Washington, November 19: Stress from a variety of causes can lead to young males and females developing body image problems, a new study has claimed. An international team has carried out the study and found that the causes of stress are significantly different for males and females, both can contribute to poor body image in both sexes.
London, November 19: Migraine patients are over two times more at the risk of suffering a stroke, said a new study that can help medicos identify people who are prone to strokes and take precautionary measures.
“Identifying people at highest risk is crucial to preventing disabling strokes,” said lead researcher Saman Nazarian of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
London, November 19: If you think yawning is simply bad manners, think again, for scientists say that it’s part of what makes us human. Theories are abound about people yawn? Dogs do it, lions do it, babies in the womb do it — but nobody knows why.
Now, a team, led by Professor Steve Jones at University College London, has claimed that far from being bad manners, yawning is a sign of our deep humanity, The Daily Telegraph reported.
New Delhi, November 19:Making the contraceptive procedure simpler for women, a US based pharmaceutical company Wednesday launched a birth control vaginal ring that it claims has no side effects.
Launched by pharmaceutical company Organon, Nuvaring is a flexible, transparent ring made of inert plastics. The ring contains hormones that enter the bloodstream directly, thus inhibiting ovulation.
Melbourne, Nov 18: An aid worker who helped bring formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins to Australia where doctors managed to separate them spoke of her relief on Wednesday over their successful surgery, as the girls remained in serious but stable condition.
Danielle Noble, who first met Trishna and Krishna in an orphanage in Bangladesh in 2007 when they were only a month old, said she cried Tuesday after learning from a televised news report that surgeons had successfully separated the girls, who were born joined at their heads.
Mumbai, Nov 18: Drug firm Wockhardt on Wednesday said it has received the final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing Nicardipine HCI injections in 25mg/10 ml strength, used in the treatment of hypertension.
Nicardipine is the generic name for the U.S.-based drug firm EKR Therapeutics’ patented drug Cardene and the patent covering the drug expired on November 17, 2009.
Wockhardt is launching the product immediately in the U.S. market, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
Chandigarh, Nov 18: For treatment of cancer and parasitic diseases, scientists from India and Australia are zeroing in on the good old milk.
In a collaborative effort between the Department of Parasitology at PGI, and Deakin University, Australia, experts are studying the effect of loctoferrin, natural protein in the milk, on cancer causing cells and resistant infections. In the tests, the drug (lactoferrin) will be delivered to target cells through nanotechnology.
Hamburg, November 18: Recent study has shown that most Australian people believe that depression during pregnancy is natural.
Research team claimed that this is a worrying trend as depression during pregnancy should be recognized as early as possible, so that it can be treated. Moreover, depression during pregnancy is not normal.
The study was based on the data collected from 733 men and women surveyed under the ‘Beyondblue’ depression initiative.
Chandigarh, Nov 18: After two students of St John’s School, Sector-26, tested positive for swine flu, the school has shut down for a week. The students are brothers and live in Sector 9, Chandigarh. They study in Class I and III. Both have been quarantined with their family members.
This is the fifth educational institute in the city to shut down following swine flu cases. Earlier, St Anne’s Covent, DAV Public School, PEC University, and the Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA) had suspended all classes.
New Delhi, November 17: Four swine flu deaths were reported in India Tuesday, taking the toll due to the Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 530, health department officials said here.
One death each was reported from Karnataka, Goa, Uttarakhand and Gujarat.
With that one death in Karnataka, the toll in the southern state has jumped to 119.
The toll is now five each in Goa and Uttarakhand. In Gujarat, it has now gone up to 45. However, Maharashtra, which recorded the first swine flu death Aug 3, tops the list with the highest number of deaths so far – 214.
Melbourne, November 17: A team of Australian scientists claim to have discovered that frequent exposure to sun and the resulting production of Vitamin D in the body could result in lowering the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).
According to a study conducted by the researchers at Menzies Institute, people living in Tasmania are seven times more likely to develop the disease than Queenslanders as, they claim, there is a link between sunlight exposure and multiple sclerosis. They presented their paper at a national scientific conference for medical research in Hobart.
Washington, November 17: Smokers face a five times higher risk of developing bladder cancer compared to non-smokers, according to a new study.
Researchers found that among individuals who smoked the same total number of cigarettes over their lifetime, smoking fewer cigarettes per day for more years may be more harmful than smoking more cigarettes per day for fewer years.
It is well known that cigarette smoking causes bladder cancer, but the influence of various parameters of smoking history, including trends in risk over time, is unclear.
Banglore, November 17: They all have a common story to narrate – stigma and discrimination by the society because of their profession and the disease with which they are infected.
Tales of suffering and discrimination were narrated by Bangalore’s sex workers when they came together Tuesday at a programme at Town Hall here.
