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Lady Gaga’s wacky VMA outfit turns heads

September 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 14 (ANI): Pop sensation Lady Gaga grabbed eyeballs at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards by appearing in a unique outfit.

The ‘Poker Face’ hitmaker wore a black lace Jean Paul Gaultier dress with Dragon print silk underlay from Gaultier’s fall/winter ready to wear collection.

Her fashion accessory included Keko Hainswheeler neck brace and Kiko jewelry.

The 24-year-old walked the carpet with Kermit the Frog.

“I’m just happy to be here, and I’m excited for everyone to win,” Us magazine quoted her as saying. (ANI)

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Back injury could end Phil Collins’ drumming career

September 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sept 11 (ANI): Genesis drummer Phil Collins may be forced to quit drumming after a back injury.

The 58-year-old had suffered back injury during the last Genesis tour, in 2007, and had said earlier this week that the problem had come about because of his drumming posture, due to which his vertebrae had been crushing his spinal cord.

The rockstar has now revealed that a surgery to repair the dislocated vertebrae in his neck had left him incapable of holding drumsticks properly or playing the piano.

However Collins was optimistic about the future and said “stuff appens in life”

The Telegraph quoted him as saying: “There isn’t any drama regarding my ‘disability’ and playing drums.

“Somehow during the last Genesis tour I dislocated some vertebrae in my upper neck and that affected my hands.

“After a successful operation on my neck, my hands still can’t function normally.

“Maybe in a year or so it will change, but for now it is impossible for me to play drums or piano.

“I am not in any ‘distressed’ state – stuff happens in life.” (ANI)

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Cancer safety fears of most common heartburn treatment rejected

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): The largest ever study on ‘Proton pump inhibitors’ (PPI)-the second most prescribed group of drugs for heartburn-has dismissed all fears about the cancer causing effects of the treatment.

PPI are the most commonly used treatment for chronic acid reflux, or ‘heartburn’, a painful burning sensation in the chest, neck and throat which is experienced by almost a third of people in developed countries.

Regular and prolonged heartburn is known to cause ‘benign oesophagitis’, a reversible inflammation of the gullet.

However if left untreated a condition called Barrett’s Oesophagus (BE) occurs in around 10 per cent of sufferers, which can in turn develop into a potentially fatal cancer called oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

While PPIs had an excellent safety record, it was unclear if long-term use of these drugs to reduce the discomfort of heartburn could increase the risk of developing either BE or the spread of the associated cancer.

But, the new research carried out at Queen Mary, University of London and Leicester Royal Infirmary, has given the most conclusive evidence yet that this is not the case.

Professor Janusz Jankowski, who co-authored the study, said: “This is one of the most detailed studies investigating both the laboratory and clinical side of proton pump inhibitor drugs. As a consequence we are now better able to inform patients of the good benefit/risk ratio of this commonly prescribed therapy.”

Tests carried out during the two-year study looked at tissue sampled from the oesophagus lining of ninety volunteers, each of whom were given PPI drugs at either a high or low dosage.

Researchers found that there was no difference in the rate at which BE developed, neither was there a change in the number of precancerous cells in either group.

Despite fears about how the treatments might affect people already suffering from BE, the study showed that there was no evidence that this led to any worsening of the condition or any extra incidences of cancer.

PPIs work by blocking the action of gastrin, a hormone that controls acid levels in the stomach, and is known to increase the normal movement of cells in the gastro-intestinal tract.

Since PPI therapy increases the levels of gastrin in the body, it had been thought this could cause expansion of BE affected tissue, but this was not found to be the case.

In fact, the scientists observed neither expansion nor contraction of the abnormal tissue.

The study has been published in the peer reviewed journal Gut. (ANI)

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Need to prevent periodontitis to cut head and neck cancer risk

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Buffalo have stressed on the need for increased efforts to prevent and treat chronic periodontitis, a form of gum disease, to reduce the risk for head and neck cancer.

Led by Dr. Mine Tezal at Buffalo, periodontitis is an independent risk factor for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

“Prevent periodontitis; if you have it already, get treatment and maintain good oral hygiene,” said Tezal.

Chronic periodontitis is characterized by progressive loss of the bone and soft tissue attachment that surround the teeth.

The researchers assessed the role of chronic periodontitis on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, as well as the individual roles on three subsites: oral cavity, oropharyngeal and laryngeal.

They used radiographic measurement of bone loss to measure periodontitis among 463 patients, 207 of whom were controls.

