New Delhi: Does your teenage daughter often complain of backache and joint pain? Is your college-going cousin always lethargic? Vitamin D deficiency among youngsters, which causes such problems, is becoming common these days and is a growing health concern, doctors say. Vikas Ahluwalia, senior consultant of Internal Medicine at Max Super Speciality hospital, said that vitamin D deficiency among young people has increased over the last couple of years, especially...
04:38 PM, Nov 07, 2012
London: Nearly 50 per cent people cannot stick to a diet for more than a month, according to a new survey conducted in the UK. Around 28 per cent of young people embark on a new diet each month and 45 per cent of them give up their new eating habits after a week. That compares to 48.9 per cent of all dieters giving up after a month, The Mirror...
11:58 AM, Nov 05, 2012
London: Scientists have discovered that genetic 'switches', which regulate the expression of genes, play a major role in the development of cancer. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Helsinki in Finland investigated a gene region that contains a particular single nucleotide variant associated with increased risk for developing colorectal and prostate cancers. The study found that removing this region caused dramatic resistance to tumour formation....
04:23 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New York: As early voting proceeds across the country ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, voters over 50 continue to be more likely than most to prefer Republican challenger Mitt Romney to President Barack Obama and to favor Romney's position on two issues that directly affect the elderly: healthcare and Medicare. While Friday's Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll saw the candidates at an effective dead heat among all likely voters, older likely...
05:29 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the 12th Five Year Plan will enhance spending on health up to three times and that more medical and nursing colleges were needed to overcome a shortage of trained human resources in the sector. Speaking at the foundation stone laying of the Lady Hardinge Medical College project in Delhi, the Prime Minister also said that health indicators reflected a country's overall...
01:51 PM, Nov 03, 2012
There have been 17,000 cases of dengue this year alone. At the moment dengue is spreading unchecked in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. ...
11:59 PM, Nov 01, 2012
The dengue menace continues in Bihar. Over 300 patients have been admitted to government hospitals so far and 18 people have lost their lives. Many more patients have been admitted to private hospitals and as per rough estimates, the figure could well be over 1,000. Only three blood banks in Patna have the facility to segregate blood platelets crucial for transfusions. The administration claims it's on war footing, but these ...
11:35 AM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Dengue cases in the capital were on a rise with 38 people testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease on Sunday, taking the total number of such cases this season to 910. All 37 cases were reported from three municipal corporations while there were no fresh cases either from the VVIP areas of the capital or from Delhi Cantt area. Two children have so far succumbed to dengue ever...
11:20 PM, Oct 28, 2012
In this episode of Living it Up, we discuss depression amongst children. Contrary to popular belief, depression is widespread amongst children of school-going age. ...
03:22 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Pune: With a surge in Swine flu deaths in recent months, the health scenario in Pune is further compounded with the spread of dengue cases leading to a face-off between city fathers and civic administration. Concerns are being expressed over about 300 dengue cases reported in the city during the last two and a half months out of which three proved to be fatal. The health authorities, already hard pressed...
11:16 AM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Dengue fever continues to spread fast in the national capital with more than 750 people testing positive this season. Cases are on an all time rise in 2012. The sheer number of cases and the twin deaths have forced the MCD to act. South MCD PRO Mukesh Yadav said, "We are fumigating & also making the people aware." In September only, 50 cases were reported, dengue cases shot...
09:49 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Lately I have been reading a number of news articles mentioning women unleashing atrocities on their newborns or new mothers committing suicides or mothers being ...
08:12 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Having made unprecedented progress in polio eradication, India is now gearing up to be declared polio free by 2014 by guarding itself against the import of polio virus from neighbouring countries and by boosting routine immunisation. Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. If no fresh case is reported till 2014, the country will be declared polio free....
04:26 AM, Oct 24, 2012
After filmmaker Yash Chopra's death put the focus on dengue in Mumbai, the BMC has asked Lilavati Hospital for a report on Chopra's death. The BMC says this would help in identifying measures to counter outbreak of dengue. The BMC also says they had found mosquitoes breeding at the offices of Yash Raj films which could have been where the filmmaker caught the virus. So far 650 cases of dengue ...
11:12 AM, Oct 23, 2012
Durga puja festivities are on in West Bengal and authorities are making sure everyone gets a chance to be part of it. This includes the inmates of mental health institutes. It's a festival of inclusion, where Shakti humbles all. A festival when differences are forgotten as everyone comes together in celebration. ...
10:05 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Sagarika Ghose: Hi there. We are focusing in this show on a subject that concerns us all, mental illness. Currently 130 million Indians are diagnosed with some form of mental illness, including depression, bipolarity and schizophrenia, 90 per cent of these cases remain untreated. The government has come up with new Mental Health Bill 2012. But activists say that the bill doesnt protect the rights of the mentally ill. Mental...
05:34 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is in pain following a spasm in his lower back. "A spasm of sudden appearance on the lower back, an injury during the many action sequences we did without care or precaution, keeps appearing every now and then to remind us of film and situation," Amitabh wrote on his blog srbachchan.com. However, the 70-year-old, who has been suffering from health issues for quite sometime, takes the...
05:28 PM, Oct 19, 2012
According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 130 million Indians are in need of mental health services and 10 per cent adults in India have mental health disorders. ...
11:58 PM, Oct 18, 2012
In this episode of Living it Up we try to answer some questions about food allergies. What are the commonly found food allergies in children India? How do you know your child has a food allergy? And what tests are available. ...
02:02 PM, Oct 17, 2012
In this episode of Living it Up we try to answer some questions about food allergies. What are the commonly found food allergies in children India? How do you know your child has a food allergy? And what tests are available. ...
02:02 PM, Oct 17, 2012
