Particular exercises of the muscles, that support the movement of spin, may eliminate lower back pain, researchers suggested.

The review of previous clinical trials show that, motor control exercises are far better than the mild therapies used for the treatment of lower back pain and provide synergistic effects when added with other therapies for instance general physical work out or physical therapy.

Motor control exercise is a new technique for the management of lower back pain. In this technique patient are taught to control deeper muscles of abdomen and back that maintain spinal movements.

So far, the evidences are limited about the effectiveness of therapy, according to the researchers.

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On Wednesday, Food and Drug Administration; government medical advisors issued advices for flu vaccine to be administered in the next season. The flu reportedly kills more than 36,000 people in a year, and this vaccine administration is its preventive measure.

The panel advised only a slight change in the current vaccine pattern for 2009-2010, which shields three kinds of viruses. No changes were recommended for the A Type flu; the most fatal one. Viruses currently in circulation, two of the same A Type, will be protected with the same vaccine.

Advised changes are however for a milder virus: Type B/ Florida, which come with a strain of Type B/ Brisbane.

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According to the health officials of China, the death rate due to AIDS was the ever highest, last year compare to all other infections. In the history of China, this has happened in the first time.

Now the report from country’s state media has revealed that the 7,000 people get died because of AIDS in the first nine month of 2008. So this disease overlapped and pushed the other diseases like T,B and rabies to second and third places.

China’s Ministry of Health has expressed their worries that the number is increasing widely. The total number of death count due to AIDS was just 8,000 altogether till three years back.

Available data of the AIDS patients in China are unpredictable but the official reports of new cases have got lowered.

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Doctors, sometime, prescribe the chemotherapeutic drugs, without the knowledge of the limitations of the drug, a new study said.

The new released report showed that sometime, pharmacist and even oncologists don’t have the updated information of the drugs used to treat cancer.

Common physicians, most of the time, rely on the information of the compendia (the resource used by oncologists and pharmacists) for off-label information and accept them as a most authentic source very often, when the question about insurance arises about the drug.

The researchers found that in fact there are flaws in the system that used to ensure the up gradation of the knowledge of the compendia and doesn’t provide the most recent information on the regular basis.

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How many kids develop life threatening conditions with the intake of excessive breast milk? Researchers of U.K are going to launch a study to reveal it. The data of neonates, admitted in hospital due to dehydration, would be gathered all across United Kingdom.

Although, intense hypernatraemia dehydration (a condition which develops, when serum sodium concentration exceeds 145mmol/l) is very rare but it is a life threatening condition in the newborns.

Though the hospitals treat dehydrated children but there is no sufficient data that can initiate that particular study.

“People are anxious to say any word that can give make breastfeeding notorious.” neonatologist Dr Sam Richmond said.

When the children fail to take enough quantity of milk, because of any health condition, hypernatraemic dehydration may occur in the early days of their lives. This excessive sodium level may lead to gangrene, seizures, neurological disorders and some time even death if left untreated.

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A new study has revealed that the babies delivered by the mothers living in heavy traffic areas may be at a greater risk to develop asthma due to the change in the genetic structure.

Researchers found it while studying umbilical cord blood of  the children at New York City. The change was noticed in the gene called ACSL3 linked with the prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) which may result in epigenetic changes(genetic alterations) by reprogramming the genes in key developmental periods but the disease may develop later on.

By examining the mothers exposure to PAHs during pregnancy and analyzing its effects on the samples of umbilical white blood cell from 56 children to study epigenetic alterations. A significant relation is found in ACSL3 gene of the lung and maternal PAH exposure. The children prior to age 5 were  reported with ACSL3 in the parental report of asthma symptoms.

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Scientists claim that they have found an absent link in the way cells shield themselves against cancer.

The researchers discovered how these cells lever a gene that is known as p53 and works against blocking the development of tumors sometimes.

According to the researchers, their findings have some important implications for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

The study has been published in the Journal Genes and Development February issue and it was conducted by the researchers from the University of Dundee.

It was nearly 30 years back when the p53 gene was first discovered and it plays an important role to keep body in good health as it orders the damaged cells to kill themselves or hampered their further division.

In almost half of cancers, the p53 gene either becomes inactive or gets damaged and this damage of p53 allows damaged cells to divide freely and develop cancer.

