Hyderabad, February 27: The second phase of Pulse Polio programme for children below the age of five years will be held today.
Principal Secretary Department of health and family welfare Dr. P V Ramesh will administer polio drops at 9:30 in the morning at UHP Ameerpet opposite Sanjiva Reddy Nagar police station.
GHMC commissioner Sameer Sharma will inaugurate the programme at 10:30 at UHP Chintalbasti.
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London, February 27: “First, babies need a lot of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish for brain, nerve, and eye development, and when they switch from breast milk or formula to solid food,” said dietician Susan Brewer.
“Second, children’s food preferences are largely developed by the time they’re five, so I urge parents to help their kids develop a taste for seafood early,” said Brewer from the University of Illinois College of Agricultural Sciences.
New Delhi, February 25: Of the over 33 million HIV-AIDS cases reported worldwide every year, around one-third are adolescents of the age group 15-24 years, revealed a report by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) report 2011 was released by UNICEF in the capital Friday.
According to UNICEF’s annual flagship report on the adolescents (10-19 years) in the world, the risk of HIV infection is considerably higher among adolescent females and young women than their male counterparts of the same age group.
London, February 25: Air pollution triggers more heart attacks than using cocaine and poses as high a risk of sparking a heart attack as alcohol, coffee and physical exertion, scientists said on Thursday.
Sex, anger, marijuana use and chest or respiratory infections and can also trigger heart attacks to different extents, the researchers said, but air pollution, particularly in heavy traffic, is the major culprit.
London, February 24: A tiny laser can detect signs of skin cancer and save thousands of lives, scientists say.
The device fires a double laser beam, with less combined energy than a laser pointer, into a suspicious mole and analyses the locations of different skin pigments.
Scientists then look at the amount of eumelanin in the pigments – which is present in greater amounts in potentially cancerous tissue, the journal Science Translational Medicine reports.
Chicago, February 24: Spending 50 minutes with a mobile phone stuck to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity, scientists at the National Institutes of Health have said. But whether that causes any harm is not clear, the scientists added on Tuesday.
“What we showed is glucose metabolism [a sign of brain activity] increases in the brain in people who were exposed to a mobile in the area closet to the antenna,” said Dr Nora Volkow of the NIH, whose study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Washington, February 24: Infants and toddlers too can suffer serious mental disorders, yet they are not likely to receive treatment that could prevent lasting damage, says a new study.
“The pervasive, but mistaken, impression that young children do not develop mental health problems” keeps them away from treatment, say study authors Joy D. Osofsky and Alicia F. Lieberman from the Universities of Louisiana State and California respectively.
London, February 23: Weight loss surgery is the most consistent, effective means of weight loss in the long term, beating out diet, exercise, or any type of pharmaceutical intervention. But not all of the surgical options produce the same results, and while much is dependent on the patient and their behavior, there is one procedure that is head and shoulders above the rest in eliminating pounds and type 2 diabetes.
Riyadh, February 23: Obesity, smoking, junk food and lazy lifestyles are behind the growing instances of heart diseases in the Kingdom, said Dr. Hani Najm, president of the Saudi Heart Association.
Speaking at the opening of the 22nd Saudi Heart Association Conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Riyadh on Monday, Najm said 20 percent of deaths across the world are because of heart problems.
He added that according to a study launched by the association, one in every two people in the Gulf region suffer from high cholesterol, which is one of the main causes of heart problems.
Washington, February 22: Even gorillas in zoo need to switch to a leafy diet for a healthy heart.
“A lot are dying of heart disease, we believe, like humans,” said Elena Hoellein Less, doctoral candidate in biology at Case Western Reserve University in the US.
In fact, heart disease is the number one killer of male Western lowland gorillas – the only species of gorillas in North American zoos.
New Delhi, February 21: “The health of the citizens is the wealth of the nation” and it cannot be allowed to be jeopardized, the Delhi High Court said Monday while slamming an anti-quota stir at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 2006.
The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: “The doctors, residents, interns, the para-medical staff or any other person connected with AIIMS could not have gone on strike…, therefore, their said action is declared illegal.”
London, February 21: A sensor in the watch records the pulse wave of the artery.A device which can be worn like a watch could revolutionise the way blood pressure is monitored in the next few years, scientists say.
Researchers at the University of Leicester and in Singapore have developed a device to measure pressure in the largest artery in the body.
Evidence shows it gives a much more accurate reading than the arm cuff.
London,February 21: Poor alcohol regulation could cost up to 250,000 lives in England and Wales over the next 20 years, doctors warn.
The medics, led by Professor Sir Ian Gilmore who has long campaigned for action on alcohol misuse, welcomed the coalition government’s plans to keep duty rises on alcohol at 2% above inflation.
