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Exercises Should Be Recommended During Pregnancy

...regnancy as a time of confinement. The researcher points out that pregnancy is a perfect time for women to begin exercising because they stick with the habits they adopt during pregnancy after their babies are born. The promotion of exercise during pregnancy is an important public health issue that could ...

Self-Applied Acupressure May Reduce Sleepiness And Increase Alertness During Class Hours

...e alertness by applying acupressure at stimulation points to keep themselves active. Students in a class who...f-administer acupressure treatments to stimulation points on their legs, feet, hands and heads were more alert and less fatigued. The study showed that a stim...

Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population

...ical activity. People over 59 years accumulated 19 points and those over 30 got 10 points. "Anyone who scores over 21 points is in the category of risk from undetected diabetes," according to Dr.Ramachandran, who has been ins...

Researchers Discover New Clues To Identify Tooth Decay

... the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy points out that comparison of antimicrobial peptides that occur in the human saliva can lead to new ways to diagnose dental // problems like tooth decay in children. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle set out to determine a possible cor...

Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population

...ical activity. People over 59 years accumulated 19 points and those over 30 got 10 points. "Anyone who scores over 21 points is in the category of risk from undetected diabetes," according to Dr.Ramachandran, who has been ins...

Drinking, Smoking And Unhealthy Food Linked To Mouth Cancer In Young People

...d eating of unhealthy foods by young//. The survey points out that frequent check up of mouths by dentist or physician is required to be done by the young, as early detection and frequent examination will diagnose early symptoms of cancer which could be helpful for curing mouth cancer. As it was thought t...

Children At Risk For Chronic Disease Due To Consumption Of Fried Food

...ercent and 12.7 percent, respectively. The study points out that eating fried food away from home is associated with dietary patterns leading to excessive weight gain (e.g., drinking sugar-sweetened beverages) and chronic diseases, such as heart disease (e.g. high consumption of trans and saturated fats),...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

...rge extent are governed internally. The research points out that we understand the actions of another person, apparently, on the basis of our own "action inventory". In other words, our own mind and body give us the foundation to understand what other people are doing, thinking, or feeling. Evidence for t...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

... awareness month (October). The research further points out that babies who sleep in an adult bed face a 40 % more risk of suffocation than their counterparts who sleep in standard cribs. The condition is also found to be more common among African-American infants than in babies of other races. The fact t...

Ambiguous Efficacy Of Opioid Drugs In Chronic Inflammatory Joint Pain Relief

...ers treated the rats with endomorphin 1 at various points following the onset of knee arthritis -- either 48 hours post-inflammation during the acute stage of joint pain, or at the one-week or three-week point during the chronic stage. At all stages of treatment, the electrical activity, or firings, of kne...

Ketoacidosis Is The Main Cause On Mortality In Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

...e, unless they were not intended. This possibility points to a need of improved psychosocial support in the care of these young type 1 diabetic patients. The authors conclude that there is still a significant excess mortality in young type 1 diabetic patients with a short duration, where onset deaths due ...

Novel Technique For Management Of Inverted Papilloma Of Frontal Sinus

...mor with a device that pulverizes and suctions. At points where the tumor adheres to the sinus lining, the lining is removed and a diamond drill is used to eliminate tumor cells in the underlying bone. In the study, which appears in the September/October issue of the American Journal of Rhinology, researc...

Now Employers Focus On Employees Mental health

...disorders on workplace performance and profits. It points to employer-guaranteed specialized psychiatric care as both cost effective and humane. According to the report, employees with anxiety and depressive disorders work fewer hours, are more likely to end up on disability, and are less productive than ...

Scientists Discover Hormone That Controls Hunger

...e, London, said the research was fascinating. "It points to another part of the complex appetite-regulating system that we could affect using a drug," he said. Bloom said it added to other discoveries about how hunger is regulated. "We should be able to control appetite within five to 10 years." But the...

Smoking and mouth cancer

...arents about smoking and mouth cancer,” Hutchinson points out. It is estimated that about 4,300 new cases of oral cancer occur in the UK every year and a majority of them are linked to smoking. Research conducted by dental plan provider Denplan shows that smoking and drinking increases the risk of oral can...

Killing two birds (cholesterol and Alzheimers disease) with the same stone

...rugs. Progression of the disease was rated at 1.5 points a year in those given the drugs, 2.4 in those whos...ents with Alzheimer’s disease. The editorial also points out that the research was not able to isolate the potential advantages of the drugs other than their...

Harsh British Winter Could Kill Upto 90,000 Pensioners

...rk and has deployed extra engineers into strategic points throughout Scotland, including the Western Isles. Conservative leader Michael Howard accused the Tony Blair government of 'inefficiency and incompetence' over the shortages of flu vaccine and alleged that the failure to guarantee enough vaccines an...

French and wine: inseparable and just perfect?

...rring to the recommendation of warning labels. Two points raised by the report are better training of doctors in detecting excessive drinking and exhorting former alcoholics to create support networks to help others Alongside the report also calls for a strict application of the law banning sale of alcohol ...

Most Smokers Continue To Smoke Despite Developing Cancer

...her cancers, and quality of life. The study also points out to the underutilization of the smoking cessation concept in the management of cancer. Infact, in most of the cases, the physicians often fail to advise smokers to quit. Previous studies had demonstrated that a diagnosis of cancer would serve as...

Tall Children Have An Higher IQ

...ise in IGF-I levels, there is an increase by three points where verbal IQ is concerned. The scientists have not yet discovered how poor physical growth and an impairment where the development of the brain is concerned are linked....

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