The intermittent rain since last month has resulted in increased incidences of common cold and fever. While children are easily susceptible to cold and fever even the adults are not spared.
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Beware several diseases may pour in
Posted by Jenni (#1) 174 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)Drawing out the smoke
Posted by Jenni (#1) 174 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
A poster exhibition on the hazards of smoking was organised by Delhi University on Thursday to sensitise students, teachers and non-teaching faculty to the harmful effects of the popular habit.
New found bacteria get Indian nomenclatures
Posted by Jenni (#1) 175 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Indibacter Alkaliphilus, Pedobacter Himalayensis, Bacillus Aryabhattai, Sphingobacterium Antarcticus don't get intimidated by the high-sounding scientific names.
Paying the price of excess
Posted by Jenni (#1) 175 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The growing awareness over the need to stay ‘fit' is making the young (20 to 40 years) take up intense physical activity like jogging, walking and working out in gyms.
In bad taste
Posted by Jenni (#1) 176 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The stomach is the primary area of the system that breaks down the food ingested; but there are certain conditions that causes a reflux of the food substances of the stomach juices upwards and if that happens consistently or more than twice a week it is called as GERD or Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.
Troubles continue to haunt NIMS trauma centre
Posted by Jenni (#1) 176 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
One need not be an expert to tell that super-speciality hospitals have specific areas with connections for compressed air, oxygen, nitrous oxide and medical gases for patients.
Ask Shahnaz
Posted by Jenni (#1) 177 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Use less shampoo when you wash your hair. After a shampoo wash, apply a creamy conditioner. Massage only a little of it lightly in your hair. Leave it on for two minutes before rinsing it off. Or, apply a leave-in conditioner or hair serum.
An effort to raise awareness about epilepsy treatment
Posted by Jenni (#1) 177 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Neurovision president and chairman of Indus Hospitals V. Satyanarayana said that single seizures in epilepsy patients affect 5 to 10 per cent of population during their life time, but only one tenth of them develop epilepsy (unprovoked recurrent seizures).