Boston (SmartAboutHealth.net) - According to recent reports, Babson College was forced to close due to an outbreak of the norovirus gastrointestinal illness.

The College was closed on Saturday after over 100 students fell ill to the norovirus illness.

Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea and it is said that the illness lasts about 24 to 60 hours.

Although the virus can spread through food and close contact with an infected individual, there seems to be no signs that the outbreak was food-related. Officials are still looking for the cause of the outbreak.

Babson College urges students that live on campus to remain on campus. The school is scheduled to re-open on Wednesday.

In hopes to fight with the illness, the school has supplied additional sanitary supplied and asks students to wash their hands more frequently.

Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - According to scientists, drinking very hot tea may increase chances of oesophageal cancer.

People are strongly advised to let their tea cool off for at least 4 minutes after a recent study has shown that drinking tea with a temperature above 70C increases your risks of oesophageal cancer by 8 times.

Cancer of the oesophagus, the tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach, kills more than 500,000 people worldwide each year. In the US and Europe it is mainly caused by smoking and alcohol.

Studies show that most Britons drink their tea at a temperature of 50-60C, however in other areas of the world such as Iran, hot tea of 70C and above is drunk daily.

300 cancer affect along with 571 healthy people have been studied.

Although there was no correlation between the amount of tea and cancer risks, researchers have found that drinking tea at 65-69C doubled the risk of oesophageal cancer and drinking it at 70C increased your risks by 8 times.

Experts urge that people should follow advice and wait 5-10 minutes before consuming a freshly poored cup of tea.

Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - According to a recent study, children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have more inconsistent reponseses compared to other children when doing short term memory tasks.

25 children with ADHD and 25 children without the disorder were studied. The children were asked to perform certain computer tasks involving numbers and various calculations.

Although the children affected with ADHD were more inconsistent with their response times, their answers are said to be as accurate as the other childrens’. The response time issues may have been due to the higher levels of hyperactivity, said researchers.

Researchers hope to study further whether behavioral therapy may one day help decrease working memory in children with ADHD.

According to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated that 4.4 million youth, ages 4 to17, have been diagnosed with ADHD.

The study was published on the web in Child Neuropsychology.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - According to recent reports, circumcision helps prevent sexually transmitted infections aswell as HIV in heterosexual men.

3,000 men were studied throughout the research and researchers from John Hopkins University have found that circumcised men has 25-percent less chances of catching herpes and 35-percent less chances of contracting the human pappilomavirus.

Although there are still chances of contracting the diseases, researchers hope that this news will push for higher circumcision rates throughout the world.

The study was based in Uganda and was led by Dr. Thomas Quinn of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - According to recent reports, women are contributing more in family incomes when it comes to two-earner couples.

A survey of 3,500 workers showed that men are feeling more conflicted over the work-life balance.

According to the survey, 59-percent of fathers in dual-income families have reported conflicts between jobs and family life in 2008, while only 35-percent did in 1977. When it comes to the mothers, the conflict has increased from 40 to 45-percent.

Experts say that “men weren’t doing enough to add stress to their lives”.

It is said that today, men are more involved with familly matters and spend more time with their children and help out with caretaking.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - According to the World Health Organization, HIV patients account for roughly one quarter of total tuberculosis deaths in 2007.

Not only was there a total of 9.3 million new tuberculosis cases in 2007, but 1.4 million of those affected were people infected with HIV. Reports say that this number has doubled over the past few years.

This means that currently 1 out of ever 4 TB deaths is now directly linked to HIV infection - showing to people that this combination of diseases is quite deadly.

The World Health Organization estimates that $3.2 billion is needed this year for TB diagnosis, and only $1.6 billion is available.

Health experts predict TB control expenditures to keep on increasing as the number of deaths rise.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - Recent reports state that we’re simply not getting enough Vitamin D.

Researchers are saying that we’re spending too much time indoors and and not enough time outdoors in the sun; resulting in lower levels of vitamin D in our systems.

The data was taken from two groups; one from 2001 to 2004, which had roughly 19,000 people and the other from 1988 to 1994 which had 13,000. The study shows levels of vitamin D have dropped nearly by half when comparing the first group to the second.

Comparing the groups further, the average vitamin D levels dropped from 30 nanograms per milliliter (first group) to 24 nanograms per milliliter (second group).

Researchers say that by blocking out the sun lowers the risk of skin cancer, however raises the risk of osteoporosis and fractures, heart disease, various infections and some cancers.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - Recent studies show that people who eat large quantities of red meat have an increased risk of death over a 10 year period.

On the other side however, people who eat white meat actually reduced their risk of death within the same period.

The US study that based on more than 500,000 people found that the consumers whose diet contained a high proportion of red and processed meat had a higher overall risk of death. Cancer and heart disease were the two primary diseases.

Consumers whose diet contained a high proportion of white meat has a lower risk of overall death, specifically lower risks of fatal cancer or heart disease.

The study shows that 11% of the deaths in men and 16% of the deaths in women could have been prevented if they had decreased their consumption of red meat.

Researchers show that people eating the most meat ate about 160g of red meat per day and people eating the least ate about 25g per day. That’s like comparing a 6oz steak to a few strips of bacon.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - Last Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI on his way to Africa that condoms weren’t the answer for the battle against HIV/AIDS. This was the Pope’s first public anouncement on the issue of condom use.

World Health Assembly President, Guyana’s Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy, said that the Pope’s call for ending condom use in the fights against HIV/AIDS was simply spreading confusion.

It is said that the Roman Catholic Church was trying to “create confusion” and prevent proven strategies in the battle against the disease.

“Whilst I would hope that Catholics would continue to be extremely supportive of their church and the pope … on this issue, they (should) rely on the evidence, and we need at this time to come out forcefully with the evidence to demonstrate that condoms and lifestyle matter,” said Ramsammy.

Boston (SmartAboutHealth) - After an intensive investigation, baby products manufactured by Johnson & Johnson have been cleared by China’s State Food and Drug Administration. The products were investigated in order to determine if they contained potential carcinogens.

According to a statemenet by the Administration, 33 products were cleared and were said to have no contamination by formaldehyde, or 1,4-dioxane.

Baby shampoos and various other manufacturers including Johnson & Johnson have been pointed at. They are accused of producing producing products that contain formaldehyde, or 1,4-dioxane.

This cause quite some chaos in China as product safety is a big concern these days with recent scandals such as the melamine contamination in daily milk of one of the major producers.