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New Hybrid Aspirin called "NOSH Aspirin" developed to prevent and fight Cancer.

2012-03-12T12:28:00Z

Online Health Expert Cancer News Flash: Feb. 29, 2012 ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters - In a National Cancer Institute funded research, scientists have developed and tested a Novel Hybrid "NOSH Aspirin" (Nitric Oxide and Hydrogen Sulfide releasing Aspirin) to be highly effective in inhibiting the growth of Breast, Colon, Pancreas, Lung, Prostate, and some Leukemia cells in experiments.

Nitric Oxide helps dilate the blood vessels and prevents the GI bleeding side effects of regular Aspirin and the Hydrogen Sulfide is a potent anti-inflammatory agent which greatly enhance the anti-cancer properties of the Novel NOSH Aspirin making it highly effective in preventing and fighting cancer in experiments.

The NOSH Aspirin was reported to be 100,000 times more potent than regular Aspirin against Cancer cell growth and did not damage normal cells.

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Canadian Study Finds Stark Differences in Motives Behind Oral Sex Experiences among Men and Women.

2012-02-18T01:36:00Z

According to a Study done by Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada very little is known about motives behind oral sex experiences among young adults. The study explored a total of 431 young people regarding their most recent oral sex experience in an on-line survey. The majority of oral sex experiences also included intercourse and involved partners in a committed relationship. Cunnilingus (oral vaginal sex) was found to be rare unless reciprocated with fellatio (oral penile sex). Overall, both men and women reported that they were motivated to engage in oral sex by sexual desire and attraction to their partner, or to improve an emotional connection with their partner. Men reported more physical motives than did women, and women reported more emotional and insecurity motives than did Men.

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Study Shows that Obesity Induced Brain Changes May be The Reason Why Weight Control is So Hard.

2012-02-17T21:01:00Z

Online Health Expert Medical News Report: Weight Control in Obese Individuals Linked to Brain Changes due to Obesity.

Previously, an Australian study had shown that Rebound weight gain after dieting results from a homeostatic interplay of changes in weight regulating hormones.

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Live Longer and Stay Fit by Joining Online Health Expert's Global Revolutionary "Move Movement".

2012-01-30T03:50:00Z

Online Health Expert Dr. Harish Malik updates Global Free Online "Move Movement" to include PA and CR as an Easy means to Prevent/ Fight Diseases and Promote Meaningful Longevity.

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Online Health Expert Dr. Harish Malik's Global, Online and Free "Move Movement" Updated to Include the Role of "Sirtuins" That Have Been Shown to Play a Pivotal Role in Regulation of Lifespan.

2012-01-23T20:34:00Z

An excerpt from Online Health Expert Dr. Harish Malik's Global, Online and Free "Move Movement" showing the Role of "Sirtuins" and their connection with Calorie Restriction (CR) and Physical Activity (PA) that play a Pivotal Role in Anti-aging and have been shown to Promote Longevity.

Cutting calories/ Calorie Restriction (CR) and Physical Activity (PA) (CR has been shown to promote longevity) - promotes mobility (as the body retains the drive to do things after a lighter meal as opposed to a heavy meal) , moves lymph (which is 3 times the amount of total blood in our body and is dependent on body movement to keep it flowing - lymph is the policeman, garbage man and the immigration system of our body) better by negating the effects of gravity (Taller people are at greater risk of developing Cancer), and helps prevent/fight infections and cancer.

The Biochemical basis of Calorie Restriction (CR) and Physical Activity (PA) leading to its Anti-Aging effects has been recently linked to Sirtuins which have been shown to play a pivotal role in regulation of Lifespan. Dr. Franklin H. Epstein's (June 9, 2011) Lecture "Sirtuins, Aging, and Medicine" accessible at The New England Journal of Medicine details the role and pathways of Sirtuins in the pathways of aging. In an article "Role of Sirtuins, calorie restriction and physical activity in aging" [Frontiers in Bioscience (Elite Edn.) Jan 01, 2012], a team of Italian researchers point out the clear-cut relationship between Sirt-1 and Calorie Restriction (CR) and in rats they showed that the levels of SIRT1 activity were raised in aged rats who performed moderately prolonged Physical Activity (PA). They found that in mammals, CR causes physiological and behavioral changes that lead to decreases in reactive oxygen species, thereby reducing oxidative stress and damage and thus leads to the hypothesis that CR by reducing oxidative stress extends lifespan by counteraction of aging.

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Online Health Expert Dr. Harish Malik Launches a Free and Revolutionary Global "Move Movement" as a means to prevent/fight disease as opposed to traditional dieting, weight loss and exercise programs which often fail in the long run.