The results of the study revealed that chronic periodontitis might represent a clinical high-risk profile for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The strength of the association was greatest in the oral cavity, followed by the oropharynx and larynx, according to Tezal.

When they stratified the relationship by tobacco use, they found that the association persisted in those patients who never used tobacco.

The researchers did not expect the periodontitis-head and neck squamous cell carcinoma association to be weaker in current smokers compared to former and never smokers, according to Tezal.

However, this interaction, although statistically significant, was not very strong.

“Confirmatory studies with more comprehensive assessment of smoking, such as duration, quantity and patterns of use, as well as smokeless tobacco history are needed,” said Tezal.

“Our study also suggests that chronic periodontitis may be associated with poorly differentiated tumor status in the oral cavity. Continuous stimulation of cellular proliferation by chronic inflammation may be responsible for this histological type. However, grading is subjective and we only observed this association in the oral cavity. Therefore, this association may be due to chance and needs further exploration,” she added.

Andrew Olshan, Ph.D., said these results lend further support to the potential importance of poor oral health in this form of cancer.

Olshan said, “Although the study is comparatively small, the researchers were able to also see an association between bone loss and the risk of head and neck cancer.”

The results of the study have been published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. (ANI)

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MKU displays Instavest Body Armour and Boltfree Ballistic Helmets at DSEi

September 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

ExCeL (United Kingdom), Sep 5 (ANI/Business Wire India): With their armed forces ever more heavily engaged in operations, from the full scale asymmetric combat of Afghanistan to counter-insurgency in Africa and post-war peace support in Iraq and Eastern Europe, many governments are expressing concern about the protection of their troops on the ground.

The range of threats faced in dismounted operations, from small arms to artillery to improvised explosive devices, is growing and, to be effective against such threats, the personal ballistic protection of soldiers on the ground is developing quickly to stay ahead.

The mainstays of effective personal protection are the helmet and the overvest or body armour. Some 45 per cent of battlefield injuries are to the head, of which up to 80 per cent are caused by fragments and only 20 per cent by bullets. High performance helmets with all round protection and efficient harness systems are needed to defeat the threat. Likewise, comfortable, effective body armour, which gives all-round protection while allowing unrestricted movement, is required for the torso, neck and other areas of the body.

To provide protection whilst not limiting combat-effectiveness, such helmets and body armour must be both strong and light. The use of modern materials, such as polyethylene, polyurethane and aramide in helmets and body armour, together with highly mass-efficient ceramic composites in body armour panel inserts, has greatly increased the level of personal protection that the soldier can carry around the battlefield on his head or body. Moreover, quick release systems allow the dismounted soldier to shed his helmet and body armour fast if the tactical situation dictates.

Light weight armour manufacturers and suppliers like MKU are able to offer such personal protection solutions in large numbers and at short notice. At the DSEi exhibition (Stand 1924), MKU will be displaying a range of its light weight personal armour solutions, many already in service, including its instant release “Instavest” body armour and its “Boltfree” helmet range, and briefing military procurers and end users on its range of capabilities. (ANI)

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Brit dog owner fined £1,100 for letting pet Labrador grow fat!

September 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 2 (ANI): A Brit dog owner has been fined more than 1,100 pounds for letting his pet Labrador get so fat that he weighed the same as a grown man.

NHS worker Melvyn Davies, 58, from Beaumaris in Anglesey, North Wales, has admitted to causing the 11st animal, known as Ben, unnecessary suffering.

The 10-year-old dog weighed 70 kilos instead of the recommended 25, and also had an untreated wound on his neck.

But Davies has blamed Ben’s short legs for his lack of exercise, saying they caused him to balloon in size.

“Ben is now down to six-and-a-half stones and doing well. He’s a beautiful, friendly dog but in 35 years I had never seen a dog so obese,” the Daily Express quoted RSPCA Inspector Kevin Paton as saying.

Magistrates at Holyhead fined Davies 1,170 pounds, plus 100 pounds costs.

They deprived him of Ben, now looked after privately, but he escaped a blanket ban on keeping animals. (ANI)

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One killed in police firing during violence in West Bengal

August 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ramjibanpu (West Bengal), Aug 29(ANI): A student died in police firing after violence broke out following a road accident in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district on Saturday.

A motorbike driver was killed in a head-on collision with a truck and a group of enraged residents had set the truck and a police vehicle on fire.

Following the violence, the police had to resort to lob tear gas shells and fire at the mob, in the midst of which a student was killed.

