Hypertension alert: Healthy eating, regular exercise may reduce drug dependence
WASHINGTON D.C. [USA]: Patients with high blood pressure problems can reduce the need for antihypertensive medications within 16 weeks with the help of some lifestyle changes, according to a new…
Johnson & Johnson case: Parliament panel members lash out at CDSCO
Mumbai | New Delhi: Two members of a parliamentary panel that recommended an overhaul of India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) six years ago have accused the regulator of…
Stroke reduces self-confidence and leads to intimacy issues; survivors must open up
WASHINGTON DC: A recent study has found that stroke survivors struggle to openly discuss sexuality, while health professionals rarely address the topic during rehabilitation. According to the research, Stroke survivors…
Feeling sleepy during the day may trigger Alzheimer’s: Researchers
New York: In a significant finding, Johns Hopkins researchers have revealed that those who feel sleepy during the day are nearly three times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than…
Losing weight through diet, exercise in pregnancy safe: Study
New York: Pregnant women can safely limit their weight gain with diet and exercise interventions, the results of a group of trials by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
A new technique filters danger of impending stroke out
New Delhi: Mrs. Indira Sharma, aged 71, was at tipping point of an impending stroke. But for timely intervention through a new technique, she would have succumbed to the danger…
Now, steel could find new role as nano needle
VIJAYAWADA: Stainless steel, the versatile metal which has found wide applications, is now seen as the improbable candidate that can be used in brain surgeries, going by new research done…
HCA Healthcare to buy North Carolina’s Mission Health for $1.5 bln
HCA Healthcare Inc, the biggest hospital operator in the United States, said on Friday it would buy Mission Health, a non-profit health system in North Carolina, for about $1.5 billion.…
Nadda urges Odisha to implement Ayushman Bharat
Balangir (Odisha): Union Health Minister J P Nadda today urged the Odisha government to implement the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat scheme along with its own Biju Swastha Kalyan programme for better…
Three held for conning people through homemade medicines
New Delhi: Three persons have been arrested for cheating gullible people out of money by promising them cures for chronic and terminal diseases through homemade medicines, police said on Friday.…
