Health and Lifestyle

Melbourne, Dec 25: The end-of-the-year festive revelry raises the risk of heart attacks, claims a new study, citing difficult access to hospitals, stress, an excess of alcohol and fatty diet as probable reasons. Researchers from the University of Melbourne analysed 25 years’ of death records of heart attacks between Christmas and the first week of January, during summer in the southern hemisphere

Dec 24: Is stress at your workplace affecting your life? A new study finds that stressful jobs can make you find ways to solve problems and work through ways to get the work done, instead of making something debilitating, it can actually be something that is energising. A new study finds that stress in your office - concentrates the mind, keeps you alert, improves your efficiency and even hikes up

Dec 21: Regular use of over-the-counter non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen is associated with an increased risk of dying in patients diagnosed with a type of uterine cancer. “There is an increasing evidence that chronic inflammation is involved in endometrial cancer and progression and recent data suggests that inhibition of inflammation through NSAID use plays

Houston, Dec 20: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed an oral vaccine against Salmonella - the deadly bacteria responsible for one of the most common food-borne illnesses in the world. Oral vaccination is simplest and least invasive way to protect people against salmonella infection, researchers said. Taking this vaccine by mouth also has the added advantage of using the same

London, Dec 19: Skin plays a significant role in harbouring and transmitting a parasite that causes African sleeping sickness - a condition which is often fatal if left untreated, a new study has found. The study by researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland and the Institut Pasteur in France, may have a major impact on the way the disease is diagnosed, treated and potentially

Dec 17: Wrinkles, grey hair and niggling aches are normally regarded as an inevitable part of growing older, but now scientists claim that the ageing process may be reversible. The team showed that a new form of gene therapy produced a remarkable rejuvenating effect in mice. After six weeks of treatment, the animals looked younger, had straighter spines and better cardiovascular health, healed

Boston, Dec 14: The health benefits of playing the popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO are moderate and wear off after just six weeks, according to a new Harvard study. Pokemon Go improves physical activity among adults who use the game, but the effect is moderate and not sustained over time, researchers said. Results show that the daily average steps during the first week of installation

Houston, Dec 13: Intermittent fasting may inhibit the development and progression of the most common type of childhood leukaemia, a new study has claimed. The strategy is not effective, however, in another type of blood cancer that commonly strikes adults, researchers said. "This study using mouse models indicates that the effects of fasting on blood cancers are type-dependent and provides a

Mumbai, Dec 10: Wrapping food items in newspaper is bad for your health as its ink has multiple bio-active materials with known negative health effects, FSSAI said on Friday. "Wrapping food in newspapers is an unhealthy practice and the consumption of such food is injurious to health, even if the food has been cooked hygienically," the Food, Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) said in

Dec 8: Practicing yoga for one hour daily can reduce blood pressure in people with prehypertension, says a new study conducted by Indian researchers. The study was presented at the 68th Annual Conference of the Cardiological Society of India (CSI) in Kochi, India. "Patients with prehypertension (slightly elevated blood pressure) are likely to develop hypertension (high blood pressure) unless they