Bengaluru, With increasing cases of cancer across the country, the medical fraternity and policy planners face the challenge of mitigating and preventing the dreaded disease, President Pranab Mukherjee said here on Wednesday. “Official data reveals one in 15 men and one in 12 women in urban areas face cancer risk in their life time. With […]
Panaji, Vices such as AIDS and drug addiction are against the Indian tradition and should be tackled effectively, Goa Governor Mridula Sinha said in her address on the eve of the state’s Liberation Day. “On the social front, we have to keep Goa away from evils such as crime, drug addiction and AIDS. These vices […]
Everyone should observe the following rules of food intake. Ayurved has explained ten rules for food intake and it is described in Charak Samhita. Intake of food should be warm – Warm food is delicious after intake and it helps digestive fire to digest the food properly. Intake of food should be unctuous – Slightly […]
The company hopes the range of topical lotions and washes, called Bio3 Guardian, will provide their main revenue stream and has plans to take the innovation to the global healthcare market. According to independent tests, the products are fast-acting and effective at killing golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus), a prevalent superbug that led to 1621 hospital-acquired […]
New Delhi, The union health ministry on Tuesday said there was nothing to worry about after a two-year-old child from Delhi was diagnosed with a rare vaccine-derived polio virus type 2 (VDPV2) in the first week of November. The case was detected in Harsh Vihar area in Shahdara. “One should not be worried about the […]
New York People who are effortlessly slim eat fruit, dairy, cereal and granola for breakfast, revealed a new study. Researchers from the Cornell University wanted to find out what people who are naturally thin, and have never struggled with weight problems eat. The study found that more than a third ate salad for lunch every […]
According to the Joint United Nations’ Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), there were more than estimated 36 million people living with HIV at the end of 2014. In Australia, there were more than 23 thousand people living with diagnosed HIV infection in 2014. People from CALD backgrounds represented 40 per cent of new diagnoses in Australia […]
The second, and final, report from the Independent Review of Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation has been released. It highlights the importance of cutting red tape for the rapidly expanding complementary medicines sector, while improving access to information for consumers and health professionals to inform their health and health expenditure decisions. This is important to […]
New York, Daily exercise can protect the brain against decline as we age, finds researchers after conducting an animal study. In lab tests with mice, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that exercise helped boost levels of an enzyme called SIRT3 which may protect against stressors that contribute to brain cell energy loss. In tests […]
New York, Three to five cups of coffee a day may lower the risk of dying prematurely from some illnesses than those who do not drink or drink less coffee, new research suggests. The researchers from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that drinkers of both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee saw benefits, […]