London, February 21: A virus spread during oral sex is the main cause of throat cancer in people under 50 years of age.
Scientists say the human papilloma virus (HPV) spread during unprotected sex is to blame for a disturbing rise in potentially deadly oral cancers in the last few decades.
Doctors have called for boys to be vaccinated against HPV just like teenage girls to stop the spread of the disease.
London, February 21: Good breakfast is the key to a healthy lifestyle determining the quality of your whole day’s nutrition, according to research.
And the best way to start the morning is with a simple bowl of a healthy cereal, as it makes people less likely to turn to fatty, sugary food through the rest of the day, a website reported.
with milk because it is a good source of calcium and numerous other key nutrients, such as fibre, protein and carbohydrate.
Georgia, February 20: Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that a statin drug that is often known by the brand-name Lipitor may help prevent blindness in people with diabetes.
In a study using diabetic rats, lead author Azza El-Remessy, assistant professor in the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, and her colleagues found that statins prevent free radicals in the retina from killing nerves important to maintaining vision.
London, February 20: The Food and Drug Administration has approved Impax Laboratories Inc.’s generic version of the antibiotic drug Adoxa.
The 150-milligram drug that was being used to treat urinary tract infections, bacterial infections and pneumonia will be launched for which Hayward-based Impax is making preparations. No more details on this were given by the company.
Market is already having generic versions of Adoxa, also known as doxycline monohydrate. Nycomed is the brand-name that the drug is marketed by.
London, February 20: A new British study has stated that the risk of brain cancer is not increased by the use of cell phones.
University of Manchester researchers said that there was no change in the number of cases of brain cancer being diagnosed in both the sexes when from 1998 to 2007 an analysis of data on newly diagnosed cases of brain cancer in England was made seeing the increasing usage of cell phones.
London, February 20: There is a hormone called osteocalcin that is released by bones and this regulates fertility in males, according to a new study.
Gerard Karsenty led researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, and in a lab test on mice they found that skeleton regulated male fertility. It was also noted earlier that skeletons of males that were unable to secrete the hormone were not breeders.
Testosterone is a sex steroid hormone that controls male fertility and osteocalcin increases the production of this hormone.
London, February 20: Triglyceride levels and waist size are two aspects that decide the effect of a high-fat meal on blood vessel walls in individuals, according to a new UC Davis study.
Strokes and heart diseases are caused by thickening of arterial lining, inflammation and belly fat and a link has been strengthened by the new research.
Lead author Anthony Passerini of the UC Davis said that in the blood vessels, inflammatory responses can be affected by eating a common fast food meal.
London, February 20: The composition of the species of bacteria that are responsible for inhabiting bronchial airways, have a relationship with asthma and a new UCSF-led study that finds this states that it is surprising.
The common inflammatory disease can see a new treatment that is more effective following this finding.
Dubai, February 20: With many drugs which harm instead of heal readily available in the market, medical practitioners advice people not to buy over-the-counter drugs and avoid self-medication.
“Most people are unaware of the adverse side-effects of medicinal drugs and have very little knowledge of what they are taking,” said Dr Priyadarshan G. a specialist in internal medicine at Aster Clinic.
A practitioner of complementary medicine agrees and points out that there are people who continue to look for and buy certain medicines even if such drug has already been pulled off the shelves.
London, February 20: Good breakfast is the key to a healthy lifestyle determining the quality of your whole day’s nutrition, according to research.
And the best way to start the morning is with a simple bowl of a healthy cereal, as it makes people less likely to turn to fatty, sugary food through the rest of the day, reports express.co.uk.
The study, by nutritionist Sigrid Gibson revealed the healthiest breakfast choice is cereal with milk because it is a good source of calcium and numerous other key nutrients, such as fibre, protein and carbohydrate.
London, February 20: Good breakfast is the key to a healthy lifestyle determining the quality of your whole day’s nutrition, according to research.And the best way to start the morning is with a simple bowl of a healthy cereal, as it makes people less likely to turn to fatty, sugary food through the rest of the day, reports express.co.uk.
The study, by nutritionist Sigrid Gibson revealed the healthiest breakfast choice is cereal with milk because it is a good source of calcium and numerous other key nutrients, such as fibre, protein and carbohydrate.
New Delhi, February 19: As summer descends and you hit the gym to lose the flab piled on in winter, experts say it’s not enough. What also counts is your eating habits, which should certainly go low on the carbohydrates and diet pills.
“It is very important to balance your workout and food. People tend to overeat after a workout, which is normal considering that exercise stimulates hunger. But one should eat the right food and not each and everything. It’s all about eating,” nutrition consultant Geetu Amarnani told us.