20 best Chinese recipes: part 2

Stuffed squid, a classic Peking duck and stir-fried clams: OFM’s collection of Chinese recipes from cooks including Yan-kit So and Hunan’s Mr Peng

Mr Peng’s stuffed baby squid

Both chicken and prawn mince work well as a stuffing for the squid here, though chicken offers a greater contrast in texture after cooking. Try the squid with other sauces too, like sweet and sour sauce or sweet chilli sauce etc.

The punchy Sichuan chilli sauce is essential to Hunan’s cooking, and the Sichuan peppercorns lend their characteristic numbing spice to many of our dishes. You need a lot of oil to make this sauce as it captures the flavours of the chilli and also helps to preserve it. When the sauce settles, you should have a layer of oil on top. If you add too much, you can always use the excess as chilli oil. Continue reading...

Published By - Theguardian.com - Tech News, Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis: Tuesday 3 May 2016 08.00 BST

Google given access to healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients

Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind provided with patient information as part of agreement with Royal Free NHS trust

A company owned by Google has been given access to the healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients from three hospitals run by a major London NHS trust.

DeepMind, the tech giant’s London-based company most famous for its innovative use of artificial intelligence, is being provided with the patient information as part of an agreement with the Royal Free NHS trust, which runs the Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free hospitals.

It includes information about people who are HIV-positive as well as details of drug overdoses, abortions and patient data from the past five years, according to a report by the New Scientist.

DeepMind announced in February that it was developing a software in partnership with NHS hospitals to alert staff to patients at risk of deterioration and death through kidney failure. Continue reading...





Published By - Theguardian.com - Tech News, Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis: Wednesday 4 May 2016 00.34 BST

Harm patients? Junior doctors are striking to protect them

Public trust is vital for junior doctors, and we’re confident we won’t lose it by rejecting the imposition of this contract by Jeremy Hunt

Next week Britain’s junior doctors will stage a full walkout for the first time in the history of the NHS. It would be disingenuous to deny this will have consequences for trust. Accusations are already flying that junior doctors, blind to the corrosive power of mistrust, are prepared to trade their patients’ belief in them for self-interest. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Trust is a doctor’s greatest asset, and it is critical to good care. Without trust, compliance with treatment falls, and patients think twice about seeking help. Polls show that the strikes haven’t much damaged that trust so far. But will public support wane during a full strike? The General Medical Council, our professional regulator, has said doctors should not strike in hard-hit hospitals in case patients suffer harm.

Published By - Theguardian.com - Sports New, LifeStyle News, Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis: Tuesday 19 April 2016 18.25 BST

Mesothelioma Survival statistics

Mesothelioma Survival rates are often be used by doctors as a standard way of discussing a person’s prognosis (outlook). Many people want to know the mesothelioma survival statistics for people in similar situations, When others may not find the numbers helpful, or might not be even want to know them. So if you don’t want to read about the mesothelioma survival statistics, stop reading here.

To get mesothelioma survival rates, doctors has to look at people who were treated at the least several years ago. Although the numbers below are among to most current we have available, improvements in treatment since then could result in a better outcome from people now being diagnosed with a mesothelioma.

Mesothelioma survival rates were often based on previous outcomes of large numbers of people who had the disease, but they can’t predict what will happen to in any person’s case. Knowing a type and the stage of a cancer is very important in estimating outcome. So many other factors can affect survival, such as the person’s age and the overall health, and how well to cancer responds to treatment. But even taking these other factors into account, mesothelioma survival rates are at best rough estimates.

Mesothelioma is a very serious disease. So by the time the symptoms appear and cancer is diagnosed, These disease is often too advanced. Regardless for the extent of cancer, mesothelioma can be very hard to treat.

5-year mesothelioma survival rate

Discussing cancer mesothelioma survival statistics, doctors often use for a number called the 5-year survival rate. The 5-year mesothelioma survival rate is a percentage of people who live at least 5 years after their cancer is diagnosed. Of course, many people live longer than 5 years.

5-year mesothelioma survival takes the proportion of a people with cancer that have survived 5 years and compares it to the survival expected into a similar group of the people without cancer. So that helps adjust for deaths from causes to other than cancer. Based on the data from the National Cancer Institute’s SEER program, but relative 5-year mesothelioma survival rate is between 5% and 10%.

Median mesothelioma survival times

Numbers of the table below are from a large international study that looked at the median mesothelioma survival time of patients with a pleural mesothelioma who are treated with surgery between 1997 and 2010. Median survival for the length of time it took for a half the people into a certain group (like these with a certain type and stage of cancer) to die.

That a general rule, mesothelioma survival times are likely to be longer for people with mesotheliomas that can be operated on than for these with cancers that has spread too far to be removed. So other prognostic factors, such as these listed in the section. How to malignant a mesothelioma staged? Also, can affect survival.

Engineers from Google are working in collaboration with UNICEF to fight against the Zika Virus...

He said that a half dozen of its engineers are working to help a Brazil track the Zika virus and mosquito that spreads it's by doing one of the things the search engine to giant does best write algorithms.

Volunteer Google's engineers in San Francisco and it's New York  are working together Unicef counterparts to create a system that combines several types of data to help a predict where Aedes aegypti mosquito to might next be particularly active, helping into eradication efforts.

Zika virus has to become an epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean since last fall.

The Zika virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites and has been to potential link to birth defects.

