Dental health is an indicator of overall health. There are simple ways to maintain oral hygiene. Chewing sugar-free gum after a meal, for instance, can help prevent oral cavities.
Experts say that ignorance is a huge cause for the wide prevalence of practices that are detrimental to oral health in India.
Sepsis, a condition caused by infections leading to multiple organ failure, is among the leading causes of deaths in India – killing more people than AIDS or cancer, say experts.
Awareness to the fatal condition, however, remains low, say doctors.
Sepsis or septicaemia is “body`s reaction to infection”, said Vivek Nangia, director, infectious diseases, at Delhi`s Fortis Hospital.
It is a condition in which bacteria make toxins that cause the body`s immune system to attack organs and tissues.
“Any infection in any part of body may cause sepsis,” warned Nangia.
With almost 19,000 children under five years of age dying every day across the world, India tops the list of countries with the highest number of 15.55 lakh such deaths in 2011, according to a UN agency.
The `Child Mortality Estimates Report 2012` released by Unicef in New York has said that in 2011, around 50 per cent of global under-five deaths occurred in just five countries of India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China.
Incidentally, India`s toll is higher than the deaths in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan put together.
Scientists have for the first time linked smoking with ovarian cancer – the second most commonly diagnosed gynaecological cancer in Australia with a five-year survival rate of only 40 percent.
Andy Lee and Colin Binns, both professors from the Curtin University’s School of Public Health, took part as members of the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer based at Oxford University and funded by UK Cancer research.
Patients with more sympathetic, understanding doctors have better outcomes and fewer complications, a study suggests.
By measuring a doctor’s understanding of a patient’s concerns and an intention to help, researchers found a link between diabetic patients’ outcomes and their physicians, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
The study conducted by a team from Thomas Jefferson University along with Italian experts evaluated the relationships among 20,961 diabetic patients and 242 primary care physicians they were enrolled to in Parma, Italy.
London, September 12: Working more than eight hours a day raises the risk of heart disease by 80 percent, researchers say.
The warning follows analysis of 12 studies dating back as far as 1958, involving 22,000 people from around the world, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
The analysis found that those whose working days that were longer than the traditional eight hours had a 40 to 80 percent greater chance of heart disease.
The study was conducted by scientists at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
Beijing, September 12: Two babies with severe congenital liver disease may get a new lease of life after their mothers were found qualified to donate part of their livers to each other’s boys.
Babies Zhe Zhe and Tuan Tuan, both born earlier this year, will undergo liver transplant surgery in a Beijing hospital in what could be China’s first liver donor exchange, the Shanghai Daily reported.
The babies have congenital biliary atresia, a condition in which bile cannot drain from the liver due to the absence or closure of ducts.
The levels of antioxidants Vitamin C and beta-carotene in blood are lower in patients with dementia than in people without it, a German study says about the disease which affects millions worldwide.
Gabriele Nagel and and Christine von Arnim, professors of epidemiology and neurology from the University of Ulm, Germany, have discovered that the concentration of vitamin C and beta-carotene in blood are significantly lower in patients with mild dementia than in people without them.
Forgetfulness, lack of orientation and cognitive decline are all offshoots of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
A once-a-day off-patent drug which costs just two cents has been found to kill resistant tuberculosis bacterium, scientists claim.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have found that an off-patent anti-inflammatory medicine can kill both replicating and non-replicating drug resistant tuberculosis in the laboratory, a feat currently only few approved TB drugs can do.
Their findings point to a potential new therapy for the more than 500,000 people worldwide whose TB has become resistant to standard drug treatments.
Scientists have for the first time linked smoking with ovarian cancer – the second most commonly diagnosed gynaecological cancer in Australia with a five-year survival rate of only 40 percent.
Andy Lee and Colin Binns, both professors from the Curtin University`s School of Public Health, took part as members of the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer based at Oxford University and funded by UK Cancer research.
Scientists have for the first time linked smoking with ovarian cancer – the second most commonly diagnosed gynaecological cancer in Australia with a five-year survival rate of only 40 percent.
Andy Lee and Colin Binns, both professors from the Curtin University’s School of Public Health, took part as members of the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer based at Oxford University and funded by UK Cancer research.
Scientists have for the first time linked smoking with ovarian cancer – the second most commonly diagnosed gynaecological cancer in Australia with a five-year survival rate of only 40 percent.
Andy Lee and Colin Binns, both professors from the Curtin University’s School of Public Health, took part as members of the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer based at Oxford University and funded by UK Cancer research.
