Stroke Patients May Benefit By Wearing Cooling Helmets
Strokes can be caused by blood clots in blood vessels of the brain. At a recent meeting of 29th International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association’s two studies were presented using //Cooling Helmets in patients who had developed stroke. Interestingly both study show that cooling of the brain reduces the damage caused by stroke. Vinay Nadkarni, M.D., from the American...Wearing High Heels May Be Dangerous To Health
Researchers from Sweden had presented a report saying that wearing high heels may be associated with //higher incidence of mental disorders like schizophrenia etc. Jarl Flensmark says high heels cause their wearers to tense their calves in a way that normal walking never does. That could prevent neuro-receptors in the calf muscles from triggering release of dopamine, a compound necessa...Masking A Flu? – Wearing Masks, Only Way to Contain It’s Spred
Surgical face masks are the next best thing to vaccinations, so those down with Flu, this winter, are being goaded to sport a mask, especially in crowded areas and while using the public transport, in order to contain the spread of infectious disease. // The New South Wales Department of Health initiated a public awareness drive to help restrain the spread of influenza and thwart a p...Swearing-in Of Girija Prasad Koirala Postponed Due To Ill Health
The swearing-in ceremony of Nepal’s new prime minister Mr. Girija Prasad Koirala, which was scheduled to take place on Friday was put off// due to ill health, but his party sources informed that his condition is stable and improving. The 84-year-old, appointed prime minister by King Gyanendra Thursday evening, was scheduled to be administered the oath of office at the Narayanhity palac...Wearing No-line Bifocals Slows Myopia Progression in Some Children
Certain children who wear a special kind of no-line bifocal lenses show signs of slower progression of myopia than those who wear more conventional lenses according to a new// study published in the February 2007 issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS). The study found that among children with two myopic parents, myopia progression was slower in children wearing...