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2 more victim of swine flu in Chandigarh

November 25, 2009 Health

Chandigarh: Health officials said 2 more people died of swine flu at Chandigarh hospital. With this, the number of deaths due to swine flu here has gone to six.

The victims of the H1NI virus have been identified as Jagdev Singh, 51, of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, and Amandeep, 42, of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
All victims were [...]

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Inexpensive food and sugary soda leads to morbid obesity

November 25, 2009 Health

New Delhi: A study conducted by Loyola University Health System has found that 62.4 per cent of U.S. adults with Type 2 diabetes are obese, while 20.7 per cent are morbidly obese.

Dr. Holly Kramer, associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, who headed the [...]

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High intensity exercise reduces stroke risk

November 25, 2009 Health

New Delhi: According to a new research in New York, it was found that men who did moderate to high intensity exercise were almost two-thirds less likely than sedentary men to suffer a stroke caused by a blood clot – the most common form of stroke. Lighter exercise, such as walking, did not show this [...]

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Lifeclinic’s automated health stations in India

November 24, 2009 Health

New Delhi: With the need for increasing medical services worldwide, Lifeclinic International, the largest manufacturer of health stations in the world, is in talks with an India-based healthcare company to launch 100 health centres in Andhra Pradesh.
Lifeclinic’s automated health stations help identify early risk factors in chronic diseases and prevent progression.
“This would be a pilot [...]

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More exposed to germs in childhood, better for immune system later

November 24, 2009 Health

New Delhi: The old belief that more germs a child is exposed to during early childhood, the better their immune system in later life got a biological backing.
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California found that being too clean could impair the skin’s ability to heal.
The San Diego-based team discovered that [...]

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Children and teenagers also advised to exercise

November 24, 2009 Health

New Delhi: Nowadays high blood pressure and other heart disease risk factors are now becoming common amongst children and teenagers as well. It is advised for children and teenagers also to exercise to keep the blood pressure level on check.

To investigate, researchers followed 1,293 boys and girls who were 12 to 13 years old [...]

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999 cases of dengue in the Capital

November 23, 2009 Health

New Delhi: Delhi records a total of 999 cases of dengue so far during the season including new seven in the last 24 hours.

Debashish Bhattacharya, state nodal officer for dengue cases
informed, “Seven new cases were recorded within last 24 hours
and with that dengue cases in Delhi have reached 999.”
Two death cases, one of a [...]

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MSACS set to establish 62 ART centers in Maharashtra

November 21, 2009 World

Mumbai: The Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) is going to set up 62 ART centers in the state for the patients as antiretroviral treatment (ART) remains the only hope for them.

NARI, National AIDS Research Institute has enrolled 500 patients in the ART programme free of cost out of which only four required second line [...]

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Man survived after a ten hour surgery

November 21, 2009 Health

Chennai: A 68-year-old man, who was suffering from a rare lung disorder recovered after a long surgery at the Wockhardt Hospital of the city on November 7.
He had unbearable pain in his knee,back and chest with difficulty in walking and swallowing food.
“He was losing blood in the chest (plural cavity) and on opening it, the [...]

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Jairam Ramesh speaks hard facts about Indian cities being dirty and filthy

November 21, 2009 Health

New Delhi: In India around 8 lakh people die because of pollution of air, water and land, and the cost of such deaths is Rs 2,00,000 crore.

In lieu of this report Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said “Our cities are the dirtiest of the world. If there is a Nobel Prize for dirt and [...]

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