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People’s perception of their pain depends on how they see the affected part of the body, says researchers, who discovered that by manipulating the appearance of a chronically achy hand, they could increase or decrease the ache and swelling in patients moving their symptomatic limbs.In their opinion, the findings revealed a profound top-down effect of body image on body tissues.

“The brain is capable of many wonderful things based on its perception of how the body is doing and the risks to which the body seems to be exposed,” said G. Lorimer Moseley, who is now at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Australia.

In the study, the researchers asked ten right-handed patients with chronic pain and dysfunction in one arm to watch their own arm while they performed a standardized set of ten hand movements.

The participants repeated the movements under four conditions: with no visual manipulation, while looking through binoculars with no magnification, while looking through binoculars that doubled the apparent size of their arm, and while looking through inverted binoculars that reduced the apparent size of their arm.

As the patients’ pain was always worse after movement than it was before, the extent to which the pain worsened depended on what people saw.

Specifically, the pain increased more when participants viewed a magnified image of their arm during the movements, and-perhaps more surprisingly-the pain became less when their arm was seen through inverted binoculars that minimized its size.

The degree of swelling too was less when people watched a “minified” image of their arm during movements than when they watched a magnified or normal image, the researchers reported.

However, the researchers are not yet sure how this phenomenon works at the level of neurons.

But, they said that a possible philosophical explanation comes from the notion that protective responses-including the experience of pain-are activated according to the brain’s implicit perception of danger level.

“If it looks bigger, it looks sorer and more swollen. Therefore, the brain acts to protect it,” said Moseley.

While he said the findings don’t mean that pain is any less real, they may lead to a new therapeutic approach for reducing pain. His team is now testing visual manipulations as an analgesic strategy for use in clinical settings.

The study is published in the latest issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

The economic downturn will test the world’s resolve to do more to fight global warming at 190-nation talks in Poland next week, but the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president should temper the gloom.The December 1-12 meeting of 8,000 delegates in Poznan, Poland, will review progress in a two-year push to work out a sweeping new U.N. climate treaty by the end of 2009.

So far, many countries have promised to fight global warming despite fears of deep recession, but few have come up with deep cuts in emissions that the U.N. Climate Panel says are needed to avoid the worst of heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.

“I’d expect the economic crisis to have an effect” on resolve, Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said of the outlook for Poznan. And “lower oil prices will mean less of an incentive to invest in renewables.”

“The minute the financial crisis struck, industries said ‘this makes it difficult to take on expensive targets’,” he told Reuters.

Among canceled investments, FPL Group, the largest U.S. wind power operator, has slashed planned 2009 spending by 25 percent to $5.3 billion. Shares in China’s Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s largest solar module maker, fell to an all-time low last week, down more than 90 percent in 2009.

For many nations, Obama’s election is reason for optimism — many U.S. allies accuse President George W. Bush of doing too little to diversify away from fossil fuels. China and the United States are the top greenhouse gas emitters.

Obama has promised to “engage vigorously” in climate change talks once he is president and plans a costly stimulus package to revive the economy, including green jobs.

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“There are positive influences — Obama has got elected and he has said that the current economic crisis is not going to impair his resolve to tackle the problem of climate change,” said Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. Climate Panel.

Obama has promised to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 — Bush had foreseen a peak only in 2025 — and by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Pachauri said Obama might be able to come up with even more. The U.N. panel says rich nations need to cut by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to keep temperatures below what some nations see as a “dangerous” 2 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise.

“Maybe this is just the beginning of what we expect from him,” Pachauri told Reuters. Pachauri’s panel said it would cost less than 0.12 percent of global gross domestic product every year until 2030 to avert the worst of climate change.

The economic downturn means countries “are going to have all kinds of excuses to avoid making progress. So it (Poznan) will be a test,” said Angela Anderson, director of the Pew Environment Group’s global warming campaign.

The Poznan talks will mainly review progress and discuss new ideas such as new clean technology for developing nations such as China and India, ways to reward tropical nations for slowing deforestation or help poor countries adapt to climate change.

Shoaib Malik has said that he would use his visit to India for the Twenty20 Champions League to convince Indian players to tour Pakistan for the Test series early next year.

The Pakistan skipper said on Tuesday he was convinced that conditions were conducive for India to tour Pakistan in January-February and play their series as per schedule.

Malik will be leading the Sialkot Stallions in the Champions League in India next month and said this would give him a good opportunity to exchange views with the Indian players, media and even officials.

“I will do my best to convince them it is safe to tour Pakistan. I will let them know how important it is for India to tour Pakistan on schedule,” he said.

Malik said his Sialkot team was preparing hard for the USD 4 million Champions League and were confident about their chances against the champion Twenty20 sides from the Indian Premier League, Australia, England and South Africa.

“We have prepared hard and well for the tournament and we have some good players so we do fancy our chances of doing well,” he said. He said the fact that Sialkot had done well in Pakistan`s domestic Twenty20 competition and won it thrice had added to the confidence of the players.

Sialkot will miss the services of Imran Nazir, Rana Naved and Mohammad Asif for various reasons in the Champions League.

While Nazir and Naved have signed up for the Indian Cricket League and can`t play for Sialkot, Asif is presently suspended by the Pakistan board over a doping offence.

Malik said India`s tour to Pakistan would help revive the sport in the country after a troubled year for the country`s cricket.

