Health

People suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) face a greater risk of cardiovascular disease and death, a new study has suggested.

Francesco Bartoli and coauthors from University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, University College London, UK, and San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy, conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis and, based on their findings, propose that the increased risk of metabolic syndrome may result from neurological and hormonal responses to chronic stress.

A new study has found that mice made obese by high-calorie, high-fat diets develop abnormally high numbers of lesions known to be precursors to pancreas cancer.

This is the first study to show a direct causative link in an animal model between obesity and risk of this deadly cancer.

A two-year-old Chinese boy had to be operated upon to remove an undeveloped fetus of his parasitic twin brother from his stomach.

According to the Inquisitr, Xiao Feng, from Huaxi, China, was rushed to the hospital after his stomach became so inflated that he was finding it difficult to breath, News.com.au reported.

Doctors were shocked when the X-Rays and MRI scans revealed that the baby had a fetus of his twin inside his enlarged stomach.

The surgeons announced Feng “pregnant” and rushed him to the operation theater to get rid of dead twin’s fetus.

Children with mothers who gain excessive amounts of weight during pregnancy have an 8 percent increased risk of obesity by the age of 12, a new study has revealed.

David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, who conducted the study on 41,133 mothers and their children in Arkansas, said that excessive weight gain during pregnancy may have a potentially significant influence on propagation of the obesity epidemic.

Young women using hormone-based contraceptives in a new research, including the Pill, were no more likely to be depressed than other women.

In fact, the women in their 20s and 30s on hormonal contraceptives had fewer symptoms of depression than their peers using other types of contraception or no contraception at all, Fox News reported.

A study has suggested that pregnant women who smoke could be putting their child at an increased risk of bipolar disorder (BD).

Researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, in collaboration with scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, evaluated offspring from a large cohort of pregnant women who participated in the Child Health and Development Study (CHDS) from 1959-1966.

Researchers have claimed that exercise should be considered as a viable alternative to, or alongside, drug therapy for treating common diseases.

Researchers based at the London School of Economics, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute at Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine set out to compare the effectiveness of exercise versus drugs on mortality across four conditions (secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, rehabilitation of stroke, treatment of heart failure and prevention of diabetes).

Researchers have suggested that motivation is a key factor to keep your memory sharp after you retirement.

The new study found that the more a person seeks out and enjoys cognitively demanding activities, the less likely they are to experience cognitive decline later in life.

Another finding of the study is that doing a variety of different cognitive activities helps boost brainpower post-retirement.

And lastly, people exhibiting even mild signs of depression are more likely to show a decline in brainpower once they leave the office for good.

Children with mothers who gain excessive amounts of weight during pregnancy have an 8 percent increased risk of obesity by the age of 12, a new study has revealed.

David S. Ludwig , MD, PhD, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, who conducted the study on 41,133 mothers and their children in Arkansas, said that excessive weight gain during pregnancy may have a potentially significant influence on propagation of the obesity epidemic.

Researchers investigating whether depression is linked to developing a cancer found that there is no significant association between the two.

The results of the study by Cedric Lemogne, a member of the team headed by Marie Zins -INSERM’s Mixed Research Unit, did not indicate any significant association between a person experiencing the symptoms of depression during their lifetime and their subsequently contracting cancer.

Zins, who monitored 14,203 people between 1994 and 2009, including 1119 who developed cancer as diagnosed by a doctor.

Eating more calories in the morning breakfast can have a positive impact on women with problems of infertility, a new study has revealed.

Research, conducted by Prof. Oren Froy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Prof. Daniela Jocabovitz and Dr. Julio Weinstein from Tel Aviv University and Wolfson Medical Center, showed that a big breakfast increases fertility among woman who suffer from menstrual irregularities.

A new study has found that eating more tomatoes and less processed red meat, could help men reduce their risk of dying from prostate cancer.

Researchers analyzed information gathered from almost 46,000 men for 25 years and found that those who adopted five or six of the healthy habits had a 39 percent lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer than those who adopted one or none of the habits, according to the results presented at the European Cancer Congress in Amsterdam.

In another study involving more than 21,000 men, the risk reduction was 47 percent, the Japan Times reported.

A study has suggested the women who gain excessive weight in pregnancy are more likely to have overweight and obese children.

