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Sydney, Sep 30 (IANS) ‘Early to bed and early to rise’ could be the key to staying lean and more active than night-owls during one’s youth, even though both groups may be getting the same amount of sleep, new research says. The study recorded the bed times and wake times of 2,200 participants, aged nine to 16 years, and compared [...]
Britons seem to be doing away with their traditional good manners, as a survey has found two out of three people in Britain wouldn’t mind answering a call on their cellphone despite being on a dinner date. According to a poll, carried out by mobile phone firm Recombu, once revered for our good manners, Britain has become more ‘Rude Britannia’ [...]
Don’t be surprised if you lose your mental acuity after bingeing on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks while cramming for your midterms and finals at the college. A new University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose (fruit sugar) slows the brain, hampering [...]
One in eight deaths of British adults under the age of 64 is caused due to alcohol, an international conference on tackling problem drinking has been told. For every European, the social cost of alcohol abuse has been estimated to be 240 pounds a year, with the annual bill for the National Health Service (NHS) alone being 2.7 billion pounds, [...]
Young men who play load bearing games such as volleyball and basketball for four hours a week or more increase bone mass, which may ensure protection from osteoporosis later in life, says a study. The study, the largest scale investigation of its kind, discovered that young men who actively resisted the urge to adopt a “couch-potato” lifestyle in their late [...]
Multiple signalling channels within the brain ensure that they don’t overload the organ with too much traffic at their busiest roundabouts and keep it healthy and fit, say researchers. “Many neurological and psychiatric conditions are likely to involve problems with signalling in brain networks,” says study co-author Maurizio Corbetta, professor of neurology at Washington University. “Examining the temporal structure of [...]
With more than 10,000 thalassemic children being born in India every year, experts believe that the largely incurable blood disorder can be easily prevented through greater awareness. May 8 is globally celebrated as ‘International Thalassemia Day’. It is an inherited blood disorder in which the red blood cells contain a reduced amount of haemoglobin, or in severe cases, a lack [...]
Low testosterone levels in males could elevate their risk of developing diabetes, says a new study. The findings from the University of Edinburgh could also help explain why older men are more at risk of developing diabetes, because testosterone levels fall in men as they age. Kerry McInnes, from the Edinburgh’s endocrinology unit, said: “This study shows that low testosterone [...]
The Planning Commission in their document- “Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth: An Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan”, aims at raising the total public health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the Twelfth Plan. According to World Health Statistics 2011 published by World Health Organization (WHO), the total expenditure on health as a percentage of [...]
“About 85 to 90 per cent of children suffer relapse because they never adhere to instructions. Correct treatment and lifestyle modifications are enough to manage and even treat asthma. But, public have stigmatised inhalers and they do not follow instructions of the physicians properly,” senior paediatrician P. Sudershan Reddy, said on the eve of World Asthma Day. The most common [...]
Aging may be inevitable, but staying physically and mentally active is the key to maintaining a youthful brain, says a new study. “Although some memory functions do tend to decline as we get older, several elderly show well preserved functioning and this is related to a well-preserved, youth-like brain,” says Lars Nyberg of the Umeå University in Sweden who led [...]
Gorging on food can cause obesity, but the fear of not having enough food may also lead to the same result, says a new study. According to researchers, being worried about not having enough food to feed one’s family, a situation called food insecurity, is common in low-income families. These families too are often are overweight. Food insecure mothers also [...]
In an incident which appears be a perfect plot for any reality-based fiction work, an American college dropout after being brutally attacked by a group of street robbers has turned a mathematics genius. It happened after 41-year-old Jason Padgett’s brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. He was left concussed after being ambushed outside a karaoke club and [...]
Healthcare experts today called for promoting complimentary and alternative medicines which they said can open new vistas in science and cater to a large segment of population by focusing on good nutrition and preventive practices. However, jurisdictions where alternative practices are sufficiently widespread should be licensed and regulated, they said at a conference organised by The Associated Chambers of Commerce [...]
Eating ice cream or really chilled soft drinks can trigger crushing headaches in some people, momentarily freezing the brain. New insight into how this happens could open the way for new treatment of other types of headaches, including migraine. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School tracked blood flow to the brain while people drank iced water or lukewarm water. Both [...]
Online porn is linked to a quarter of mental illnesses among kids, British researchers have claimed. The figure was revealed as Prime Minister David Cameron Sunday signalled his support for a web clampdown on extreme images. According to London’s Portman clinic, a National Health Survey (NHS) outpatient psychotherapy clinic, use of porn features in 26.5 percent of young patients. It [...]
Dark chocolate, rich in flavanols, may reduce the risk against cardiovascular diseases by lowering blood pressure, blood flow and improving blood lipid levels, says a new study. Flavanols, compounds also found in grapes, berries and apples, counteract the role of rogue oxygen molecules known as free radicals which not only damage healthy cells, but also alter cellular DNA and are [...]
A history of binge eating — consuming large amounts of food in a short period of time — may prompt an individual to show other addictive behaviour, including substance abuse. “Drug addiction persists as a major problem in the United States,” said Patricia Sue Grigson, professor of neural and behavioural Sciences, from Penn State College of Medicine, who led the [...]
Children who suffer physical abuse are likely to harbour suidical thoughts as adults, a new study from the University of Toronto has said. According to the report, nearly one-third of such adults were found to be seriously contemplating suicide. This was five times more than those adults who were not physically abused in childhood. “This research provides important new knowledge [...]
Today, the partners leading efforts to control measles announce a new global strategy aimed at reducing measles deaths and congenital rubella syndrome to zero. The announcement comes with the publication of new data using a state-of-the-art methodology showing that accelerated efforts to reduce measles deaths have resulted in a 74% reduction in global measles mortality, from an estimated 535 300 [...]
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