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Health Tip: Look good to feel good

The way you look is the way you feel. When you know that you look good your self confidence is boosted and what ever you do is done with extra zest. Even at work your performance improves and your interaction with others is with a touch of authority. To maintain such self confidence and well [...]

Health Tip: Eat healthy to stay healthy

Our food intake is the main source of deciding our health. If we eat right then we benefit and if we indulge in the wrong foods then we suffer with disorders like hypertension, diabetes and other problems. It is better to take care of our eating habits from an early age and ensure that our [...]

Health Tip: Lower your cholesterol levels

What you eat controls the way you feel and your general health. A high lipid profile will make you susceptible to cardio vascular diseases and there is danger of a stroke or heart attack. So change your eating habits and lower your cholesterol to remain in good health.
Starting the day with a bowl of oatmeal [...]

Health Tip: Increase your metabolic rate

To maintain your weight and stick to a normal diet without having to starve you have to make sure that your metabolic rate has not fallen too low. This happens automatically with aging, but sometimes wrong lifestyles also bring about a drop in metabolic rates. There are seven basic ways of maintaining a good metabolic [...]

Health News: Obesity and asthma may have a common link

AUGUST 31. OTAGO – If a team of researchers are to be believed, then there is a common link between two of the most common diseases of our times.
The team from University of Otago conducted a research to find whether people having obesity could have increased chances of being affected by asthma or not.
It was [...]

Health News: Stroke victims can benefit by walking on treadmill

AUGUST 31. BALTIMORE – The most popular and traditional way of treating stroke victims is using physiotherapy.
Stroke victims are often troubled by a walking disability, which is caused due to the harmful effect of a stroke on the brain.
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University have found out that people, who were affected [...]

Health News: Obesity can finally be treated through drugs

AUGUST 30. WASHINGTON DC – There are many individuals around the world troubled by increasing weight and obesity. They try to control their weight by doing exercise and following healthy diet regimens, but to no avail.

Recently, a group of researchers from reputed treatment centers of America have found that there is a certain [...]

Health News: Deafness may be cured by using gene therapy

AUGUST 30. PORTLAND – As scientists and researchers from different corners of the world are regularly trying to come up with new and better ways or health facts for improving problems troubling humans, several artificial and natural remedies have come into limelight.

Recently, it has been found that deafness can be cured by the [...]

Health News: Stroke risk in dementia patients taking antipsychotic drugs

AUGUST 29. LONDON – According to a report from British researchers, people, who are taking any antipsychotic drug, are more to have strokes in comparison to others not on treatment.
According to the researchers, such risks are higher, around 3-4 times, in case of individuals having dementia. This means that doctors should prescribe antipsychotic drug to [...]

Health News: Drugs did not cause death to children at AIIMS

AUGUST 29. NEW DELHI – After being accused for death of over 45 children during their clinical trial, AIIMS announced on Tuesday that the drugs they used have been tested ‘safe’.
They also felt that none of the children from specific social economic group.
After finding that the drugs during their trials were safe and not [...]

Health News: Research shows that incense sticks can cause cancer

AUGUST 28. COPENHAGEN - There are several users of incense sticks across the globe. But if the team of researchers at the Staten Serum Institute is to be believed, burning incense sticks can be harmful for your health.
It has been found in their studies that these sticks are responsible for causing respiratory tract cancers. When [...]

Health News: New virus found to curb the spread of malaria

AUGUST 28. BALTIMORE - A team of researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has supposedly found a virus that might tackle malaria.
This is a welcome news for people around the globe, as every year the disease causes a large number of deaths across the globe.
The Anopheles mosquito, which transmits malaria, has [...]

Health News: Face transplantation is possible now

AUGUST 27. PARIS - Based on the reports of a survey done by the famous English medical journal, the Lancet, it has been found that it is possible for those people, who have disfigured faces, to improve their looks by undergoing face transplant surgery.
This new surgery does not have too many side effects and thus [...]

Health News: Now judge a book by its cover

AUGUST 27. ONTARIO - It is often said that one should not judge a book by its cover. However, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Brock University show that this proverb may not be right in all contexts.
According to their study, it is possible to know whether a man is aggressive or not [...]

Health News: Antipsychotic medications increases the risk of death in aged patients

AUGUST 26. WASHINGTON - A recent study reveals that aged patients, who have been taking prescribed doses of conventional or the first-generation antipsychotic medication, are vulnerable to death due to respiratory or cardio vascular diseases.
This is not the same incase of the patients, who have been taking atypical or the second generation antipsychotic medications.
The study [...]

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