(UPI)A Massachusetts woman said she investigated bird sounds in her yard and discovered a baby cardinal with two heads and three beaks.April Britt of Northampton said she and her husband followed the sounds of squawking birds in their back yard to a tree where they discovered the baby female cardinal with the unusual deformities, WGGB-TV, Springfield, reported Thursday."My husband says, 'Oh my God

June 1, 2012

The nose has an important cosmetic function and also serves an even more important physiological role especially in respiration. Any problems with the respiratory function of the nose will lead to symptoms of nasal obstruction. People with normal respiratory function are not conscious of their breathing but patients with nasal obstruction as well as those around them experience stuffiness as a result.There are several conditions which cause nasal obstruction, the most common of which is rhinitis

May 31, 2012

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ― Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Center’s Ashtanga Yoga Institute.Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for the moms.One or two volunteers attend, holding and distracting the little ones who have had their fill of a quiet yoga practice, allowing their moms to continue with the asanas, or poses.A mother of two, instructor Treea Clements said she started teaching

May 31, 2012

LOS ANGELES ― Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can’t get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer.A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely to die during the study than their counterparts who eschewed the brew. In fact, men and women

May 31, 2012

The health hazards of smoking are well known: Cigarettes are known to contribute to the prevalence of cancers of the mouth, head, lung, breast, bladder, stomach and other parts of the body. It is also linked to coronary heart disease and many other fatal disorders. It is suspected of causing infertility in women and raises the risk of fetal deformity during pregnancy. The World Health Organization said it kills 5 million people worldwide a year, which is equivalent to one person dying every six

May 31, 2012

 Bloodletting as a medical treatment was abandoned in the 19th century, but German researchers said blood donation is beneficial to the donor.Professor Andreas Michalsen of the Charite-University Medical Centre in Berlin and colleagues at the University Duisburg-Essen said donating blood can provide medical benefits for obese people with metabolic syndrome -- which includes insulin resistance, glu

May 31, 2012

Genetics can predict success of smoking cessation and whether a person is likely to respond to drugs for nicotine addiction, U.S. researchers say.“We found that the effects of smoking cessation medications depend on a person’s genes,” first author Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a statement.The research focused on specific variations in a clu

May 31, 2012

 Top business-to-business software firm eyes expansion in handling large data setsWhen people generally think of open-source platforms in Korea, Google’s Android immediately comes to mind due to the wide use of smartphones and tablet PCs in the business-to-consumer space.But in the business-to-business world, U.S.-headquartered Red Hat provides the world’s leading open-source operating systems for enterprises’ data-processing servers.Working “behind the scenes,” it’s unknown to the general publi

May 30, 2012

A small asteroid had a close encounter with Earth on Tuesday, according to NASA scientists.The 5-meter space rock, called 2012 KP42, was not spotted until a day before it came within 14,400 kilometers of Earth. Its closest approach to Earth was less than one-26th of the average distance between the planet and the moon, which is 386,000 kilometers.However, given its diminutive size, experts say it was unlikely to cause significant damage to the Earth anyway. The close call on Tuesday came only a

May 30, 2012

Scientists found that hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago by looking at human skeletons buried during the early Neolithic era, Science Daily and BBC reported Monday.The study, conducted by archaeologists from universities of Bristol, Oxford and Cardiff found that ancient people that were buried with tools had better access to preferred farmlands than those without. Researchers used strontium isotope analysis that lets them know the skeletons’ place of origin. Since the people with t

May 30, 2012