Years of loud music can cause tumours

    Washington: A research has discovered that people with years of repeated exposure to loud noise have an increased risk of developing a non-cancerous tumor, called acoustic neuroma, that may lead to hearing loss. The study found that people who had been exposed to years of loud noise were on average one-and-a-half times more likely to develop this type of tumor compared to people who weren't exposed to such noise on a regular basis. Hearing loss occurs gradualy as the tumor grows slowly and presses the cranial nerve that is responsible for sensing sound and helping with balance. Symptoms of the tumor include hearing loss and tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears. They also typically become noticeable around age 50 or older. The study, by a team of reseachers from Ohio State University, was led by Colin Edwards.

   As a part of the research, the team gathered four years of data from the Swedish portion of the INTERPHONE Study, an international study of cell phone use and tumors that affect the brain and head. The team conducted the study on 146 study participants with acoustic neuroma, as well as an additional 564 people without the tumor who served as controls were also interviewed by a nurse. Study participants ranged in age from 20 to 69, and of the 146 people with acoustic neuroma, nearly two out of three were 50 or older. Researchers found that the two types of loud noise posing the highest risk of acoustic neuroma development were exposure to machines, power tools and/or construction which increased tumor risk by 1.8 times and exposure to music, including employment in the music industry, which increased the risk by 2.25. Colin Edwards said that loud noise was seen to be the cause of the tumor, and added that it did not make a difference whether it was job related or not. "It doesn't matter if the noise comes from years of on-the-job exposure or from a source that isn't job-related. It's not surprising that the longer that people are exposed to loud noise, the greater their chances become for developing the tumor," he said.

Is Jolie hiding bump to cover pregnancy? (Go To Top)

    London: Is Angelina Jolie getting creative in her clothing choices to hide the buzz about the baby growing? Well! if rumours are to be believed, then the 'Tomb Raider' star is pregnant with Brad Pitt's child, as she has recently been spotted covering her tummy, foiling the paparazzi's attempts to get a picture of her belly. Dressed in a baggy coat and flip-flops, Jolie seemed to be overly protective of her stomach when she dropped her four-year-old son Maddox at school in Malibu. "She seemed to be using his rucksack to cover her tum from snappers," The Mirror quoted an onlooker, as saying.

When Rowling lost the Potter plot (Go To Top)

    London: Author JK Rowling has revealed that she flew into a panic after realizing that she had misplaced her notes on the final book in the Harry Potter series. Rowling, who plans to bring an end to the world famous Harry Potter series with the as yet un-named seventh volume, told fans that she had been filled with relief after locating the notepad which contained a lot of notes that were essential to the plot. "I have finally located it. I had been remembering, in its absence, that it contained essential notes. Now I see that it contains a few useful nuggets amid a lot of complete dross," the Sun quoted her, as writing on her website.

Sienna Miller uses 'breasts' for 'art' (Go To Top)

    London: Hollywood actress Sienna Miller is reportedly playing the role of a painter who colours the canvas with her 'breasts' in her upcoming film Factory Girl. The on-and-off girlfriend of actor Jude Law is a hippie artist Edie Sedgwick, who did painting using her 'boobs' as brushes with pals Andy Warhol and Brigid Berlin to create their unique Sixties art, and Sienna is so pleased with her own abilities, that she has nearly covered all the walls of her home with the busty daubs. "I've got rooms covered in t**s after going back to doing what I do best - getting naked!" The Mirror quoted her, as saying.

Paintings with her breasts, signed with her nipple (Go To Top)

    Sydney: One might have come across with artists drawing paintings by holding painting brush in mouth or in toes and fingers. But, here is an Australian woman who makes paintings with her breasts and puts her signs with her nipple! Di Peel, the unusual artist who originally hails from Tasmania, is attracting attention by each passing day, with her first canvas being sold at five pounds, the second fetching ten pounds, and she being now busy completing an order for ten paintings priced at 40 pounds each! The mother of two, Di works at the kitchen table rather than at a canvas. "I either apply the paint to my breasts and lean on to the canvas or apply the paint to the canvas and then lean into it to spread the paint. I sign every picture with my nipple," the Daily Times quoted a report in the Mercury newspaper. About her novel creations, she said: "They are more like abstract flowers. But my latest piece, people say, looks like the Earth from space. My son named it Earthquake, because he thinks it looks like an earthquake." Di said she takes a shower every time she changed colours, and used canvases because drawing paper tends to slide around the table.

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