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Advantage to Older Workers Without Employee Insurance

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Once older workers are unemployed it is difficult for them to find re-employment. In the coming year, with the Affordable Care Act in place, they will be able to buy insurance on the Health Exchange. According to a theory by John Challenger, the CEO of a global outplacement and coaching company, once older individuals could buy insurance on health exchanges; it could be a blessing in disguise for them. The prime reason older people can't find a job is ...

Three-year-old Mylee may Have Survived Dehydration If She was Given Timely Fluids

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A three-year-old child, Mylee Ward, was unable to survive severe dehydration, after a doctor who examined her, did not even carry out the basic tests on the child. Mylee had to be rushed into emergency care after she was so sick and could not eat anything for three days. The doctor, who examined her at the emergency, Dr Mushfikur Rahman, did not even examine her on a hospital bed. Instead, she was made to lie across chairs during the fast and cursory examination. ...

Unintentional Weight Gain

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An inadvertent increase in bodyweight indicates weight gain. Necessary care like intake of a balanced diet and adequate physical activity is required to maintain good health and fitness.

Put an End to Advertisement for Unhealthy Food Ads at Sports Games

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To check the growing rates of obesity in New Zealand, a health expert seems to have a solution which addresses the source of all problems- misinformation. Advertisements which promote unhealthy food must be done away with, says the health expert. It is high time the government does something to stop unhealthy advertising at sports games. Advertisement and publicity has a powerful impact on people and it makes more sense to advertise healthy food choices. ...

Pre-exam Helpline

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A helpline will start from Feb 20 to check pre-exam stress in students appearing for board exams. This helpline will provide psychological support and telephonic counselling. "A pre-exam helpline to help students deal with all these exam-related issues, (the phone number) 98118-96286 will be open from Wednesday by Max Healthcare Hospital from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. addressing the concerns and queries of students on dealing with exam related pressures," a ...

More Support and Recognition Needed for One-million Unpaid Carers in England and Wales

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Recent figures enabled by the Office for National statistics has pointed out that more than one million people spend above 50 hours a week caring for family or loved ones, at no cost and most of the carers are women. This should be a signal to offer more support and recognition for such women who care for elderly people. According to The ONS, nearly 5.8 million people in England and Wales, translating into one out of 10 people are taking care of loved ...

Coca-Cola Recalls Five of Its Popular Drinks Following Fears of Glass Fragments in Bottles

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Concern over the presence of glass fragments in the bottles has caused the cola giant, Coca-Cola to recall five of its popular drinks in New Zealand. The company has informed the public that their products, Soda Lemon Twist, Schweppes Lemonade, Tonic Water, and Dry Ginger Ale in 330ml glass bottles, with best-before dates between January 10 and 30, 2014 have faced a recall, and consumers have been asked to doubly check the best-before date on the neck of the bottle. In ...

Scientists Identify New Forms of Virulent Pathogen

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Novel forms of hantavirus - one of the most virulent pathogens have been discovered by scientists. Hantavirus causes flu-like symptoms which can bring on respiratory and kidney failure in humans. It usually appears as sporadic disease outbreaks such as that in 1993 in a US region bordering New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. "Our research describes four novel hantaviruses, sampled from bats and shrews in China, which are distinct from ...

Meet Chris Bacon, a Wheelchair Pig and His Kind-hearted Veterinarian

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A Clermont pig, Chris P. Bacon who has become extremely popular on the internet made an appearance before his fans in his wheel chair that will give him mobility and a fresh lease of life. His specialty is that he was adopted by Eastside Veterinary Hospital's Dr. Len Lucero, after he was born handicapped without the ability to use his hind legs. Though his owner had requested mercy killing for Chris Bacon, the doctor felt that he could help the piglet ...

The Earls Restaurant Chain Decides to Change the Name of 'Albino Rhino' Beer

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A human rights complaint from some of the victims of a rare genetic ailment has caused The Earl's restaurant chain to decide to change the name of 'Albino Rhino' beer. The Albino Rhino beer is a popular brand and has been around for the past two decades, owing its name to the famous white rhinoceros. Company officials said that the name of the brand was not discriminatory in anyway, although they certainly did not want to hurt the sentiments of people ...

Heavy Internet Users can Have Withdrawal Symptoms

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People using the internet for long periods can have withdrawal symptoms similar to the 'comedown' experienced by drug users, warn scientists. Researchers found that spending excessive periods of time surfing the internet left people in 'negative moods' and, like drug addicts, when heavy internet users go back on the web their negative moods lift, the Daily Mail reported. Our results show that around half of the young people we studied spend so ...

