Health

A health expert has claimed that even though coffee helps many people get out of bed early in the morning, one is better off without it.

According to News.com.au, morning coffee gives people an adrenalin rush, but after the hormones subside, the high is followed by a crash and leaves you feeling stressed the rest of the day.

Award winning trainer Paul Nichols believes that morning exercise is a great replacement for coffee, as it releases mood-boosting hormones and kick starts the body’s energy-burning engines.

A new research has found that expecting women, who snore at least three nights a week, are at higher risk of having C-sections and delivering smaller babies than those who don’t.

According to the study, conducted in the University of Michigan Health System, chronic snorers or moms who snored before and during pregnancy are two thirds more likely to have a baby that’s born below the tenth percentile for babies of the same gestational age compared to non-snorers.

Chronic snorers are also more than twice as likely to need an elective C-section, researchers found.

Researchers have said that they are one step closer to developing an oral treatment for diabetes.

According to scientists at the University of Tokyo, they have developed a compound they named AdipoRon, which is capable of mimicking the effects of the hormone, News.com.au reported.

According to Toshimasa Yamauchi, a member of the research team and lecturer at the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, AdipoRon could become “a lead compound” in a possible oral treatment for diabetes .

The study finding has been published online in journal Nature. (ANI)

In an effort to create awareness about breast cancer, a march was conducted here today.

Care Can Cure’, a non profit initiative functioning from Cochin Medical College, organised ‘THE PINKATHELON’ – a
programme to promote breast cancer awareness among the public, a press release here said.

This included a road march and a public meeting attended by various dignitaries, doctors and students
of CMC Kochi and members of the general public.

The march was held from Marine Drive to Durbar Hall ground, in which around 200 students and doctors from CMC Kochi,

U.S food authorities have revealed that spices imported from India and Mexico have the highest rate of contamination.

An analysis of spice imports by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found that almost 12 percent of spices brought to the U.S. were contaminated with insects, rodent hair and their excretions, the New York Times reports.

According to the F.D.A., nearly a quarter of the spices, oils and food colorings used in America comes from India.

Researchers have found no evidence to higher risk of cancer in women who have PIP breast implants.

According to a review of PIP safety, women also do not need to have the faulty implants removed as a precaution although they may wish to have them taken out if they feel anxious, the Daily Star reported.

Around 47,000 British women are thought to have been given the implants manufactured by the closed French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP).

A new study has revealed the secret to controlling malaria menace by restricting the delivery of a male hormone inside the female body of malaria causing species, Anopheles gambiae.

The study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of Perugia (UNIPG) researchers has shown that blocking egg development in the mosquito species could help reduce transmission of the disease.

A research team examined the latest research on noise’s impact on an array of health indicators- hearing loss, cardiovascular disease, cognitive performance and mental health, and sleep disturbance, reporting that noise exposure is a serious public health threat.

The combined toll of occupational, recreational and environmental noise exposure poses a serious public health threat going far beyond hearing damage, according to an international team of researchers.

A new study has revealed that obese women willingly decrease their food intake when additional calories from soft drinks are included in their diets.

41 obese women took part in the study, co-ordinated by Professor Marie Reid at the University of Hull, to determine the effect of consuming 1litre a day of either a sugar-sweetened or an artificially-sweetened drink, along with their normal dietary intake.

DIY or gardening can decrease the heart attack/stroke risk and prolong life by as much as 30 percent among the 60+ age group, a new research has revealed.

According to the researchers, these routine activities are as good as exercise, which is ideal for older people who don’t often do that much formal exercise.

The findings are based on almost 4000 sixty year olds in Stockholm, Sweden, whose cardiovascular health was tracked for around 12.5 years.

Lung cancer may be detected in patients by testing their exhaled breath, researchers have claimed.

Preliminary studies by researchers at Cleveland Clinic suggest that an accurate exhaled breath biomarker could be developed for use as a clinical test.

“We believe that cancer cells release a unique chemical signature related to the tumor-growing process,” Peter J. Mazzone, MD, FCCP, director of the lung cancer program for the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic, said.

“We are currently developing a breath-based test based on the results of our research,” he said.

Omega-3 fatty acids, which are normally found in fish, if taken in excess could have unintended health consequences in certain situations, a new study has suggested.

“We are seeing the potential for negative effects at really high levels of omega-3 fatty acid consumption. Because we lack valid biomarkers for exposure and knowledge of who might be at risk if consuming excessive amounts, it isn’t possible to determine an upper limit at this time,” Norman Hord , associate professor in OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences and a coauthor on the paper, said.

