Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Eating dark chocolate can keep you calm: study

Eating dark chocolate can keep you calm: study

Eating dark chocolate can keep you calm: study

Here is a solution to keep your temper in check - bite into a piece of dark chocolate! Polyphenols in dark chocolate increase calmness and contentedness, a new study has found. Polyphenols are found naturally in plants and are a basic component of the ...
British minister to head health team to Chennai

British minister to head health team to Chennai

First, it was British Prime Minister David Cameron leading the largest ever trade delegation to India in February — his second since he took over office in 2010. Now, in a further endorsement of India's growing importance for the UK, a senior British cabinet ...
Go for regular check-ups to avoid asthma complications

Go for regular check-ups to avoid asthma complications

On the occasion of World Asthma Day, doctors advise asthma patients and those suffering from chest diseases to go for regular health check-ups to avoid any complications, including a possibility of sudden death. Speaking to Express, medical superintendent ...
Gene causing motor developmental delay identified

Gene causing motor developmental delay identified

In a discovery that would pave way for diagnosis and treatment of children with genetic diseases, a global team of researchers comprising two Delhi doctors has identified the causative gene behind the motor developmental delay in a four-year-old Indian ...
World Asthma Day: Reducing the burden of Asthma

World Asthma Day: Reducing the burden of Asthma

Asthma has become a common health issues around the globe at present due to increasing pollution and unhealthy lifestyle. Keeping this in mind, the increasing epidemic of Asthma across the world, World Asthma Day is being observed on May 7 every year ...
300000 babies die on the first day, each year in India

300000 babies die on the first day, each year in India

NEW DELHI, May 7 (AFP): More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis. India accounts for 29 ...
Sikkim moves to

Sikkim moves to 'catch' health problems

Preventive health checks! The exclusive preserve of the affluent in most parts of India but not in the hill state of Sikkim where the government-backed Comprehensive Annual and Total Check-up for Healthy (CATCH) programme aims to reach out to people ...
7 lakh children get measles vaccination

7 lakh children get measles vaccination

ALLAHABAD: After a series of hiccups, the health department has been successful in covering around 500 educational institutes including English medium schools under the Measles Catch-up Programme, administering anti-measles vaccines to more than 7 ...
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It's Time to Control Asthma

As per the records of World Health Organization (WHO), over 235 million people currently suffer from asthma and it is the most chronic disease among children. It is now a public health problem and considering its graveness, government and health-related ...