Number of people affected with swine flu or H1N1 infection in the state capital has now touched 100.
Microbiology department at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences said six people tested positive for H1N1 infection yesterday and the total number of swine flu patients has certainly crossed 100.
The number would surely swell further considering that three dozen samples were pending for testing with the authorities, it added.
Official sources here today said so far, the city has reported
Popular painkillers such as ibuprofen can elevate chances of an early death among heart attack survivors, suggests a new study.
Some of these drugs, available over the counter, can make the blood clot more easily and trigger heart attacks or strokes. There is the perception among researchers that such drugs should not be made so easily available on prescription.
Popular painkillers such as ibuprofen can elevate chances of an early death among heart attack survivors, suggests a new study.
Some of these drugs, available over the counter, can make the blood clot more easily and trigger heart attacks or strokes. There is the perception among researchers that such drugs should not be made so easily available on prescription.
There has been a 70 percent increase in cancers diagnosed during or soon after pregnancy, based on a study of 1.3 million births between 1994 and 2008. There has been no evidence of harm to babies.
The most common cancers detected were skin melanomas, breast cancer, thyroid and other endocrine cancers, gynaecological and lymphohaematopoeitic cancers.
An initial trial of a dengue vaccine may pave way for possible treatment of the disease in near future. The results suggest it isn`t ideal, but scientists say the study is still encouraging news in the global fight against the disease known as “break-bone fever.”
There is currently no treatment or vaccine for dengue, which causes symptoms including fever, severe joint pain, headache and bleeding. The mosquito-borne disease infects up to 100 million people worldwide every year, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Human excrement, asbestos, mould and dead flies have been found in cigarettes being smoked regularly in Britain, a newspaper reported.
Investigators working for the tobacco industry spent weeks rummaging through litter bins for cigarette packets to assess the scale of the black market.
They found that about one-third of packets contained fakes or cigarettes brought in by smugglers.
The survey in Birmingham by MS Intelligence, a Swiss-based brand protection company, found that 30.9 percent of packets were either bogus or purchased abroad.
Indian scientists have found a safe orally-administered drug against kala azar, a disease that puts at risk an estimated 165.4 million people in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
Termed by WHO as a “neglected disease”, kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis, the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria, has proved resistant to most medicines.
Provisional figures released by the union health and family welfare ministry, show that kala azar claimed 20 lives and afflicted 14,227 people till July.
Sleeping pills seldom worked for 40 percent of the poppers who suffer from insomnia, says a survey of 20,000 people, according to a British study.
Some 42 percent of the patients currently on medication have been sleeping badly for over 11 years or more. A further 22 percent had insomnia lasting two to five years, while one in six had suffered between six and 10 years, the survey revealed.
Experts said the study suggested that sleeping pills were not combating long-term sleep problems and that cognitive behavioural therapy has been proven to be more effective.
Scientists are developing a new and cheaper vaccine for hay fever which they say would bring swift and lasting relief to the sufferers.
The `exciting` vaccine, which is in development, could help control symptoms of grass pollen hay fever with injections over the course of a few months, scientists claim.
The prototype vaccine is also designed to tackle grass pollen hay fever, also known as summer hay fever, `The Telegraph` reported.
Obese kids who are older actually consume fewer calories per day than their healthy peers, while younger overweight children consume more calories than their healthy peers.
These findings are the outcome of a new study by University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine paediatrics researchers, who compared the eating habits of overweight children aged between nine and 17 years compared to those younger than nine years.
There has been a 70 percent increase in cancers diagnosed during or soon after pregnancy, based on a study of 1.3 million births between 1994 and 2008. There has been no evidence of harm to babies.
The most common cancers detected were skin melanomas, breast cancer, thyroid and other endocrine cancers, gynaecological and lymphohaematopoeitic cancers.
Using marijuana could have really damaging consequences as it causes testicular cancer, for instance, which only gets worse with time, a study says.
The University of Southern California (USC) findings suggest the potential cancer-causing effects of marijuana on testicular cells should be considered not only in personal decisions regarding recreational drug use, but also when marijuana and its derivatives are used for therapeutic purposes in young male patients.
Sleeping pills seldom worked for 40 percent of the poppers who suffer from insomnia, says a survey of 20,000 people, according to a British study.
Some 42 percent of the patients currently on medication have been sleeping badly for over 11 years or more. A further 22 percent had insomnia lasting two to five years, while one in six had suffered between six and 10 years, the survey revealed.
Experts said the study suggested that sleeping pills were not combating long-term sleep problems and that cognitive behavioural therapy has been proven to be more effective.