The data sets will include to movement of people gathered from cellular phone locator systems, weather patterns and epidemiological maps for the Zika virus outbreak from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

We hoping to make predictions about where to next hotspots might appear, Chris Fabian, co-leader for UNICEF's Innovation Unit, said The Associated Press.

Fabian told the Unicef to do similar projects during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leon and a recent dengue outbreak in Pakistan. Unicef's representative in Brazil Gary Stahl, said the data would be cross-referenced with epidemiological maps created by a country's Health Ministry.

The result could help to fumigators know better where to target, he said. We were hoping that what we can learn from Brazil can be useful in other countries. facing outbreaks of Zika virus, he said.

So, Google announced it was donating $1.5 million to Unicef for the fight against Zika.

He said in a blog post that it's in a good position to an assist since its mission for a help people find information, and it has to experience analysing huge sets of data.

The company have seen a more than 2,950 percent increase in global search interest in Zika virus since November.

Google's operates a large group of businesses, including to a dominant Internet search engine, under a holding company Alphabet Inc.

Google brought in an operating profit of $6.7 billion into last year's fourth quarter.

How to quickly grow a strong and healthy hair

Hi, months back I didn't ponder the way that hair needs to stay sound, as well, and you can't treat it anyway you need. Despite the fact that hair is solid, it's additionally exceptionally weak as it were, and you have to deal with it. 

By taking after these strides, you won't just verify that your hair stays solid, however it will likewise become quicker. This is on the grounds that you have guaranteed that it gets every one of the supplements and vitamins it needs. Additionally, these strides will make your entire body a great deal more advantageous.

Here's How This Woman Lost 90 Pounds After Gaining Weight at Her Desk Job

Take Jessie Foss' sweat-soaked mysteries to kick off your weight reduction objectives.

Before: 215 lbs 

After: 125 lbs 

At the point when Jessie began her first work area work as a paralegal, she created desires for all things broiled, and the inactive gig didn't give her the chance to smolder any of it off amid the day. Besides, she was so beat when she returned home that she didn't contemplate what she ate. Jessie disregarded the five to 10 pounds that crawled on every year until 2012, when she understood she'd passed the 200 imprint.

Eating Too Much of This Might Shrink Your Brain

Health Day

(HealthDay News) - In news that sounds a touch like it came straight from a science fiction thriller, scientists say that eating an excessive amount of meat may shrivel your mind. 

On the other side, be that as it may, eating sound nourishments from the purported Mediterranean eating routine may offer your mind some assistance with staying fit as a fiddle as you get more seasoned, the new study recommends. The specialists said that individuals more than 65 who ate more fish, vegetables, natural product, grains and olive oil had a bigger mind volume than a comparative gathering who didn't take after a Mediterranean diet. 

Diet and Fitness

How to Make Running Easier

Adherents hail it as a shabby, simple approach to stay fit as a fiddle, tone up, get in shape, help cerebrum wellbeing and inclination and even build lifespan. Commentators consider it to be an excruciating, repetitive and exhausting approach to work out.
Running yields a pack of medical advantages, from enhancing your cardiovascular wellbeing to bringing down your cholesterol and pulse and revving up your digestion system.
Late research finds that running as meager as five minutes a day can cut your danger of cardiovascular ailment considerably.

This Poor Girl Sneezes 12,000 A DAY

We called a specialist to clarify, in light of the fact that WTF?

A few individuals sniffle three times consecutively; Katelyn Thornley wheezes 12,000 times each day. The 12-year-old from Texas began sniffling always around a month back and now wheezes around 20 times each moment. She's been not able to go to class on account of her condition.
"It just began in little spurts," Katelyn told CBS DFW. "I just began sniffling. I thought it was similar to, goodness, I'm only adversely affected by something."

Why Is Anorexia So Hard to Treat?

Another study investigates the chronic way of the malady.

Anorexia is famously hard to treat and another study may have found why. Examination distributed in the diary Nature Neuroscience found that the serious counting calories done by anorexics may be an emphatically framed propensity, not a consequence of great self control as already thought. Here's the reason that is so concerning: Habits are directed by profoundly imbued cerebrum forms, which are hard to change.

The study took after the dietary patterns of 21 ladies with anorexia and 21 sound individuals, and led mind checks while the ladies chose which nourishments to eat. Ladies who were anorexic will probably pick low-fat, low calorie sustenances.

7 Dangerous Misconceptions About Depression

From Pap smears to circulatory strain tests, you know your body needs routine screenings to stay fit as a fiddle. Turns out, the same thing is valid for your psyche. October 8 is the 25th yearly National Depression Screening Day, a portion of an activity dispatched by the Screening for Mental Health Organization. The's crusade would like to bring issues to light about how predominant wretchedness can be—one in eight American ladies will battle with clinical sorrow in her lifetime, as indicated by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Past getting the message out, the purpose of National Depression Screening Day is to crush the disgrace encompassing the ailment, which is regularly misjudged.

6 Breast Cancer Myths You Should Stop Believing This Instant

With regards to bosom malignancy, you know the realities: One in eight ladies will be determined to have the infection in her lifetime, and around 40,000 ladies in the U.S. kick the bucket every year from it, as per the American Cancer Society. In any case, there's a considerable measure of data out there that is simply not genuine. Here, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is revealing insight into basic bosom growth myths with the goal that you can settle on educated choices about your wellbeing.