Bangalore, June 16: After the scorching heat, the rains definitely come as a relief, but they also signal the need for extra protection, be it of our homes, vehicles or us. Maintaining those lovely, long, shiny tresses is quite a task during the monsoon and the problems faced seem endless.
What are the causes?
New Delhi, June 16: Swine flu cases in India mounted to 30 Monday after seven more teenaged students who returned from an educational tour of the US tested positive for the virus. On its part, the government urged the people, especially students, to suspend their visits abroad.
According to health officials here, seven of a group of 31 students from the Guru Amar Das Public School in Jalandhar, who had gone to New York and Florida to visit National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facilities, tested positive for swine flu.
Paris, June 15: Now it’s official: We have a flu pandemic. But what does it mean? For many, the term may be tinged with fear. It evokes folk memories of three influenza pandemics that erupted last century and claimed tens of millions of lives.
The worst was the 1918-19 “Spanish flu.”
The greatest plague of the 20th century killed as many as 50 million people, particularly the young and healthy, who could be dispatched to their grave in just a few days, their ravaged lungs filled with blood.
New Delhi, June 15: With four confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza reported in the country on Sunday, the number of people hit by the pandemic
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases in Bangalore Support staff stand outside the swine flu ward at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases in Bangalore. rose to 23. Of the four, three were reported in Hyderabad and one, of a schoolboy from Punjab, in Delhi.
Washington, June 13: Now it’s storm in a coffee cup. Though a cup of coffee might help you beat drowsiness, a new research suggests that caffeine might hinder your short-term recall of certain words.
Caffeine made it harder for people to find a word that they already knew — the “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon, BBC News portal reported on Friday.
Valerie Lesk, of the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy, believes caffeine improves alertness by shutting down other brain pathways. This makes it harder to recall words, she says in Behavioural Psychology.
New Delhi, June 12: Tibetan medical science, a 2,000-year-old legacy of herbal and spiritual healing born in the Buddhist monasteries of high-altitude Tibet, offers cures for diseases like cancer and thalassaemia but is yet to be recognised by the Indian government, says one of its leading woman practitioners here.
“This system can contribute a lot to ease suffering. If it is recognised by the Indian government, students can carry on research because we have no country of our own,” Tsewang Dolkar Khongkar, a Tibetan doctor, told IANS.
Washington, June 10: Want to keep your vision clear as the years go by? Put fatty fish on your menu at least twice a week says a new study.
Researchers have found that eating fish like salmon and tuna at least twice a week can help prevent a devastating eye disease the age-related muscular degeneration which is said to be the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
Over time the back part of the eye can degenerate causing the disease which can also be triggered by new blood vessels growing and bleeding in the region.
Washington, June 09: Pregnant women who consume extra calories and gain too much weight may face complications at birth such as pre-eclampsia (hypertension),
or may require a C-section. Moreover, both mother and child face a higher risk of being obese later in life.
Wellington, June 09: New Zealand researchers have developed a mouth swab test to predict smokers’ risk of getting lung cancer, news reports said Tuesday. Associate Professor Robert Young, of Auckland University, said the test combined clinical risk factors, including age, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and family history of lung cancer, with DNA obtained through mouth swabs.
He said all smokers faced an increased risk of developing lung cancer but the risk was much greater for some than others.
Banglore,May 29: Inhaling air exposed to `bidi’ or cigarette smoke is more hazardous to health than contracting a disease from a garbage dump!
At the launch of a study titled `Current science of tobacco’, director of Healis Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health P C Gupta said tobacco is the single largest cause of death in India, more than HIV/AIDS, TB or malaria combined.
“Smoking kills 9 lakh people per year. The challenge is to protect India’s young population of 600 million people below 30 years,” he explained.
Washington, May 15: The recession might be a little less painful for some Americans, who won’t lose their prescription medications if they lose their jobs.
Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it will give away more than 70 of its most widely prescribed drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra, for up to a year to people who have lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been taking the drug for three months or more. The announcement comes as the unemployment rate topped 8.9 percent in April.
New Delhi, May 01: This could be the worst health crisis facing the world in 90 years.
With the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday raising its People wait outside a mobile clinic in Mexico City to get tested for swine flu. (Reuters Photo)
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