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Oral infections in childhood may increase risk of cardiovascular diseases in adulthood
A new study has suggested that common oral infection in childhood is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis in adulthood.Atherosclerosis is a disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of fatty material on their inner walls."The observation is novel since there are no earlier follow-up studies on childhood oral infections and the risk of cardiovascular diseases," said researcher Pirkko Pussinen.More progressed oral infections and inflammations are known to be associated with several cardiovascular risk factors and disease risk in adults according to the details published in the Journal of JAMA Network Open.Periodontitis (dental issue) in particular has been studied extensively, and currently, it is considered an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic vascular diseases.The treatment of periodontitis is also known to decrease cardiovascular risk factors.The study was initiated in 1980 when clinical oral examinations were ...
Suffering from high BP? Don't take work stress lightly
If you are finding it hard to deal with the pressure at the workplace, there is more reason to worry. New research has found that work stress and impaired sleep are linked to a threefold higher risk of cardiovascular death in employees with hypertension.
Obesity and mental health woes go hand-in-hand: Study
Obesity and emotional problems, such as feelings of low mood and anxiety, tend to develop hand-in-hand from as young as age 7 years, according to new research.The study was presented in the meeting, the European Congress on Obesity.The nationwide study comparing over 12,000 Swedish children who had undergone obesity treatment with more than 60,000 matched controls found that girls with obesity were 43 per cent more likely to develop anxiety or depression compared to their peers in the general population. Similarly, boys with obesity faced a 33 per cent increased risk for anxiety and depression compared to their counterparts."We see a clear increased risk of anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adolescents with obesity compared with a population-based comparison group that cannot be explained by other known risk factors such as socioeconomic status and neuropsychiatric disorders", said Louise Lindberg, who led the research."These results suggest that children and ...
Ludhiana: Two girls injured in acid attack
Two girls were injured in an alleged acid attack by two bike-borne miscreants, the police said here on Sunday.The incident occurred near Kot Mangal Singh area when the girls were walking on the road and the accused allegedly threw acid on them. One of the victims suffered severe burns on her face and the other on her chest.Both the victims have been admitted to the Civil Hospital for further medical treatment."Two boys brought them to the hospital and medical treatment is underway. We have informed the concerned SHO who will take over the case and record their statements," a police official said.Further investigation in the matter is underway.
Medical negligence: Chg authorities told to pay Rs 19.73 lakh
A consumer disputes redressal forum in Chhattisgarh has ordered Raigarh district authorities to pay a compensation of Rs 19.73 lakh to a 37-year-old man whose wife and unborn child died due to alleged medical negligence on part of two government doctors in 2015. The Raigarh District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has ordered the district collector, Raigarh chief medical and health officer (CMHO), chief medical officer (CMO) of Raigarh district hospital, gynaecologist Dr Lalita Rajnala and Medical Officer Dr Rajesh Kumar Singh to pay the amount to Bhagwat Prasad Rathore, husband of late Sashikala Rathore (32), his lawyer JS Thakur said Saturday. The forum also said that the amount should be paid within a month, failing which nine per cent annual interest would be levied from the date of July 22, 2016, the day on which the petition was filed, he said. Rathore had moved the forum demanding compensation of Rs 19.73 lakh alleging negligence on part of Dr Rajnala and Dr ...
NRL launches food grade wax
The Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) Saturday launched its premium quality food grade wax which can be used in food packaging, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Owing to huge demands of food grade wax which is currently met through imports, the NRL aims to bridge the demandsupply gap with this product and become a market leader in this segment. The company will now cater to cosmetic, pharmaceutical food packaging and FMCG industries in domestic as well as foreign markets, a company release said. The product was launched during the 4th NRL Customers' Meet here by Assamese actor Barsha Rani Bishaya, who will also be its brand ambassador, in presence of the company's Managing Director S K Barua and other top officials. The NRL, a Mini Ratna PSU, will use the brand name 'Pristene' for this food grade wax. NRL started its wax production in 2015 and it is the largest producer of paraffin wax in the country producing around 50,000 tonnes of fully refined paraffin ...
