Health

 Take extra care to protect food in summer and keep bacteria at bay. Saurabh Arora, founder of www.foodsafetyhelpine.com, shares tips on food safety and hygiene: * Maintain hygiene: Wash hands before cooking and after handling raw meat, fish and poultry. Dry hands with a clean towel. Make a habit of wearing an apron in the kitchen. Avoid cooking and touching ...

Longer the secondary schooling significantly lowers the risk of HIV infection, especially for girls, claims a new study. Harvard researchers conducted a research in Botswana, and found that for each additional year of secondary school, students lowered their risk of HIV infection by 8 percentage points about a decade later, from 25 percent to about 17 percent infected. It could ...

Our patients feel lucky for the food they are offered, revealed our Come Dine With Us initiative ran at The Royal London Hospital on 17 July 2015. Come Dine With Us runs on wards across our hospitals, inviting friends and families of patients to dine with their loved ones for an afternoon in order for us to receive valuable information about ...

Children who benefit from a good memory are much better at covering up lies, University of Sheffield researchers have discovered. Experts found a link between verbal memory and covering up lies following a study which investigated the role of working memory in verbal deception amongst children.?? The study saw six to seven year old children presented with the opportunity to ...

Plans to create more seven-day services across the NHS in England are being put in jeopardy because of cuts to senior nurse posts, union leaders have warned. Official data shows the number of nurses employed in the two most senior grades have fallen by 3% since 2010. The Royal College of Nursing said senior nursing roles would be vital in ...

Radiotherapy for prostate cancer is an alternative to surgical treatment such as radical prostatectomy and over the years the results of this treatment has improved and currently the results seem to be comparable to surgery.New era of medical research and treatment with radiations began, following the ground-breaking discovery of radioactive elements radium and polonium by Madam Marie Curie. Radiation therapy ...

Patients are trying out pacemaker outside the skin before committing to invasive procedure and having a permanent implant. Professor Michael Giudici, director of arrhythmia services in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals said that patients have numerous concerns, such as body image issues, so this allows them to see the before and after, which helps them make ...

If you carelessly smoke around toddlers or while you are pregnant, chances are that your kids will end up with wider waist and a higher BMI by time they reach ten years of age. University of Montreal’s Professor Linda Pagani, who led the study, said that the children who had been intermittently or continuously exposed to smoke were likely to ...

A new study has revealed that exercise with a physiotherapist helps people with depression. Sahlgrenska Academy researcher evaluated exercise as add-on therapy to medicating with antidepressants. The study divided 62 individuals with diagnosed clinical depression into three groups, in which two participated in two different types of exercise with a physiotherapist twice a week for 10 weeks while the third, ...

In a new study, scientist have found that a bad night’s sleep could trigger health risks equivalent to that of smoking. The research shows that people who sleep for less than seven hours were up to four times more likely to suffer a stroke and doubled their risk of a heart attack, reported the Daily Express. Professor Valery Gafarov, of ...