“I asked him (a student, who is killed allegedly in firing by police) to get aside, but he said that security personnel were only trying to scare off and will not fire. While we were talking they opened fire and he got hit on his neck and fell down. And after that we ran for rescue as he was shouting for water and help,” said Monchi Doloi, an eyewitness.

Protesting against the firing, locals blocked the State highway. (ANI)

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Kennedy led high quality of life up to his death, say doctors

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug. 27 (ANI): Senator Edward M. Kennedy maintained a very good quality of life after he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

He continued speaking in front of Congress and making public appearances almost up until the time of his death on Wednesday morning at his home on Cape Cod.

“For a man in his 70s, he did very, very well,” Fox News quoted Dr. Michael Gruber, professor of neurology and neuro-surgery at NYU School of Medicine and Director of the Brain Tumor Center in Summit, New Jersey.

“He was walking unassisted (up until the end), he was lucid,” Dr. Gruber added.

Dr. Suriya Jeyapalan, a neuroncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said that Kennedy’s condition was treatable, but not curable.

More than 18,000 primary malignant brain tumors are diagnosed each year in the United States; about 9,000 of those are malignant gliomas, according to the National Cancer Institute.

In general, half of all patients die within a year.

However, patients with malignant gliomas often maintain a very good quality of life after their diagnosis, Gruber said.

Gruber said the fate of a brain tumor patient depends on the location of the tumor. For example, if the tumor is located on the frontal or temporal lobe, then the patient’s speech might be affected.

Since Kennedy’s tumor was on the left parietal lobe, he suffered seizures. Other brain tumor patients may lose the ability to walk, lose vision or lose comprehension skills, depending on where the tumor lies or if the tumor invades other parts of the brain.

Kennedy underwent targeted brain surgery on June 2, 2008 at Duke University Medical Center. The surgery lasted for about 3 1/2 hours and Kennedy spent some of that time awake.

Targeted brain surgery is a delicate balance – removing as much tumor as possible improves cancer control, but there’s also the risk of harming the healthy brain tissue that lets patients walk and talk.

This is why doctors keep patients awake and talking during the surgery to make sure they’re steering clear of delicate areas of the brain. The surgery, considered a success, was followed by months of chemo and radiation therapy.

Kennedy has suffered other health problems over the years.

In October 2007, doctors performed surgery to clean out a partially blocked neck artery, which left untreated, could have trigged a stroke.

In 1964, Kennedy suffered several fractured bones in his back, broken ribs, and internal bleeding after he was involved in a plane crash.

Two people died in that crash. (ANI)

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New technique to help Parkinson’s patients speak louder

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Scientists from Purdue University’s Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences have come up with a novel technique that would help Parkinson’s patients speak louder.

“People with Parkinson’s disease commonly have voice and speech problems,” said Jessica Huber, an associate professor in Purdue’s Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.

“At some point in their disease they will have some form of voice or speech disorder that generally occurs a little later in the disease,” she added.

The most common therapy, the Lee Silverman voice treatment program, trains patients to speak louder in one-hour sessions four days a week for a month.

“Some Parkinson’s patients do great with this approach, but others do not. They forget to keep speaking louder the minute they have left the therapy room,” said Huber.

Lee Silverman tends to work less for people with later stages of disease or those who have some cognitive decline.

Huber used a new approach: The patients were asked to speak louder while a recording of background “multitalker babble noise” was played. The noise is essentially the sound of a restaurant full of patrons, but without the clattering silverware and clinking glasses.

“They had an easier time getting louder when I had the noise in the room,” she said.

“Ordinarily, when I asked them to be twice as loud they would say they couldn’t. They couldn’t speak 10 decibels louder, but when I turned on the babble noise, they spoke over 10 decibels louder,” she added.

In the device built by engineering resources manager Jim Jones and senior research engineer Kirk Foster, both in the Weldon School, the voice-activated device automatically plays the background babble when the person begins to speak.

A sensor placed on the neck detects that the person has begun to speak and tells the device to play the babble through an earpiece worn by the patient.

“I got the idea that if we train them with a natural cue in their everyday environment, we will probably get better results. We ask them to wear the system for about four hours a day as they go about their daily routine,” she added.(ANI)

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Scientists discover sea monster with 289 Stones in its gut

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 21 (ANI): Paleontologists working in southern Utah, US, have unearthed a Dolichorhynchops plesiosaur-a gigantic Dinosaur Era marine reptile-with 289 stones in its gut.

