Simmons said, living without a heart for a long time with a blood pumping machine is “SCARY”.

“You never knew when it would malfunction,” she said, her voice barely above a whisper, at a news conference at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center.

“It was like I was a fake person, like I didn’t really exist. I was just here,” she said of living without a heart.
Simmons who is 14 years old, suffered from what’s called “dilated cardiomyopathy” it’s a condition in which the patient’s heart becomes weakened and enlarged and does not pump blood efficiently. Previously, Simmons had a heart transplant back in July but unfortunately the heart failed to function properly and was quickly removed.

“She essentially lived for 118 days without a heart, with her circulation supported only by the two blood pumps,” said Dr. Marco Ricci, the hospital’s director of pediatric cardiac surgery. During that time, Simmons was mobile but remained hospitalized.

According to Ricci, this is what believed to be the first pediatric patient who has received such a device in this configuration without the heart, and possibly one of the youngest that has been bridged to translations without her native heart.

After only a day after she had the second heart transplant, she had had a kidney transplant because she suffered from renal failure. But the good news is that Simmons is doing well, but there is a 50 percent chance that a heart transplant patient will need a new heart 12-13 years after the first surgery.

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But How?

Spending a week at a high altitudes place could do magic to your body, you can lose weight and till eat your favorite delicious food without restrictions what so ever.

Scientists long time ago have known that animals lose weight at high altitudes. Mountaineers also shed pounds during expeditions to 12,000 feet or more. But the obese are more likely to suffer severe altitude sickness, in which low oxygen pressure causes dizziness, nausea and more serious problems like edema or heart attacks.

So, the researchers led by Kay Leissner at Massachusetts General Hospital, wanted to test the theory on obese people but at lower altitude (lower than 12,000 feet).

The results were positive and encouraging, ” we demonstrates that there’s a lasting effect of decreased caloric intake, that people eat less even a month after they come out of high altitude” Leissner said.

The point?

High altitude can spike your metabolic rate, reduce your daily intake of food “less calories consumption”, feel less hungry, and lose weight.

The study, published in the Journal of Obese, had great findings. But the issue with the study according to Leissner, was that it didn’t explain the men participated in the study lost mostly muscle mass, fat, or water weight.

Overall, this is a very good new for people who suffer from obesity, however, they have to be careful from high altitudes and should consult with their doctor before spending some time in high altitude place.

Via – Fox News

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Previous research has shown that most American school kids carry backpacks containing the equivalent to 20-30% of their body weight.

In a new study, 8 children who are 11 years old stood strait in front of the  MRI scanner while wearing backpacks containing different loads equal to 10-30% of their body weight. As the weight went up the discs in the children lower backs compressed more, and these disc offer cushioning to the bones in the spine. Also, when more weight put on their backs, the children’s lower spines deviated from their normal position and reported more back pain.

The American academy of pediatrics recommends:

• Choosing a bag pack that is wide padded shoulder straps and
• A padded back
• Organizing the content so the heavier items are toward the center of the back.
• Use both straps over both shoulders.

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The astronomers used NASA’s 30-year-old, 10-foot-diameter (3-meter) telescope at the space agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Using relatively small and old telescope, astronomers were able to identify organic molecules on a planet nearly 63 light years from Earth.

“The fact that we have used a relatively small, ground-based telescope is exciting because it implies that the largest telescopes on the ground, using this technique, may be able to characterize terrestrial exoplanet targets,” said Mark Swain, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the study’s lead author.

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He predicted over 50 deaths in the past few years, by simply staying near the person and never wants to leave. His ability was discovered back in 2007, and staff at the home are now so confident of Oscar’s ability that they alert family members if he shows an interest in a patient.

The nursing home has more than one cat, but Oscar is the only one who really can know if the patient is going die.

In one example according to the house, nurses once placed the cat on the bed of a patient they thought close to death, Oscar “charged out” and went to sit beside someone in another room.

Guess what, the second person died the same night, and the other patient didn’t die.

So, what the medical community has to say about that?

Well, so far there is no solid explanation of Oscar behavior, but what we know is that Oscar  is able – like dogs, which can reportedly smell cancer – to detect ketones, the distinctly-odored biochemicals given off by dying cells.

I was telling this story to one of my colleagues at work and she said well ” my cat curls up on the bed when I go to sleep! Does that I am going to die? I said ” we will see in few days“.

Via- Telegraph

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This is the press Release By Intel

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 1, 2010 – Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the world’s first 25-nanometer (nm) NAND technology, which provides a more cost-effective path for increasing storage capacity in such popular consumer gadgets as smartphones, personal music and media players (PMPs), as well as the new high-performance class of solid-state drives (SSDs).

