Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Koshy's fined, shut down for 4 hours

Koshy

Koshy's fined, shut down for 4 hours

Bengaluru: One of the landmark restaurants in the city, Koshy's, on St. Mark's Road, was slapped with a penalty of Rs 25,000 and ordered to shut by the BBMP on Tuesday for lack of hygiene in the kitchen and storeroom. However, by Tuesday evening, the ...
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​'Eating vitamin A pills, deworming doesn't cut child mortality'

Two so-called magic bullets of the international health community's armoury — pre-school vitamin A supplementation, assumed to reduce child mortality by a quarter and intestinal deworming, assumed to improve child nutrition, growth, and cognitive ...
Music, massage, naps key to sound sleep

Music, massage, naps key to sound sleep

Stressing the need to sleep for moderate durations, a Chinese study has urged people to avoid overuse of networking devices and turn to soothing music, massage, and naps for a better sleep. The Chinese people sleep on an average of eight hours and 50 ...
High doses of statins could damage kidney

High doses of statins could damage kidney

Statins that are taken daily by millions of people to control cholesterol could dramatically increase the risk of kidney damage, researchers have warned. They said that high doses of the wonder drugs, prescribed to prevent heart disease and stroke, are linked ...
Health Min

Health Min's BRHC runs into rough weather

The Health Ministry's plans to introduce a 3½ year rural health care course, tentatively called Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BRHC), aiming to meet the acute shortage of doctors in rural areas have run into rough weather. Citing opposition from various ...
Sugary soft drinks claim 180000 lives worldwide: Study

Sugary soft drinks claim 180000 lives worldwide: Study

Sugary soft drinks claim 180,000 lives worldwide: Study Washington: Sugar- sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks may be associated with about 180,000 deaths around the world each year, according to a research. The study presented at the ...
Anxiety may give you a heart attack

Anxiety may give you a heart attack

Patients with heart disease who have anxiety have twice the risk of dying from any cause compared to those without anxiety, a new study has revealed. Researchers said that patients with both anxiety and depression have tripled the risk of dying.
Drinking coffee may help you live longer (but you

Drinking coffee may help you live longer (but you'll have to go to Greece to drink it)

But a new study has found that drinking certain types of coffee could also help you to live longer. Researchers studied the elderly inhabitants of Greek Island Ikaria, who boast the highest rates of longevity in the world. Findings: A new study has found that ...