2012-01-04T17:48:00Z

Online Health Expert Dr. Harish Malik launches a Revolutionary and Absolutely Free Global and Online "Move Movement" which explains the failure of traditional dieting, weight loss and exercise programs in prevention and management of disease. It emphasizes the importance of continual life long importance of Bodily Movement (that is why the movement is called "Move Movement") in preventing and fighting disease as opposed to any intensive short term dieting, weight loss, and exercise programs which are plagued by the rebound phenomena and don't benefit in the long run and can result in injury and disease.

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Weight Regain after Successful Dieting Linked to Hormones and not to Lack of Motivation or Willpower.

2011-12-29T15:59:00Z

Online Health Expert Obesity and Dieting News Flash: An Interesting study done by Australian Doctors involving 50 overweight or obese patients without diabetes in a 10-week weight loss dieting program and published in the New England Journal of Medicine (October, 2011) showed elevated levels of hormones linked with hunger and obesity (ghrelin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, and pancreatic polypeptide) and decreased levels of appetite suppressing hormones (leptin, peptide YY, cholecystokinin, insulin and amylin) compared to baseline levels over a period of one year after weight loss resulting from Dieting, suggesting that hormones result in the quick and high weight regain after dieting induced weight loss.

Anyone who has tried dieting and successfully lost weight as a result of it knows it is usually followed by a rebound weigh regain. This study shows that this weight regain is not merely a result of lack of willpower on their part, but is a result of several changes in the levels of homeostatic hormones linked with obesity. It clearly shows that the human body fights the lowering in body weight by quickly bringing the weight back with a rebound!

This understanding and long term means and strategies to counteract these homeostatic changes may hold the key to sustained weight loss by preventing rebound weight gain after a successful dieting program.

Online Health Expert urges "You" to share this story to help fight the rapidly growing Obesity epidemic.

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First Laboratory Brewed Blood Using Stem Cells Successfully Transfused in a Human Subject in France.

2011-12-29T14:25:00Z

Online Health Expert Medical News Report: According to an article published in the journal Blood, November 10, 2011 issue, for the very first time in the history of Blood Transfusion Medicine, when the American Red Cross had declared a nationwide shortage of Blood, scientists in France have been able to successfully transfuse 10 homogenized fully functional and mature Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC) derived in-vitro cultured Red Blood Cells (cRBCs) in a Human subject and showed them to be at par in quality and functionality with the natural RBCs.

Although, we are not yet technologically advanced enough to go for full scale quick and mass production of cRBCs for clinical use, this advancement promises a life saving leap in our capabilities very soon!

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Online health Expert Medical News Flash: Research Shows Turmeric (Haldi-in Hindi) Extract HSS-888 to be a Promising Herbal Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease.

2011-12-23T17:31:00Z

Turmeric (Haldi-in Hindi) Extract as a New and Promising Herbal Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease is on the Horizon.

In the Aug 30, 2011 edition of the Current Alzheimer Research journal [Epub ahead of print] researchers from the Herbal Science Group, LLC located in Naples, Florida, USA performed an in vivo study on "Alzheimer" transgenic mice (Tg2576) and showed that the Standardized Turmeric Extract (HSS-888) showed promising first step in Botanical based therapies for Alzheimer's disease by inhibiting Beta Amyloid (soluble 40% and insoluble 20%) or improving Phosphorylated Tau Protein plaque burden (80%), and microglial inflammation leading to neuronal toxicity.

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Increase in the resting heart rate over a 10-year period independently increases risk of death from all causes and from ischemic heart disease.

2011-12-22T15:21:00Z

According to a study done by Javaid Newman, PhD and colleagues at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and published in the December 21, 2001 issue of JAMA, an increase in the resting heart rate (RHR) over a 10-year period had an increased risk of death from all causes and from ischemic heart disease (IHD). The study enrolled 30,000 healthy men and women who were followed for a period of 12 years.

The researchers found that compared with participants with a RHR of less than 70 bpm at both measurements (10 years apart), participants with a RHR of less than 70 bpm at the first measurement but greater than 85 bpm at the second measurement had a 90 percent increased risk of death from IHD. Participants with RHRs between 70-85 bpm at the first measurement and greater than 85 bpm at the second measurement had an 80 percent increased risk.

There is already some preexisting evidence that a high RHR is associated with increased cardiovascular disease and death in the general population, independent of conventional risk factors like age, smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, alcohol intake, physical inactivity etc. But this was the first time a study was done to show how the increase in the RHR over a period of time independently impacts death from all causes and IHD. A previous study involving 129,135 postmenopausal women done in 2009 was able to establish RHR as an independent predictor for coronary events in women. Women with high RHR (more than 76 bpm) were significantly more likely to suffer a coronary event compared to women with lowest RHR ( 62 bpm or less). This correlation was strongest in the ages 50-64 years and less strong for women 65 years or over. There have been similar previous studies showing the direct correlation between high RHR and increased coronary events among men.

