Air Pollution and Hypertension

Breathing in smoke increases the risk of developing lethal complications like, asthma, preeclampsia and other infections. Moreover, studies have suggested that there is a link between reduced birth rates of infants and exposure to air pollution.

Air pollution jeopardizes the health of humans and damages the ecosystem. According to the recent standards, a large part of the whole population is not living in a healthy environment.

However, breathing in polluted environment can be as harmful to the pregnant women, as inhaling a cigarette smoke. Another study suggested that, the considerable percentage of cases of low birth weight could be easily prevented if the air pollution is reduced. According to the recent findings, exposure to the air pollutants can lead to extensive risk for developing high blood pressure at some point in your pregnancy.

There are numerous pollutants that are found in air pollution but the two basic types of pollutants include sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. Other pollutants include dust, acid, soil particles and metals. All these pollutants are inhalable and released from forest fires and industries. On the other hand, carbon monoxide is released from the car exhaust, and sulfur dioxide is produced from industries and power plants.

According to, Xiaohui Xu, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology in the colleges of Public Health and Health Professions and Medicine; "That is why we wanted to do this research. Hypertension (high blood pressure), in particular, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, causing a lot of problems for the mother and fetus, including preterm delivery."

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Mood Disorders

There comes a point in everyone’s life, when they experiences the ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ but a few people with a mood disorder experience it with a higher intensity and for a much longer time period. The condition that mood disorders cause to people includes a feeling of; depression, disturbed physical health, prolonged emotions that depressingly affects people mentally.

Depression and bipolar disorder which is known as manic depression are both serious medical illnesses but are treatable. The people who have bipolar disorder, experiences depression and usually feels really high. The ‘highs’ get uncontrolled and manic person behave in a hasty manner.

Depression- the most common mood disorder in which is person feels very low. The symptoms may include, tiredness, altered eating patterns, sleeping problems, hopelessness, thoughts of suicide and an incapability to have fun. These mood disorders can be treated through counseling, but in extreme cases, proper medical assistance is advised.

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Gene Therapy! A Plausible Cure for Genetic Diseases:

Finding new ways for curing diseases have always been the sole motive for medical researchers. One of the most current researches is curing via gene therapy. Gene therapy is a medical procedure that inserts gene into patient’s cells and tissues, which replaces the toxic mutant allele with a functional one. Although, gene therapy has promising results, but there is always room for further research in this matter.

A research was carried out in Italy, on the gene therapy where bone marrow stem cells of the patients were infused with the ‘virus’ carrying extracts of DNA with the correct instructions. For this purpose, the scientists selected three children and injected the virus, before the disease started to show symptoms. This experiment showed positive results as children were more interested in living their normal lives. Nonetheless, the patients were also monitored closely. The success of the gene therapy assures that other diseases can be treated in the same manner.

Researchers in Italy implanted modified gene which will eliminate the diseased gene in children suffering from diseases like Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and Metachromatic Leukodystrophy. In Metachromatice Leukodystrophy, infants appear healthy physically but their development starts to diminish early in their childhood because a part of their brain gets destroyed in this disease, while Wiskott-Aldritch Syndrome causes a faulty immune system. 

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Unhealthy Life Style and Depression

It is commonly noticed that people are going for chocolates and indulge in sweet items when they are suffering from the condition of depression.  But they are not familiar that the intake of sweet items can enhance depression.

According to research analysis, a bad diet can actually make you depressed. Researchers have gone through the relationship between food and depression, by observing the eating habits of more than 40,000 middle aged working men and women.

Those people who were not suffering from this condition had started to suffer with depression because of change in eating habits.

Researchers have concluded that around 51% of the people, vulnerable to depression eat junk food items like pizzas, burgers, hot dogs etc. Fizzy drinks, pasta, white rice and bagels are some of the other foods which are a big sign of depression in men and women.

Those people who are maintaining a healthy life style are at a minimum risk of developing different diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

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COMPUTER AIDED DRUG DESIGN (CADD):

Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) has provided a powerful foundation for the rational design of drugs and has been used at various stages of drug development.The most common CADD techniques that are used in drug design are Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR).

In the field of drug design, molecular dynamics (MD) is used to study various macromolecules as well as macro-molecule small molecule interactions. This technique provides dynamic information of macromolecular processes. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR) establishes a mathematical correlation between the chemical structures of a set of compounds as well as biological activities.