NAND flash memory stores data and other media contained in consumer electronics products, retaining information even when the power is turned off. The drive toward smaller NAND processes enables the continued development and introduction of new uses for the technology. Not only is the 25nm process the smallest NAND technology, it is also the smallest semiconductor technology in the world – a technological accomplishment that continues the advancement of more music, video, and other data in today’s consumer electronics and computing applications.

Manufactured by IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), Intel and Micron’s NAND flash joint venture, the 25nm process produces 8 gigabytes (GB) of storage in a single NAND device, creating a high-capacity storage solution for today’s tiny consumer gadgets. It measures just 167mm2 — small enough to fit through the hole in the middle of a compact disc (CD), yet packs more than 10 times the data capacity of that CD (a standard CD holds 700 megabytes of data).

With a committed focus and investment in NAND research and development, Intel and Micron have doubled NAND density roughly every 18 months, which leads to smaller, more cost-efficient and higher capacity products. Intel and Micron formed IMFT in 2006, starting production with a 50nm process, followed by a 34nm process in 2008. With today’s 25nm process, the companies are extending their process and fabrication leadership further with the introduction of the smallest semiconductor lithography available in the industry.

“To lead the entire semiconductor industry with the most advanced process technology is a phenomenal feat for Intel and Micron, and we look forward to further pushing the scaling limits,” said Brian Shirley, vice president of Micron’s memory group. “This production technology will enable significant benefits to our customers through higher density media solutions.”

“Through our continued investment in IMFT, we’re delivering leadership technology and manufacturing that enable the most cost-effective and reliable NAND memory,” said Tom Rampone, vice president and general manager, Intel NAND Solutions Group. “This will help speed the adoption of solid-state drive solutions for computing.”

The 25nm, 8GB device is sampling now and is expected to enter mass production in the second quarter of 2010. For consumer electronics manufacturers, the device provides the highest-density in a single 2 bits-per-cell multi-level cell (MLC) die that will fit an industry-standard, thin small-outline package (TSOP). Multiple 8GB devices can be stacked in a package to increase storage capacity. The new 25nm 8GB device reduces chip count by 50 percent compared to previous process generations, allowing for smaller, yet higher density designs and greater cost efficiencies. For example, a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD) can now be enabled with just 32 of these devices (versus 64 previously), a 32GB smartphone needs just four, and a 16GB flash card requires only two.

Source - Intel

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The event was hosted in Istanbul, Turkey where He Pingping, 21 years old from China met Sultan Kosen, 27, from Turkey.

He Pingping is officially the world’s shortest man with a height of 73 cm (2 feet 5 inch).

Turk, Kosen, is the tallest man walking the planet with a height of 246.5 cm ( 8 feet 1 inch).

The Science:

In the case of He Pingping, his condition is called “Dwarfism”. A dwarf is a person of short stature – under 4’ 10” as an adult. More than 200 different conditions can cause dwarfism. A single type, called achondroplasia, causes about 70 percent of all dwarfism. Achondroplasia is a genetic condition that affects about 1 in 25,000 people. It makes your arms and legs short in comparison to your head and trunk. Other genetic conditions, kidney disease and problems with metabolism or hormones can also cause short stature.

Kosen Turk condition is called Gigantism. Gigantism is abnormally large growth due to an excess of growth hormone during childhood, before the bone growth plates have closed. The most common cause of too much growth hormone release is a noncancerous (benign) tumor of the pituitary gland.

Sources – Medline Plus – Yahoo News

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Foods such as spinach and broccoli, are  rich of Magnesium which is perfect for the brain to grow and learn even for the older people.

This research was published in the journal Neuron this week by Professor Guosong Liu, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

“We found that increased brain magnesium enhanced many different forms of learning and memory in both young and aged rats.” Professor Guosong Lie said.

Via – Telegraph

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Steve said “this is truly a magical product”, the device could browse the Web, let users send e-mail, share photos, watch videos, listen to music, play games and read e-Books.

Much like an iPhone, the iPad has a touch screen that zooms in and out of Web sites and a virtual keyboard. It also orients to portrait or landscape viewing, depending on how you hold it.

Jobs said it will be half-an-inch thick and weigh in at 1.5 pounds. It will have a 9.7-inch display and include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. ABC News.

The iPad specifications:

• 1GHz Apple A4 processor (custom)
• 0.5″ thick
• 1.5 pounds
• 9.7″ Capacitive touchscreen
• 16-64GB of SSD storage
• 3G available but not in all iPads
• $14.99 for 250MB, $29.99 for unlimited data on AT&T (no contract)
• 3G iPads are unlocked, have GSM micro SIMs
• Accelerometer, Compass
• 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1
• Runs iPhone apps in window or pixel doubling
• Hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics
• SDK out today
• $499 for 16GB base model, $830 for all maxed out

iPad limitations:

• 64GB only. What if you have lots of videos and music?
• No Video chat because there is no camera.

This the first video released on Youtube showing the Apple iPad.

Via – Crunchgear – ABC news

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