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Healthy Heart for a Hearty Life

...ility to function normally. Another anathema of modern life, obesity, paves way for more misfortunes like...ody by mending the mind’ is the new-age mantra and modern day life-style gurus are attempting to recapture past glories by reviving time-tested techniques lik...

Indian American Surgeon Wins US "Genius" Award

...a surgeon and author who applies a critical eye to modern surgical practice, articulating its realities, com...rutinizes the culture, protocol, and technology of modern medical practice from the perspective of a dedicated and empathetic professional. In all his publi...

Insufficient Sleep Associated with Poorer Blood Glucose Control

...ine, a theme issue on sleep. Many individuals in modern society experience a chronic lack of adequate slee...p curtailment has become increasingly prevalent in modern society, and it cannot be excluded that this behavior has contributed to the current epidemic of typ...

India’s Silent Killer on the Prow

..., brought on by sedentary lifestyles. Today the modern Indian works in air-conditioned enclosures for long periods of time, have minimal physical exertion and follow irregular eating habits. The increase in ‘junk’ food, the rise in obesity as well as the genetic propensity among sub-continentals for t...

17 percent rise in childhood cancer cases due to modern lifestyles

According to researchers, modern lifestyles and environmental changes have caused drastic increase in cancer among kids across Europe. They represent 17% of the childhood cancer cases.// 77,111 cases of cancer in kids identified between 1978 and 1997 in 15 European countries were ...

Thirty percent of nurses distressed with verbal and physical abuse

...ch is needed to discover why levels are so high in modern healthcare settings, adds Professor Farrell, who was based at the University of Tasmania at the time of his research. He and the other researchers believe that the restricted time frame of the study – four working weeks – and the fact that aggress...

Sexual Harassment on the Rise in Aligarh Muslim University

...d suicide. AMU, which came up in 1876 to promote modern education among Muslims, follows very strict rules governing boys and girls. They are barred from mixing in their undergraduate years. No violation is tolerated. The main student union in AMU is male dominated and technically represents the whole u...

Talk Show Host Shekhar Suman Plans to set up Heart Hospital in Patna

...t he has put forward a proposal to set up an ultra modern heart hospital for children in Patna. Suman and his doctor father Phani Bhusan Das were granted instant appointment with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday night. After meeting Nitish Kumar, Suman said he had been assured that the state government ...

Modern Health Care System at Risk of Collapse Without Reform

...r-increasing demands on our health care system put modern medicine at risk of imploding with the next major economic downturn, according to an article in the latest// issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Ian Scott, Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital...

Defeating the 'Diabesity' Beast

...cing a coherent program,” Prof Zimmet said. “The modern commercial drive to market unhealthy foods everywhere and seduce us into ever more sedentary leisure means we are facing a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of obesity and diabetes. “Our state and federal politicians need to accept that major legisl...

Is There a Connection between Hearing loss and High-speed Dental Tools?

...gotten "quieter" over the years with the advent of modern technologies. However, very few dental professionals or students interviewed for the study so far, wear earplugs to protect themselves from this noise. None of the 54 dental schools nationally are known to require dental students to wear ear protec...

Apollo Group Permitted to Carry out Surgeries in its Oman Centre

...et up the state-of-the-art facilities, including a modern operation theatre, fully equipped intensive care units for adults, neonates and paediatrics, sophisticated labour room for deliveries and other inpatient services," J. Sandeep Kumar, AMC's chief operating officer, told the newspaper. As of now, the...

European Commission Clears Diabetic Insulin for Pregnant Women

...C approval follows results of the random trials of modern insulin in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes. "NovoRapid is the first modern insulin that can be used in pregnancy in the European Union. The trial, which involved 322 pregnant ...

Honey Works Faster than Antibiotics in Healing Wounds

...heal faster when treated with honey than with most modern antibiotics, according to a recent study.// The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Bonn, Germany in collaboration with colleagues from Homburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin and they found that medihoney is a very effective treatment...

Computational Model Reveals Working of AZT in Body

...d: "HAART is one of the biggest success stories in modern medicine. The goal of our work is to help improve this successful treatment by understanding the toxic effects that AZT can have in some people. There are many different ways that AZT could possibly interfere with mitochondria to cause the toxic side...

Students of Dharamsala Hospitalized for Diarrhoea

...ang. Although all tests through both Tibetan and modern systems of medicine have failed to identify the infection or its cause, the general assumption, he said, points to a nearby polluted stream and chemical fertilizers applied to the surrounding fields. As a precaution, the school is now using the und...

Water–borne Diseases Takes Tw

...ptospirosis in the city. It should not happen in a modern city. If it happens they cannot say Mumbai is a modern city. It is no better than a village." Municipal officials had claimed there was nothing to worry ...

Researchers Find Fewer Neurons in the Amygdala of Males with Autism

...n the autistic amygdala and the first study to use modern unbiased sampling techniques for autism research,” Amaral said. “While we have known that autism is a developmental brain disorder, where, how and when the autistic brain develops abnormally has been a mystery,” said Thomas R. Insel, a physician an...

Irish Doctors to Be Made More Answerable

...rs and prove that they are well informed about the modern practices. Ms Harney said that these measures are laid keeping in mind the interest of the public. These reforms are beings appreciated both by the Irish Patients Association and the Irish Medical Council. ...

Japanese Princess Kiko May Deliver Heir Through Cesarean Section

...ffected the lives of the mother and the child. But modern medicine allows us to deal with it." The princess already has two daughters two daughters aged 11 and 14. Prince Akishino said he was not worried and had "confidence in the team of doctor's."...

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