A group of 50 diabetic children along with their families and doctors together shared their experiences and helped boost each others’ morale at the historic Red Fort here Saturday.
Organised by super specialty Apollo Hospitals, the outing was aimed at encouraging the youngsters to talk about their disease instead of feeling ashamed and hiding it, which happens in a lot of cases, said the doctors.
A new research has said that boys are more likely to be born prematurely than girls and face more complications too.
Dr. Joy Lawn, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the team of researchers, said that if a prematurely born boy and a prematurely born girl are born at the same gestational age, the boy is going to be at higher risk of death or disability, CBS News reported.
She said that girls walk sooner, talk sooner and develop more quickly than boys.
A new study has revealed that probiotics- live bacteria that help maintain a healthy digestive system- when ingested in adequate amounts, offer enormous potential for the treatment of depression and other stress-related disorders.
While many of the numerous health-improvement claims have yet to be supported scientifically, it has been claimed that micro-organisms do exert positive effects in intestinal tracts, particularly when used to counteract the effects of antibiotics, which kill both ‘bad’ and ‘good’ bacteria.
The world should be aiming to get vaccines, which cut malaria cases by 75 percent, and are capable of eliminating malaria, licensed by 2030, according to the updated 2013 Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap.
This new target comes in addition to the original 2006 Roadmap’s goal of having a licensed vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the most deadly form of the disease, for children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015.
A new study by a team of international scientists has found that Europeans and some Indians share the same light skin gene mutation.
Genetic studies done so far have helped in understanding the pigmentation genetics of Europeans to some extent, but South Asians, who represent wide range of skin
colour have so far not been explored, K Thangaraj, senior lead author from the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here, said.
Keeping warm during winter is not easy. Apart from woollen clothes, people should consume heat producing food items to beat the chill.
Avani Agarwal, product manager, Food Cloud website, shares a list of top five heat producing foods for winter:
– Garlic: Not only does garlic act as a cholesterol-lowering agent, it is also a brilliant heat producing food. Garlic contains properties that help fight the flu and other diseases such as bronchitis and asthma.
Women with asthma could take longer to conceive, a new study has found.
The study adds evidence to the belief that asthma has a negative effect on fertility.
Researchers from Bispebjerg University Hospital in Denmark analysed data from questionnaires completed by a cohort of over 15,000 twins living in Denmark aged up to 41 years.
The questionnaires included questions on the presence of asthma and on fertility.
The world is losing the battle against diabetes as the number of people estimated to be living with the disease soars to a new record of 382 million this year, medical experts said on Thursday.
The vast majority have type 2 diabetes – the kind linked to obesity and lack of exercise – and the epidemic is spreading as more people in the developing world adopt Western, urban lifestyles.
The latest estimate from the International Diabetes Federation is equivalent to a global prevalence rate of 8.4 percent of the adult population and compares to 371 million cases in 2012.
More than 90 percent of women who opt for long-term reversible forms of birth control keep using them for at least six months, a new study found.
Those birth control methods include intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants.
The findings mean most women did not have side effects, such as cramping or bleeding, that were serious enough for them to stop using their birth control.
Some women who are depressed as they move toward menopause may notice their symptoms fading or disappearing after a few years, a new study suggests.
Researchers found the proportion of women who reported having depression symptoms dropped consistently, starting 10 years before they had their final menstrual period until eight years after.
“If this is a condition that seems to appear in conjunction with approaching menopause, it may be time limited and the risk may really diminish to low levels once they pass menopause,” Ellen Freeman, the study’s lead author, said.
Researchers have reported that small amounts of a specific type of lipid in the small intestine could play a greater role than earlier thought in generating the high cholesterol levels and inflammation that lead to clogged arteries.
The tomatoes, created at UCLA, produce a small peptide called 6F that mimics the action of apoA-1, the chief protein in HDL.
Researchers added 2.2 percent (by weight) of freeze-dried tomato powder from the peptide-enhanced tomatoes to low-fat, low-cholesterol mouse chow that was supplemented with LPAs.
Women who have undergone bariatric (weight-loss) surgery are more likely to give birth to premature or small-for-gestational age babies, according to a new study.
Researchers believe that women with bariatric surgery history should be considered a risk group when pregnant, which means that they should be paid particularly close prenatal attention.
