a more detailed insight into the child’s health or even themselves. For example, women can be notified on ovulation periods, by searching for a small, clear spike in women body temperature.
At the moment, Wishbone is on Kickstarter and has a week left in its campaign. With over $140,000, to a campaign that initially needed $20,000, Wishbone should be closing its final goals and is on the road to hit production lines. Joying is about to finish prototypes.
The first economical goals, $30,000 and $40,000 gave the chance for new colours for Wishbone, but the $10,000 and $20,000 brought the chances to add extra features to it. The final variant of Wishbone could include, an ambient mode, an object mode, iOS health kit, sharing features and also pets mode.

Wishbone is set to enter production in March.

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Google Wants To Solve Excessive Sweating With An Innovative Device

February 18, 2015 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

Have you ever thought that a device cold replace your everyday deodorant? Well a giant technology company has. Google wants to solve excessive sweating with an innovative device.

If you have never been a huge fan of wearing deodorant and you have always dreamed about some sort of invention that would make sweet disappear, you have to know that Google researchers are working on making your wish come true.

Google is working on a device that is supposed not just to avoid clothes from getting those annoying white armpit stripes but that would also keep you dry and free of unwanted odours no matter how much your body sweats at work or when going out. The device would also help you no to run into anyone you know while sweating.

Imagine managing to avoid the hot guy you have a crush on or your boss as you are running late to work from lunch, and outside there are 90 degrees and you forgot to put on deodorant as you were in a rush to leave the house.

The invention, called “ odor removing device”, a Google patent filed by four Google employees, on August 31st, 2012 could be based on an activity sensor, a communication area that would allow access to one or several social networks and would permit communication with network contacts and a route suggestion feature, which would offer users an alternative route to take.

In this way, if your body is dripping sweat you would be spared the embarrassment of being seen by anyone in your social circle that is traveling on the same route as you are. The device will notify the user that his/hers contacts are in the area and would provide an additional route for them to take in order to avoid him/her and the unpleasant odors to meet with his/hers social contacts.

The technology will use Google services like Google Maps, RTM or Google Earth. RTM should be used for supplying the alternate route, according to the patent document.

So, yes, the whole idea of this project is that Google wants to help you avoiding to met people that you know and gross them out with the smell of your sweat. Apart from these features the device may also include a “parameter detector”, but also an accelerometer, a galvanic skin response monitor, an environmental sensor, a biometric sensor, context, a location sensor and also a camera.

Yes, it sounds a little strange and it may take some time to adjust to the idea, but this is indeed a future Google project.
The odor removing invention is aimed to do much more than to help you not to affect the ones around you with your smelly sweat. The device may track down when you are sweating, analyse your medical history and would offer a spraying and heating device and would also spray out a fragrant substance according to a prediction signal but the user would have control of it.

So basically this would work as a digital deodorant that detects physical movement and automatically emits a pleasant fragrance but would also detect a rise of temperature and humidity informing you about high sweat levels and body odors.

The user would also receive a warning before the smell is emitted, allowing them to disable the option if the don’t desire to release the fragrance, for example when being at the gym or at home.

Like it goes with all patents, Google may not be releasing the product in the near future or maybe it wont release it at all.
However, there is an alternative for those who are keen on the idea. It is called The Smart Spray accessory and it is a smart phone case adjusted with a tiny flask created to hold any type of liquid.

The small bottle could be filled with perfume, sun tan lotion, breath spray, insect repellent substance and so on. The tap comes out from the back of the case and can be hidden when not being used.
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Algorithms Might Teach Homeless Teens How To Prevent HIV

February 10, 2015 By Nancy Young Leave a Comment

Algorithms might protect homeless teens from the danger of contacting the HIV virus by providing them a insistent education on the subject.

Algorithm, has turned into a word with devious meaning. The main purpose of this word it to help sites and social network platforms to anticipate and fulfill the needs of users but it has deviated to being used also to manipulate our data for advertising and turning into money every step we take online.

But no worries, algorithms can be used for more orthodox things as well. Computer experts from the University of Southern California are using their data and math knowledge to help the prevention of HIV among teens living on the streets.
Scientists from the School of Social Work and School of Engineering of USC, have designed a new algorithm called PSINET. Using artificial intelligence, the program can help agencies to find the fittest person from a homeless community that could spread very useful information about the prevention of HIV, among young people, its basis being on a mapped-out network of friendships.

