“You wouldn’t have to go through the tortuous process of divorce.”

The marriage contracts would include detailed provisions on how children and property would be divided up if the marriage ended at the two-year mark.

“Two years is the minimum amount of time it takes to know and appreciate what life is like as a couple,” Lizbeth Rosas, another supporter of the proposed legislation, told BBC Mundo in Spanish.

“If you renew, that means you have an understanding with your partner, and that you are clear on the rules of the relationship.”

Meanwhile, the conservative groups have reacted with dismay.

“At first I thought it was a hoax,” Consuelo Mendoza, of the national union of parents, said. “These initiatives create a culture of disposability within important societal issues.”

The Catholic Church has also criticized the proposal.

“This reform is absurd. It contradicts the nature of marriage,” Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the Mexican archdiocese, said.

“It’s another one of these electoral theatrics the assembly tends to do that are irresponsible and immoral,” he added.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/QziRiSax7JQ/Mexico-Mulls-Temporary-Marriage-Licenses-91427-1.htm

Another objective of the shoes was to free up both hands for whoever wears them.

Though the prototype for the shoe – built by using off-the-shelf components – is a far cry from sleek, Bhatia assures that it can be improved upon.

Laura Shagman, one of the students on the design team, tested the shoe while blindfolded, and within feet of an object she was able to tell it was there.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/u02KY8xJ6fw/The-Blind-may-be-Able-to-Find-Their-Way-With-Novel-Type-of-Vibrating-Shoes-91422-1.htm

“Genome-wide association studies, as we used here, have been extremely powerful in identifying gene locations involved in the pathogenesis of complex, common diseases,” said study leader Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “The larger the cohort used, the more discoveries we can make, and the more we find intriguing biological pathways offering insight into causes of disease.”

The study appears online today in Public Library of Science Genetics (PLoS Genetics).

The genome-wide association study (GWAS), in which Hakonarson collaborated with Constantine Polychronakos, M.D., director of Pediatric Endocrinology at McGill University, was a meta-analysis, investigating combined DNA data from six large publicly available datasets of type 1 diabetes. The six studies included data from approximately 10,000 individuals with the disease and 17,000 control subjects. The databases contained single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)-single-base changes in DNA sequence that serve as signposts for gene mutations associated with them.

SNPs are not disease-causing mutations, but they reside in gene regions associated with the disease, and set the stage for more detailed sequencing studies to pinpoint causative mutations. Previous studies by Hakonarson and colleagues over the past four years had already discovered SNPs related to type 1 diabetes.

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/CL00wN4kc-s/New-Genes-Linked-With-Type-1-Diabetes-Identified-91399-1.htm

“They look like the sort of thing a lap dancer would wear. It’s utterly disgusting. I went to the shop to buy her some gold party shoes,” the Sun quoted Sarah Shafi, the mother of a 7-year-old as saying.

“These open-toed black stilettos were reduced from 16 pounds to 7 pounds. They were size one, so I guess they are aimed at the six to eight years range.

“They look exactly like an adult pair that has been shrunk for the kids’ market. I find it sick.

“Also children’s feet are still developing. They could end up deformed,” she stated.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/hWYfY4vffM4/Footwear-Chain-Slammed-For-Sexualised-Footwear-For-6-Year-Olds-91386-1.htm

Patients and the hospital staff had crowded on to the building’s balconies before the arrival of the royal couple, with some of them even waving Union flags, and a huge cheer erupted as their car pulled up.

Earlier in the day, the second in the line of succession had carried out the “compassionate call-out” during a normal 24-hour shift during which he picked up a serviceman with serious head injuries in Snowdonia and ferried him from a warship to Sandhurst.

The hospital visited by the couple is the same that Princess Diana supported as a part of her wide-ranging charity work.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/IOjiS8Rl4tk/Royal-Couple-Opens-18m-Childrens-Cancer-Unit-91387-1.htm

The 6,000 pounds operation is becoming more popular, as, unlike conventional procedures, it also slims the lower half by transferring fat.

But a conference has heard there might be a risk in moving stem cells, or ‘master cells’, and processing them to be more concentrated.

“I would like them to be banned. They must not be provided for breast augmentation for cosmetic reasons,” the Daily Mail quoted Fazel Fatah, president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, as saying.

