Bhopal, January 21: Bird flu has erupted in West Bengal after a gap of seven months.Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) has found the bird flu virus (H5N1 strain) in seven out of 12 samples received from Murshidabad district, in the north-central part of the state.
“Three samples last week and four on Tuesday tested positive,” HSADL Joint Director Shiv Charan Dubey told.
Bangalore, January 21: Getting children out of bed, packing up their tiffin boxes and helping them with their school uniform is a familiar start for most working moms in Bangalore. Most of them get frazzled even before they get out of their houses.
But here’s what they don’t know. It is at exactly 8.25am—as they try
to get their children to school on time—that stress levels reach their peak, a study of 2,000 working moms done by Britain-based transport firm Uniroyal says.
London, January 21: Having a job which requires one to sit at a place for long hours can affect health, experts have claimed.
Researchers from the Karolinska Institute and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in Stockholm said that remaining inactive for too long can lead to a range of health problems like diabetes and heart disease, even among those who exercise regularly.
Writing for the British Journal of Sports Medicine, they also warned that “the chemical reactions triggered in the body by being inactive for too long cannot be cancelled out by taking more exercise.”
Washington, January 21: President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party raced to re-evaluate their health care plans and electoral strategy following their stunning loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts long held by Edward M. Kennedy.
The embarrassing defeat to Republican Scott Brown in a Democratic stronghold was a bitter end to the president’s first year in office Wednesday, and it triggered furious party soul-searching.
New Delhi, January 20:India Wednesday asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) to explain reports that the swine flu was a “false pandemic”.
Union Health Secretary K. Sujatha Rao, who is attending the executive board meeting of the world health organisation in Geneva, raised the issue about media reports that the flu was “a false pandemic”.
“She pointed out that such news reports were adversely impacting upon the public health measures being undertaken by countries,” said an official statement issued here.
Washington, January 20: Contrary to what a lot of people feel, kids can actually reduce blood pressure in parents. This has been claimed by a recent research. Generally a lot of people think that the worries that come with parenthood like education, expense, health can cause the blood pressure to shot up.
However, according to the recent study parenthood can benefit the human heart in the same way exercise or dieting does. The research has been performed at Utah’s Brigham Young University. The researchers have also found that the effects are felt more by mothers than fathers.
New Delhi, January 20: Here’s some good news for mums-to-be: researchers have said that women should be allowed to eat and drink what they want during labour.
In order to come up with the advice, Cochrane researchers carried out a systematic review of studies examining the traditional practice of restricting food and fluid intake during labour and found no evidence for any risk or benefit for women at low risk of complications.
Washington, January 20: Delaying the use of solid and complimentary foods during infancy can protect the newborn against obesity later on in life, a new study finds.
Breastfeeding had long been considered as a weapon against obesity. The new study, however, claims that starting spoon-feeding later in infancy lowers the obesity rate.
According to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the age at which parents introduce various types of foods to an infant may influence his/her body mass indexes (BMI) in adulthood.
Sydney, January 19: Researchers have discovered a protein group that could be worked into the first ever potent malaria vaccine.
Presently no vaccine against malaria is available, but it could be developed with the help of the latest findings.
Transmitted by pesky female mosquitoes, malaria infects blood cells, particularly that of young children, with the most prevalent type being caused by Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite.
New Delhi, January 19: The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a lawsuit seeking ban on over-the-counter sale of birth control drug I-pill without prescription of a doctor.
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice Deepak Verma dismissed the lawsuit disagreeing with petitioner Krupa Prolifers’ contention that I-pill leads to abortion in violation of the relevant laws on pregnancy.
Lomdon, January 19: We’re always being told to reduce our fat intake. But is cutting out butter really the best option? In the last 20 years, one type of fat in particular has been portrayed as being especially bad for us: saturated.
We are submitted to a barrage of advice: “saturated fats are killing us“; “eat low-fat spread“; “don’t use lard“; “trim off all the fat from meat”. In the latest instalment of this long-running saga, heart surgeon Shyam Kolvekar is now demanding that we banish butter from our diets.
London, January 19: Children who are breastfeed for more than six months are less likely to have mental health problems in later life, according to new research.
