Low vitamin D may cause death In people with low blood levels of vitamin D, boosting them with supplements more than halved a person’s risk of dying from any cause compared to someone who remained deficient, in a large new study. Analyzing data on more than 10,000 patients, University of Kansas researchers found that 70 […]
Nov 26 2011 | Posted in
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First artificial windpipe graft has been a huge success The word’s first artificial windpipe transplant has been such a success that a second operation has been carried out and a third is being planned, The Lancet reported on Thursday. Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene, a 36-year-old Eritrean, is doing well after undergoing the ground-breaking operation in Stockholm […]
Nov 25 2011 | Posted in
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Mental Fatigue Fatigue, whether it is mental, that is caused by mental or nervous work caused by physical or muscular work is a peculiar individual state, and is characterized by conscious phenomena and objective phenomena. The first are the feelings of fatigue, tiredness or exhaustion, which together with various complaints, subjective fatigue is part of the call, the latter consisting of a decrease in performance (quantity, quality, or both). Mental fatigue is caused by prolonged mental effort in activities that require close attention, as well as emotional issues, hormonal […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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Pollution increase the risk of diabetes People who live in areas with high levels of traffic-related air pollution may face a slightly increased risk of developing diabetes, Danish researchers conclude in a new study. They found that people living in urban areas with high levels of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant found in traffic exhaust, were […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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TATINS reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness TATINS safely reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness even years after treatment is stopped, according to a probe into the popular cholesterol-busters published today. Statins work by blocking a liver enzyme that makes fatty molecules, which line arterial walls and increase the danger of heart disease and strokes. […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Hi-tech scanner could be used to probe causes of death A study in The Lancet has revealed that Hi-tech medical scanners could be used to probe causes of death, reducing the need for invasive autopsies that can upset bereaved families, In Britain, post-mortems are ordered in about a fifth of deaths, notably where crime is […]
Nov 22 2011 | Posted in
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Health studies have found that eating nuts reduces low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Not only that, it also improves the blood lipids profile. The results were found after an analysis of 25 trials. Nuts are a matrix of healthy nutrients, which contain fiber, vegetable protein, phytoesterols and other antioxidants, and ignite the cholesterol-lowering effect due to […]
Nov 22 2011 | Posted in
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UNAIDS confirms live-saving drugs have dramatically increased HIV patients In its annual report on the pandemic, United Nations AID programme (UNAIDS) has confirmed that more people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years. In […]
Nov 21 2011 | Posted in
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Normal weight people eat more than overweight In a new study, it has been proved that overweight adults eat less than the normal weight people adults, including those who had lost a lot of weight in the recent past. Researchers following about 250 people for a year found that overweight individuals ate fewer snacks in […]
Nov 19 2011 | Posted in
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In Pakistan, tea is more of a greeting. Guests get tea as a compulsory, rather tea is the first thing served and snacks are by the side. However, typical tea slowly being replaces by green tea and other flavours of herbal tea. Yet, people who are addicts stick on the same plain Lipton tea. Researchers […]
United States Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has urged the business tycoons of Asia to step forward and help the poor and hunger-stricken nations all over the globe. He was addressing to the executives at an Asian investment conference, held in Bali, Indonesia, this Friday. “While Asia gains in power and influence, it has not yet […]
Smokers are messing up with probability of their quality life, they are no more independent. It is best for them that they crawl out of their denial-phase, in which they say that smoking for them is a means of socialising alone. Snap out of it! It’s just Nicotine’s call you cannot dare to leave unattended. […]