Researchers at Karolinska Institute examined how bariatric surgery affects pregnancy. The study, which is the most extensive ever done in the field, was based on data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register and the Patient Register.
Scientists have developed a fingernail-sized biosensor that could alert doctors when serious brain injury occurs during heart surgery.
Johns Hopkins engineers and cardiology experts teamed up to develop the device and demonstrated in lab tests that the prototype sensor had successfully detected a protein associated with brain injuries.
A new study has shown that extensive musical training affects the structure and function of different brain regions, how those regions communicate during the creation of music, and how the brain interprets and integrates sensory information.
These study findings suggest potential new roles for musical training including fostering plasticity in the brain, an alternative tool in education, and treating a range of learning disabilities.
Researchers have developed a new intravaginal ring (IVR) developed for the sustained 90-day co-delivery of tenofovir and levonorgestrel, an anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drug and a contraceptive.
Tenofovir is the only topical prophylactic shown to be effective at reducing the sexual transmission of HIV when formulated in a gel. T
Researchers including two Indian-origin scientists have confirmed that osteoporosis could be caused by type 2 diabetes.
Senior author Sundeep Khosla, MD, Mayo Clinic endocrinologist, said that this is the first demonstration – using direct measurement of bone strength in the body – of compromised bone material in patients with type 2 diabetes.
He said that clearly, the skeleton needs to be recognized as another important target of diabetes complications.
Researchers including two Indian-origin scientists have confirmed that osteoporosis could be caused by type 2 diabetes.
Senior author Sundeep Khosla, M.D. , Mayo Clinic endocrinologist, said that this is the first demonstration – using direct measurement of bone strength in the body – of compromised bone material in patients with type 2 diabetes.
He said that clearly, the skeleton needs to be recognized as another important target of diabetes complications.
A new study has found that engaging in a physical exercise regimen helps healthy aging adults improve their memory, brain health and physical fitness.
This finding by researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas is significant, considering that among adults 50 and older, “staying mentally sharp” outranks social security and physical health as the top priority and concern in the United States.
The 80/10/10 diet, a low-fat diet that is based wholly around fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables, has taken the fitness world by storm. Instagram beauty Loni Jane, 25, whose partying lifestyle was resulting in declining health, has revealed that she found Dr. Doug Graham’s “lifesaving” diet when she started getting skin infections, acne, candida overgrowth and irregular periods, News.com.au reported.
A new study has revealed that higher overall acidity of the diet, regardless of the individual foods making up that diet, increases the risk of type 2 diabetes.
The study of more than 60,000 women was conducted by Dr Guy Fagherazzi and Dr Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, Paris, France, and colleagues, and is the first large prospective study to demonstrate these findings.
Scientists have uncovered a genetic “switch” which indicates whether a woman’s breast cancer is aggressive and likely to spread.
The discovery by teams from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and the Institute of Molecular Bioscience may provide a clearer prognosis for breast cancer patients and pave the way for new treatments, News.com.au reported.
A new study has revealed that women who eat meat-based diet containing too much acid are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Researchers, who studied a group of 66,485 women, pointed that typically acidic foods consist of animal products, but fruits and vegetables helped to neutralise acidity, the Independent reported.
Chronic acidosis, which is a condition caused by increased acidity in the blood and body tissues, reduces insulin sensitivity.
A new study has revealed that some vegetable oils that claim to be healthy may actually increase the risks of heart disease.
Replacing saturated animal fats with polyunsaturated vegetable oils has become common practice because they can reduce serum cholesterol levels and help prevent heart disease.
Overweight or obese people are at risk for myocardial infarction (heart attack) and ischemic heart disease (IHD) regardless of whether they also have the cluster of cardiovascular risk factors known as metabolic syndrome, which includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar, a new study has revealed.
According to the study authors, being overweight or obese likely causes MI and IHD but whether co-existing metabolic syndrome is necessary for the conditions to develop is unknown.
A new study has revealed that a genetic mutation that makes certain people sensitive to the taste of a bitter compound appears to have been advantageous for certain human populations in Africa.
Senior author Sarah Tishkoff, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in the School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology and Penn Medicine’s Department of Genetics, said because Africa is the site of origin of all modern humans, Africans are going to have a large amount of diversity and non-Africans are going to have a subset of that diversity.