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Women with Irregular Heartbeat Are in Danger More than Men

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The risks of developing fatal heart diseases were twice as high in women with AF than in men.

It seems that women with irregular heartbeat are in danger more than men when it comes to cardiovascular diseases, says a study conducted at the Oxford University. According to it, the risk factor of developing cardiovascular diseases is almost twice as high in women with an irregular heartbeat as in men.

The team from Oxford University conducted by Dr. Connor Emdin reviewed a total of 30 studies that involved almost 4 million patients in order to determine if atrial fibrillation, or more commonly known as irregular heartbeat, is more dangerous to women than it is to men.

The results, which are published in the BMJ medical journal, were surprising, to say the least. It appears that women have almost twice the risk of developing fatal cardiovascular diseases than men.

The reasons for this risks may be that the medication used to treat the atrial fibrillation doesn’t respond so well in women, or that the female population is usually diagnosed much later than men. This leads to an under-treated female segment which is at high risks at the moment.

The experts that have analyzed Emdin’s findings say that the study should be taken into consideration by all physicians and more measures to prevent death on account of cardiovascular diseases should be taken and implemented. Experts believe that doctors should pay more attention to women with an irregular heartbeat so that they could diagnose, treat and monitor them with more success.

Men and women both can check if they have an irregular heartbeat by analyzing their pulse for an interval of only 30 seconds. In this time, patients must be wary of any signs of irregularity in the pulse. An irregularity would be an extra beat that sticks in between the normal rhythm or a missed beat. Sometimes people can show such irregularities and not have atrial fibrillation. It is when the pulse seems like it hasn’t got a clear pattern of beating that is when the person should immediately consult a doctor.

Atrial fibrillation can also cause a very fast pulse, leading to symptoms as dizziness, a shortness of the breath, even nausea, in some cases.

Because irregular heartbeat is the number one cause of cardiovascular diseases in the world, doctors advise the general population to have themselves checked up on a regular basis. Atrial fibrillation can lead to heart failure and even strokes. And it seems that women with irregular heartbeat are in danger more than men.

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CDC Report: Chlamydia Disease Cases Dropped After Three Decades

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The yearly report of  U.S Centers for Disease Control Prevention reveals that the rate of STD falls in the United States.  The proportion of most common sexual disease dropped after a long time period of three decades.

The Health authorities notify that Chlamydia cases cut down around 1.5 percent in 2013.  The report shows that every year approximately 1.4 million cases of Chlamydia emerged in the US.  The proportion is relatively bigger as compared to the other sexually transmitted disease.

Chlamydia is a commonly transmitted sexual disease. A bacterium known as Chlamydia trachomtis is responsible for this deadly disease. Generally, Chlamydia does not show any symptoms because of which it is known as silent disease. It directly infects the reproductive system of the women.  It can be cured through strong antibiotics.

Moreover, the report unveils that proportion of the most transmittable kind of syphilis increase up to 10 percent. Last year, around 17,375 cases of major and minor syphilis reported.

The U.S Center for Disease Control and Prevention also found that gonorrhea cases decreased 1 percent. However, the cases of drug resistant gonorrhea increased to a great extent.

The government health agency reported that initial screening and diagnosis is necessary to avert the transmission and complication of STDs. Therefore, sexually active bisexual and gay men should go through complete STD screening every year.

Twitter’s Response To Advocacy Group: Added Report Abuse & Harrasment Feature

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According to the recent reports revealed, Twitter has teamed up with non-profit organization WAM (Women, Action & the Media) to assist its customers report abuse and harassment via online tool.

A web-based form is produced by the women’s advocacy group that will permit individuals to report credible occurrences. The project is anticipated to collect better responses for women, which help Twitter enhance the way it handles such incidents. The organization continues to be belittled due to its poor reaction to abuse, even when it claims to work with various groups.

The advocacy group told the press, “WAM will escalate validated reviews to Twitter and track Twitter’s reaction to different types of gendered harassment. By the end of the pilot test period, WAM will evaluate the collected data and utilize it to work with Twitter in order to better understand how gendered harassment functions on their platform, and also to enhance their responses to it.”