Experts believe that nutrients in mothers’ milk, and the bonding process, may have a long-lasting effect on their babies’ brain development.
The finding, to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics, came after researchers analysed the medical records of more than 2,000 children in Western Australia.
New Delhi, January 19: With pressures of studies, work and relationships, teenagers and those in their early 20’s have become very susceptible to mental illness like schizophrenia, experts say, adding that the condition is 70 per cent treatable.
New Delhi, January 19: The Supreme Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking direction to ban the free sale of birth control pills without prescription from a registered medical practitioner, as it violated the law on medical termination of pregnancy.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said the consumption of such pills could not be termed as abortion.
Petitioner Krupa Prolifers said the use of“I-pill”, the medicine that leads to abortion within 72 hours of pregnancy, violates the relevant laws in this regard.
Hamburg, January 18: A new study from the Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health reveals that high blood pressure could pose a bigger threat for women developing dementia by augmenting white matter abnormalities in the brain.
The findings are based on data from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS).
New Delhi, January 18: EATING A lot of sugar, old age and sins of past life causes the condition; it is contagious; soaking feet in water can help control it; and spiritual treatment is the cure.
These are but some of the myths surrounding diabetes prevalent in North India.
New Delhi, January 18: The Delhi Government today sanctioned Rs 272 crore for second-stage development of the new multi-speciality hospital for liver and biliary diseases here, which will soon become a deemed university.
The University Grants Commission has accepted the NCT government’s proposal of making the ‘Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences’ a deemed university, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
London, January 18: Scientists have discovered nine genes linked to diabetes, a key breakthrough which they claim could soon pave the way for new treatment against the disease which affects more than 220 million people worldwide.
A team from 174 research centres around the world, who studied the genes and blood glucose level of more than 120,000 volunteers, has identified the nine genes which control the body’s response to glucose in the blood.
London, January 18: Fathers-to-be are to be given lessons on breastfeeding and supporting their partner through childbirth, ministers will announce this week. A long-awaited families green paper will propose measures to get fathers more involved in their child’s upbringing from before birth and beyond.
These include forcing single mothers to name the biological father on the birth certificate and encouraging hospitals to allow fathers to stay overnight after the birth of a child.
New Delhi, January 18: The unholy nexus between doctors and pharma companies is now snaring the newborns. Many doctors are passing on details of newborns to companies involved in stem cell research for a fee.
The nexus, according to sources, is cashing on the trend among parents to store the stem cells of their children to tackle medical exigencies later in life. Stem cells — cells with regenerative properties and thus useful in times of medical emergency — are now being derived from the umbilical cord of the baby.
Haridwar,January 18 :The few days were hectic in Haridwar with about 1.5 million pilgrims taking the holy dip in the Ganga on the occasion of Kumbh Mela. But a recent study by a reputed Uttarakhand- based voluntary organisation has put a question mark over the quality of water in the Ganga.
New Delhi, January 17: With pressures of studies, work and relationships, teenagers and those in their early 20’s have become very susceptible to mental illness like schizophrenia, experts say, adding that the condition is 70 percent treatable.
Around 450 million people worldwide are affected by mental, neurological or behavioral problems and the rate is steadily rising, according to NGO Sanjivini Society for Mental Health. In India alone, around 15 million suffer from severe psychological disorders, of which a large chunk is youngsters facing pressures of study and work life.
Washington, January 16: An estimated 55 million Americans were infected with the H1N1 swine flu from the time the disease first emerged in mid-April until mid-December, and about 11,200 people died, according to official figures.
The flu, which is no longer causing widespread activity after peaking in November in 48 states, has also led to an estimated 246,000 hospitalisations, according to statistics from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ottawa, January 15: In a ground breaking study, Canadian scientists have found that more than half of young adults in a new sexual relationship get infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer.
A team of researchers from McGill University’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit and University of Montreal carried out the study on a group of new couples, who have been together for six months or less.
They found that nearly 56 per cent of the couples were infected with HPV and about 44 per cent with an HPV type that causes cancer.
New Delhi, January 15: A new study has revealed that stopping breastfeeding early might increase mortality risk in children born to HIV-infected mothers.
The research team from Zambia assumed that by 4 months of age, children would have passed the critical developmental point when breastfeeding is essential to their survival.