‘It’s been a hard life. Most of the time women are forced into sex work. Being a sex worker itself is a stigma and if she is HIV positive, it is a double blow, as society treats her with lot of discrimination,’ said Shobha, a sex worker who is also HIV positive.
Washington, Nov 17: Pain and sensory disturbances persist for nearly three years after undergoing breast cancer surgery, a new study says.
In 2008, researchers from Denmark carried out a questionnaire study among 3,754 women who had received surgery for primary breast cancer between 2005 and 2006.
The study revealed that 47 per cent women experienced pain even after almost three years after the surgery. Of these 13 per cent reported severe pain.
Melbourne, Nov 17: Twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue were successfully separated Tuesday after 25 hours of delicate surgery, hospital officials said.
It is too early to know whether the two-year-old girls, Trishna and Krishna, suffered any brain damage during the marathon operation — an outcome doctors said had a 50-50 chance. The girls will remain in an induced coma for monitoring for several days after the completion of the surgery.
Hong Kong, Nov 17: People of Japanese and European descent who have mutant versions of five genes may be at higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, two large teams of researchers have found.
The two independent studies, published in the latest issue of Nature Genetics, involved more than 25,000 participants in total and are the largest studies to date to try to uncover genetic associations behind Parkinson’s disease.
A study in Japan looked only at ethnic Japanese while a second study, in the United States, focused only on people of European heritage.
London, Nov 16: Rapid cooling of the body after a cardiac arrest seems to improve chances of survival without damaging the victim’s brain, a new study has found.
“We now have a method that is safe and can be started within minutes of cardiac arrest to minimise damage during this very critical period,” said study leader Maaret Castr, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
Hyderabad, November 16: The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday ordered a probe into the death of seven newborn babies, allegedly due to faulty incubators at a government-run hospital.
Health Minister D Nagender ordered an enquiry into the incident that took place at Old Government Hospital in Vijayawada city.
Seven infants died in the newborn babies ward at the hospital on Sunday.
“We have deputed a team of doctors to probe the incident. If it is proved that the death was caused by the negligence by the hospital staff we will take action,” the minister said here.
Washington, Nov 16: Stress from a variety of causes can lead to young males and females developing body image problems, a new study has claimed.
An international team has carried out the study and found that the causes of stress are significantly different for males and females, both can contribute to poor body image in both sexes.
The study, led by Kristen Murray of Australian National University, clearly showed that stress is strongly related to dysfunctional body image in adolescents.
New Delhi, November 16: Three more deaths due to swine flu were reported Sunday taking India’s toll due to Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 524, health department officials said here.
A total of 161 new cases were also reported in the country, pushing the total number of people affected with the virus to 15,424.
Of the three deaths, two were reported from Maharashtra and one from Kerala. With the two deaths, Maharashtra’s total toll has gone up to 213 – the highest in the country.
Of the 161 new cases, 96 were from Rajasthan and 26 from Delhi.
New Delhi, Nov 16: As India achieves the dubious distinction of becoming the diabetes capital of the world, there might be relief in sight for a small number of diabetics who could be completely freed of this ailment through a small surgery on the pituitary gland.
According to doctors, there are a number of diabetics whose erratic sugar reading is caused by a tumour in the pituitary gland, housed just behind the nose.
New Delhi, Nov 16: The dengue menace continued unabated in the national capital, with 29 fresh cases being reported today, taking the total number of those suffering from the vector-borne disease to 812.
The capital has seen two dengue deaths so far.
“With 29 new cases of dengue, the total number has reached 812,” a senior official said.
The city has reported more than 200 cases of dengue in the last six days.
Last year, 1,070 dengue cases and two deaths were reported in the city.
Banglore, November 16: With a new city, a new job and a comfortable paycheck, Rashmi N*, 27, couldn’t wait to begin a new chapter in her life. Rashmi got married to 29-year-old Rahul Sriram*, who worked for a software company, a year after she moved to Bangalore. Soon, they planned their first child. However, there was a hiccup — Rashmi’s odd working hours — 9 pm to 6 am. It took a toll on her health.
Los Angeles, November 16: The mere thought of loved ones can help reduce pain, according to a new study by US researchers.
The result underscores the importance of social relationships and staying socially connected, according to the study by researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), Xinhua reported Monday.
In the study, 25 women were asked if simply looking at a photograph of their loved ones reduces pain.
New Delhi, November 15: Three more deaths due to swine flu were reported Sunday taking India’s toll due to Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 524, health department officials said here.
A total of 161 new cases were also reported in the country, pushing the total number of people affected with the virus to 15,424.
Of the three deaths, two were reported from Maharashtra and one from Kerala. With the two deaths, Maharashtra’s total toll has gone up to 213 – the highest in the country.
Of the 161 new cases, 96 were from Rajasthan and 26 from Delhi.