These studies including the one done by Dr. Newman further support for the hypothesis that RHR may be an important prognostic marker for IHD and total mortality. Information on RHR and its time-related changes which are so simple to perform and pretty easy to obtain and follow-up and may be useful in identifying asymptomatic healthy people who could benefit from measures of primary prevention to reduce coronary events and all cause mortality and promote longevity through timely interventions.

More research needs to be done how the results from this study can be extrapolated to sick individuals and whether or not decreasing RHR will result in a decrease in all cause mortality.

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Learning more from failures than from successes alone shown to be superior: Functional MRI Brain Scans Yield Clues to Physician Decision Making.

2011-12-19T02:45:00Z

Online Health Expert Medical News Flash: According to an Interesting study published in the journal PLoS One done on 35 experienced Physicians using 64 virtual case studies during training and 64 virtual patients in the testing phase and Functional MRI scans of their brains to elucidate their decision making process, the research team led by Dr. Jonathan Downar, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in Ontario, Canada showed that Doctors who learned mainly from their successes showed low performance and a tended to make sub-optimal decision making compared to their high performing colleagues who learned equally from their mistakes (failures) and successes (positive outcomes).

High performing Doctors' brains achieve better outcomes by attending to informative failures during training rather than chasing the reward value of successes.

This finding, labelled as confirmation bias and success chasing was shown to hinder associative learning which together produced or solidified the false beliefs in low performing physicians in this study.

This leads us to believe that disconfirmation learning might be more beneficial in teaching Medical students and Residents so that they will not become success chasers and would be able to learn from their mistakes in the simulated clinical case scenarios and would be worthwhile to incorporate as a part of their training to improve patient outcomes. Further testing needs to be done to find direct evidence to support this type of training and its benefits.

Online Health Expert recommends learning more from one's failures rather than successes alone is the key to avoid spurious learning and is true for everyone and not only Doctors.

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Online Health Expert repots "Creation of Synthetic Life" to change the Very definition of Life!

2011-12-18T18:56:00Z

Synthetic life became a reality last year (2010) when a team of 40 researchers led by Dr. J. Craig Venter, a geneticist and scientist at his not for profit research institute located in Rockville, Maryland were able to create a synthetic cell whose 1.08 million base pair Mycoplasma mycoides genome was digitalized and modified on a computer and the base pairs were put together in the laboratory. This is the First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell with numerous applications.

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Health Expert Explains Memory, Brain's craetion of Reality, concept of time, Motivation and how to change one's reality.

2011-12-07T15:47:00Z

As many humans there are, as many realities. In fact just like the finger prints, DNA prints (exception of identical twins), each of us have a unique Brain print with no exceptions as no two humans can be present at one place simultaneously and experience the same reality.

Our Brain along with the spinal cord (CNS -Central Nervous System) and nerves (PNS -Peripheral Nervous System which includes the ANS ie., Autonomic Nervous System and SNS ie., Somatic Nervous System) with the help of various sensory organs (special ones - Eyes for 3D color sight/vision, Nose for Olfaction/smell, Ears - Audition/Hearing and Equilibrium/Balance and acceleration, Tongue - Gustation/Taste  and General ones - like the Touch (skin and viscera), Pressure, Vibration, Proprioception, Pain, and Temperature (hot and cold) senses the presence of energy and matter(within the human capability/limitations) and based on prior and real time knowledge base generates a sense of self and the surroundings - which we call our reality.

As the design is almost the same for all of us the our knowledge and experiences are the main confounding factors in the creation of our realities. That being said knowledge and experience are very powerful tools that can change our reality.

Our Brain does a marvelous job at Capturing and Deleting information/data almost simultaneously to keep us aware of our surroundings and self, and that is what we perceive to be "Real" and gives us a sense of "Present" time or "Real" time.

Our Brains possess a "very powerful filtering mechanism", meaning that humann brain is designed to "Forget" or "Delete" information/data and NOT to "Remember" it as most of you might think. Had it not been so we would be unable to move on and all information would pile up very quickly and confuse us and we would not be able to sense ourselves or our surroundings in real time as the past would be superimposed on it. There would be no "Reality" and no distinction between past, present and future and thus no sense of "Time".

