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Healthy adults who take daily aspirin to stave off heart disease may be inviting more harm than benefit, according to a new review of past studies.

Adults face a crush of conflicting health messages about aspirin and the role it plays as a preventive medicine.

In an attempt to bring clarity to the topic, UK researchers sifted through the most recent evidence from nine randomized controlled trials – which are considered medicine’s gold standard – and other systematic reviews of such trials. They found a total of 27 studies between 2008 and 2012 that fell within their criteria.

A mega-health camp, in which over 150,000 people simultaneously underwent a medical check-up at a cricket stadium, has entered the Guinness Records, an organiser said here Saturday.

Organised by Shri Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Prathisthan, people from Mumbai, Thane, Pune and other parts of the state thronged to the free camp at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

Record keepers of Limca Book and Guinness Records noted it as the Largest Health Awareness Lesson (single venue) after it ended here late Friday.

China’s top health authority Friday directed health departments at all levels to tighten supervision of new pneumonia and flu cases.

According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Wednesday, east China’s Jiangxi province confirmed a human case of H10N8, a new strain of bird flu, Xinhua reported.

The commission also said that south China’s Guangdong province has reported six cases of H7N9 bird flu since October, and Zhejiang province reported five cases in the second half of this year.

A new study has revealed that walking just 20 minutes extra every day could cuts the risk of cardiovascular episodes such as heart attacks by eight per cent.

According to experts, increasing daily exercise by just 2,000 steps may be good for older people who may struggle to exercise regularly and is recommended for the overweight and those with a family history of diabetes, the Daily express reported.

A French company has claimed to have carried out the first ever- artificial implant of a heart in a human being.

France’s Carmat said in a statement that the operation, which was performed at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris went smoothly, Fox News reported.

He also added that the patient was being monitored in the ICU, and was awake and talking. (ANI)

A LED Mood-Sweater, that has been recently developed, will read human emotions by reflecting specific LED light colors onto the white fabric of a sweater.

The GER Mood Sweater, developed by San Francisco-based design firm ‘Sensoree’, contains a Galvanic Extimacy Responder which works on the similar lines as the lie detector test technology, Mashable reported.

The emotions will correspond to the five light colors, which are tranquil or zen teal, calm or relaxed blue, ruffled or excited magenta, nervous or in love red, and ecstatic or blissful light yellow.

A new research has revealed that texting can help in reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes.

The research conducted by the New University of Michigan has found that the majority of people who had enrolled in customized texting service ‘txt4health’ for 14 weeks were more aware of their diabetes risk and more likely to make diet-related behavior changes and lose weight.

It was also found that the program worked fine for those 39 percent of people who completed the 14 weeks duration.

A new study has given a ray of hope to couples coping from infertility as it has revealed a safe, accurate, and low-cost method to select genetically normal embryos for the IVF procedure.

The study has provided a new way for genome sequencing of individual egg cells to detects chromosomal abnormalities and DNA sequence variations associated with genetic disorders, thereby increasing the chances of producing a healthy child.

Researchers have found that a high-fat diet affects the molecular mechanism controlling the internal body clock that regulates metabolic functions in the liver.

According to UC Irvine scientists, disruption of these circadian rhythms may contribute to metabolic distress ailments, such as diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.

However, the researchers also discovered that returning to a balanced, low-fat diet normalized the rhythms.

A new study has revealed that dietary fiber or fiber-rich foods are associated with lower risk of heart disease.

Researchers at the University of Leeds reviewed literature published since 1990 in healthy populations concerning dietary fibre intake and CVD risk. They took data from six electronic databases. Cohorts of data were used from the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.

They looked at the following fibre intake: total, insoluble (whole grains, potato skins etc), soluble (legumes, nuts, oats, barley etc), cereal, fruit, vegetable and other sources.

Scientists have developed a safe, accurate and low-cost method to select genetically normal embryos for the IVF procedure, increasing a couple’s chance of producing a healthy child.

Through whole-genome sequencing of individual egg cells, the new method detects chromosomal abnormalities and DNA sequence variations associated with genetic disorders.

A new study has revealed that dietary fibre or fibre-rich foods are associated with lower risk of heart disease.

Researchers at the University of Leeds reviewed literature published since 1990 in healthy populations concerning dietary fibre intake and CVD risk. They took data from six electronic databases. Cohorts of data were used from the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.

They looked at the following fibre intake: total, insoluble (whole grains, potato skins etc), soluble (legumes, nuts, oats, barley etc), cereal, fruit, vegetable and other sources.