“At the moment, it seems as though the stones served some sort of digestive purpose, helping to grind up bits of shell or bony material within the gut,” Rebecca Schmeisser, a University of Nebraska paleontologist, told Discovery News.

What’s particularly surprising in this case is that the plesiosaur had a relatively short neck.

It’s neck was long by today’s standards, giraffes excluded, but for a plesiosaur, Dolichorhynchops possessed a puny neck.

“The discovery of the gastroliths associated with this plesiosaur specimen were particularly exciting because most plesiosaur gastroliths are found associated with the long-neck morphotype,” Schmeisser explained, adding that “the stones described in our paper are much lighter and smaller than those found in long-neck plesiosaurs.”

This is intriguing, because paleontologists had previously theorized that the stones might have served as ballast, or a means of balancing the animal’s weight underwater.

Now, it could be that the Dolichorhynchops kept swallowing stones that were too light for this purpose, but that’s a doubtful sceanrio.

Modern birds, in addition to their already high fiber diet full of nuts, seeds and fruits, swallow grit.

The grit takes the place of certain strong muscles and bones, such as those associated with the jaw, which help to pulverize and process food.

Birds can then retain their relatively light and dainty anatomical design with the aid of grit.

Some dinosaurs also possessed gastroliths, perhaps for a similar reason. Dinosaurs, like hefty sauropods, weren’t lightweights, but their heads and necks were, relative to the rest of their enormous bodies.

Plesiosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they looked a bit like underwater dinosaurs.

Plesiosaur behavior was more comparable to that of modern day sea turtles and seals, but the prehistoric animals weren’t at all related to turtles and seals.

It’s possible that the stomach stone/grit solution to digestion independently evolved in plesiosaurs, dinosaurs and modern birds, but more research is needed. (ANI)

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Tiger Woods suffers back injury scare ahead of USPGA

August 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 13(ANI): American golfer Tiger Woods’ pursuit to win his third consecutive tournament and his first major of 2009 was hit by an injury scare while practicing at Hazeltine.

Woods, a four-time US PGA Championships winner, is 13-8 favourite with bookmakers to equal the record held jointly by Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen, who have won five US PGA Championships.

The world No.1 has won five tournaments since returning from major knee surgery in February, but a back injury could hit his chances of securing a 15th major on Sunday, as he was seen wincing and holding his body after playing a shot with his driver.

According to reports, Woods left the range and went straight to the PGA Tour’s fitness and rehab trailer. Later, he came out with his agent Mark Steinberg and insisted that there were no issues.

“I’ve had four knee surgeries, so I guess that’s significant, but as far as other parts of my body are concerned I’ve always had a pretty healthy body,” The Mirror quoted Woods, as saying.

The 33 year-old further insisted that he has been lucky that he never had to face any issue regarding his back or neck, which many professionals like him face in their career.

“The only area I’ve had a problem with is in my knee when I first had those tumours. That’s what started the whole thing, culminating in surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament last year,” Woods added.

Woods will begin his first round on Thursday alongside defending champion Padraig Harrington and 2002 winner Rich Beem. (ANI)

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Bath time injuries rising among kids

July 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 13 (ANI): Bathtubs and showers are associated with nearly half of the injuries in kids, and the rate is still increasing drastically, according to a new study.

“Unfortunately, adult supervision isn’t enough to prevent these injuries, they happen so quickly that a parent simply can’t react quickly enough to prevent them,” said Dr. Gary Smith, with Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Centre for Injury Research and Policy.

According to the new study, more than 43,000 children in the US, 18 years and younger, are treated in hospital emergency departments annually for injuries occurring in a bathtub or shower.

Smith recommends installing support bars so that kids can hold onto them when getting in and out of the tub and shower.

Smith further advises parents to ensure that there are no sharp edges that children can fall against.

The falls can also be prevented by using a slip resistant mat inside and outside the bath and shower.

The researchers said that most injuries occur to children under age 4, and most often to the face.

The most common injuries were laceration (60 percent), with the face being the most frequently injured body region (48 percent), followed by the head and neck (15 percent).

“That is because young children, the ones typically injured in bathtubs and showers, they tend topple forward, they have a high centre of gravity, and they tend to strike their head and their face, and that ends up with injures such as lacerations,” Smith added.

After the study, experts are calling on manufacturers to use more slip-resistant materials when making bathtubs and showers, so that the number of injuries can be significantly reduced.

The study has been published in the journal Pediatrics. (ANI)

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Snakes are the ultimate massagers!

July 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Jul 11 (ANI): For those seeking the ultimate in therapeutic body massages, a new form of massage has come up, which involves a nest of writhing snakes.

