COPENHAGEN: A third of the world’s population, living in developing countries, carry a dormant tuberculosis (TB) bug, which remains a lifelong risk. But the risk of TB breaking out is four times as likely if a person also suffers from diabetes, says recent research out of the University of Copenhagen. As a diabetic, a person [...]
NEW DELHI: Even as India and China top the global chart of obese and diabetic people, experts charted out five prerequisites for patients and surgeons before weight loss surgery, doctors said Monday. “Over the years, there has been a lot of international attention on metabolic surgery. And with increasing problems of obesity, these guidelines will [...]
WASHINGTON: Scientists isolated a potent anti-cancer compound from a Mediterranean weed that acts like ‘molecular grenade’. In lab studies, researchers said they found that a three-day course of the drug called G202 reduced the size of human prostate tumours grown in mice by an average of 50 per cent within 30 days. G202 outdid the [...]
Pollution, smoking and a variety of other factors could be responsible for the rise in incidence of COPD cases, say experts. There’s always a price to pay for rapid globalisation, rising pollution levels and changing lifestyles. Turn any street corner and you’re bound to see a youngster happily puffing away, either to make a style [...]
HYDERABAD: The Indian Dental Association (IDA) and Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited recently rolled out their national awareness programme Oral Health Month. Spread over two months, the focus of this programme will be on creating awareness to fight cavities and instil the importance of good oral hygiene across the country. Towards this aim a ‘Adopt a School’ [...]
Ladies, if there’s anything that will put that smile back on your friend’s face, then it is a trip to the spa; and in case you have been feeling down of late with all the holiday work piling up, then take a trip to your nearest spa and rejuvenate those tired nerves Stress and tension [...]
Alternative healing has been in the limelight but what has caught the fancy of all is the new-age past-life regression therapy. Postnoon explores Talk about feel-good therapies and you have a list of new-age therapies all around you. From age-old Ayurveda and Yoga to the modern Reiki, Feng Shui, meditation and much more. Apart from [...]
For every myth, lies a truth in hiding. Enough has been read about and discussed about workouts, weight-loss regimes, and wonderful waists. But obviously, there is something that we are probably doing wrong, or believing to be the truth, when reality is far from it. We dispel some of the popular myths about gymming It [...]
Recent studies show that high-protein diets not only produce the fastest weight loss but also help women retain muscle. As muscle burns more calories than fat, this is important to keep the weight off. Snapped as she sashayed down a London street, Nigella Lawson cut a svelte figure. The curvaceous cook, 51, had clearly lost [...]
It is a cruel quirk of fate that as the clocks go back and we shiver as winter looms, our skin protests as well. It feels dry — thanks to the heating and the colder air — so you slather on more moisturiser, or use a thicker one. Then you get spots. So you stop [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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