Smileband health topics

Article written by Mia de Graaf, 

Scientists have developed a magnetic wire that could help doctors detect cancer before patients show symptoms. The device, which is threaded into a vein, screens for the disease by attracting scarce and hard to capture tumor cells 'like a fridge magnet', according to the Stanford University team. 

The wire, about the length of an adult pinky finger and as thick as a paper clip, would be particularly useful to detect 'silent killers' such as pancreatic, ovarian and kidney cancer where symptoms only emerge in the late stages when it has spread too far to treat.

Experts say such a tool could save thousands of lives by catching the disease at a time when drugs will be most effective. Cells that have broken off a tumor to roam the bloodstream freely can serve as cancer biomarkers - signaling the presence of the disease.

However, they are often scarce. So catching one of these biomarkers in a blood sample often boils down to chance.

These circulating tumor cells are so few if you just take a regular blood sample those test tubes likely won't even have a single circulating tumor cell in them,' said lead author Professor Sam Gambhir, a radiologist at Stanford University in California. 

It would be like searching for a grain of sand in a bathtub - but only scooping out a few cups of water. 

'So doctors end up saying, "Okay, nothing's there."'

In the study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Dr Gambhir's team described how this error margin could be squashed significantly using a wire that has magnetic nano-particles engineered to stick to cancerous cells.

In experiments on pigs - that are anatomically similar to humans and suffer from the same genetic malfunctions that cause cancer - the wire captured 10 to 80 times more tumor cells.

In real terms it picked up 500 to 5,000 more cancerous cells than normal blood samples.

The wire was placed in a vein near the pig's ear which is fairly similar to those in the human arm. It was then removed from the and the cells stripped for analysis.

The circulating tumor cells were magnetized with nanoparticles containing an antibody that latch onto them.

Once attached, the cell carries the tiny magnet around with it. When it flows past the wire it's compelled by magnetic force - the same force that holds family photos to a refrigerator - to veer from its regular path in the bloodstream and stick to the wire.  According to Dr Gambhir's study, published today by Nature Biomedical Engineering, the new method is up to 80 times more effective compared to the routine tests doctors use at the moment.

For a doctor to get a reading as accurate as this wire can, they would have to draw more than half a liter of blood, Dr Gambhir says.

We estimate that it would take about 80 tubes of blood to match what the wire is able to sample in 20 minutes.

So we're hoping this approach will enrich our detection capability and give us better insight into just how rare these circulating tumor cells are and how early on they exist once the cancer is present.

Prof Gambhir, chair of radiology and director of the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, said its use could also be much broader.

The wire could enable doctors to quickly evaluate patients' responses to particular treatments, so they can be started on alternatives sooner when necessary. If the therapy is working cancer-cell levels in the blood should rise as they die and break off - and then fall as the tumor shrinks.

It could also be used to gather genetic information about tumors located in places from where it's hard to take biopsies.

It could also be used to detect any other disease in the bloodstream.

For example, let's say you're checking for a bacterial infection, circulating tumor DNA or rare cells that are responsible for inflammation in any of these scenarios, the wire and nanoparticles help to enrich the signal, and therefore detect the disease or infection.

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Beyond the wire's diagnostic abilities, it could evolve into a form of treatment delivery itself.

Dr Gambhir said: 'If we can get this thing to be really good at sucking up cancer cells, you might consider an application where you leave the wire in longer term.

'That way it almost acts like a filter that grabs the cancer cells and prevents them from spreading to other parts of the body. 

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Smileband general news

Article written by Rebecca camber, 

Children as young as 11 are to get lessons about the dangers of knife crime for the first time in a £1million bid to curb bloodshed on the streets. Pupils in secondary schools across England will be given an hour-long lesson to steer them away from carrying a blade ahead of the summer holidays – when violence traditionally flares.

The move, due to be announced by the Home Office today, comes 24 hours after a shocking Daily Mail poll revealed the majority of Britons think police have lost control and criminals are acting with impunity.