Peppermint helps people with non-cardiac chest pain; difficulty swallowing
Peppermint could help treat difficulty in swallowing food and non-cardiac chest pain, as per a study."Peppermint oil is an established agent in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. We tried to examine its effect on patients with swallowing and chest pain issues with no apparent cause," said Mohamed Khalaf, first author of the study.The research was published in Digestive Diseases & Sciences.Of the 38 patients enrolled in the pilot study, overall 63 per cent reported improvement of the symptoms. Patients were recruited from the Oesophageal Disorders Clinic."Our findings suggest that peppermint may help prevent these symptoms by relaxing the smooth muscle in the lower oesophagus," said Donald O. Castell, senior author of the study.Peppermint oil has been known to have therapeutic effects in multiple disorders due to its muscle-relaxing properties. However, only two previous studies have investigated its role in the upper digestive tract.The study found that patients who took
Gene repair technique can improve brain dysfunction in adults
Researchers have claimed that brain dysfunction such as seizure and memory impairments can be corrected after restoring certain protein level through gene repair techniques in adult patients.A new study published in the Journal of eLife challenges the presumption that people born with developmental brain disorders such as severe autism will benefit from medical interventions only if treated during early childhood.This may include intellectual disability, autism-like behaviors, disordered sensory processing, and epileptic seizures that don't respond to medication.According to treatment that was conducted on adult mice, multiple improvements were seen. It suggests that having one broken copy of the gene not only harms the brain as it develops but also has effects in the adult brain."Our findings in mice suggest that neurodevelopmental disorders' disease course can be altered in adult patients. We can correct brain dysfunction related to seizure as well as memory impairments after ...
Woman delivers baby at Thane railway station clinic
A 20-year-old woman travelling to Mumbai in a long-distance train gave birth to a baby at a clinic in Thane railway station early on Saturday. Pooja Munna Chauhan, who was travelling in Kokan Kanya Express, started experiencing labour pains around 5.40 am, sources said. When the train halted at Thane railway station, the station manager asked the One Rupee Clinic staff to attend to the patient, they said. "Our staff rushed to the train, but by that time the delivery process had started. The patient was immediately shifted to our clinic, where she delivered a male child. The baby is normal," Dr Rahul Ghule, CEO of One Rupee Clinic, said. The child and his mother were later shifted to a civil hospital, he added.
Indian Spinal Injuries Centre to set up laboratory to test quality of indigenous implants
The Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC) will set up a laboratory to test the quality of implants to ensure that indigenous products meet global standards. ISIC will collaborate with premier institutions such as IIT to develop the laboratory, its medical director H S Chhabra said. Implants developed in India often do not match up to the international standards. There is no comprehensive implant testing laboratory in India now, he said at the inauguration of the 3rdInternational Conference on Clinical Orthopaedics and Spine Biomechanics. "The implants developed in India do not go through the rigorous quality checks and we are largely dependent on imports for quality implants most of which are designed for Caucasian population and may not suit the Indian body types. "We will collaborate with premier institutions such as IIT to develop this laboratory and ensure products complying with international standard. I thank the faculty members and engineers from India and abroad to help us set .
Body can adapt to occasional short-term overeating
Overeating has been found to impair blood sugar (glucose) control and insulin levels but a new study suggests that the duration of a bout of overeating can affect how the body adapts to glucose and insulin processing when calorie intake increases.
Study compares gestational diabetes in European and Asian women
Asian women are at two-seven times higher risk of developing diabetes than European counterpart, revealed a study.The research published in the Journal of Internal Medicine also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women.Gestational diabetes is characterised by impaired insulin production and insulin secretion during pregnancy. The prevalence differs between different populations and can partly be explained by lifestyle and genes. The purpose of the study was therefore to investigate the differences between pregnant women in India and Scandinavia."Individuals with Asian origin have two to seven times greater risk of developing the disease compared to Europeans," says Geeti Aurora, a physician in the Indian state of Punjab, and researcher at the Lund University Diabetes Centre who conducted the study in India.The study includes 507 Swedish women from Malmo and 4,018 ...
