washington: Using cabbage leaves and tea bags to ease pain in breastfeeding are some folk remedies quite popular with new mothers. Drinking beer to produce more milk, for instance, is a folk tradition that singer Mariah Carey followed. She was accused of endangering her twins with that practice. Jonathan Schaffir, obstetrician at the Ohio State [...]
Cambridge University researchers in trials of the pill found that it boosted blood flow and improved the lining of vessels in patients with pre-existing heart conditions. London: Scientists have created a daily ‘tomato pill’ which they claim boosts blood flow and increases the flexibility of arteries by 50 per cent in heart patients. The Ateronon [...]
London: Women who dev-ote at least three hours to walking every week are more likely to ward off strokes than their inactive cousins, says a study. “The message for the general population remains similar: regularly engaging in moderate recreational activity is good for your health,” said Jose Maria Huerta of the Murcia Regional Health Authority [...]
Think dolls and clowns are adorable and fun? Not for everyone. We speak to experts on pediophobia and coulrophobia. You know how when you were a kid you loved going to the circus just to watch that clown perform all his special tricks? Or when you went shopping, your mother literally had to drag you [...]
London: Oxford scientists have developed injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, which they claim restored vision in completely blind mice. The research team used mice with a complete lack of light-sensing photoreceptor cells in their retinas. The mice were unable to tell the difference between light and dark, the BBC News reported. They injected [...]
Colostrum is the first secretion of the mammary glands after giving birth. In some of the samples taken of this liquid, more than 700 species of these micro-organisms were found. London: Scientists have found more than 700 species of bacteria in breast milk, the main source of nourishment for newborns. Spanish researchers traced the bacterial microbiota [...]
Dystextia is the new term that has been coined to refer to the garbled and illegible text message people send hours before a possible stroke or neurological disorder. The case of a Boston based man, who received this text message from his pregnant wife — “Every where thinging days nighing” and “Some is where!”— has [...]
Washington: Researchers have uncovered a specific set of nerve cells that signal itch but not pain, a finding that may settle a decades-long debate about how the two sensations are different.The study, if confirmed in humans, will help in developing treatments for chronic itch, including itch caused by life-saving medications. At the heart of the [...]
London: Babies begin learning language in the womb from the mother, say scientists who found that infants can discriminate between vowel sounds even before they are born. Previously, it was believed that newborns begin to discriminate between language sounds within their first months of life. In a new study, scientists discovered that babies have the [...]
London: Being plump may not be so bad after all! US researchers analysed results of almost 100 studies and found that those judged to be slightly overweight were 6 per cent less likely to have died by the end of the study period than those of normal weight. However, those who were any bigger were [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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