These certain agencies, are generally relying on the spread of and information trough words, by educating a selected group of homeless teenagers to spread knowledge to their friends, but there are some factors which limit the success of this method. With the help of the new algorithm, 60% more information could be spread than trough the classic word of mouth activities, stated researchers.

Here it is a quick explanation on how it works: experts have mapped the friends of homeless young people at My Friend’s Place, a homeless agency from Los Angeles. Every person is represented by a knob on the map, and links between knobs indicate those persons are friends. The algorithms analyses this network, and after running trough thousands of possibilities for finding the fittest person, the one with the highest reach at one point in time and after it selects a peer head.

Once this is set, social workers would teach the leader the basic information about HIV(where they can get tested for the virus, why is so important it is to wear condoms, etc.) and would also receive information regarding their network of friendships to build on the plan.

Statistics have shown that around 2 million Americans, with the ages between 13 and 24 end up every year on the streets, out of which 11% are HIV positive( a rate ten times higher than the general population). So, sharing information and educating this demographic, might be an intimidating task.

The matter is quite complicated and holds a lot of uncertainty, but instead of picking the individual most connected to other people, the algorithm is aware of whom it chose previously and in this way it opens the doors to place yet unreached, explained researchers.

The project is somehow a mixture between the technological power and the understanding the real situation of the young homeless population. So far the plan is still at the beginning and hasn’t yet been put in practice on the field, but the algorithm is the first step to fulfilling the mission.

For the moment, experts are collaborating with partners agencies, more precisely My Friend’s Place, to design an easy to use interface for the algorithm and they are hoping that by this summer they will manage to implement it in the real world.

“This is a really promising technological solution to help us do what we do in social work and public health better,” explained co-author of the notes regarding PSINET and assistant professor at the University of Southern California.

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S+ by ResMed, the Technology That Improves your Sleep

December 26, 2014 By Roxanne Briean Leave a Comment

Recent studies have shown us what great importance a healthy diet and dynamic lifestyle hold in our lives. Whether it’s calorie intake, quality and class of foods we consume, the physical activities we choose to perform or how much exercise we get to do during our busy work days all adds up in the way we live our lives and manage to keep up in an all-busy, stressful and ever moving world.And best of all, it’s all measurable.

But very few have worried themselves regarding our sleeping schedules and how well we get to sleep in order to stay in tandem with our responsibilities, despite insomnia and unhealthy sleeping patterns being a considerable cause of day to day distress and disruption in our schedules. Until now.

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Resmed, a leading supplier of sleep and respiratory medicine, has recently announced a very innovative device that is meant to help you get better sleep without involving any contact, wristband or mattress pad. It goes by the name of S+ by ResMed and uses a system of bio-motion sensors meant to measure your sleep activity such as breathing and heart rate. The device provides you with personalized feedback to help you keep things in check and immediately start improving your sleep.

Overview of S+ by Resmed

The S+ is an innovative device – the fact that it can wirelessly track all of you sleeping habits and measure all necessary parameters to help you know what exactly is going on during the night and your sleep is only the beginning. That’s something that can easily be done with so many other already existent contraptions. But on top of that, it doesn’t hold back on actually telling you how to improve your sleep – unlike wristbands and mattresses.

The S+ is a very simplistic construction, taking the shape of a small box that you can keep right on your nightstand, without it standing out or bothering you too much through size. It, however, can only function when connected to power – no battery based model has been released yet nor do we know whether such a model is in the plans. The way you will be utilizing it is remotely, through your Android or iOS device via the predesignated, free application.

Once the Sleep Mode option is enabled from the app, you can relax and go to bed as the S+ by ResMed will begin recording all the information it can gather regarding your sleeping parameters. Following the results, the application will give you an ample overview of what your sleep score is, a detailed analysis of what happens during your sleep and a series of helpful interactive tools that will actually assist you in making your bed time more effective.

