Working out makes you healthier and happier in the long run. But your fitness routine could be damaging your skin and hair! Know what to do before, while and after workout to make your skin look radiant and hair healthy. Capital-based dermatologist Kiran Lohia recommends a few tips for keeping you gorgeous during your fitness […]
New Delhi, July 26 Stopping tobacco use and adopting a healthy lifestyle can prevent almost 80 percent of head and neck cancer cases in India, say doctors. Head and neck cancer cases account for 30 and 10 percent of total cancers in males and females respectively between 2007 and 2011, according to a consolidated report […]
The number of people killed by the Ebola virus in west Africa has reached 11,261, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. A total of 27,643 cases of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported since the outbreak of the disease. The maximum number of Ebola-related deaths has been registered in Liberia (4,806 […]
Tripura has imposed a total ban on the use, manufacture, import, storage and sale of plastic bags in the state in view of its harmful effect on the environment, official said here on Tuesday. The decision was taken under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, and the Plastics Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, Tripura State […]
Healing times for skin ulcers and bedsores particularly among diabetics and the elderly can be reduced by a third with the use of low-intensity ultrasound, a study says. The low-intensity ultrasound that transmits vibration through the skin and wakes up cells in wounds, helps to stimulate and accelerate the healing process. The ultrasound treatment also […]
Scientists have developed a new approach to develop highly-potent drugs which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in patients. The study that appeared in Nanomedicine identified a new mechanism of targeting multi-subunit complexes that are critical to the function of viruses, bacteria or cancer. Thus the mechanism will reduce or […]
Children of Rohingya Muslims, one of the world’s most persecuted communities who have been living on the outskirts of Delhi for some three years, are falling prey to diseases, including lung infections and severe skin allergies, due to bio-medical waste being dumped by two prominent hospitals in front of their camp, enquiries by IANS have […]
Researchers have discovered that supplementing existing antiretroviral therapy with a natural compound can reduce the potency of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), thereby halting the progression of AIDS. HIV-infected patients remain on antiretroviral therapy for life because the virus survives over the long-term in infected dormant cells. Interruption of current types of antiretroviral therapy results […]
A drug given to arthritis sufferers could be used to treat patients with blood cancer, say researchers from University of Sheffield in Britain. The discovery may open up cost effective treatment options for people suffering from the blood cancer myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) across the world as the anti-inflammatory medicine is one thousandth of the cost […]
Anxious parents are more likely to have anxious children, a study on rhesus monkeys has revealed. It added that the risk of developing anxiety and depression is passed from parents to children. An over-active brain circuit involving three brain areas inherited from generation to generation may set the stage for developing anxiety and depressive disorders, […]