Sit in I, not in C

Sitting straight for a long time is a very hard matter to do. So, many of us like to sit in cPosture. But sitting in cPosture is not good for our spinal cord. So we should sit straight to make our spinal cord safety. But how can we always sit straight? You can now stop worrying about the way you look while sitting, for iPosture a small gadget, which can be stuck on the skin and buzzes to remind the wearer to sit up straight, helping improve posture, has come to your rescue. The revolutionary device vibrates discretely when the wearer slouches by more than three degrees for one minute. Once the posture is corrected the buzzing stops and users have been found to adopt better habits after wearing the device for four hours a day for up to a month. The iPosture gadget can be worn while sitting, standing or walking, making it ideal for workers who spend hours in front of a computer and can be stuck to the skin, worn as a necklace or attached to a bra strap. It uses a slimline battery like those found in most watches or calculators and monitors posture every few seconds. So this gadget helps many of us to sit in iPosture. It may be bought on the Internet for 50pounds.

Gold breathalyzer detects lung cancer early

A sensor made with gold nanoparticles can detect lung cancer in a patient’s breath and may offer a diagnosis before tumors show up on an x-ray, Israeli scientists said on Sunday. The device, which the developers say would be cheap enough for everyday use by family doctors, detected lung cancer with 86% accuracy and may offer a way to screen for a disease not usually diagnosed until it has spread and is no longer curable. It uses sensors based on gold nanoparticles to detect specific compounds, volatile organic compounds in which lung cancer patients have in high levels in exhaled breath. Hossam Haick, one of the scientists working on the sensor, said that he hoped it could soon allow doctors to have a simple test at hand to screen people during routine appointments. “Conventional diagnostic methods for lung cancer are unsuitable for widespread screening because they are expensive and occasionally miss tumors”, wrote Haick.

English holidaymakers

A survey taken by department of health in London suggests that the English holidaymakers are turning to drink on their breaks with the average adult consuming eight alcoholic drinks a day. So this kind of drinking equates to 80 drinks over the course of the average holiday, or well over 200 units of alcohol. Some people said they ended up drinking three times more than normal. When department of health questioned 3,500 adults 70% of them said they plan to make September the "new January" by cutting back. NHS guidelines gave a suggestion that the women should not take more than two to three units a day and for men not more than three to four units which is roughly equal to a large glass of wine for women and two pints of beer for men. But 10 million adults in England regularly exceed the recommended daily limits, increasing their risk of serious illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, liver disease and various cancers, says government.

Swine flu toll increases

H1N1 toll continues to increase day by day. In the national capital Delhi the report says the third swine flu death on Tuesday when a 44-year-old woman collapsed at government-run RML Hospital, pushing the countrywide toll to 69. Totally 186 new cases of H1N1 infection were reported from different parts of the country on Tuesday. On Tuesday the health officials in Bangalore said, Siddarraju (27), who was admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases on August 21 in a critical condition, fell to the virus on Sunday night. In Karnataka, 29 fresh cases of H1NI infection were detected on Tuesday, Union health ministry officials said. The state has so far reported 15 swine flu deaths. This disease can spread anywhere so each and every people should be careful.

First US face transplant

The recipient of the first US almost-total face transplant has appeared before the media for the first time. Connie Culp, a 46-year-old mother-of-two was left without the middle section of her face after her husband shot her in 2004. Ms Culp, whose identity had been previously withheld, paid tribute to the donor family at a news conference. Surgeons at a clinic in a Cleveland, Ohio, replaced 80% of Ms Culp's face with that of a dead female donor. The transplant is only the fourth to be carried out. Two operations have been conducted in France and one in China.

Lean kids have bigger bones

A child with leaner body mass or muscle builds bigger bones compared to one who weighs the same but has a greater percentage of fat, says the latest research. “We were interested in the relative influence of lean mass, which is muscle, versus fat mass on how bone grows as kids grow,” said Howard Wey, professor at South Dakota State University. “A larger child is going to have larger bones just because he’s heavier,” Wey said. “But if you have two kids at the same weight, the one whose weight is dominated by fat mass is more likely to have smaller bones than the one whose weight is dominated by lean mass. Smaller bones are weaker than larger bones.”