This online tool will follow abuse and harassment cases from both males and ladies – for example impersonation, posting falsehoods, hate speech, revenge porn, and much more. Anyone can report on behalf of another person or if they fear for their own individual safety. Additionally, it asks if the problem has been reported on Twitter more than once.

As per the Wall Street Journal, “WAM includes a 24-hour turnaround time to obtain a response from Twitter. The findings of the pilot will be released to the public.”

The notice came over the issue of online harassment resurfaced due to the “GamerGate” debate within the gaming industry. The issue started in August when the overall game developer’s ex-boyfriend accused her of cheating with the gaming journalist. This brought to harassment not specifically to Zoe Quinn but to her supporters too who’re mostly women. The hashtag #gamergate started when tons of cases concerning online harassment that forced some women to leave their houses because of safety concerns.

 

NASA’s Recent Report Shows That Women Are More Preferred To Visit Mars Than Men

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NASA intends to send a group of six people to Mars for a long time period of six months. This Mars mission is planned to occur somewhere in the year 2030.

Six people among which there were three men and three women hid in a volcano of Hawaii for the Mission Mars. The basic purpose of this experiment was to replicate the life of Mars on that planet. The Hawaii volcano mission is known as Hawaii Space Exploration analog and Stimulation. Moreover, NASA has given it a short form of HI-SEA study.

NASA designed the particular experiment in order to physically and psychologically prepare astronauts for a really long mission.

The scientist filled the group with a particular amount of food, water and other basic necessitates. They lived the entire period of eight months with limited resources. Sadly, email was the only manner of communication for them. Unfortunately, every email sent by the members took nearly 30 minutes to reach its destination. It signified that on the whole they had to wait for approximately 1 hour to get the reply of an email.

Luckily, Experts permitted the group to take their cell phones along with them. However, the usage of cell phone was particularly restricted to the cases of emergency.

Finally, scientists presented the complete report of this experiment to NASA. The study unveiled a really astonishing thing related to the experiment.

The study demonstrated that the woman performed their duties and survived more easily than the man on the Hawaii Dome.

Karen Green was one of those six lucky people who took part in this simulate Mars mission.  She lived nearly four months in that dangerous 36 diameter volcano.

Recently, Green claimed that woman is a better option to send first on Mars as compared to the man. She stated several reasons to support her statement. She stated that the appetite of a man is more than an ordinary woman. Therefore, it was difficult for a man to maintain their weight.

All the members of the group worked out for the same time period without any gender discrimination. However, men burned 3,000 calories everyday while women burned 2,000.

Obviously, food and hunger play a vital role in the accomplishment of the study. The spacecraft can carry a limited amount of payload in which scientist have to load numerous other significant things with the food.

CEO of Microsoft Nadella Faced Criticism For His Comment

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Nadella faced severe criticism for his comment regarding the women in technology. The CEO of Microsoft stated in a meeting that women in technology should trust the “system” instead of asking questions about their raises.

Nadella gave this statement when someone asked him a question in a recent conference. The actual question was to give a brief advice to the women who are looking for a raise.

As soon as the CEO stated that all the women who work in the arena of computing strongly condemn the statement.

Maria Klawe, a very important member of Microsoft’s board immediately challenged Nadella on this statement. Klawe said that it is the only thing on which he disagrees with her boss.

Shortly after that conference the entire social media began to crack jokes and made fun of this statement.

Afterwards Nadella tried to mend the damage and tweeted that his statement was misunderstood. He meant to proclaim that raises should be devoid of any gender discrimination.

Furthermore, the CEO, accepted that there is a minor error in the memo, which the company released on the official website of Microsoft.

The conference was organized in Phoenix, Arizona and its chief purpose to honor the women in computing.

A latest study demonstrates that previous year woman get paid 78 percent as compared to what man get who has the same qualification. The American Association of University Women performed this survey related to the wages of man and woman.

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