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If your boss is giving you a hard time, lying, making fun of you in public and humiliating you, he or she is likely to benefit from some exercise. A new study by James Burton from Northern Illinois University shows that stressed supervisors, struggling with pressures, vent their frustrations on their employees less when they get regular, moderate exercise. Burton [...]
Food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature death, but the same is not true of solid or reused oils. While eating lots of fried food can increase some heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity, a link between fried food and heart disease has not been [...]
The Chhattisgarh High Court Tuesday issued notice to the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on botched eye operations in September that left several aged persons blinded in one eye. The high court, which is based at Bilaspur town, some 100 km from Raipur, issued the notice as it took up a public interest litigation (PIL) on the issue. The [...]
Even as the health ministry continues to be in a denial mode over cases of totally-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) surfacing in Mumbai, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) Tuesday urged stakeholders working on the deadly disease to scale up services. “There is an urgent and critical need to scale up services, by stakeholders working for TB care. TB needs to be actively [...]
People who feel powerful tend to overestimate their own stature, feeling larger than they actually are. “Maybe there’s a physical experience that goes along with being powerful,” says Jack A. Goncalo of Cornell University, who co-wrote the paper with Michelle M. Duguid of Washington University. “For people who are less powerful, maybe other people and objects loom larger, and for [...]
Women suffer pain more intensely than men in virtually every disease category, according to an exhaustive analysis. Stanford University scientists based the findings on a novel database that examined more than 160,000 pain scores reported for more than 72,000 adult patients. “None of these data were initially collected for research, but this study shows that we can use it in [...]
A taste for Latin brew could be a potent and easy way of protecting oneself against the ravages of colon cancer. These cancer cells, when exposed to bioactive compounds present in a cup of the yerba mate tea, self-destruct — commit suicide or apoptosis, says a University of Illinois study. “The caffeine derivatives in mate tea not only induced death [...]
High fibre diets, surprisingly, may not protect gut health, but they do heighten your chances of developing diverticulosis. The condition is characterised by small bulging pouches forming on the inner lining of large intestine, trapping bits of stool and becoming infected. Sympoms include abdominal cramping, constipation and diarrhoea, linked with of difficulty in passing stools. More serious complications include collection [...]
Delhi’s satellite town Noida Monday became only the third city in the country where police will take action against noise pollution from generator sets, officials said. A statement from Noida police and civil society organisation Satya Foundation said anyone suffering from noise pollution due to a generator which has not been covered by a canopy can now complain to the [...]
Banning ads that promote junk foods among children is likely to cut down their consumption, says a study based on an experiment in a Canadian province. Canada had proscribed fast food ads in its Quebec province between 1984 and 1992, resulting between 11-22 million fewer fast-food meals being eaten per year, according to Kathy Baylis, an economist from the University [...]
A large number of people, believe it or not, continue to puff away merrily even after being diagnosed with lung and colorectal (large intestine) cancer. Putting a halt to smoking after a cancer diagnosis is important because it can negatively affect patients’ responses to treatments, their subsequent cancer risk and, potentially, their survival. Elyse R. Park from the Massachusetts General [...]
Physically challenged people in four districts of Haryana will not have to go to a hospital to get artificial limbs as a mobile van equipped with state-of-the-art machinery would provide these to them at their homes, an official said Sunday. The project, called the Sakshanta Mission, has been started in the districts of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mewat and Palwal. It has [...]
The case of a pregnant 11-year-old girl, whose mother asked a court to give her daughter permission to have her pregnancy interrupted – but later unexpectedly dropped the petition, has renewed the controversy in Argentina about legalizing abortion. Non-governmental organizations spoke Friday about the possibilty that pressure had been put on the family of the girl, now three months pregnant, [...]
A nail has been removed from an American man’s brain which he hadn’t known was there, The Telegraph reported Saturday. Chicago’s Dante Autullo was recovering after undergoing surgery Friday at the Advocate Christ Medical Centre in Oak Lawn. Autullo thought his doctors were joking, and that he had merely cut himself with a nail gun while building a shed. The [...]
As many as three in four individuals in Fiji are physically inactive, a situation which is causing rise in health risks for them, the government has said. According to Fiji’s National Advisor on Non-Communicable Disease, Isimeli Tukana, the lifestyle in this Fijian generation has changed a lot, especially for the younger population that have been influenced by technology, Xinhua reported. [...]
Expenditure on health as a proportion of GDP continues to be among the world’s lowest. India’s health indicators do not match our recent economic performance. Public expenditure on health as a proportion of GDP continues to be among the world’s lowest. The crib deaths in West Bengal, the misuse of NRHM funds in Uttar Pradesh, the poor state of maternity [...]
You can scan bar codes, see what’s in a food item and switch to a healthier choice in an instant, thanks to a new mobile application. FoodSwitch, an Australian-first iPhone app, has been launched recently to help shoppers make healthier food choices and reduce high levels of fat, salt and sugar from their diets. “FoodSwitch’s three-step approach marries the latest [...]
Exposure to a class of chemicals known as phthalates, found in personal care products, could be triggering obesity in young children and waist circumference. Phthalates are man-made, endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can mimic the body’s natural hormones. They are commonly used in plastic flooring and wall coverings, food processing materials, medical devices, and personal-care products. A growing body of research suggests [...]
The government Friday denied reports that a drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) had surfaced in Mumbai. A team of experts sent to Mumbai rejected the report, an official statement said. “The reported cases by Hinduja hospital fall only within the category of Extensively Drug Resistant TB (XDR TB) based on standard WHO definitions and not at all as Totally Drug Resistant [...]
A new Centre for Advanced Research for Innovation in Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences will be set up here, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced Friday. The centre will come up at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) with support for manpower development as well as projects on translational research from the Indian Council for [...]
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