Menopause Can Trigger Memory Loss: Study

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Women of a certain age who feel their memory is letting them down may not be imagining it as it could be a sign of menopause, say researchers. A study has confirmed that around the time of menopause, the fluctuating hormone levels impact memory and other brain skills of women. However, the good news is that while memory loss is commonly observed among menopausal women, it is not permanent and unlikely bring about conditions such as depression. ...

Office Coffee Mug: Home for Bacteria

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Office coffee mug could be carrying colonies of germs, making it a home for bacteria, says expert. People rarely take their office coffee mug home for washing and many times they scrub it at the office with sponges and brushes that have been used by everyone. In fact, Charles Gerba, Ph.D., a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona, told Mens Health that twenty percent of mugs carry fecal bacteria, according to the ...

CABG Vs. PCI in Diabetic Patients Undergoing Multivessel Revascularization

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The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has assumed epidemic proportion in Western countries as well as in the rest of the world. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is quite common in adults with diabetes mellitus and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in them. For patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, revascularization procedures like coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting ...

Bad Back? Blame It on Evolution

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Evolution has landed us with bad backs, flat feet and impacted wisdom tooth, claim scientists. While the process of natural selection allowed humans to become much more advanced than other primates, it is also to blame for many of the maladies we suffer from today. For all our success as a species, the problems we still experience as a result of our evolution demonstrates that humans are in fact "not very well designed", researchers explained. ...

Physical Activity Enhances Cognition

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Exercise was found to improve cognition in children and older adults, reveals study. University of Illinois psychology professor Art Kramer, a nationally recognized expert on the role of physical fitness on cognition, will discuss these brain-changing outcomes at a session of the 2013 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on Feb. 16. Kramer is the director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at ...

Fecal Transplant Therapy can Fight Recurrent Gut Infections

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This method of treatment may be half a century old, but is still capable of inducing people to wrinkle their noses or laugh uncontrollably! Fecal therapy has been in existence for fifty years now and is usually employed as a last resort in cases of recurrent gastrointestinal (GI) infection. During this procedure, fecal matter from another person is transplanted into the gut of the sick person to restore balance of the gut flora. The method used is usually ...

Aamir Khan to Raise Awareness About Malnutrition

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Actor Aamir Khan is a part of a nationwide campaign on malnutrition, which is more widespread in India than Sub-Saharan Africa. The actor, the UNICEF brand ambassador for malnutrition, has launched the campaign through advertisements and short films to make people aware of the perils of malnourishment. "He has shot 40 films in 18 languages," Caroline Dendulk, chief of communications in UNCIEF, said Sunday. One in every three ...

Mussels Hold Key to Surgery, Cancer Treatment

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Materials that mimic the mussels' sticky proteins have been created by scientists. The synthetic version of the powerful adhesive could prove critical for surgery and cancer treatment. "An inland stream with water moving at only one meter (yard) per second is very hard to stand in," said University of Washington, Seattle biologist Emily Carrington, who studies the tiny mollusks. "Imagine something going 10 times that speed -- over your whole body." ...

Study Explores Link Between Air Pollution and Heart Attack

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According to a recent research, air pollution may play a role in precipitating heart attacks. Rice University (Houston) statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Raun analysed eight years worth of data drawn from Houston's extensive network of air-quality monitors and more than 11,000 concurrent out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) logged by Houston Emergency Medical Services (EMS). "The bottom-line goal is to save lives," Ensor said. "We'd ...

Delhi: Sixty More Swine Flu Cases

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In Delhi, sixty more people have been tested positive for swine flu, taking the number of people infected by the Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 420, say officials. "Sixty people tested positive for swine flu but there have been no deaths today (Sunday)," a doctor at the Delhi Health Service (DHS) told IANS. This month the virus infected 262 people, of whom six have died. In January, 39 cases were reported and one succumbed to the virus. ...

Intelligent Armchair Developed

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Intelligent armchair developed by scientists keeps a person active and fit while carrying out basic activities. Researchers have built an armchair that brings the gym right into your living room at the push of a button, reports Science Daily. For years, the trends have been clear: not only are people getting older but they are also increasingly left to take care of themselves in their old age. This is why researchers are working on technologies ...

Parkinson's Disease may also Affect Vision

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Parkinson's disease, the second most common form of neurodegenerative disease can also affect patient's vision, finds study. Its most common symptom is tremor and slowness of movement (bradykinesia), but some people with Parkinson's also experience changes in vision. Now for the first time, researchers in the University of York's Department of Biology have established a link between a mutation which triggers Parkinson's and problems with vision in ...