The findings, published in the US journal PLoS Medicine, suggested pregnancy may be “an especially important time” to prevent obesity in the next generation, Xinhua reported.

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital looked at 41,133 mothers with two or more children to find out whether childhood obesity was resultant because of the conditions during pregnancy or other factors, such as diet and genes, also played a role.

A regular walk helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle but a survey indicates that a lot of people in India don’t even walk for a minimum of 30 minutes a day at a brisk pace.

The online survey was conducted by international internet-based market research firm YouGov on behalf of the World Heart Federation.

As many as 1,021 adults (above 18 years of age) in India were surveyed. The study shows that 46 percent of the respondents walked less than half an hour at a brisk pace on a given day.

The symptoms experienced by women, who are going through menopause, and men, who are receiving hormone therapy for prostate cancer, are the same- flushed face, a sudden rush of heat, sweating, etc.

But unlike in women, neither soy protein nor a common antidepressant provides relief for men, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Hot flashes occur in approximately 80 percent of men who are undergoing hormone manipulation as treatment for prostate cancer.

A new study has found that people who exercised more than four hours per week in their leisure time had a 19 percent lower risk of high blood pressure than people who didn’t exercise much.

Physical activity in your leisure time could help keep your blood pressure at a healthy level, the research suggests.

Researchers pooled results from 13 studies on the effects of physical activity on blood pressure.

The studies involved 136,846 people in the United States, Europe or East Asia who initially had healthy blood pressure.

Around 600,000 people in India may have been saved from becoming infected with HIV over ten years with the help of a programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a study.

In an evaluation of the 2003-launched AIDS project Avahan, researchers from the School of Public Health at Imperial College, London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimated that Avahan prevented more than half of the infections that would have occurred without its intervention.

Insulin needs could go up or down in diabetics when they travel to high altitudes, a new study has suggested.

Individuals with poorly controlled diabetes are also at risk for hypothermia, frostbite, and dehydration.

A new study has revealed that stress due to common life events may cause a number of physiological reactions in the central nervous, endocrine, immune and cardiovascular systems, and it may trigger long lasting physiological changes in the brain.

Researchers base their findings on 800 Swedish women whose mental health and wellbeing was formally tracked over a period of almost 40 years as part of the larger Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden, which started in 1968.

A new technique that coaxes an infertile woman’s ovaries into producing eggs again has resulted in the birth of a baby in Japan, international scientists said today.

A second woman has also become pregnant using the same method, according to the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.

Researchers caution that the technique is still in its early stages, but could offer hope for young women whose ovaries are no longer producing eggs.

A new research has revealed that humans distinguish the difference between fine textures, such as silk or satin, through vibrations, which are picked up by two separate sets of nerve receptors in the skin and relayed to the brain.

Study’s senior author, Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, said that coarse textures are reflected in the spatial pattern of responses by one set of receptors, but that’s only a small part of the story.

Autumn is here and that means a new crop of seasonal nutrient-dense fruit and vegetable “superfoods”, that increase our overall wellness and nutrition and help support a healthy lifestyle, will be harvested soon.

Kari Kooi, registered dietician at Houston Methodist Hospital, said superfoods are brimming with nutrients and antioxidants. The benefits of adding them into your everyday meals are numerous, as a nutritious diet can really have a positive impact on both your physical and mental health.

Kooi suggested top four superfoods that you can incorporate into your daily meals.

A new study has found that after doing specific training for 12 weeks, people over the age of 90 improved their strength, power and muscle mass.

This was reflected in an increase in their walking speed, a greater capacity to get out of their chairs, an improvement in their balance, a significant reduction in the incidence of falls and a significant improvement in muscle power and mass in the lower limbs.

Patients with advanced thyroid cancer have for many years faced bleak prospects and no viable treatment options.

But now, building on recent discoveries about the genetics and cell signalling pathways of thyroid tumours, researchers are developing exciting new weapons against the disease, using kinase inhibitors that target tumour cell division and blood vessels.

Two recent clinical trials led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showcase the great promise of these new approaches.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including heart disease and stroke, cause 17.3 million deaths each year worldwide, and by 2030 it is expected that 23 million people will die from CVDs annually, a report released Sunday said.

Sunday is being observed as World Heart Day. Every year since 2000, Sep 29 has been observed by the World Heart Federation as World Heart Day to spread awareness about the rising instance of heart disease.