Health & Food

New York, Mar 24: At least 2.5 hours of weekly exercise may help people suffering from Parkinson’s disease by improving their mobility impairment and health-related quality of life, a study has showed. “We found that people with Parkinson’s disease who maintained exercise 150 minutes per week had a smaller decline in quality of life and mobility over two years compared to people who did not...

New Delhi, Mar 23: For those suffering with age-related (degenerative) arthritis of the knee, a stage comes when all the reasonable non-operative options stops working. Here's when the option of surgery comes into the picture. Dr J Maheshwari, Director and Chief of Knee & Shoulder Service and Head, Max Smart Super Specialty Hospital, Saket said that one common option suggested is knee replacement...

Washington, Mar 18: A study reveals that girls, who experience physical abuse early in life, may hit puberty eight to 12 months earlier than their non-abused peers, thus increasing their chances of developing depression, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy. According to researchers, sexual abuse in particular forces the children to physically mature at a faster rate, which is linked to breast...

Mar 17: Addressing the healthcare needs of the country, the government proposed National Health Policy 2017, which aims at providing affordable healthcare for all. The policy proposed free drugs, free diagnostics and free emergency care services in all public hospitals as part of financial protection at secondary and tertiary care levels. It hopes to achieve the highest level of good health and...

New Delhi, Mar 16: Indians are among the poorest sleepers in the world, clocking in an average of 6.55 hours of sleep a night, a report by fitness solutions firm Fitbit said today. Among the 18 countries surveyed, India was only ahead of Japan, which saw its residents getting 6.35 hours of sleep on an average. People in New Zealand, the UK and Australia seemed to get the most sleep on average per...

Los Angeles, Mar 15: A lotion enriched with the body's own beneficial bacteria may help protect against skin infections such as eczema, a new study claims. Researchers from University of California, San Diego in the US took bacterial samples from patients' skin, picked out certain species and cultured them in a lab, and then put these bacteria into a lotion. They found that, for five patients with...

London, Mar 14: Despite giving you sleepless nights, constant worry and financial headaches, parenthood may be key to having a longer life, particularly in older age when health and capacity start to decline, a new study has claimed. By the age of 60, the difference in life expectancy, which does not seem to be influenced by the sex of the children, may be as much as two years, the findings...

Mar 13: The ability to perform astonishing feats of memory, such as remembering lists of several dozen words, can be learned, according to a team of researchers. After 40 days of daily 30-minute training sessions using a strategic memory improvement technique, individuals who had typical memory skills at the start and no previous memory training more than doubled their memory capacity, going from...

Washington, Mar 12: Children who are bullied may experience lifelong health effects related to chronic stress exposure such as increased risk for heart disease and diabetes in adulthood, new research has found. Recent advances in understanding of the negative health effects of chronic stress highlight a pressing need to clarify the longer-term health implications of childhood bullying, researchers...

Berlin, Mar 12: Walking or jogging may help cancer patients cope better with the side effects of chemotherapy, a new study has found. Exercise as a therapy to complement chemotherapy has a positive effect on muscles, balance and tumour-related fatigue syndrome, researchers said. Patients tolerate the therapy better and experience less disease recurrence (relapses) later on. This has already been...