Washington, Nov 11: A cocktail of vitamins and mineral magnesium has been found effective in preventing hearing loss caused by loud noises, a new study has shown.
After the combination of nutrients, called AuraQuell, was found to be successful in laboratory tests, researchers at the University of Michigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute are now testing if it would benefit humans as well.
"The prevention of noise induced hearing loss is key," said Glenn E. Green, M. D., assistant professor of otolaryngology at the U-M Health System and director of the U-M Children''s Hearing Laboratory.
A new study conducted on more than 1,255 men and women patients with high blood pressure, aged between 33 to 97-years, with 70 as the average age; suggests that subjects who did not get the standard 7.5-hours of sleep and, witnessed elevated levels of blood pressure on falling asleep, were four times as likely to suffer a stroke, fatal or non-fatal heart attack or die suddenly of cardiac arrest. They had a 68% higher risk of any one of these cardiovascular complications, compared to their better-rested counterparts. 
Scientists in the US examined brain scans of bullies and non bullies and found them to differ in their response to scenes of pain. The researchers found the area associated with reward was stimulated when violent teenagers were shown pictures of people inflicting pain on others which is contrary to current thinking that aggressive teens lack the ability to empathize with people in pain and that their violent behavior could be innate as well as learnt.
Researchers have found that breast fed babies could have stronger lungs that last well into their childhood from the sheer physical effort involved in sucking milk while breast feeding. They found that children who had been breast fed for a minimum of four months had stronger lung function in later childhood.
According to research, IVF babies born from frozen embryos are healthier than those who develop from fresh embryos. Three studies that were presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in San Francisco, said that babies from frozen embryos were less likely to be premature or under weight.
According to a new study, low potassium levels in the urine can contribute to high blood pressure. The lead author of the study Susan Hedayati, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and the Dallas VA Medical Center said, "There has been a lot of publicity about lowering salt or sodium in the diet in order to lower blood pressure, but not enough on increasing dietary potassium."