“The Indians have to realise what this tour means to us. It can be played at neutral venues but the impact of India being in Pakistan is very very important for us as a country, Malik added.

Shoaib Malik has said that he would use his visit to India for the Twenty20 Champions League to convince Indian players to tour Pakistan for the Test series early next year.

The Pakistan skipper said on Tuesday he was convinced that conditions were conducive for India to tour Pakistan in January-February and play their series as per schedule.

Malik will be leading the Sialkot Stallions in the Champions League in India next month and said this would give him a good opportunity to exchange views with the Indian players, media and even officials.

“I will do my best to convince them it is safe to tour Pakistan. I will let them know how important it is for India to tour Pakistan on schedule,” he said.

Malik said his Sialkot team was preparing hard for the USD 4 million Champions League and were confident about their chances against the champion Twenty20 sides from the Indian Premier League, Australia, England and South Africa.

“We have prepared hard and well for the tournament and we have some good players so we do fancy our chances of doing well,” he said. He said the fact that Sialkot had done well in Pakistan`s domestic Twenty20 competition and won it thrice had added to the confidence of the players.

Sialkot will miss the services of Imran Nazir, Rana Naved and Mohammad Asif for various reasons in the Champions League.

While Nazir and Naved have signed up for the Indian Cricket League and can`t play for Sialkot, Asif is presently suspended by the Pakistan board over a doping offence.

Malik said India`s tour to Pakistan would help revive the sport in the country after a troubled year for the country`s cricket.

“The Indians have to realise what this tour means to us. It can be played at neutral venues but the impact of India being in Pakistan is very very important for us as a country, Malik added.

Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows. Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and his colleagues found few factual errors in their evaluation of Wikipedia entries on 80 drugs. But these entries were often missing important information, for example the fact that the anti-inflammatory drug Arthrotec (diclofenac and misoprostol) can cause pregnant women to miscarry, or that St. John’s wort can interfere with the action of the HIV drug Prezista (darunavir).

“If people went and used this as a sole or authoritative source without contacting a health professional…those are the types of negative impacts that can occur,” Clauson told Reuters Health.

Wikipedia is an online, free encyclopedia covering millions of topics in more than 250 languages. Users add and edit content themselves. Clauson and his colleagues decided to investigate the accuracy and completeness of drug information on Wikipedia given that one third of people doing health-related Internet searches are looking for information on over-the-counter or prescription drugs, and that a Wikipedia entry is often the first to pop up with a Google search.

The researchers compared Wikipedia to Medscape Drug Reference (MDR), a peer-reviewed, free site, by looking for answers to 80 different questions covering eight categories of drug information, for example adverse drug events, dosages, and mechanism of action.

While MDR provided answers to 82.5 percent of the questions, Wikipedia could only answer 40 percent. Answers were less likely to be complete for Wikipedia, as well. Of the answers the researchers found on Wikipedia, none were factually inaccurate, while there were four inaccurate answers in MDR. But the researchers spotted 48 errors of omission in the Wikipedia entries, compared to 14 for MDR.

“I think that these errors of omission can be just as dangerous” as inaccuracies, Clauson told Reuters Health. He pointed out that drug company representatives have been caught deleting information from Wikipedia entries that make their drugs look unsafe.

The researchers did find that after 90 days, the Wikipedia entries showed a “marked improvement” in scope.

Wikipedia can be a good jumping-off point for Internet research, Clauson said, but shouldn’t be seen as the last word on any topic-and should certainly not be used as a resource by medical professionals. “You still probably want to go to medlineplus.gov or medscape.com for good quality information that you can feel confident in,” he said.

A new study has found that single mothers spend less time with their children than married counterparts.Sarah Kendig and Suzanne Bianchi from University of Maryland examined differences in the amount and type of time that single, cohabiting, and married mothers spend with their children.

They found that cohabiting and married mothers spend similar amounts of time caring for their children, while single mothers spend less time with their children than married mothers.

However, if single mothers had the same level of education and employment as married mothers, they would spend the same amount of time with their children.

The reason why single mothers spend less time is they have higher employment rates - and employed mothers spend less time caring for their children than mothers who are not employed.

“This suggests that if we want to equalize maternal investments in time with children, we could do so by encouraging policies that focus on improving educational and employment opportunities for single mothers,” the authors conclude.

This study is published in the November 2008 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.

A new study has revealed that chronic vitamin D deficiency may increase the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome.According to the study, conducted by researchers at the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University in Chicago, lack of sunshine during winter may diminish vitamin D levels in the body and harm cardiovascular health, reports Xinhua.

The study said that the body needs sunshine to produce vitamin D, but that process is slowed in the winter due to less daylight and spending more time indoors.

The researchers reviewed a number of studies that linked vitamin D deficiency to heart disease. The studies said rates of severe heart disease or death may be 30 percent to 50 percent higher in sun-deprived heart disease patients.

Diet alone isn’t sufficient to manage vitamin D levels, said the study. Treatment options, such as vitamin D2 or D3, may decrease the risk of severe heart disease or death.

The study suggested that the preferred range in the body is 30-60 ng/mL of 25 (OH) vitamin D.

“Most physicians do not routinely test for vitamin D deficiency. However, most experts would agree that adults at risk for heart disease and others who experience fatigue, joint pain, or depression should have their vitamin D levels measured,” said study author Sue Penckofer.

The study was published in the November issue of the journal Circulation.