Ada Barak’s Carnivorous Plant Farm, located on a moshav about an hour’s drive north of Tel Aviv, provides the ophidian rubdown.

It all starts with a person lying down on a massage table set up under the shade of an umbrella, with a white baby’s bath next to the table containing the snakes, which are writhing in anticipation.

The bath contains, among other snakes, a California king snake and an albino corn snake, both stretching to more than 1.5 metres in length.

Once the snakes are placed on the body, they start doing their thing, with the larger ones sliding confidently around the back, while the smaller ones wrapping themselves around the neck and poking their way into the ears and nostrils.

“It’s a very sensual experience,” theage.com.au quoted Barak, who is a 54-year-old biologist, as saying.

“Some have even described the massage as being something more than that,” she added. (ANI)

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Strength training, aerobic exercise help reduce cardiovascular risks, pain

July 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 11 (ANI): Strength training helps lower heart disease and stroke risk factors, while all-around exercise reduces neck and shoulder pain, suggests a new study.

Lead researcher Dr. Mogens T. Pedersen, of the University of Copenhagen, says that strength training and all-around exercise are a valuable part of work site exercise programs that have multiple benefits.

During the study, the researchers randomly assigned 841 Danish employees to two exercise groups.

One group did all-around exercise like aerobics and walking, while the other focused on strength training, particularly on the shoulder and cervical spine (neck) muscles.

A third group received no exercise program at work.

The researchers found reductions in cardiovascular risk factors, including blood pressure and body fat, in not only those assigned to aerobic exercise, but also in those who did strength training.

The average reduction in blood pressure was big enough to lead to a 25 percent reduction in stroke risk.

Both types of physical activity also reduced back and shoulder pain by nearly 30 percent, when compared to the no-exercise group.

Dr. Pedersen and colleagues write: “These positive health-related adaptations occurred in spite of relatively small changes in physical capacity.”

The study has been published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. (ANI)

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CT scans deepen murder mystery of 1,700-year-old mummy

July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 10 (ANI): The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a ‘metallic’ object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull.

According to a report by Sky News, the 1,700-year-old mummy was scanned along with two other Egyptian mummies from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, in a quest for more information on the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

The scans were arranged by Bob Loynes, previously an orthopaedic consultant at Mid-Staffs Hospital, UK, and a keen Egyptologist.

In the past, it has been necessary to unwrap mummies to carry out investigations, but this risky process can now be avoided.

“The opportunity to help with the further investigation of these mummies was a very exciting one for me,” Loynes said.

“The CT Scans have shown amazing details, which have produced as many questions as they have given answers,” he added.

Scans of the second mummy, that of Padimut, priest of the goddess Mut and probably of the 21st Dynasty (1085-935 BC), showed evidence of high quality mummification, including removal of the brain and plates in front of the eyes.

Investigations into the third mummy threw up another mystery.

The mummy, from the Namenkhetamun of the 26th Dynasty (664-525BC), was described as ‘the daughter of Amunkhau’ on the coffin lid.

But, the scan has revealed the mummy is male.

Researchers also discovered another mystery – an unexplained hole in the mummy’s back, about the size of a fist.

According to curator Adam Jaffer, “This scanning has produced views of the museum’s mummies which have never been seen before. We have been able to ‘virtually unwrap’ them without causing any damage.”

“However, scanning poses new questions about the life and death of these ancient Egyptians which we will try to find the answers for,” he said. (ANI)

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Omega Nebula’s ‘watercolors’ revealed in new image

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Munich, July 8 (ANI): A new image captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has reveled the Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, in all its glory.

The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a dazzling stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer).

An active star-forming region of gas and dust about 15 light-years across, the nebula has recently spawned a cluster of massive, hot stars.

The intense light and strong winds from these hulking infants have carved remarkable filigree structures in the gas and dust.

When seen through a small telescope, the nebula has a shape that reminds some observers of the final letter of the Greek alphabet, omega, while others see a swan with its distinctive long, curved neck.

Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux discovered the nebula around 1745. The French comet hunter Charles Messier independently rediscovered it about twenty years later and included it as number 17 in his famous catalogue.

In a small telescope, the Omega Nebula appears as an enigmatic ghostly bar of light set against the star fields of the Milky Way.

In recent years, astronomers have discovered that the Omega Nebula is one of the youngest and most massive star-forming regions in the Milky Way.

Active star-birth started a few million years ago and continues through today.

