Keep your brain younger and healthy by doing aerobics everyday

By STAFF Writer
March 02 — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine published a report saying brain stays younger by doing aerobic activities. It’s study shows that all those elderly people who were physically active had healthier cerebral vessels.
An intensive research by using non-invasive magnetic resonance, conducted by Neurosurgery professor Elizabeth Bullitt, [...]

Could The Flu Be The Next Big Epidemic?

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
People have scared you by detailing the real dangers of the flu, are you wondering if you need a shot for it? There are plenty of reasons to get one. But surprisingly, most adults choose not to. Why? The reason may lie in the misconceptions.

Rumor has it that you will catch the flu [...]

Vaccine To Prevent HIV+ Tuberculosis

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
New Delhi, Feb. 1 – After a long hard trial of seven years in Africa, Scientists have come up with a vaccine that is successful to reduce rate of TB infection by almost 39%. TB is the disease, which catches HIV infected people most contagiously. In India, it has been reported that almost [...]

Rickets Makes A Comeback In UK With Video Games

By SUNIL Sonkar
Newcastle, Jan. 22 — Social networking websites and video games have been blamed for rise in rickets cases among children says a published article on Metro of UK. The report mentions that spending hours on computers have put the youngsters almost always indoor and hence they suffer from lack of vitamin D.

According to [...]

Puff Punches… Smokers Have It Rough

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
Jan. 10 — We all know smoking kills. Smoking can cause cancer, respiratory diseases, stroke, and other diseases. But in a recent reports, it has said that smoking can result into some lesser known health hazards that are more prone to catch than common ailments.

Root canal infection. Smokers are 70% more likely [...]

India to fetch and mold doctors for a healthy future

By NIMY Sara Joy
NEW DELHI, India- Government is to take care to India’s health by fetching and molding doctors for rural India. A rural medical course is suggested to institute by the health ministry and the Medical council of India (MCI) in district hospitals. The course may be called as Bachelor of Rural Medicine and [...]

Deprive of sleep, dozing at work

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
Do not think you are the only one who doze off during your work. No, it is not just your problem but it is becoming a habit of en masse. Ninety three percent of Indians are sleep deprived and 11 percent actually fall asleep at work, says a latest report. Indians are not [...]

HIV vaccine clinical trials reaches final stage

By SUNIL Sonkar
CHENNAI, India: HIV/AIDS vaccine for phase one clinical trials that is being developed in India has now entered the final stage this month. Scientists from the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune, and the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Chennai, gave the last round of shots to the 32 candidates that have been enrolled [...]

Fasting before cholesterol test? No more

By NIMY Sara Joy
The number of tests propagated. But for majority, the long-established fasting cholesterol testing is the way to go.

It was thought the body needed time to remove fatty particles from the blood. Patients may not need to fast before having their cholesterol tested, a major report has found. After analyzing data from 300,000 [...]

Marathon Operation : 10 Transplants in 2 Days

Doctors and a few great donors in Gujarat created history with marathon transplant operations from cadaver donations in two days. 10 such organ transplants were successfully done in 48 hours.
Kins of four brain dead people in Gujarat decided to donate their kidneys and liver giving a fresh hope of life to 10 people. All the [...]

Asafoetida tackles the H1N1 Virus, Fights Swine Flu

Chinese Research Scientists have a found a break-through to tackle the deadly H1NI Virus. Fang-Rong Chang and Yang-Chang Wu, the 2 lead scientists, identified the chemicals in the extracts of  the “Ferula Assa-foetida” plant to be more effective against the H1N1 virus than the antiviral drugs currently available for Swine flu.
This means that already many Indian [...]

Ghulam Nabi Azad appologises the family of first Swine flu victim

Puna News: Ghulam Nabi Azad, Health minister, today apologised to the family of India’s first swine flu victim, Reeda Shaikh, for his remarks.
He told to the media, “I never intended to hurt Shaikh family in any way. I never meant to say the Reeda spread H1N1 infection in Pune.”
Ghulam Nabi Azad’s apology came [...]

17th swine flu case in India

In India the number of cases of swine flu is on an increase. It has now climbed up to 17 as of now. The Union health ministry has fwarned of a spurt in number of cases after the monsoon.
Naresh Dayal, the health secretary said, “They say that the H1N1 group of viruses proliferate more [...]

Manmohan Singh says BJP does not understand economic issues

Now Prime Minister Manmohan Singh brings an apparent attack on BJP. Singh said the parties whose politics is based on religion cannot take India forward and he insisted that it is only the Congress party that is capable of dealing with “big challenges” facing the nation.
He said this while addressing to a public meeting [...]

BRAF Gene Damage Identified as a Cause of the Skin Cancer

One of the main risk factors for skin cancer is severe sunburn. It is ultraviolet light (mainly UV-B) from the sun (or other sources like lights in tanning salons) that causes damage of DNA and thus skin cancer.
Damage of BRAF gene in skin cells may be responsible for developing melanoma type of skin cancer in human (according to finding of [...]

Culling of birds in Nadia, West Bengal from tomorrow

After reports of deaths of birds due to bird flu disease in Nadia district, the authorities on Saturday decided to cull chicken in some villages in Ranaghat area of the district.
An official said that the culling will begin on Sunday as samples of dead chicken from the area tested positive for H5N1 virus.
Measures to contain [...]

Kidney Robbers

As grizzly details of the Gurgaon kidney racket tumble out, the question that agitates the minde the most is as to how such a heinous crime could go on for so many years in the Millenium City right under the nose of the Police. The sheer scale of this inhuman operation takes one’s breath away. [...]

Eating large fish make kids increases the risk of mercury poisoning

Health experts say that eating large fish like swordfish, marlin & shark may make young children increases the risk of mercury poisoning.This proposition comes along with reports that high levels of mercury, linked to developmental delay & brain problems, have been found in three chilren in Sydney, Australia.
Health officials have disclosd that the effected children, [...]