Trump urges vaccination amid measles outbreak
US President Donald Trump has urged parents to get their children vaccination, as the country battles the highest number of measles cases since it declared in 2000 that the virus was eliminated.
Micro-robots can help dentists remove plaque: Study
Scientists have developed micro-robots which can break apart and remove dental biofilm or plaque from teeth, thereby significantly reducing the burden on dentists.A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. A team of engineers, dentists, and biologists developed a microscopic robotic cleaning crew with two types of robotic systems -- one designed to work on surfaces and the other to operate inside confined spaces.Scientists showed that robots with catalytic activity could destroy biofilms, sticky amalgamations of bacteria enmeshed in a protective scaffolding.Such robotic biofilm-removal systems could be valuable in a wide range of potential applications, from keeping water pipes and catheters clean to reducing the risk of tooth decay, endodontic infections, and implant contamination."This was a truly synergistic and multidisciplinary interaction. We're leveraging the expertise of ...
Pakistani vaccine teams confront violence, hysteria in polio battle
Flanked by armed guards, polio workers fanned out in the slums of Pakistan's capital Islamabad after a bloody week of fatal attacks on health workers threatened to derail an ongoing vaccination drive. April has been a violent month for Pakistan's polio campaign, with at least three people killed this week, while thousands of parents have refused to allow their children to be inoculated amid a deluge of anti-vaccine content on social media. The violence coincided with an outbreak of hysteria in cities across northwest Pakistan after rumours of children suffering from adverse reactions to a polio vaccine sparked panic, with tens of thousands rushed to hospitals. An official report later said a "pre-planned conspiracy" was responsible for the panic but provided few details. The incident fed festering suspicions about the vaccine campaign, with authorities saying dozens of polio workers have been beaten, stoned, and harassed and one health clinic burned to the ground in the episode's ...
Injecting cells that support blood vessel growth could help restore muscle mass: Study
A recent study has suggested that by injecting cells that support blood vessel growth researchers were able to restore lost muscle mass.The study, published in Journal of The FASEB, was conducted on adult mice, and the new findings are expected to help restore lost muscle mass in elderly or disabled adults."Just as the mice were becoming mobile again, we transplanted the pericytes and we found that there was full recovery of both muscle mass and the vasculature, too," said lead researcher, Marni Boppart.The mice that received the injections had significantly better improvement than those that regained mobility without the injections.The team also observed that muscle immobility itself led to a significant decline in the abundance of pericytes in the affected muscle tissues."This has never been documented before," Boppart said.The research is part of a long-term effort to understand the factors that contribute to the loss of muscle mass -- in particular as a result of immobility."We ...
PMJAY may not cover cataract operations: Official
The National Health Authority (NHA) may remove procedures like cataract operations from the 'Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)' as talks are on to do away with procedures already covered under existing national programmes.
Trump tells Americans measles vaccination 'so important'
President Donald Trump on Friday urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles as an outbreak spread across the country, reaching the highest number of cases since 2000. "Vaccinations are so important," Trump told reporters at the White House. "They have to get their shots." The start of the measles outbreak has been traced to Orthodox Jews who contracted the highly infectious disease while travelling abroad. Some of them are from communities that oppose getting vaccinations. The resistance of some Jews to vaccinations on what they say are religious grounds is part of a wider "anti-vaxxer" movement in which people refuse to believe in the benefits of vaccinations or claim that the treatment is dangerous. Officials say they have recorded 695 measles cases this year, the highest number since the disease was declared eliminated almost two decades ago. Earlier this month New York's mayor declared a public health emergency in heavily Orthodox Jewish parts of Brooklyn, ordering all ...
Being too harsh on yourself could lead to OCD
People who report intense feelings of responsibility are prone to develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), warn researchers.
Why cow? Any animal can help you remain stress free
Not just the cow but spending some time with any animal or pet at home can keep you calm and relaxed, say doctors.