Recent technological developments in biochemistry, biomedical science, and nanotechnology have made computer-aided drug design and delivery systems possible on a molecular basis.

Bentham Science Journal “Current Computer-Aided Drug Design” aims to publish all the latest developments in drug design based on computational techniques. The field of computer-aided drug design has had extensive impact in the area of drug design. Current Computer-Aided Drug Design is an essential journal for all medicinal chemists who wish to be kept informed and up-to-date with all the latest and important developments in computer-aided methodologies and their applications in drug discovery. This journal has an impact factor of 1.54 and is indexed in agencies like MEDLINE, Pub Med, EMBASE and SCOPUS.

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General Misconceptions Regarding Supplement Usage

There are many misconceptions about vitamins and the health benefits they offer. Although, vitamins play a vital role in keeping a healthy body, over-dosage can actually cause more damage than benefit. For majority of the people, taking vitamin supplements is known to be the best way to get vitamin supplements for their bodies, instead of eating healthy food.  However, high dose of vitamin supplements should not be taken unless medically recommended.

Vitamin supplements are usually misused, and are taken without professional advice, to treat conditions such as cold, bone weakness, or to stabilize the effects of a stressful lifestyle. Even though, the popular belief considers vitamin supplements to be amiracle drug, they are in fact organic compounds that are involved in the functions of metabolism.

Balanced diet and sufficient levels of essential nutrients are important for complex processes in the body. Vitamins as supplement are introduced into our bodies at levels that could not be a replacement of healthier eating habits.

Sometimes vitamin supplements are required for our bodies, nonetheless taking multivitamins is a better option at a recommended dietary level, rather than taking single nutrient supplement’s or high-dose multivitamins.

Bentham Science Publishers is one of the leading STM publishers in the world. It has a wealth of online journals and eBooks, which answers questions in the fields of pharmaceutical, biomedical, medical, and engineering, technology, computer and social sciences. One of its subscription based journal is “Current Nutrition and Food Sciences” which has a number of articles related to this topic.

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High Impact Factor Journals of Bentham Science Publishers

Scholarly publishing renders a great service to science, research and academic literature. The industry is largely dominated by subscription-based publishing which has existed for as long as the scholarly journals publishing it (Paul Peters, 2007). Academic journals and the quality of the research published in them are judged by their impact factor, a measure of the number of citations to articles published in the journals.

Bentham Science is a rapidly growing scholarly journal publisher and has been serving the academia and libraries for the last 25 years. They publish 122 subscription based journals, while their flagship products include 32 journals with impact factors. Current Medicinal Chemistry has an impact factor of 4.07 and is considered to be one of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in its respective field. It publishes the latest research, new developments in the field of medicinal chemistry and drug. This is one of the most highly recommended journals in the field of medicinal chemistry.

Another name in the list of high impact factor journals from Bentham Science Publishers’ is  Current Cancer Drug Targets. The impact factor for this journal is 4.00. aims to cover all the latest and outstanding developments on the medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry of contemporary molecular drug targets involved in cancer, e.g. disease specific proteins, receptors, enzymes and genes. It publishes original research articles, latest reviews and clinical studies.

Current Molecular Medicine (Impact Factor: 4.197) covers the recent developments in the fundamental molecular mechanisms of disease pathogenesis, and the development of molecular-diagnosis and/or novel approaches to rational treatment.

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Dengue Fever: A Lethal Killer

Dengue fever is a lethal viral infection transmitted through biting of a particular type of mosquito known as “Aedes Aegypti”. The virus attacks blood cell, spleen, liver and results in a low white blood cell count and reduces the number of platelets (blood clotting components) in the body. Severe headache, high fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, body ache, loss of appetite, cough, sore throat are some of the symptoms of dengue fever. This fever usually lasts for 2 weeks.

Once diagnosed with this fever, careful steps should be taken as this fever can also result in death of the patient. High fever should be controlled by consuming paracetamol, avoiding the use of antibiotics as they would result in further decreasing the number of white blood cells and platelets in the patient’s body.