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Mother of six gave birth to octuplets on Monday at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center. The woman Nadya Suleman, 33 years old, still unmarried is said to be fine will remain in the hospital for a few more days.

A hospital spokesman told that all the 8 babies were fine too, but they will stay at the hospital for a month. 7 are breathing without assistance. The octuplets consists of six boys and two girls were delivered by c-section. They weigh between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds 4 ounces.

Nadya’s mother Angela Suleman says that her daughter is obsessed with children and wanted to have more children. Her 6 children age from 2 to 7. Facing the problem of frozen embryos after previous pregnancies, Nadya went for in vitro fertilization. Her mother told that Nadya always had a problem in conceiving because of her plugged up fallopian tubes.

Social concerns have raised many suspects that the mother will fail to up bring her 14 children single handed (without a father). This will put Nadya and her children to rely on public funds.

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Selectively chosen donors of kidney, experience no adverse affects on renal function, according to the study.

Previous researches have already mentioned that, people who donate kidney have no significant effect on the kidney function or survival, lead researcher Dr. Hassan N. Ibrahim said.

Researchers analyzed the data of 3,698 kidney donors from 1963 to 2007, to examine the long term safety. In 255 donors operated in 2003, researchers evaluated their GFR (glomerular filteration rate) also referred as 24 hours urinary creatinine clearance test, blood pressure and quality of life.

The normal range of GFR in healthy human is 90 to 120 mL/min and result values below 60, express renal dysfunction while value less than 15 express complete renal failure. Albumin in urine is another indication of kidney dysfunction.

There was no significant variation in the lab tests and survival between donors and non-donors, researchers reported. In addition, chronic diseases of kidney were more common in non-donors: 268 vs.180 cases per million per year.

Older age and greater body mass index (BMI) was linked to the high blood pressure and lesser GFR on enduring follow-up. On the contrary, long time after kidney donation didn’t link to GFR reduction and hypertension. Though, the slight decrease in albuminuria has been noticed.

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Since 1998, another American woman had delivered eight babies in single pregnancy and has become the second U.S. lady who gave birth to living octuplets.

Among them two were baby girls and six were baby boys which were nine week premature and delivered through C-section in the hospital of Los Angeles.

The birth weight of all babies was within the range of 0.82 to 1.47 kilograms and all are in good healthy conditions. They are energetically screaming around, staff nurses said

The identification of the mother has not been disclosed and she said that minimum information be liberated about the children. Doctors said that all deliveries took place within five minutes and this is truly amazing.

The team of the doctor had already planed c-section for the seven babies, but they got astonished when eight one came out.

“Lo and behold, after we got to Baby ‘G’, the last one we were expecting, we were surprised by Baby ‘H’.” said Dr Karen Maples.

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World economic crisis are still not affecting cosmetic surgery as ever highest number of people are undergoing surgery in U.K. According to the figure, released by the professionals, highest number of men is undergoing breast surgery. The increase is five percent greater than the previous year.

As ghost of economic crisis is affecting very field of life, greater number of people are choosing to go under the surgical blade. The surgical procedure has increased three folds since 2003.

Since women have been considered to be the consisting major volume of surgery but now men-breast surgery has also become the increasing factor, in the growth of surgical procedures.

British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has reported 323 cases of breast reduction of men in 2008 which is 44 percent higher than 2008, ear correction, brow lifts and eyelid surgery.

“A remarkable rise in the number of procedures such as brow lifts and male breast reduction, the reason could be heightened media attention, which has allowed men to realize the positive effects that can be achieved.”

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West Virginia and Kentucky, where smoking is a tradition, have the highest death rate due to smoking and related illnesses, new federal study has founded.

Ten states have been identified, which have the highest average annual smoking death rates these include Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Utah and Hawaii were at the bottom, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

The death rate because of smoking related health problem was 371 and 344 out of 100,000 adults aged above 35, in Kentucky and West Virginia, respectively.

That number was nearly one-and-a-half times higher than the figure provided by the official media i.e. 263 per 100,000. This figure was nearly three folds to than the death rates in Utah, which are 138 per 100,000.

The researchers compile results by calculating the death certificates from 2000 to 2004, focusing on lung cancer and other 18 diseases, which are known to cause by smoking.

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