World AIDS Vaccine Day is celebrated every year on May 18 to raise awareness about the importance of finding a vaccine for HIV/AIDS.
The health experts say hypertension is manageable if one exercise regularly, controls their diet and avoid a sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle.
Hypertension is called a “silent killer”. Most people with hypertension are unaware of the problem because it may have no warning signs or symptoms.
While mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) has been increasingly incorporated in humanitarian settings, MHPSS is yet to be structurally and/or explicitly considered as part of conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts.
May 12 is also celebrated as the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
In India, 64 per cent use sanitary napkins, 50 per cent use cloth, and 15 per cent use locally prepared napkins, the report stated. Overall, 78 per cent of women in this age group use a hygienic method of menstrual protection.
The study, published recently in The Lancet biomedicine journal, suggests that the body’s ability to produce these cloned immune cells, which cannot be infinitely created, falls off significantly in old age.
This result comes from a large randomized clinical trial aimed at testing a new treatment for these patients. The findings of the research were published in the ‘Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The liver is the second largest and most complex organ in the body after the brain. It plays the most important role in the digestive system of your body.
The research, published last week in the journal ACS Omega, analysed protein levels in semen of men who have recovered from COVID-19.
The prospective study included 1,068 consecutive patients an average of 16 months after a heart attack and/or a procedure to open blocked arteries (stent implantation or bypass surgery).
The technology, built on raw images of patients’ diseased hearts and patient backgrounds, stands to revolutionize clinical decision making and increase survival from sudden and lethal cardiac arrhythmias, one of medicine’s deadliest and most puzzling conditions.
American historian Henry Adams, once wrote “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”. Yet it is truly humankind’s bad habits that have placed us on the path toward ruin.
The findings of the research were published in the ‘Journal of the American College of Cardiology’.
The retrospective study led by researchers at Osaka City University in Japan revealed that cases of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease have increased since before the Covid pandemic.
The finding, published in the journal BRAIN, could lead to better and more personalized treatments for chronic pain, which are desperately needed, especially in light of the opioid epidemic.
They suggest that increased attention to monitoring cognitive functioning after a heart attack is needed, researchers said.
The research findings added to mounting evidence that exercise improves cardiovascular health by helping to activate parts of the brain that counteract stress.
The findings of the research were published in the journal, ‘Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology’.
The WHO said that 4,100 people lose their lives to tuberculosis every day and nearly 28,000 people fall ill with this preventable disease.
This happened when omicron arrived, but we got lucky with that one. Omicron turned out to be more transmissible, but mercifully it hasn’t caused an increase in severe disease in most countries where it is dominant.
On this Oral Health Day, let us celebrate our body by including the most important part of the body, our oral cavity!
And there’s a scientific basis for this advice. Sleep can influence our response to emotional situations and helps us to manage our mental health.
The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC scientists, paving the way for a clinical trial that combines cisplatin and hydroxychloroquine to treat chemotherapy-resistant head and neck cancers.
Mealtimes should be in line with the biological clock–a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and repeats every 24 hours.