A STEP AHEAD TO RETAIN VISION

A STEP AHEAD TO RETAIN VISION

There is a good news for the people who lost their vision.By the Columbia University Medical Researches a new gene theraphy for the peoples having retinitis pigmentosa.
Retinitis pigmentosa is an eye disease due to the damage of retina, which found in most of the people.Retina is the inner layer tissue found in the back of the inner eye.

Function of the retina is to convert the light images to nerve signals and the sends them to the brain.It can be a genetic diorder which is found in all the persons of the family.
Rodswhich are  responsible for controlling night vision are easily affected by this disorder.Damage of retinal cone may occur in some of the cases. 

The main symptoms of the disease is the presense of dark spots in the retina.It can affect a single person in 4000 peoples in the united states.
A new development to convert skin cells into retinal cells is the induced pluripotent stem cell technology.Late this can be deployed as a patient model for disease study and preclinical resting.

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LABLES MAY LEADS TO LEAVE SMOKING

LABLES MAY LEADS TO LEAVE SMOKING

Warning signs on cigarettes packets may influence the urge smokers to leave smoking said by scientists.
Warning lables may vary from country to country but the emotional and psychological feelings are same to make smokers to quit it said by study lead author, Hua-Hie young, PhD.

For the people who have attention towards the lables, by seeing it they can came to know the risks in smoking and they were least attracted towards the ciggarates.
But the persons dont have any attraction with lables they will say that those risks were exaggreted they will also mention that they enjoy smoking.

By a telephone survey carried out by the researches in United states,Australia  Canada and United Kingdom,it is around 5000 peoples were taken equally as 43% from each country.
The study is based on the awarness of warning lables, whether they had a thought to quit it or not, how many ciggarates will they smoke in a day, whether they avoided warnings or not and some demogrphic informations about them.

For this the international tobacco control survey four-country survey, who make the study over assessing the impact of tobacco control policies over the world.
In that survey it was said that the smokers will smoke 17 ciggaretes for a day and about 37% peoples reported that they had a thought to leave smoking at least once in a one year of study.

Noticing is the first step to quit smoking.It is also suggested to the policy makers that,thy should make the warning lables large, graphic and animatic on ciggaretes.
Mass media campaigns should be made for smoking like other health warnings

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A NEW CAUSE OF OBESITY

A NEW CAUSE OF OBESITY

By recent study it was explained that with a constant caloric intake, there is an rise obesity due to the reduction of exercises and also increased BMI.
By the above study taken in national wide it explains that the above reason is the cause of obesity to the young womans.

From the analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data by the researchers of US Stanford University it was mentioned that the womans with no physical activity had rised from 19.1% to 51.7% during 1994to 2010.

And the men with no physical activity had rised from 11.4% to 43.5% between 1994 to 2010.
Uri Ladabaum,M.D said that the abdominal obesity prevalence increased among the over-weighted and normal weighted.

However it controvesial among the normal-weighted but it will increase the molrtality rate in over-weighted. But now in trends there is light of risks but there will be in the increase in the waist circumference and independent of BMI.

Pamela Powers Hannely, Managing Director of  American journal of medicine suggested that the some more efforts are needed to safe the places of physical activity and should supply healthy food and should give power to the Americans to take care of health.

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Avoid Smart Phone it Makes Stress

Avoid Smart Phone it Makes Stress

In the latest meet of International Society of Endocrinology and Endocrine Society in chicago , a new reasearch  on the testing of stress hormone coristol measure.

In the presentation of ICE/ENDO it is said that by a simple tube, some software and a saliva sample we can mesure the stress hormone levels.

Lead investigator Dr. Joel Ehernkranz, director of diabeties and endocrinology said that one can measure the stress hormone by using the smartphone in an easy and an inexpensive way.
Ehernkrank at intermountain healthcare inMurray, Utay also said that the parsts of united states and rest world thats lacks facilities can use this smartphone test at a cost $5 and it is suitable for all type phones.

This diagonistic test can help us to find out the disorders likeexcess or reduction of the hormone coristol, it is very useful to the people across the globe.

The researches said that they introduced this unexpensive and easy smartphone test for the people to check their coristol level at any time and at any place whenever they want by using their cellphones.

It is an unbreakable and reusable device consists of a case, a light pipe and a lens but it doen't need any battery power.

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FEW KILOMETERS TO MARS

FEW KILOMETERS TO MARS

The MOM spacecraft is good in condition and travelling 25 kilometers in a second and reaches upto 510 kilometers in its heliocentric arc, the total dis\tance is 680 kilometers.

By the covered distance the three by fourth of the journey was completed.It is expected MOM will reach mars on september 24 said by ISRO in its facebook page.
As by earlier announcement of the ISRO third trajectory correction of the spacecraft will me made during August, fourth and final will take place during the insertion period of MOM to mars that is in september.

The prior information is that before the mars capture, orbit insertion will be simulated.
And also ISRO conveyed that they  have tested all except the commands during the rehearsal to ensure manoeurve and also to avoid any faws of the plan

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