That is not to say that Our Brains do not have the capabilities to remember concepts, ideas, information, and things from the past. It surely does in the various forms of "Memory":

                Firstly, The Real Time Memory - lasting a few milliseconds or less (when we are moving fast) providing us enough time to create and comprehend reality and reflexly respond to its changes. It is then quickly erased or deleted as the brain is constantly bombarded with new information/data. This type of memory does not make any physical changes in our brain, its purely electrochemical in nature. The Brain possesses the power to scoop out certain data - "filtering mechanism" - and push it back into short term/ long term memory (awake/sleeping memory). What it filters is "very unique" to each one of us and to each circumstance and is dependent upon an intricate balance between our knowledge base and prior experiences in those circumstances and our human body's basic anatomic and physiologic needs to stay safe and reproduce (survival instincts). It is also in part determined by our rewarding experiences (interests) and previous punishments (fears) which we can label as our "Motivating" factors and how an interplay of those relates to our present. What is very-very interesting about this type of memory is that our brain can speed up tremendously to "Slow Down Time" in life threatening situations when our bodies pump up our brain with "Adrenaline". This is much like the slow motion effect on a "film" when the projector rolls faster. This happens to provide us more time to better assess our surroundings, and to link it to our past knowledge and experiences to come up with a move to save ourselves (our survival instinct!).

Another important aspect of our survival instinct, which the "Magicians" have exploited for thousands of years to create "Illusions" is that we are easily distractable especially when it comes to our sense of Sight/Vision. In order to keep us safe, we involuntarily focus our attention on "Moving objects" as they could be dangerous to us. Magicians have been using these movements and sound effects to perform their tricks as we easily and involuntarily focus our attention on those and not on what they don't want us to see and they very easily get away with it.

                Secondly, we have the Short-term memory which lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes and helps us in assessment of the present circumstances including our reflex responses and modulate them in the future as we learn and somewhat plan the very near future which is the present as the very near past gets deleted. This also does not make much physical changes in our brain. Some of this information, both reflexly and voluntarily can be pushed back further into long term memory based on its "repetitive utilization", "active recall" and on our levels of "Motivation".

                Thirdly, we possess a Long-term memory (often life long) which as a result of repetitious use for example our Name, Spouse's name, name of our close family members, relatives and friends, own phone number, Social Security Number or some form of ID number, name of our Street, Apartment or House number etc. It is also mostly the one related to our parenting, schooling, interests, occupation, religion, voluntary active recall and our "Motivation" - these are things we cannot afford to forget or simply love too much! This type of memory has been shown to make physical changes like hypertrophy (increase in size) of certain brain areas based of excessive utilization and has been consistently shown to exist in various occupations.

Recent studies on sleep physiology have hinted that during sleep, we also possess these three different types of memories but are stored in separate regions of the brain and do interact and affect our reality, learning, behavior, and dreams.

Thus, our Memories are there to assist us with our future by analysis of the past and present to create a "Knowledge Base" which constantly changes our "Reality".

I welcome all of you to call me when needed.

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Online Health Expert Dr. Harish Malik uses a Revolutionary Global "Move Movement" to bring Doctors and patients together & help Health care providers improve their clinical & communication skills to safely cut Health care costs & figh

2011-12-04T17:50:00Z

I am Dr. Harish Malik and the Author of Online Health Expert. I am a Medical Doctor from India with over 10 years of Medicine, Medical Education, Teaching, Research and Public Speaking experience. Please Click here to view my complete profile. I have recently started a Global "Move Movement".

My Revolutionary Global "Move Movement" to help prevent/fight disease and promote positive health is a testimony to my dedication to improve Global Health and cut Global Medical and Health costs.

The addition of "Free Membership" to Online Health Expert provides a platform where Medical professionals as well as people can exchange ideas, knowledge and skills to improve their health and spread Health awareness and come together as a Global Family of Health Protectors and Promoters.

My launch of the "Top Medical News" section about the technologies and discoveries that are reshaping our Health care such as Nanotechnology, 3D Organ Printing for transplantation, use of Stem Cells in healing hearts, brains and many other organs.

Above all the creation of "Synthetic Life" has changed my definition of Life - Life forms are software (genes) driven dynamic organic machines (body) - and our ability to literally edit this software on a computer and to create "New Life forms" is amazing new promising technology that has already started revolutionizing our world at all levels.

My Free Links for "Clinical Skills Videos", "Allied Health care Clinical Skills Videos" and "Symptom Checkers" when properly utilized will make Medical and Health care Safer and More Cost Effective in the time of "Global Economic Crisis" and growing disconnect between Health care Providers and Patients due to our increasing reliance on technology in diagnosing and treating patients and the diminishing and declining utilization of Clinical Skills.

“To teach is to touch a life forever”. Keeping this in mind, I believe that every Medical Educator must be highly motivated, must be knowledgeable, skilled and a thorough professional who must strive for perfection.

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2011-11-24T22:52:00Z

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