Key Features:

Relax to sleep: relaxing, soothing sounds that will synchronize with the breathing patterns the device picks up from you to help induce sleep;
Sleep score: a combination of sleep measurements and parameters that you can compare to scientifically researched averages, depending on age, gender and other variables, earing you a grade from 0 to 100. In addition, the app also provides “mind” and “body re-charge” scores;
S+ mentor: once the information on your sleeping behavior is recorded, the S+ mentor will start providing you personalized feedback to help you figure out how to improve your sleep performance;
Sleep charts: a detailed graphic representation of your sleep stages during the night – light, deep and rapid eye movement stage – and a breakdown of your sleeping sessions during the night, which you can also compare to other nights, thus allowing you to observe changes in your sleeping behavior over time;
Mind clear: a small feature that gives you the freedom of either recording a voice clip or typing a text note to help you clear your thoughts and help you get a good night’s sleep;
Smart alarm: a particular trait of the S+ by ResMed that will allow you to let the many years of research invested in this device and the sleeping behavior of humans do the job and allow it to wake you up at the most effective time or moment of your sleep.

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All the variables that can show up in a sleep analysis, the patented sensors of the S+ by ResMed takins in information regarding light, noise, temperature levels, while maintaining the option for you to input certain information manually, such as caffeine and alcohol intake, physical exercise performed, levels of stress, and much more. All these details are then used by various algorithms meant to determine the optimal sleeping schedule for you.

How S+ by ResMed Really Works

Setup of the S+ by ResMed is relatively simple. Although it does not function on just battery and you will have to plug your device into a power socket to have it up and running, it’s far from an inconvenience. As soon as it’s powered up, you just place it on your nightstand, enable its sleep mode function on its sensor and it’s good to go – all that’s left for you to do is to lay your head down on the pillow and go to sleep. As the S+ is controlled through your Android or iOS device, you won’t need to operate the actual device at all: all commands are given straight through your phone or tablet, which will remain in sync with the S+ and provide you with the results in the morning on the same medium.

For some of us, the last step of making use of the S+ is the hardest – actually falling asleep. Whether it’s inability of relaxing, nagging thoughts and responsibilities knocking on as we are trying to get some sleep, S+ does have a solution to help make things better – either make use of its relaxation feature or give up worries by leaving yourself memos and notes for the second day to worry about through the mind clear feature.

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The second day, the application will await for you with a sleep score that gets recorded throughout your sleep based on what the sensor is able to pick up from you. The app begins by greeting you with a general score from 1 to 100, rating the general quality of your sleep – measuring the amount of sleep you got, the length of light, deep and REM stages of sleep and number of times you woke up or became agitated during your sleep.

Percentages of how recharged your mind is or how rested your body became during nighttime will also display in your way to the more detailed analysis. Then, you can start analyzing your sleep in depth by making use of the application’s features which get saved over time, allowing you to observe your progress in a specific frame of time – whether we’re talking days, weeks and even months.

Following the analysis, the corresponding mobile application of the S+ by ResMed will provide you with optimal ways to improve your sleep and even push notifications for you throughout your day to make sure you are taking the necessary steps to get a good night’s sleep. Whether the solution might prove to be something as basic as changing the time you go to bed or taking a hot bath to help you relax into falling asleep if that is where your sleeping issues begin, the S+ takes a long time to run out of ideas to help.

Price & Warranty

The device can be picked up from various retail sources – both retail and online – for a price of $150. The developing company, ResMed, also makes a decent offer for potential customers, offering a 30-day satisfaction guarantee policy, a time frame that will allow you to return your product and get a refund if the device does not get up to your expectations. So if you feel that the money you paid for the S+ is not keeping up with your needs, ResMed will bail you out of the expense.

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Advantages and Disadvantages

The device unfortunately comes with some disadvantages as well, proving that there’s still room for improvement in this innovative technology. Customers have recorded the range of the sensors as being not that wide, not being able to reach them when they did something as basic as moving further from the S+ in bed by rolling on the other side. The sensors would still pick up the signal, but with the occasional interruption or inaccurate reading of your breathing and heart rate.

Naturally, this creates discrepancy between the device’s advice in order to help you get better sleep and your actual needs, ultimately defeating the purpose. Some customers also reported that the device would end up picking up signals from other people in its vicinity when their targets would get up in the middle of the night for bathroom breaks or whatever reason – considering the S+ cannot record and pick up on more than one person at a time, this was another situation in which the readings would turn out erroneous and not do much of a good job in keeping you well informed about your sleeping patterns.

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Sadly, the way that the S+ is built to work does not allow you to use two devices at the same time in the same room, as the interferences would most likely mess up both results the second day. Other than that, however, most users proved to be content with the device and application and even claimed that their sleep has improved by following the personalized advice the S+ provided.

