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Religious Adults Have a Higher Quality of Life than Their Peers

...conservative Protestants. Almost all are white and middle class. In old age, most were happily married, in good health, well satisfied with their lives and engaged in a wide range of personal hobbies and social activities. Source-Newswse SRM...

Diabetes in Middle age Could Cause More Complications

People who get diabetes in middle age could face more complications later in life th... those who had been diagnosed with diabetes during middle age, defined as between 40 and 64 years, suffered from a very different set of health problems relat...

Increasing awareness of sexually transmitted infection chlamydia

...ave tested positive this year where as only 20% of middle aged women had the infection. Both men and women with multiple sexual partners also showed a definite interest to turn up for screening tests. It is imperative that funds earmarked for the control of sexually transmitted diseases should reach the ...

Allergy Drugs More Harmful Than Helpful for Chronic Ear Inflammation

Children who have persistent fluid in the middle ear, a condition called otitis media with effusion...ually is not painful, the presence of fluid in the middle ear can cause problems with hearing and balance. Antihistamines and decongestants, commonly used t...

Battle against Skin Cancer must Target Tanning Salons

...h, MSP for East Renfrewshire, said: "We are in the middle of a skin cancer epidemic here in Scotland. We need to take action now to raise awareness of the dangers of tanning." NLA...

‘Evil’ Gene causing ‘glue ear’ in ids

...or glue ear in kids. It is the inflammation of the middle ear and is the major cause of hearing// impairment...study, it was found to affect the cells lining the middle ear at the spot of inflammation in the Junbo mouse. Professor Brown said: "Because the Junbo mous...

Tune Your Brain to Hear Another in a Noisy Ambience

... Our ability to detect a particular sound in the middle of lots of noise relies on the fact that we have two ears, and each detects an individual sound at a slightly different time (a sound coming from the left will reach the left ear slightly faster than it reaches the right ear). This is known as binaur...

Clinton’s Nutrition Deal Cuts Junk Food on School Menu

...uice and low-fat and nonfat milk in elementary and middle schools. The challenge the group is facing is a problem which arose in the mid-1980s, when financially struggling schools across the country invited private vendors, offering a wider variety of foods causing many millions of students satisfy their ...

Obese kids at higher risk for Cardiovascular diseases

...seases traditionally thought to have expression in middle to late adulthood can now be demonstrated in children and adolescents,” adds Falkner. “An ideal outcome will be prevention of childhood obesity.” Source-EurekalertBR>GYT...

AIIMS Postpones Semester Exam due to Dengue Outbreak

...xam of medical students that was scheduled for the middle of this month after being requested so by the medical students," said Anil Sharma, general secretary of resident doctors association. Most students had vacated their hostel rooms or were taken away by their guardians due to fear of the disease. I...

Most Suicide Rates Decline, but Findings Are Puzzling

...raises questions about why suicide rates among the middle groups -- those 25 to 64 -- have not declined. 'In our medical-literature searches, we began finding international studies that suggested a correlation of declining suicide rates with an increase in the use of new-generation antidepressants,' McKeo...

Amphetamine Abuse Worst In Asia

...cially disaffected that are using drugs but also a middle class that are aspiring to greater wealth and prosperity and, along with that, aspiring to the lifestyle and customs of developed-world countries," Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) expert Robert Ali said. "When China can manufacture ecstas...

Montessori Schools kids do better in Reading and Math

...arly education. However, there are also Montessori middle schools and high schools. ”Concerns about the program tend to focus on the lack of testing and grading of school-aged children,” Lillard says. “Parents worry that their children won’t be able to compete if they aren’t exposed early to competitiv...

Nepal Plans to Promote Health Tourism Based on Traditional Medicine

...s with plenty of activities to choose from for the middle class and the young with lots of disposable income," Lahe-Thapa said. With packages ranging from Rs.10,000 to Rs.12,000 per head inclusive of airfare and hospitality, the official foresees a good response. Together with India, Bhutan and Banglade...

Findings Suggest New Method to Fight Staph Infections

School districts in middle Tennessee recently have reported several cases of staph infection among students and school workers. //A biology professor at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is involved in research that holds the promise of helping to reduce the number of t...

600 Doctors Transferred in Punjab

... association said that transferring doctors in the middle of the academic session would disturb most of their families as their children are in school or college. The association has decided to oppose the transfers. Source-IANS...

Luxury Spas Ride Boom in Wellness Industry in Poland

...are rapidly becoming a rage for the growing Polish middle and chattering classes, who seek a pampered lifestyle in the country's ever more numerous luxury spas. "I received a present to spend a few very feminine hours in one of Warsaw's spas," Poland's capricious pop diva Edyta Gorniak revealed recently. ...

Know Thy Hangover Quotient

...ith a reduced risk of alcohol induced hangovers in middle age," said Dr David Batty of the University of Edinburgh. In a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Batty and his colleagues analyzed the IQ test scores of 11-year-olds recorded in Aberdeen in 1962 and answers were s...

Cataract Surgery to Eliminate Reading Glasses?

...orm// of farsightedness that typically develops in middle age. But a new report from Harvard Medical School urges people considering this operation to weigh its risks, as well as its benefits. The recently developed implantable variable-focus lenses, which enable people to see objects at varying distances...

Abdominal Fat Linked To High Blood Pressure

... adults who have the most abdominal fat// in their middle age have an increased risk of developing hypertension. The researchers examined data on 2,377 Chinese adults aged 30 and above. Some 25 percent of the subjects developed hypertension during the course of the 10-year study. Researchers found that pe...

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