London, April 13: Broader one’s grin and the deeper the creases around one’s eyes when one smiles, the longer one is likely to live, says a research
A smile costs nothing. But, it can add at least seven years to your life, says a new study.
Researchers have found that the secret to a longer life lies in cracking a smile —— and the broader one’s grin and the deeper the creases around one’s eyes when one smiles, the longer one is likely to live.
Stockholm, April 13: The online Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is as effective in treating panic disorder and depression as the traditional group-based method, a new study has found.
“Internet-based CBT is also more cost-effective than group therapy,” said Jan Bergstrom, a researcher with the Center for Psychiatry Research at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institute (KI).
New Delhi, April 13: Another 10,000 paramedics and 20,000 nurses will be added to staff community and primary health centres in remote districts of the country. The Centre plans to set up nine regional institutes for paramedical services and 265 nursing colleges, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Monday.
These steps will be in addition to the Medical Council of India’s initiatives such as the Bachelor of Rural Health Care programme – aimed at creating a rural medical corps – and upgrade of medical colleges for 10,000 more post-graduate seats within two years.
—–Agencies
New Delhi, April 13: Dependence on frequent painkillers or knee replacement surgery to overcome pain due to arthritis or injury may soon become a thing of the past with many patients getting relief by a new single shot treatment.
The new ‘Viscosupplementation’ therapy provides six months pain relief with a single injection and is now being given to people with knee osteoarthritis who have not responded to traditional therapies such as oral anti-inflammatory or analgesic medications or exercise.
London, April 13: Simply turning on a light at night for a few seconds to go to the toilet can cause changes that might lead to cancer, scientists claim.
Researchers in the UK and Israel found that when a light is turned on at night, it triggers an “over-expression” of cells linked to the formation of cancer.
Diabetes Information: Diabetes is a disorder that strikes the metabolism of the body. People affected with diabetes have large amounts of sugar in their blood level. The food that we eat is broken down into glucose for growth and energy. The excess glucose present in the body, after digestion, is used by the cells for development.
New Delhi, April 12: Experts who are convening for the mid-term continuing medical education (CME) on “High-risk diabetic foot” organized by the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI), UP Chapter and Indian Podiatry Association (IPA) in Kanpur on Sunday, 11 April 2010, are sounding an alarm bell for people with diabetes to be wary of diabetic foot. “People with diabetes can, over time, develop nerve damage throughout the body.
New Delhi, April 12: Largest- ever study of deaths shows heart ailments have replaced communicable diseases as the biggest killer in rural & urban India
HEART diseases have emerged as the number one killer in both urban and rural areas of the country.
Preliminary results from the largest study, yet to find out the exact causes of mortality in India, have revealed that heart ailments take most lives in both urban and rural areas.
London, April 11: Bood pressure drugs could someday be used to allow damaged kidneys to repair themselves, researchers have claimed.
If successful, the treatment could cut the numbers who need a kidney transplant every year or who are on constant dialysis.
The claim is based on a study of patients given ACE inhibitors, a common set of blood pressure drugs, conducted by Giuseppe Remuzzi, Ariela Benigni, and Marina Morigi from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Bergamo, Italy.
Washington, April 10: A U.S. military doctor removed a live round of ammunition from the head of an Afghan soldier in an unusual and harrowing surgery.
Doctors say a 14.5 millimetre unexploded round — more than 2 inches long — was removed from the scalp of an Afghan National Army soldier at the Bagram Air Field hospital.
When the Afghan soldier, in his 20s, arrived at the base, doctors thought it was shrapnel or the spent end of some sort of round, said Lt. Col. Anthony Terreri, a radiologist deployed from Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Chicago, April 10: Three in 10 women take the common breast cancer drug Femara to treat infertility, even though it could increase risks to the baby, US researchers said on Friday.
They said the drug is often prescribed “off-label” to treat infertility, even though it is classified by the US Food and Drug Administration as posing a pregnancy risk.
And a study of health claims suggests policies by health insurers to only pay for the drug’s approved uses could improve both the care and safety of the women who take it.
London, April 10: Just as the human species could be considered the most violent, since they are capable of serial killings, genocide and other atrocities, they are also the most empathetic species, which would seem to be the other side of the coin, says researcher Luis Moya Albiol.
Albiol, researcher at the Universitat de Valencia, Spain, says the prefrontal and temporal cortex, parts of the brain, overlap “in a surprising way” with those that regulate aggression and violence.
