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Paid Paternity Leave for Tripura Employees

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Now, seven days' paid paternity leave to would-be fathers, who are Tripura government employees. "To provide all kinds of support to their pregnant wives, all Tripura men employees will get seven days' paternity leave from now onwards," Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told reporters after a cabinet meeting Tuesday. The leave facility would be applicable for the empoyee's first two children. Earlier this year, the state government increased ...

Lab Test's Sensitivity Can Be Advanced With Breakthrough

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Breakthrough in nanotechnology will enable enhancing a lab test's sensitivity over three-million-fold, hugely improving early detection of cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders, reveals study. It involves a common biological test called an immunoassay, which mimics the action of the immune system to detect the presence of biomarkers - the chemicals linked with diseases. It would enable doctors to detect the lowest ever concentrations of telltale ...

Serve the Country Before Taking Flight, Doctors Ordered

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Regulation to ensure doctors have an obligatory stint in the country particularly in the rural sector is a plan about to be brought by The Indian government, said Minister of Statefor Health Sudip Bandopadhyay on Monday. "The government is spending crores of rupees for making doctors and specialists, but after passing out most of them go abroad. We are planning to bring in a regulation/declaration which will make sure that the doctors serve in their state/country ...

Medical Professionals Get Software, Initiate by Kerala IT Firm

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eClinician launched on Monday by city-based Coresys Infotech is the mobile edition of its clinical decision support system (CDSS) on Android software, the one that will help medical professionals diagnose disease with ease. eClinician allows doctors to diagnose an illness easily and efficiently by choosing the symptoms of a patient from a drop-down listing. It processes the data and generates an output mentioning all the possible diagnosis for the given group of ...

Simple Test Help Identify Patients Who Do Not Respond to Painkiller Tramadol

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Researchers from France have developed a quick and simple test to identify the 5-10% of patients who does not respond to the commonly used painkiller, tramadol. A simple blood test can produce a result within a few hours, enabling doctors to switch a non-responding patient on to another painkiller, such as morphine, which will be able to work in these patients. Dr Laurent Varin, an anaesthesiologist at the Caen Teaching Hospital (Caen, France), presented ...

No Abode for Single Women, Sharjah

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Owing to misconstrued latest bachelor rule, the landlords in Sharjah are not permitting single women to live in the city, shares a municipality official. The Sharjah Municipality had introduced a bachelor rule at the beginning of April, aiming specifically at single men, who have a monthly income of less than Dh4,000 per month. According to the rule, single men could either live in industrial areas or at an accommodation provided by the company, The ...

Four Personality Traits of Smartphone Users, Zookeeper is One of Them

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The current extent of use of smartphones by Australians echoes their personality which is under serious scrutiny by psychologists. Once upon a time smartphones were the domain of tech-savvy trendsetters, nut now around 52 percent of Aussies now have smartphones. In the new study, Armchair Psychology director Associate Professor Amanda Gordon has helped categorise the more than 52 percent of Australians using a smartphone. According to the ...

Assam Sounds Alert After Cholera Deaths

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Assam was put on high alert after cholera claimed four lives and took seven districts in its grip, officials said Friday. More than 500 people have fallen sick in the state. Sources in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) said Sivsagar, Darrang and Cachar districts have been identified as the worst affected. "We have formed Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) in each district to control the spread of the disease," said an official. While ...

Hungarian Chap Supports Youth With a 50-Day Run to London

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Olympic Games in London set off by a Hungarian man, plans to run 2,100 kilometres (1,300 miles), which is actually equivalent of 50 marathons and that too within a period of 50 days to support youngsters. Norman Varga's running quest will take him from Budapest to London via Slovakia, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands. On the way, the 25-year-old, who runs a foundation in Budapest dedicated to helping young people, will ...

Study Links Cooking Habits To Longevity

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A new research has linked cooking habits to longevity saying that those eating home-cooked meal stays healthy and live longer. Researchers from Monash University, the National Defense Medical Center and the National Health Research Institute, Taiwan, found that people who cooked at home at least five times a week were 47 percent more likely to still be alive after 10 years. The study looked at the cooking habits of Taiwanese living independently aged ...

Indian Women's Locks Pledged to Gods Land as Extensions Worth 3,000 Pounds in UK

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Countless Indian women and men offering their hair to the temple every day as a gift to Lord Venkateswara, the presiding deity, actually travel to many British salons where it is sold as real hair extensions costing up to 3,000 pounds a time. The Hindu temple of Tirumala Venkateswara on the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh where, Hindu devotes offer their hair, is is also the starting place and principal provider for an astonishing industry, one that has seduced ...

Mumbai Hospital Ranked Safest Cardiac Hospital In The World

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An international organization has named Mumbai's renowned Asian Heart Institute (AHI) as the "safest cardiac hospital in the world" with the lowest mortality rate. AHI's vice chairman and managing director Ramakant Panda said the hospital was accorded the honor among 15 hospitals in eight countries that participated in the International Cardiac Benchmarking survey conducted by the Joint Commission International (JCI). "This included data analysis of ...