Researchers have revealed that having children early and in rapid succession are major factors fueling high infant mortality rates in the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, where one in 14 births to young mothers ends with the death of the child within the first year.

A vaccine, which is being created by drug company Sanofi Pasteur, has now reached phase three trials.

The company has claimed that the vaccine could wipe out almost all cases of the killer superbug C diff in hospitals, the Mirror reported.

Currently, there are more than 15,000 cases of the disease a year, which is causing 1,500 deaths mainly in hospitals, but also in care homes for the elderly.

The vaccine is going to be tested on 1,800 UK patients at nine hospitals as part of 15,000 strong world trial by the drug company Sanofi-Pasteur.

The Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons has urged the US to decontaminate Vieques and Culebra islands, which were used for decades as a testing ground by the US army, and provide adequate treatment for those harmed by the pollution.

This will “be the best substantiation of your many times expressed concern for the wellbeing of all the Latino people living in the United States,” Eduardo Ibarra, head of that institution, says in a letter sent to US President Barack Obama asking him to launch an executive order to this effect.

A new study has revealed that rheumatoid arthritis patients may be more likely to suffer from heart problems, early menopause.

Co-author Eric Matteson, M.D., chair of rheumatology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesotta, said that one thing that we learned in particular in this study is that the high disease burden on the joints in the first year of disease already is a very strong predictor of cardiovascular disease subsequently, and that seems to be mitigated as time goes on if the disease burden can be reduced too.

A new study has claimed that medication and lifestyle changes are much safer and effective at preventing stroke than a surgical technique called stenting.

The study was led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, the Medical University of South Carolina, Emory University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

A new research has revealed that baking can be helpful to lift people out of depression.

The 2012 winner of BBC2’s Great British Bake Off, John Whaite, described suffering from crippling depression and believes baking is emerging “as a form of pill-less Prozac,” the Independent reported.

The spooky or quirky contact lenses which are worn during Halloween could cause serious health issues if improperly sized or cleaned, according to an Indian origin ophthalmologist.

Cosmetic, or decorative, contact lenses are commonly used throughout the year to change someone’s natural eye color, but the popularity of these lenses soar at Halloween.

When cosmetic contact lenses are not properly fitted by an eye care professional, the wearer may be at risk for infection, corneal scarring, or even blindness.

A recent public health report has urged the World Bank to redefine life expectancy starting from the time of conception and not the time of birth, as the unborn individual was quite susceptible to risks inside the mother’s womb.

International public health experts said that the present definition of World Bank’s key poverty indicator omits risks to the fetus and is unfair to children born in areas at risk to disasters and already disadvantaged by poverty, hunger and social deprivation.

New research from Japan brings hope of a new treatment for asthma patients resistant to corticosteroids.

Researchers from the RIKEN Centre for Integrative Medical Sciences and Keio University in Japan report that a type of lymphocytes called natural helper (NH) cells plays a critical role in corticosteroid resistance and demonstrate that the anti-psychotic drug Pimozide can be used to overcome resistance to steroids in severe asthma patients.

The health situation in Syria has been deteriorating due to a shortage of medicines and medical workers, destruction of health facilities and difficult access to health care, said the WHO.

Till July 2013, 64 percent of the country’s public hospitals have been affected by the conflict, which erupted in March 2011. Among them, 24 percent have been damaged, and the rest are out of service, Xinhua quoted Tarik Jasarevic, spokesman of the World Health Organization (WHO) as saying Friday.

Researchers have discovered that a child, as young as 18 months of age, is at an increased risk of developing emotional and disruptive problems if his or her mother suffers from anxiety and depression symptoms.

According to the findings from the TOPP study, the risk persisted into adolescence and also gave an increased risk of depressive symptoms.

A new study has revealed that uterine fibroids cause significant fear and morbidity and can compromise workplace performance.

The survey of nearly 1,000 women in the U.S. sheds new light on the impact, prevalence and treatment concerns related to uterine leiomyomas (fibroids), which affect up to 80 percent of women by age 50.

A team of German researchers has devised a novel, non-invasive way to make diabetes monitoring easier, which means keeping a check on blood glucose (sugar) levels to ensure they remain at stable levels.

People generally do this at home using electronic devices that read sugar levels in a tiny drop of blood.

However, the researchers, using infrared laser light applied on top of the skin, they measure sugar levels in the fluid in and under skin cells to read blood sugar levels.