A rare genetic disorder, Usher’s Syndrome causes symptoms of deaf-blindness and problems of balance in children. For anyone, sight and ability to hear are of utmost importance. Imagine suffering from an ailment in which you lose both your vision and ability to hear. A rare genetic disorder known as Usher’s Syndrome can cause deaf-blindness in [...]
Conditions like anencephaly, when the baby is born without a brain, are hard on the family and infant. But regular antenatal scans can catch the abnormality very early. It occurs in one in 10,000 births, which might sound like it’s very rare. But when it does occur it’s heart wrenching. Imagine having a baby only [...]
Sydney: Low-dose aspirin is a cheap and effective way to prevent deadly blood clots forming in patients’ legs, lungs. Low-dose of aspirin could save the lives of people with a history of blood clot. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney, found that people who have suffered blood clots in the veins [...]
Washington: An experimental device could use the energy of the beating heart to keep the pacemaker going, doing away with battery replacements. A preliminary study by researchers at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor tested an energy-harvesting device that uses piezoelectricity — electrical charge generated from motion. The approach is an innovative solution for pacemakers, [...]
With the change in weather it is not just common ailments you should be careful about. Doctors say cardiac problems and other health complications also see a rise. Azera P Rahman New Delhi: There is a nip in the air, and as you welcome the change with light woollens, you also have unwelcome visitors such [...]
Every time we visit a doctor they suggest certain investigations to ascertain the cause. We take a look at a few such tests that we have heard about but do not know much about. Imagine a scene in a doctor’s cabin. After listening to the patient the doctor writes and few tests. “Get these tests [...]
The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued an advisory based on a thorough review of recent lab, animal, observational and clinical studies. Washington: A simple measure that could go a long way in enhancing public health — limit salt intake to less than 1,500 mg or about three-fourths of a teaspoon each day — is [...]
Close monitoring of prostate cancer tumours may make radiation and surgery — which can cause incontinence and impotence — unnecessary, a new study has shown. Prostate cancer is one of the slowest-growing forms of the disease, and many men with tumours may never develop symptoms during their lifetime, meaning that many are treated unnecessarily — [...]
Dr Diana Monteiro My 15-year-old boy has been insisting that we get him a bike. My husband and I are against the idea. He’s beyond reasoning and has been behaving very rudely. To spite us, he even rides his friends’ bikes and when we reprimand him, he shuts himself in his room. Often, a parent’s [...]
A broken-hearted friend could very well break up your happy home. Forget about dengue, this season keep your eyes peeled for the break-up bug. A friend in grief is a friend indeed. But how far are we ready to go to help our besties in their moments of need? A study has revealed that the [...]
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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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