Precaution is better than cure, should be our motto for a healthier environment. Dengue is a fever that kills. It is transferred through stagnant water as well, so precautionary measures should be taken regarding this. Regular blood tests should be done in order to monitor the count of platelets and blood cells. Mosquito sprays should be done in dengue affected areas.

Bentham Science Publishers’ journal “Anti-Infective Agents” publishes original research, expert reviews, drug clinical trial studies and guest edited issues on all the latest and outstanding developments on the medicinal chemistry, biology, pharmacology and use of anti-infective and anti-parasitic agents. This Bentham Journal is a useful guide for all infectious disease researchers in industry, academia and the health services. For more information, you can check http://www.benthamscience.com/rptelc/index.htm

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Inflammation: An Innate Immune System

Inflammation is the body’s effort to prevent the body against external or internal pathogens. When the body faces a danger, it reacts by inflating the particular body part, and begins the healing process. ‘Inflation’ comes from the Latin word, “inflammo” meaning “set alight or ignite”.

It is a part of the body’s innate immune system. For example, if the wrist gets hurt, the body’s response is to inflate that body part so that the healing starts. Inflammation helps to heal the wounds quickly and effectively. When we see an inflammation in our body, out immediate response is to bring it down, but we should keep in mind that the basic aim of the inflammation is to heal the wound, which is harming our body. Inflammation is of two types; acute and chronic. Acute inflammation can be characterized by pain, heat swelling and redness on the injury. This reaction of the body is carried out, as soon as the body receives an injury or infection. Acute inflammation rises abruptly, treats the injured tissue and recedes back, but if the acute inflammation gets prolonged, it turns into chronic. Chronic inflammation stays on the host tissue for a longer time. It takes time, sometimes years or months to heal.

Bentham Science Publishers is one of the leading STM publishing companies. It publishes 116 online and print journals, 150 plus open access journals, and related print/online book series. One of the eBooks is “Surgical Inflammation”. Readers of this book will have the chance of gaining a unique perspective about of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in the multiple inflammatory conditions.

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“A Unique Way to Perform Cholestrol Test”

Researchers in India have proposed a method for keeping track of the cholesterol levels in heart patients.  It is a unique method of performing cholesterol test with the help of a digital camera.

Digital camera then performs the total cholesterol test by taking snapshots of the back of the patient’s hands. In this test, blood samples are not used. The snapshots of the new patients are cropped and compared with the existing images within the database of cholesterol levels.

The total cholesterol test is a decent way to keep the initial check of different cholesterol problems. Although a detailed analysis would be required in order to differentiate between the types of cholesterol: HDL and LDL. Analysis of the triglycerides is the more accurate health assessment for patients with high total cholesterol levels. The cholesterol levels are revealed with the help of skin image analysis.

Bentham Science Publishers’ journal “Recent Patents on Cardiovascular Drug Discovery” publishes diverse articles on clinical drug trial studies and guest edited thematic issues on recent patents in the field of cardiovascular drug discovery. This Bentham Journal is a useful guide for all researchers involved in the cardiovascular drug design and discovery. For more information, you can check http://www.benthamscience.com/prc/index.htm

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THE LEGACY OF JACK THE RIPPER

Jack the Ripper is counted amongst the most notorious criminals of the era. He had created havoc in the East London, where people used to fear with his name. He was a faceless outlaw, who led the London Police on their toes. Still to date, the officials are working on the criminal’s face and identity. His murders were spine-chilling.

He had the city of London verging on the edge of their seats because he murdered at least five prostitutes from August 7^th to September 10^th of 1888. The prostitutes were murdered within a mile of each other, their bodies were mutilated. The police had no clue of the criminal, but the confession letters which had been sent to the London Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) provided detailed explanation of the committed murders. The letters also disclosed the names of those people which he was planning for the future murder. Hundreds of men had been arrested as suspects, but were allowed to go because of lack of evidences.

The murders were very sadistic, giving the impression of an ill-minded person. The forensic department worked on the letters which they received, but, most of the letters were believed to be sent by those people who wanted to harass the Police department.

The case of Jack the Ripper is still under investigation by the Scotland Yard. Even after 125 years, the case is as faceless as Jack the Ripper himself.

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Potential Impacts of Food Borne Illness

Food borne Illness is also known as food poisoning. Food poisoning occurs as a result of contaminated food intake which consists of parasites, viruses, bacteria and other toxins.