Washington, April 10: The drinking habits of the people in your extended social group play a major role in determining your own rate of alcohol consumption, says a new study.
Researchers used data from the landmark Framingham Heart Study which followed 12,067 people for more than 30 years and helped to define the patterns in social networks of other health issues such as obesity, smoking, and sexually transmitted diseases.
In this analysis, the researchers sought to explore patterns of alcohol use in a large social network.
Washington, April 10: As friends, siblings, and co-workers effortlessly become pregnant and deliver babies that become the centre of their lives and conversations, an infertile woman and her partner often feel defeated and alone.
Infertility and isolation are soul sisters, says University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI-UC) professor Constance Hoenk Shapiro.
Shapiro’s new book When You’re Not Expecting has the potential to change all that by providing a sisterhood of survivors who have been there and know how it feels.
London, April 09: Sexiest men resort to violence when they feel their power is being threatened in sentimental relationships, a new study says.
Women who are afraid that their husbands will react violently against them if they do not stick to their traditional role, opt for forgoing equality in exchange for security.
Thus, violence becomes either an instrument to control their threatened power and a way to restore it.
Srinagar, April 09: With no end in sight to the ongoing strike of government employees, government today directed hospital authorities to ensure best possible medicare following reports of patients leaving the hospitals in view of non-availability of staff. The hospital authorities were directed to ensure best possible medicare facilities in OPD as well in emergency and outsource the sanitation personnel to maintain neat and clean atmosphere in and around the hospitals, a government spokesman said.
London, April 09: People with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease often have clumps of a toxic protein in their brains even though they are perfectly healthy, researchers said.
They said the findings could lead to new ways to identify people most likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, when there is still time to do something about it.
Washington, April 08: Taking vitamin C and E supplements in early pregnancy does not reduce the risk for hypertensive disorders and their complications during pregnancy, says a new study.
The supplements notably failed to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia, a potentially fatal form of hypertension in pregnancy.
The findings contradict suggestions in some previous small studies that the vitamins could reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia. Those studies were not confirmed in subsequent larger studies.
London, April 08: Researchers have identified a group of genes that are especially active in lung cancer patients — even in healthy tissue — and said they may be used to predict which smokers will eventually develop lung cancer.
And, they said, a natural supplement derived from food that is being tested to prevent lung cancer appears to halt the precancerous changes.
London, April 08: According to a research done by Swedish researchers, women who take a daily multivitamin pill to ward off illness may actually be increasing their risk of breast cancer.
More than 35,000 women aged between 49 and 83 were tracked by experts from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, over a ten-year period. It was found by them that those who regularly took multivitamins were 19 percent more likely to have developed a breast tumor.
London, April 08: It has been shown by a study that women, who work part-time, are likely to have healthier children than those of stay-at-home mothers or full-time working mothers.
Children of part-time working mothers ate fewer unhealthy meals, watched less television and were more physically active than other youngsters the same age, the research led by researchers from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in Melbourne, Australia has shown.
London, April 08: A new study has shown that women, who exercise during pregnancy, are likely to give birth to lighter babies.
The research led by University of Auckland scientists showed that mothers-to-be who underwent fitness training on exercise cycles had lighter babies than women who did no exercise.
Chicago, April 08: Contrary to popular belief that mouth breathing does not have any adverse effects, a new study has found that it can lead to major health problems if left untreated for long, especially in children.
A research by the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) in US showed that over time, children whose mouth breathing goes untreated may suffer from abnormal facial and dental development, such as long, narrow faces and mouths, gummy smiles, gingivitis and crooked teeth.
New Delhi, April 07: The secret to losing weight could be down to a person’s genes rather than how strictly they adhere to a diet, a research indicates.
According to the study, some women are genetically programmed to have more success in shedding pounds through certain weight-loss schemes than others. The findings could explain why some people swear by the fat-rich Atkins diet to slim down, while others do better by stocking up on carbohydrates, reports telegraph.co.uk.
London, April 07: Scientists have found two genetic regions that affect a baby’s size at birth and say one of them is also linked with developing diabetes in later life.
The finding, published in the journal Nature Genetics, is the first firm evidence of a genetic link between low birth weight and diabetes and helps explain why small babies have higher rates of diabetes when they grow up, the scientists said.