Adventure Enthusiasts, Risk Takers and Those Living on the Edge, Good News Coming Your Way
Risk takers are at a lesser risk of Parkinson’s, according to novel research, published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. // The research team, as part of their study, drew comparisons between 106 Parkinson’s patients and 106 healthy people, belonging to the same age and sex. The groups’ responded to questions that sought to throw light on their personality trai...Caretakers Don’t Use Blood Pressure Drugs Regularl
A researcher at Tulane University, Marie Krousel-Wood says people involved in caretaking responsibilities were three times less likely taking blood pressure medications than others. And people who don’t visit //clinics are 2 times more likely to report less intake of BP drugs. ‘Nationally we know that only one in three people with high blood pressure have the condition under control. Po...Support to care takers of psychiatric patients in pieces?
A report published yesterday looks into support props for care givers of mentally ill people in Ireland.The report elucidates the plight of most relatives // and caregivers of mentally sick people in Ireland.Very often the rehabilitation and restoration of confidence to the mentally sick goes beyond the realms of hospital in –patient care. It is the valuable time and effort spent by oth...Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Few Takers in China
A case of other side of the grass is greener; the west is all taken up with traditional Chinese medicine, whereas, in China, home grown remedies //are being abandoned for seemingly better western medicines. Recently a proposal is doing the rounds to formally put out traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM from the Chinese healthcare system. But this has raised public ire to a certain ext...No Takers for India's First Bird Flu Vaccine
Bhopal: More than six months has passed since a research institute here developed the first vaccine in India against bird flu//. But there seem to be no takers for its formula or even its doses, prepared after the avian influenza scare last year. The High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) here, which developed the vaccine in July 2006, has preserved about 100,000 doses of the...