“The warning must be very clear and given to the public: they should not subject themselves to this treatment until they hear from reliable sources such as the Royal Colleges or surgical associations, that it is safe,” he stated.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/AUUVDEie-2A/Jabs-Used-For-Enhancing-Breasts-Boosts-Cancer-Risk-91380-1.htm

In six separate clusters of the virus that showed up worldwide, patients commonly experienced cough, difficulty breathing and wheezing.

The highest number of cases were found in Japan, where local public health authorities reported more than 120 cases last year.

However, the CDC said it could only confirm clinical data for 11 of those patients, all children, one of whom died.

The Philippines had 21 cases in late 2008 and early 2009, causing two deaths, the CDC said.

Other cases surfaced in the Netherlands and the US states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona, for 95 total confirmed cases over two years.

The virus was first discovered in four children who were sick with pneumonia in California in 1962, but subsequent incidences have been rare and sporadic, according to the CDC.

“Identification of a large number of patients with HEV68 respiratory disease detected during a single season, such as described in this report, is a recent phenomenon,” it added.

“Whether this increase in recognized cases is attributable to improved diagnostics or whether the clusters themselves represent an emergence of the pathogen is unknown.”

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/Z6zPXafZOmc/CDC-Reports-Global-Rise-in-Rare-Flu-like-Virus-91359-1.htm

The academics from University College London and the University of Manchester have written to Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC trust, to withdraw the two films – ‘Florence Nightingale: Iron Maiden’ (2001) and ‘Reputations: Florence Nightingale’ (2008) – from distribution.

They have also criticized “the BBC’s persistent, hostile and greatly erroneous treatment of Florence Nightingale” in the films.

The first film is being described in one newspaper as “a manipulative, neurotic, sexually repressed woman” under whose leadership “10 times more men perished at her Scutari hospital near Sebastopol from illness than from wounds”.

The second resulted in press coverage that she was “the kiss of death to thousands of men in her care”.

“We ask the BBC to (preferably) withdraw the two hostile films, at the very least to identify them as including unsubstantiated and fictional portrayals of Nightingale,” the letter said.

“Of course scholars may differ in interpretation, but still the BBC’s record is appalling. Not one of the academics used to attack Nightingale ever published his/her accusations in a peer-reviewed book or journal, it added.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the BBC has defended the programmes, saying they contained “a broad range of sources, giving a broad range of opinions”.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/hibmRzLD6eQ/Nursing-Academics-Object-to-BBC-Labeling-Florence-Nightingale-as-Neurotic-Sexually-Repressed-91336-1.htm

Chagas disease, primarily seen in South America, Central America, and Mexico, is the most deadly parasitic disease in the Americas. Caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, it is spread chiefly via several species of blood-sucking triatomine insects. After an initial acute phase, the disease continues to lurk in the body and can eventually cause a variety of chronic life-threatening problems, particularly in the heart. Although there are some drugs to treat Chagas disease, they become less effective the longer a person is infected. The lack of a vaccine also means that the only effective way to control the disease is to control the disease vectors.

Because the chronic effects of Chagas disease can take decades to manifest themselves, tracking the development and progression of epidemics has been a challenging problem. In the past, Chagas disease was known mostly in rural regions, but has been spreading into more urbanized areas over the last 40 years. Levy’s team has been focusing on one of those areas in the city of Arequipa, Peru.

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/GOzQwBy5Jn4/Tracing-Perus-Elusive-Chagas-Disease-91337-1.htm

“When doctors write that prescription for steroids and they’re sending the patients for lab tests, they should also get the vitamin D level measured,” Amy Skversky, the lead author said.

The researchers examined data collected from participants who had participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2006.

About one percent of the participants answered “yes” when asked if they had used oral steroids during the previous 30 days, whereas eleven percent of the self-reported steroid users had severely low vitamin D levels compared to a severe vitamin D deficiency of 5 percent for people not taking steroids, which showed a two-fold increased risk for severe vitamin D deficiency.

The risk of deficiency was particularly pronounced in steroid users under the age of 18, who were 14 times more likely to have a severe vitamin D deficiency compared with young non-steroid users.

The findings of the study have been published in the 28th September online edition of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Source-ANI

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allhealthnews/~3/xoVeBfjnI4I/Oral-Steroid-Users-Twice-Likely-To-Suffer-From-Vitamin-D-Deficiency-91313-1.htm