Researchers have revealed that small changes to common combo meals in places like McDonald’s restaurants can help reduce kids’ calorie consumption.

Researchers at Cornell University, Dr. Brian Wansink and Dr. Andrew Hanks, analyzed transaction data from 30 representative McDonald’s restaurants anf found that prior to 2012, the Happy Meal was served with one of three entree options (chicken nuggets, cheeseburger, hamburger), a side item (apples or small size French fry), and a beverage (fountain beverage, white milk, chocolate milk, apple juice).

Rehabilitation therapies that use meditation are likely to have a higher success rate when it comes to helping trying to overcome addiction.

This is the conclusion of a new survey of animal and human studies by a computer scientist who used a computational model of addiction, a literature review and an in silico experiment.

The findings of the survey — by computer scientist Yariv Levyof the University of Massachusetts Amherst, neuroscience researcher Jerrold Meyer, and computer scientist Andrew Barto — has been published in the latest issue of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Researchers have said that the lip smacking, bubble popping, discarded gum, could be giving migraine headaches to teenagers.

Now, Dr. Nathan Watemberg of Tel Aviv University-affiliated Meir Medical Center has found that gum-chewing teenagers, and younger children as well, are giving themselves headaches too.

Dr. Watemberg said that out of their 30 patients, 26 reported significant improvement, and 19 had complete headache resolution, explaining that twenty of the improved patients later agreed to go back to chewing gum, and all of them reported an immediate relapse of symptoms.

Scientists have claimed to have found proof that Peruvian healers practiced trepanation – a surgical process that involves removing a section of the cranial vault using a hand drill or a scraping tool – more than 1,000 years ago to treat a variety of ailments, from head injuries to heartsickness.

Researchers including an Indian-origin scientist have revealed that the TB-causing bacteria appear to mask their identity to avoid recognition by infection-killing cells in the upper airways.

Senior author Dr. Lalita Ramakrishan, who studies how TB evades the body’s immune system and manipulates the body’s defenses for its own ends, noted that the study also suggests an explanation for the longstanding observation that tuberculosis infections begin in the comparatively sterile lower lungs.

Researchers have suggested that epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the major extractable polyphenol in green tea and the most biologically active, when diluted in skim milk remains bioactive and reduces colon cancer cell proliferation in culture at concentrations higher than 0.03 mg of EGCG/mL.

The ageing process is like the married couple next door — when young, they communicate well, but over many years the communication breaks down.

And as in relationships, says a new study, restoring communications reverses the ageing process, at least in mammals.

A series of molecular events in our body enable communication inside cells between the nucleus and mitochondria, also called “cell’s powerhouse”.

You all are aware of the plethora of health benefits that regular exercise brings. Now add enhanced intelligence to that list.

According to a new study, fitness has a long-term effect on a wide range of cognitive abilities like reasoning, remembering, understanding and problem solving.

For John Ratey, a neuropsychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, regular physical activity may also play a vital role in enhancing brainpower as we reach an advanced age.

Agarwal Manav Seva Manch will be organizing 34th free mega medical camp on December 22 at Rockwoods High School opposite NTR Stadium, Arvindnagar colony, Domalguda, here.

Researchers have said that completely banning tobacco use inside the home – or more broadly in the whole city – measurably boosts the odds of smokers either cutting back or quitting entirely.

Wael K. Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, professor and chief of the Division of Global Health in the UC San Diego Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, said that when there’s a total smoking ban in the home, we found that smokers are more likely to reduce tobacco consumption and attempt to quit than when they’re allowed to smoke in some parts of the house.

Researchers have said that a dramatic increase in sugar uptake could be a cause of oncogenesis – a process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells.

Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division, said that through a series of painstaking analysis, they discovered two new pathways through which increased uptake of glucose could itself activate other oncogenic pathways.

She said that this discovery provides possible new targets for diagnosis and therapeutics.

Obese children may be more stressed-out than their normal weight peers, a new study has found.

Overweight children naturally produce higher levels of a key stress hormone than other youngsters, researchers said.

The body produces the hormone cortisol when a person experiences stress, researchers said.

When a person faces frequent stress, cortisol and other stress hormones build up in the blood and, over time, can cause serious health problems.

A team including an Indian origin scientist has created a pill form of insulin treatment, so diabetes patients would be spared the pain of jabbing themselves with a needle every day.

Sanyog Jain and colleagues explain that patients with diabetes sometimes skip doses or stop taking their insulin because the injections can be painful. But doing so puts their health in danger.