Considering of what dire importance our sleep really holds in our general day to day wellbeing, the S+ by ResMed really does something that most other devices invented for this reason fail to achieve. And it’s easy to use, does not provide any discomfort whatsoever and can become your most trusty and useful tool into tackling a healthy lifestyle – no matter how busy – easily.

USPSTF Report: Annual Screening of Vitamin D is Not Essential

November 25, 2014 By Nancy Young Leave a Comment

The U.S Preventive Services Task Force declared that there is insufficient evidence to prove the advantageous of Vitamin D screening in routine practice. Hence, the group does not support annual screening of vitamin D any more.

Moreover, the U.S Preventive Service Task Force informed that the lack of evidence demonstrates that annual screening fails to lessen the risk of health diseases. Therefore, it cannot be considered wrong to state that there is no direct connection between Vitamin D and the health disease.

The group analyzed the data of 16 experiments along with one nested test case for this purpose. Later on, the researchers concluded that annual Vitamin D screening does not have an effect on the ratio of patients.

Moreover, the researchers notified that there are more than one method to test the amount of vitamin D in a body. Some of the available test are high performance liquid chromatography, immunoassay, and competitive protein binding, mass spectrometry. Unfortunately, every test provides a different result of a patient. It happens due to the absence of a standard method to test the level of Vitamin D in human body.

Four years ago, the U.S Institute of Medicine presented a report to which informed that vitamin D is merely necessary for the health of bones. However, its absence in bone does not lead to lethal diseases. Every individual should take 600 milligram of Vitamin D every year. Nevertheless, people who have crossed the age of 70 should take 800 milligram of Vitamin D daily.

The new statement puts a big question mark on the previous researchers. In last few years, experts emphasize a lot on the relation of vitamin D and other diseases. For instance, , a few years ago a report revealed that low level of Vitamin D can give birth to several diseases. Some of the major disease are colorectal cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disorders etc.

The researchers printed the report in an online Journal known as Annals of Internal Medicine. .

Experts Discovers a Neurological Sign of Alzheimer

November 25, 2014 By Cristopher Hall Leave a Comment

Every Alzheimer research offers a new significant piece of information to the scientists. Unfortunately, .these revelation give rise to other questions which makes the disease more mysterious.

Hugh Perry, a medical professor of the Medical Research Council stated that previously people believed that schizophrenia is connected to the same part of the brain. The disease is also called “pre-mature dementia”. However, the researchers failed to prove the concept with evidences. Hence, there are chances that both the disease belong to separate parts of brain.

The researchers of Medical Research Council examined the brain scans of nearly 484 people. The majority of these people were between the ages of 8-85. The chief aim of the study is to analyze the development stages of brain. The study displays a specific pattern of nerve cells which transforms as a person grow older. Later on, the researchers matched up the similar pattern with the Alzheimer’s patients. Surprisingly, the two diseases affected different regions of brains.

Dr. Michael Bloomfield stated that schizophrenia is an extremely destructive ailment. However, it is pretty early to state that that two disease have a deep relation.

Moreover, Perry informed that the study give birth to numerous questions regarding the influence of environment and genetics on human brains. These discoveries and findings will certainly help the people who suffers from these frustrating diseases.

Researchers Claim; The Brain Region Responsible For Dementia Detected

November 25, 2014 By Kenneth Scott Leave a Comment

The researchers of UK conducted a study which revealed that particular areas of brain are weak spot for schizophrenia and Alzheimer disease. However, there are certain ways through which doctors can identify people who are at a high risk of these two disease.

As per the reports of National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer is an irreparable and advancing ailment which attacks a person after the age of 60. It gradually affects the thinking ability and memory of the patients. In the last and worst stage of Alzheimer the patient cannot even perform simple tasks of daily life.

According to a report, Every year almost 5.1 million American suffers from this destructive disease.

The Medical Research Council carried out a study to determine the brain areas accountable for Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. The experts performed MRI brain scans of nearly 484 healthy participant who are between the ages of 80-85. They carefully examined the changes in brain as people grow old.

Later on, the researchers closely studied the scan report of the members of study. The report unveiled that the part of brain which develop at a very last age is the one responsible for these ailments.

However, the function of this specific brain region is to collect high order information such as sound and visuals.

Additionally, experts discovered that the two diseases Alzheimer and schizophrenia are to some extent connected with each other.

On the other hand, Doctor’s Health Press released a report which inform that certain food can help people battle with the illness linked with old age. Alzheimer diseases is considered as one of the most common old age diseases

The report is printed in the Journal PNAS