 These contaminants get inside your body through different resources and make you ill. One of the most common sources of contamination is the infected food handler. These handlers neither wash their hands properly nor wear gloves which is a big health concern. Dirty kitchenware and service utensils are another source of infectivity. The food should be cooked at hot enough temperature and stored in refrigerator at desired temperature to avoid food poisoning.

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The symptoms of food poisoning start to develop within 2 to 6 hours after eating the contaminated food. The most common symptoms of Food Poisoning include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, headaches and abdominal cramps.

Most of the food poisoning cases do not need any medical attention and you get recovery after few days of time. But in some cases, if proper safety measures are not taken, can result into severe worse conditions. Different safety measures should be taken in these cases to avoid making this condition even worse.

 You should drink plenty of water in order to overcome the fluid losses created by diarrhea and vomiting, avoid caffeinated beverages and dairy products, take light meals instead of heavy diet and get plenty of rest and sleep to help your body for a quick recovery.

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Bentham eBook: Outcomes Assessment in End – Stage Kidney Disease Measurements and Applications in Clinical Practice

Bentham Science offers various e-books in all major areas of technology, natural science, humanities and medicine. eBooks at Bentham science are published by means of state-of-the-art internet technology.

Here is the review of the recent eBook of Bentham, “Outcomes Assessment in End – Stage Kidney Disease Measurements and Applications in Clinical Practice”.

With an increase of the population of elderly people in modern society due to advances in medicine and healthcare facilities, there is also an increase in the incidence and duration of chronic illnesses. Similarly, advanced age is considered a significant determinant of depression and poor quality of life. Additionally, the provision of therapies relevant to chronic diseases addresses the issues beyond the concept of cure, bringing to the center the need for a dignified quality of life of patients. An increased interest in the quality of life is observed in patients who suffer from chronic diseases, including those with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). End-stage kidney disease patients have a high burden of disease affecting their quality of life and dramatically shortening their life expectancy. Therefore, exploring quality of life issues among such patients becomes an essential task in the management of this population.

This volume is written by researchers with a well-rounded understanding of the characteristics and impact of ESKD and provides a penetrating practical discussion to date of alternative approaches for comprehensively measuring the burden of end-stage kidney disease.

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Bentham Journals

“The Open Forensic Science Journal” is an exclusive journal from the shelves of Bentham Science Publishers. The journal confers the most recent study in the field and is a key contributor of unique research reviews, articles, reviews, guest edited single topic issues and short articles in all areas of forensic science.

Bentham Open publishes over 230 plus peer-reviewed open access journals. These open journals are free to view online and includes the major disciplines of technology, social sciences, science and medicine.

Forensic Science- which is often called as Forensics is an organized scientific approach related to the evaluation and collection of evidence. The Forensic Science is a multi-disciplinary field, mainly drawing from biology and chemistry, also psychology, geology, physics, social sciences, etc. 

This is often significant in law compliance where forensic is carried out referring to criminal or civil law. Alternatively, forensic techniques are also carried out in a number of other disciplines like geology, astronomy, archeology and biology.

Forensic Science is focused on the unbiased scientific proofs and evidences used for the exact purpose of law enforcement. These scientific evidences are used by the courts; for instance, in an investigation or criminal trial. 

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Bentham Science e-books: Advances in Protein and Peptide Sciences-Volume 1:

Bentham eBooks is a comprehensive online book’s publication program anticipated to cover all major disciplines like health and natural sciences, technology, humanities and social sciences. Bentham e-book offers authors flexible publication solutions. These electronic books are rapidly published using state-of-the-art internet technology with the maintenance of the highest publication standards.

Here is the review of one of the recent e-books of Bentham, “Advances in Protein and Peptide Sciences-Volume 1”. This e-book series focuses on leading-edge research on the structure, physical properties, and functions of proteins and peptides.

 The series presents highly cited contributions first published in the journal Current Protein and Peptide Science. The authors of these contributions have updated their work with new experimental data and references following their initial research. Each volume highlights a number of important topics in current research in the field of protein and peptide chemistry and molecular biology, including membrane proteins and their interactions with ligands, computational methods, and proteins in disease and biotechnology.