'Cool Blue' Covers Buildings from Heat

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'Cool Blue, a latest pigment, is capable of ward off heat in buildings and slash down energy costs, which serves as a definite boon in warmer climates, states study. Oregon State University scientists stumbled on 'cool blue' almost three years ago while researching some materials for their electrical properties. The compound has now been cleared for a patent. The compound can potentially help reduce heat absorption on the roofs and walls of buildings, ...

New Technique Explains Why Concussions Affect People Differently

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A new technique has helped researchers to find out why patients vary widely in their response to concussion. Using the technique they analyzed the data from brain imaging studies and found that the concussion patients have unique spatial patterns of brain abnormalities that change over time. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center are trying to understand why patients vary widely in their response to ...

Potent New Vaccine Offers Hope for Alzheimer's Patients

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A new vaccine has been found effective against Alzheimer's, bringing hopes for those suffering from the debilitating and complex conditions of the disease. Alzheimer's is caused by amyloid precursor protein (APP), a protein that resides in the outer membrane of nerve cells, which instead of being broken down, forms a harmful substance called beta-amyloid, accumulating as plaques and killing brain cells. Researchers led by Bengt Winblad, professor ...

District Hospitals in India to Have Family Planning Counselors

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District hospitals across the country soon to have family planning counselors for better utilization of its population control services, government officials said. "There is a proposal to place counselors at district hospitals for comprehensive counseling related to family planning services. This would include birth control options, post-delivery counseling and reproductive healthcare services," said Sushma Dureja, deputy commissioner, family planning, at the ministry ...

Website That Offers Funny and Unique Products at Cheap Prices

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Thisiswhyimbroke.com is a website that displays some of the useful, funny and unique products people can buy on the web. It offers products including the nightstand fridge, the light up shoes, motorized shoes, dog window, vampire hunting kit and the pizza scissors. Each one a stroke of genius, the Daily telegraph reported. With the electric motorized shoes, available at 649 dollars, you can get to where you want to go without moving your legs. These ...

Anti-TNF Treatment Increases Risk of Shingles

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Patients who were treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor medications (anti-TNFs) for inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) are 75 percent at greater risk of developing herpes zoster, or shingles, than patients treated with traditional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), finds a study. "Anti-TNFs, such as infliximab, adalimumab and etanercept have become the treatment of choice for patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases who are uncontrolled ...

Inflatable Vest That May Help Stressed Autistics To Stay Calm Developed

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An inflatable vest designed to make people feel the comfort of a hug, could help autistic people stay calm in stressful situations and could even quieten screaming babies. The 245-pound 'Squease jackets' are inflated by pressing a pressure bulb in the lining. These jackets are available as a hooded top, or as a bulletproof-vest-esque top, which can be worn under clothing. "Squease is an inflatable pressure vest that is hidden away inside ...

Pollution Levels in Modern Kitchens Very High

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A recent study has revealed the high pollution levels in a stuffy modern kitchen, which is much more than the pollution levels in a smog-filled city centre. In the study, scientists found that indoor air pollution, which can be three times more noxious than traffic-choked streets, is being made worse by draft-free energy efficient homes, air fresheners and strong cleaning products. Sheffield University researchers compared three homes for the study, ...

How Happiness Quotient Changes in a Lifetime

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A new study has revealed the manner in which happiness quotient changes over a lifetime. The study was conducted by Tony Beatton of Queensland University of Technology and Paul Frijters, professor at the University of Queensland. "We all strive towards happiness, but we wanted to find out at what point in life we actually reach this goal," said Beatton. The same study has debunked the idea of middle-age blues, ...

Whistleblowers at the Workplace Do Enjoy Support of 80 Pc of Australians

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Nearly four in five Australians support whistleblowers, but most do not have the confidence of being protected in their workplace if they expose wrongdoings. Results from a joint academic national survey being released on Tuesday fly in the face of conventional wisdom suggesting Australians don't like dobbers in the workplace. Newspoll research conducted for Griffith and Melbourne universities also found that close to nine in 10 Australians condoned ...

New Method to Spot Mold Contamination in Homes

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Scientists have come out with a new way to spot mold contamination in homes. Sutapa Ghosal and colleagues indicate that mold contamination of homes, especially after water damage from storms and floods, is an ongoing concern. Although most molds are harmless, scientists have linked some with health risks to humans. Traditional methods for detecting mold contamination involve identifying the spores that mold release into the air. Those tests are labor- and time-intensive, ...

Amputee Athletes Encouraged to Push Physical Boundaries at a Unique Clinic

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Carlos Gonzalez stands out from an athletic group gathered on a grassy field at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. The gregarious 32-year-old sports a stylish fauxhawk and walks with a confident yet understated swagger. He's training to become a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. The group looks like a slice of the Bay Area: a multiracial gathering - white, black, Latino, Asian, biracial - of men and women in their early 20s to late 40s. As diverse as they ...