Ministers are under intense pressure to get to grips with an epidemic of violence across Britain with knife crime up 22 per cent in a year. Now schools across England are being issued with new guidance on teaching children aged 11-16 about the risks of carrying a knife and the dangers of social media.

Almost 50,000 secondary school teachers have received lesson plans and power-point presentations to show pupils the hazards of arming themselves and give advice on how to resist peer pressure.

The guidance states: ‘It is important that young people are able and confident to identify the risks associated with carrying a knife and feel empowered to live knife-free.

In line with best practice, the lessons and resources have been carefully designed to minimise feelings of fear, shock or guilt while learning about this potentially sensitive topic.

It is important to use a reassuring approach throughout and to avoid “worst case scenario” thinking.

As part of the lessons, pupils will be taught about slang such as ‘shank’ or ‘tool’ for knife, ‘mandem’ and ‘posse’ for gang and ‘feds’ for police.

The initiative is set to be rolled out across all state and private secondary schools in England as part of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) lessons.

It is anticipated thousands of pupils will be taught anti-knife lessons this week and other teaching materials will be provided by the Home Office for the next academic year.

It is the first time the Home Office has intervened in an area which traditionally has been left to charities and campaigners to educate informally.

Children’s Minister Nadhim Zahawi said: ‘Knife crime has devastating consequences on society and this Government is determined to take action and protect our children, families and communities from it.<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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Article written by julian Robinson, 

A Google engineer has been beaten to death in the latest attack sparked by false WhatsApp messages accusing people of kidnapping children in India. Mohammad Azam was attacked along with two friends by a 2,000-strong mob in southern Karnataka state's Bidar district.

Police have arrested 32 people over the death - the latest in a string of lynchings caused by unfounded rumours of child abductions. 

Azam's friends, including a Qatar national, were critically injured in the assault that came days after the Facebook-owned messaging service published advertisements in Indian newspapers offering tips to curb the spread of fake information on its platform. More than 20 people have been lynched in India after being accused of child abduction in the last two months.

Police said 27-year-old Azam and his companions were returning to their home in neighbouring Hyderabad city after visiting a friend in Bidar when they stopped midway and offered chocolates to local school children.

One of them had bought chocolates from Qatar and tried to offer it to the children as a token of affection,' Bidar deputy police chief V. N. Patil told AFP.

But one of the children started crying, alerting the elders who accused the men of being child kidnappers amid rife social media rumours about child kidnapping rings in the area, the officer said.

Patil said the three managed to flee but were attacked by a much larger mob a few miles ahead after locals alerted nearby villages via Whatsapp.

Their car flipped after hitting a roadblock placed by the angry mob before they were dragged out of the vehicle and beaten with sticks and stones.

A video broadcast on Indian news channels showed a policeman pleading with the attackers as they kicked and hit the victims with sticks.

Three policemen were injured in rescue attempts as the mob rampaged for nearly an hour.

Police said they have arrested 32 attackers and a manhunt is on for others. Some of the accused were identified from the attack video circulating on WhatsApp.

An investigating officer speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that those arrested included the administrator of a WhatsApp group behind the viral message that triggered the attack.

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Smileband health topics

Article written by Sam blanchard, 

Type 1 diabetes could be prevented by feeding babies powdered insulin, according to researchers beginning a world-first trial in the south of England. Pregnant women are being asked to sign up to the NHS trial in the Thames Valley in a bid to protect at-risk babies from type 1 diabetes for the rest of their lives

People with the condition do not produce the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar, and scientists suggest feeding it to babies who show signs of diabetes

This could train the immune system not to stop the body producing vital insulin, and prevent type 1 diabetes from ever developing, the researchers say.

Around 400,000 people in the UK and 1.25 million Americans are living with type 1 diabetes, which requires people to give themselves daily injections.

Researchers from Oxford University say the trial is 'an enormous breakthrough' and hope they can stop the potentially deadly condition from developing.

And scientists at the University of Alabama have revealed a cheap drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could improve diabetics' symptoms and reduce the amount of insulin they need to take.<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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Smileband general news

Article written by Christopher Stanley,

 Society make there rules up and it’s describes it in the most fanatic way, it’s a description between cultures’ black people label them self nig......rs and it is a word that is discriminating to the human race of black or brown colour. 

