Hypertension Day observed today
Posted by admin on May 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment
ISLAMABAD: Today marks the World Hypertension Day 2012 across the world including Pakistan to promote public awareness of hypertension and to encourage citizens to prevent and control this silent killer.
The theme for year 2012 is Healthy lifestyle -healthy blood pressure.
Excercise on regular basis, a reduced intake of salt and controlled sugar level keep the blood pressure normal, says an expert Dr Naeem Mian while...
Revealing brain damage from battlefield to playing field
Posted by admin on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
NEW YORK: Traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is doubly cruel: it leaves many victims emotionally shattered and cognitively crippled. But because mild and moderate brain injuries do not show up on CT or other imaging, doctors and even family members are often skeptical that any real damage exists.
Now the first experiment of its kind documents exactly what “the invisible...
Baby with two heads operated successfully
Posted by admin on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
LAHORE: Doctors at a private hospital successfully operated two-headed baby and removed the extra head, Geo News reported.
The baby with two heads was born at a private hospital in the Joharabad area two days before.
The doctors at a local hospital removed the extra head of the baby after two hours efforts. According to doctors the condition of baby is out of danger now.
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High blood pressure affects 1 in 3 WHO
Posted by admin on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
GENEVA: One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organisation figures released on Wednesday.
Canada and the United States have the fewest patients, at less than 20 percent of adults, but in poorer countries like Niger the estimated figure is closer to 50 percent, the UN body said.
While wealthier countries have seen their cases drop thanks...
Insecticide resistance threatens malaria fight
Posted by admin on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
LONDON: Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting millions of lives at greater risk and threatening eradication efforts, health experts said on Tuesday.
While existing prevention measures such as mosquito nets treated with insecticide and indoor spraying are still effective, experts said tight surveillance and rapid response strategies were needed to prevent more resistance...
Scientists pinpoint schizophrenia genes
Posted by admin on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Scientists claimed Tuesday to have pinpointed the genes most responsible for schizophrenia in a breakthrough they say will allow better diagnosis and treatment of the debilitating mental illness.
In a study involving genetic information from thousands of schizophrenia patients as well as healthy controls, the researchers said they identified hundreds of genes that can show who is most at risk.
“We broke the...
Marijuana may ease multiple sclerosis symptoms study
Posted by admin on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment
NEW YORK: People with multiple sclerosis have long said that smoking marijuana helps ease their painful muscle cramping. And a new clinical trial suggests they are not just blowing smoke.
The study, published Monday, found that for 30 MS patients with muscle “spasticity,” a few days of marijuana smoking brought some relief.
But the big caveat, researchers say, is that it’s not clear that the downsides...
HIVAIDS patients at higher risk of cardiac death study
Posted by admin on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: People suffering from HIV/AIDS are at much higher risk than the general population of sudden cardiac death, researchers in California have found.
In a paper published Monday in the “Journal of the American College of Cardiology,” two professors at the University of California-San Francisco show incidents of “sudden cardiac death” to be four times higher for HIV/AIDS patients, a result...
Prenatal smoking tied to worse asthma in kids
Posted by admin on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment
NEW YORK: Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may have a tougher time controlling their asthma than other kids do, a new study suggests.
The findings, from a study of nearly 2,500 U.S. kids, add to evidence that prenatal smoking may affect children’s future lung health.
There are already plenty of reasons for women to quit smoking during, and ideally before, pregnancy, said lead researcher Sam Oh, of...
Preventable diseases still mowing down children
Posted by admin on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children younger than five in 2010, a paper in The Lancet medical journal said Friday.
A total 7.6 million children died in the first five years of their life that year, the authors said, and warned the world was not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
Two...
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