The newly released image, obtained with the EMMI instrument attached to the ESO 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile, shows the central region of the Omega Nebula in exquisite detail.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has also imaged small parts of this nebula.

At the left of the image, a huge and strangely box-shaped cloud of dust covers the glowing gas.

The fascinating palette of subtle color shades across the image comes from the presence of different gases (mostly hydrogen, but also oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur) that are glowing under the fierce ultraviolet light radiated by the hot young stars. (ANI)

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New York women ‘terrify’ Robert Pattinson

July 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, July 6 (ANI): British actor Robert Pattinson, who is shooting for his new film “Remember Me” in New York, is said to be scared of the city’s women.

On-set sources have revealed that the actor is homesick for London.

“Robert is dying to get back home. He’s so over everything. He’s overwhelmed by all the girls – they terrify him,” the New York Daily News quoted an insider as saying.

“He says girls grab his neck and clothing all of the time, and he’s not used to that. Fans don’t do that to him in London. Everyone there is a little cooler about the fame thing, which is what he’s used to,” the insider added.

Clearly Pattinson, who shot to fame as teenage vampire Edward Cullen in “Twilight,” isn’t enjoying his heartthrob status or the female attention.

“Robert doesn’t understand why everyone is going so crazy over him,” the insider said.

“He’s embarrassed by the way girls throw themselves at him. The girls here are stalking him. He stayed in two different hotels over the course of four days just to try to escape the fans who were following him. He’s afraid that if he gives a hand, they’ll take the whole arm. He’s being advised by security not to encourage the crowd, so he doesn’t even look up anymore,” the insider added. (ANI)

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Russell Crowe’s new Robin Hood film blighted with accidents

July 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 6 (ANI): Russell Crowe’s new film Robin Hood appeared to be blighted with accidents after an actor and studio aide suffered injuries in separate incidents.

The 176-million-dollar drama came to a standstill last month after an unnamed actor was injured during the filming of a battle scene in Wales.

According to the Sunday Mirror, the Ridley Scott epic, due for a 2010 release, has since been plagued by more injuries on set, reports Contactmusic.

An unnamed actor reportedly suffered broken ankles after missing a crash mat in a high-wire fall at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire, England.

A studio worker, in another incident, also faced neck injuries from falling into a pit at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. (ANI)

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Anna Kournikova gets into cat fight at Vegas party

July 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, July 1 (ANI): Tennis ace Anna Kournikova reportedly landed into a cat fight in Las Vegas after an unknown woman threw a drink at her.

The Russian model was apparently partying with friends at Lavo after attending the Hardbat Classic table tennis tournament.

“(A woman at the next table) threw a drink at Anna. She felt Anna was invading her space,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

The 28-year-old was said to have “sprung into action”, and began yelling at the woman, leaving the player with alleged scratch marks on her neck.

“It was a big fight,” said the source.

Kournikova’s publicist did not return calls. (ANI)

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Even tiny levels of carbon monoxide can damage fetal brain

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 26 (ANI): A new study has shown that exposure to even miniscule levels of carbon monoxide during pregnancy can have an adverse impact on fetal brain, resulting in permanent impairment.

“We expected the placenta to protect fetuses from the mother’s exposure to tiny amounts of carbon monoxide,” said John Edmond, professor emeritus of biological chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

“But we found that not to be the case,” he added.

During the study, the researchers exposed pregnant rats to 25 parts per million carbon monoxide in the air, a level considered safe.

Dr. Ivan Lopez, UCLA associate professor of head and neck surgery, tested the rats’ litters 20 days after birth.

He found that rats born to animals who had inhaled the gas suffered chronic oxidative stress, a harmful condition caused by an excess of harmful free radicals or insufficient antioxidants.

“Oxidative stress damaged the baby rats’ brain cells, leading to a drop in proteins essential for proper function,” said Lopez.

“Oxidative stress is a risk factor linked to many disorders, including autism, cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease, multiple sclerosis and cardiovascular disease. We know that it exacerbates disease,” he added.

“We believe that the minute levels of carbon monoxide in the mother rats’ environment made their offspring more vulnerable to illness,” said Edmond.

“Our findings highlight the need for policy makers to re-examine the regulation of carbon monoxide,” the expert added.

Tobacco smoke, gas heaters, stoves and ovens all emit carbon monoxide, which can rise to high concentrations in well-insulated homes. Infants and children are particularly vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure because they spend a great deal of time in the home.

The findings appear in journal BMC (BioMed Central) Neuroscience. (ANI)

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