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DEMAND OF ANALOGUE CIRCUIT DESIGNING AND SOC COMMUNICATION

With the introduction of technology, the demand of the system design and analogue circuit has been enhanced.

The development of complex industrial and automotive systems, wireless communications and digital systems, it has been a very challenging task for the designers to design analogue circuits.

The integration of all the components of the electronic circuits into a single circuit is known as SOC. It can be abbreviated as System on a chip.

It enhances fabrication and minimizes packaging efforts, therefore, it is considered to be the most efficient technique.

Bentham Publishers have a well-established name among all the publishing competitors. They are major STM Journal Publishers. They have a broad category of journals and e-books. Analog Circuit Design and SOC Communication are among one of them. All the details related to this e-book can be viewed at:

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ANALOG CIRCUIT DESIGN AND SOC COMMUNICATION

The demand of the analogue circuit and system design has been increased with the advancement in technology.

With the growth of digital systems, complex industrial and automotive systems and wireless communications, it has been very difficult for the designers to create analog solutions.

When all the components of numerous electronic systems are integrated into a single circuit. This technique is known as SOC. It can be abbreviated as System on a chip.

It is believed to be the most effective technique because it maximizes the yield of fabrication and reduces packaging efforts.

During the maintenance of the simplicity of the circuits, a wider design acceptance has been provided by the analog circuit design techniques for communication SOC.

Within the scientific publication industry, the name of Bentham Science Publishers is highly reputable. They have a vast range of journals and e-books based on scientific, technical and medical subjects. Analog Circuit Design and SOC Communication are among one of them. All the details related to this e-book can be viewed at:

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Bentham Science - SOC Communication and Analogue Circuit Designing

With the technological innovation, an analogue circuit and system design in this era is much more needed than before.

The advancement of wireless communications, complex industrial and automotive systems, digital systems have become an uphill task for the designers to design and create analog solutions.

The integration of all the components of a computer and different electronic systems into a single integrated circuit is known as the SOC abbreviated as System- on- a- Chip. It is believed to be the most lucrative technique as it enhances the yield of fabrication and minimizes packaging efforts.

The analog circuit design techniques for Communication SOC provides a wider design acceptance during the maintenance of the simplicity of the circuits.

Whenever we talk about the scientific publication industry, we cannot neglect the name of Bentham Science Publishers. They have a highly established name in the publication industry. Bentham Science has a broad collection of journals and e-books based on scientific, technical and medical subjects. Analogue Circuit Design and SOC Communication is one of them.

This e-book provides several state-of-the-art analog circuit design techniques. This is an excellent reference book for both circuit designers and researchers who are interested in the field of design of analog communication circuits for SOC applications. For further details please visit:

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Bentham Science - The Role of Biotechnology:

It is a biological based technology. Biotechnology uses numerous cellular and bimolecular procedures for the development of products and technologies which play a significant role within the advancement of our lives.

Different breakthrough technologies and products have been supplied by the modern biotechnology field for fighting with different diseases. They minimize our environmental foot print with the usage of limited and apparent energy. They are composed of safer, cleaner and most effective industrial engineering.

Whenever we talk about the scientific publication industry, we cannot neglect the name of Bentham Science Publishers. They have a highly established name in the publication industry. They have a broad collection of journals and e-books based on scientific, technical and medical subjects. Current Biotechnology is among one of them.

All the research and thematic issues regarding major areas of biotechnology have been published in this international peer-reviewed journal.

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Benefits of Biotechnology and Current Biotechnology:

Technology plays a vital role within the modification, usage, knowledge of techniques and for the solution of a pre-existing problem. Biotechnology is one of them. This technology is based on biology. Different bimolecular as well as cellular methods have been used for the advancement of technologies and products. They play an important role within the improvement of our lives.

The field of modern biotechnology produces robust products and technologies which help a great deal in fighting with various diseases. They also reduce our environmental print with the usage of minimum apparent energy. They are comprised of cleaner, safer and most efficient industrial engineering.

Bentham Publishers have a reputable name in the publication industry. They have various scientific, technical and medical journals and electronic books. Current Biotechnology is one of their peer-reviewed journals.

This journal publishes all the research and thematic issues covering all the aspects of biotechnology field. They have different e-books related to biotechnology. The e-book details are available online at:

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