An unnamed disease recently made headlines in the UK after a five-year-old girl was diagnosed with it. The disease is nothing short of riddle for the doctors and scientists, and symptoms are so overlapping with other common health conditions that it has not been universally named. Some call it DiGeorge syndrome or alternatively Shprintzen syndrome […]
One of the most prolific and beloved political figures of India, Sushma Swaraj suffered a massive cardiac on Tuesday night and left the whole country in grief. The untimely death of the former foreign minister has triggered a wave of shock and disbelief with emotional tributes pouring in from all the sects of the society. […]
Drinking an extra cup of coffee — or other caffeinated beverage — could up the odds of a migraine among those prone to getting them, a new study suggests. Harvard researchers found that having a third cup of coffee, for example, if you regularly drink one to two, might trigger an extreme headache, according to […]
Washington D.C: Consuming flavonoid-rich items such as apples and tea protects against cancer and heart disease, particularly for smokers and heavy drinkers, suggests a recent research. Researchers from Edith Cowan Universit’s School of Medical and Health Sciences analysed data from the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort that assessed the diets of 53,048 Danes over […]
Cervical cancer could be eliminated as a public health problem in India within the next 60 years by making existing prevention programmes such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and cervical screening more accessible, according to a Lancet study published Wednesday. The study, led by researchers at the Cancer Council New South Wales in Australia, […]
A pulse indicates life. The pulse, the breath and the pumping of the heart is the center of one’s existence And so it goes without saying that monitoring the pressure with which the blood comes through your veins is of utmost importance .Hypertension is a condition that sees a higher pressure in the blood that […]
Next time when you eat an apple for extra fibre, flavonoids and flavour, remember that you are also gulping down about 100 million bacteria, and whether these are good or bad microbes may depend on how the apples were grown. Most microbes are inside the apple but the strains depend on which bits you eat, […]
Are you a healthy person? You’d possibly like to answer this in the affirmative and one guess as to how you would arrive at that answer is by thinking about how many times you have visited the doctor. Correct? So, if you think you are a healthy individual, then congratulations, that’s what most people want. […]
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), which claims the lives of both men & women, is a disease in which cholesterol deposits on the inner wall of heart blood vessels. These blood vessels carry oxygen to heart. When plaque builds up, the oxygen does notreach heart in adequate amount resulting in chest pain & heart attack. CAD […]
CHICAGO: Many patients with severe but stable heart disease who routinely undergo invasive procedures to clear and prop open clogged arteries would do as well by just taking medications and making lifestyle changes, reported U.S. researchers. If adopted into practice, the findings could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in healthcare costs, researchers […]