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Health Minister Concerned About the Suicide Rates in India

.... The growing stress, increasing competition among youngsters and feeling of loneliness among old people are aggravating the problem," said Anandita Paul, head of the mental health intervention unit of Sanjivini. "In today's world there is no scope for failure. From school students to working executives every...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...buster and is targeted at the urban and semi-urban youngsters who shy away from seeking help. The help-line will initially run for a three-month trial period till April, and depending on the response we receive we may go into the second-level of a multi-pronged strategy for fighting HIV/AIDS." Experts feel t...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

...kwaves in the city. The police now say that the youngsters had pulled into the garage, owned by one of them, in a Maruti Zen car for a "quick and discreet" party around 3 p.m. on December 7. Ten minutes earlier they had bought a bottle of liquor from a nearby outlet. One of them had made a final call on his ...

Alcohol Could Damage Youngsters' Brain

...sks particularly difficult. A parallel study of youngsters who smoked around two packets of cigarettes a week tended to have problems remembering more distant future events, such as meeting a friend in a week's time. While earlier studies have shown that smoking and drinking affect teenagers' ability to r...

Hookah Could Be as Harmful as Cigarettes

... smoke is filtered through water in a hookah, many youngsters feel that harmful agents are removed, the UPI news wire reported. "Links have been found between water-pipe (hookah) usage and oral, lung and bladder cancer, in addition to heart disease and clogged arteries," it said quoting a report of the Americ...

Learning Words by Inference More Powerful for Toddlers

... During the inference trial, Brinster showed the youngsters both familiar and strange objects (for instance, a ball and a plumber's 'T' connector). After saying a nonsense word (blicket for instance), she would ask them to either point to or grab the "matching" item. Since a ball is a "ball," the children ...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

... address smoking is to do all we can to discourage youngsters from taking up the habit in the first place, and we must do all we can to educate them that tobacco smoke kills and that it’s a stupid idea to take up the habit in the first place. Children are very vulnerable to suggestion, and the less exposure the...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

... of conscious effort from the community to prevent youngsters from becoming hard-core addicts," he said. This reflects on the literacy rate and high dropout percentage in the district, the highest in the state. "The attendance in schools also comes down especially during October to March when toddy tapping...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...itis patients can go in for total hip replacement, youngsters have a problem. In total hip replacement, surgeons replace a hip by cutting off the head of the thigh bone, the femur, and replace it with a metal ball mounted on a rod implanted deep in the thigh bone. A plastic socket replaces the original. Those...

Drinking Age Must Be Raised to Curb Binge Drinking-Voices Warn

...e trick, Gerard says that raising the age at which youngsters are able to consume alcohol, would help them to view it as something "forbidden" to them. The article goes on to list other ‘do-able’ methods such as the introduction of special "smart cards" for those aged between 18 and 21 – restricting them t...

Red Wine Good for Nothing, Say Indian Doctors

...ghtclubs and pubs are just promoting alcohol among youngsters and it is worsening the situation. "Sedentary lifestyle coupled with stress and alcohol are making the chronic disease scenario worst in India." A recent survey by ASSOCHAM, a leading industry lobby of India, has found that deaths due to chronic di...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Claims Another Set Of Victims

... accident, which shook Chennai city last year, two youngsters were found dead in an air-conditioned car. // ...eek’s time, possibly offering clues to whether the youngsters had consumed alcohol, too. Last October, three youths were found dead when their car was caught in...

Weight Issues In Children-Experts Take Stock

...red overweight, meaning that almost 30 per cent of youngsters had weight problems. Among adults, the obesity rate soared to 23 per cent. Another 36 per cent were overweight. According to the study, almost 60 per cent of Canadian adults deal with weight problems. The survey also found that children and adole...

‘Condom Bar’ to Create Awareness Among Youngstes

...o have a condom bar came up. "We want to target youngsters looking at the ground realities of today's social needs. The entire enterprise will be run on a no-profit basis," Bir added. College student Shaurya Mehta said: "This should be an interesting idea if it works. But many people will have to get over ...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...that kills them. "They start acting like they're youngsters again," Northwestern quoted Surmeier as saying. The study is published online on Sunday by Nature, the British science journal. So far the work has only been carried out on animals, and more needs to be done to assess the drug's effect on humans....

Delivering the Green Message to Children

...of legal luminary Fali S. Nariman. PEAS believes youngsters have a great potential to respond to the challenge provided the issues are made real to them. "We should talk about where the shoe pinches. We need to explain to the students that if the glaciers in the North Pole or the South Pole melt, there can be...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...ren, the NIH researchers screened more than 35,000 youngsters for medical, neurologic and psychiatric disorders, as well as for family histories that point to potential problems or prenatal exposure to toxins. Only 450 of the children met the strict criteria. The children's mental acuity and social skills wer...

Three-year-old Abandoned in Box Meant for Unwanted Babies in Japan

...eing open to abuse. Several newspapers warned that youngsters abandoned in the cradle could be traumatized. The boy left behind Thursday was in good health. He reportedly said he was dropped off by his father, who was seen holding the youngster's hand as they approached the hospital. I came with Daddy," th...

Like Regular Cigarettes, Low Nicotine Ones also Not Good for Heart

A study of 62 youngsters has revealed that low tar, low nicotine cigarettes impair blood flow through the heart as severely as regular cigarettes . All the participants in the study, published ahead of print in the journal Heart, were in their mid-twenties. Twenty of the...

Too Much TV Watching Linked With Poor Academic Performance in Teens

...earchers also asked the teens' parents whether the youngsters had any behavioural or academic difficulties. The researchers continued collecting information from the parents and interviewed the teens again at age 16, and again at ages 22 and 33. The 20-year study, begun in the mid of 1980s, found that at age ...

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