It’s a purpose of definition that highlights white or peach people to laugh at black or brown people in that sense and white America use the term nig.....rs to describe a person even if they are black or white, when it’s was a word that was targeted to insult black people as a slave, growing up I never heard the word use called Caucasian growing up as a kid, 

it’s was never describe to me class in history, 

My mother or father never stated it, but it’s used today in society, it’s seems like it’s a word that has been invented over the last few years that reflects the image to the white culture. English white culture are not Asian and cauc-Asian has the word Asian in it. 

This word was not invented from history, I learned history in school and done my homework on history and that cultured word was never said to me or exist as It’s a fake word that describes white culture Caucasian is not a word of history. 

That’s a fact’ English people are called Vikings not Caucasian, I think it might be subjected to white Americans who are Caucasian because they are different from English people but this was never stated in history. It’s very disrespectful that black and brown colour are a fallen race to insult and white race are a respected race to implement a new word called Caucasian which was never said in history through the king and queens of England. 

It all way fights me to ask who made this word up as now it’s a change word for culture within existence. English people are not Caucasian they are Vikings. 

It’s Americans that are Caucasian I think 💭 . The term of a white person using the word nig......er to describe any human is a insult to black and brown colour as it’s a formative history word that is framed at slavery as a word that was use to insult black and brown people.  <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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Smileband general news

Article written by Nic white, 

Americans in the UK have been warned to 'keep a low profile' during Donald trump, visit to avoid being caught up in 'violent' protests – as the Ambassador's residence where the President will sleep has been turned into a fortress. The U.S. Embassy issued the advice on Tuesday ahead of the President's arrival on Thursday for talks with a Prime Minister Theresa May.

Embassy staff said 'numerous demonstrations' were planned for Thursday to Saturday with the majority around central London on Friday. Americans were advised to 'keep a low profile', 'be aware of your surroundings', and 'monitor local media' during Trump's visit.

Exercise caution if unexpectedly in the vicinity of large gatherings that may become violent,' it said.

Meanwhile, workmen have constructed barriers, special pedestrian gates and fences around the U.S. ambassador's residence in Regent's Park ahead of the presidential visit.

Tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets in protest of Trump's policies but there is no indication they will be anything but peaceful.

Other than street marches, they include the flying a massive balloon of Trump as an angry baby from Westminster Gardens near Big Ben. President Trump lands in London on Thursday night for a dinner in his honour at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.

After spending the night at U.S. Ambassador Woody Johnson's residence in London he tours a military facility with Ms May before talks at Chequers.

That afternoon he will meet the Queen at Windsor Castle before heading to Scotland for a private holiday. He is mostly skipping London to avoid protests.

On Sunday he moves on to Helsinki to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for long-awaited talks on neutral territory. <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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Smileband health topics

Article written by Christopher Stanley, 

Opening a door in your life is a big thing, when a door never opens with out you opening it, this becomes a big issue that is a down fall to a person life, it’s is a lost path of a soul that is awaken by you future ghosts or your spiritual connection that is a divide fact between living alone in a house that sounds the creaky floor that holds the fiction to the mind of cob webs in existence. It’s can lead to destruction or mental health issues that is subjected to being alone. 

My cat holds the heart and soul of the strength that surrounds my environment of having someone there in my life to open that door as I know it sounds stupid my cat giving me strength but it’s sad to say but it’s true. 

A man not having a women over a long period of time is a form of rape that is subjected to the mental state of the human soul and mind. It’s changes a person that is not there original state from who they are in the first place, 

It’s an exploitation of a man that needs a women and the same falls for a women that needs a man in the same context as it’s an neglect or if it’s done on purpose to a person it’s a different form of rape. Smileband see that this is a issue in an every day to day lives cycle of a person within the living society that affects us in general as it’s has affect my life in a big major my but some people are stronger then others but it’s a horrible thought having to go through this in life. <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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