Washington, March 21: German researchers have found that cardiac arrhythmias are often accompanied by sleep-disordered breathing.

Thomas Bitter, from the Ruhr University in Bochum, used cardiorespiratory polygraphy to investigate whether 150 patients with atrial fibrillation, which included 110 men and 40 women, suffered from sleep-disordered breathing.

Only patients with normal systolic left ventricular function were included in the study, in order to avoid statistical bias.

Washington, March 21: Don’t run here and there in search of good life, for just being grateful to the people around you may fill your life with happiness.

Associate Professor, who teaches Psychology at George Mason University, has found that gratitude—the emotion of thankfulness and joy in response to receiving a gift—is the best way to achieve happiness.

Through a number of studies he has conducted, Kashdan has learnt that gender plays a role when it comes to achieving well-being, and that men are much less likely to feel and express gratitude than women.

Washington - With an eye to the nation's expanding waistlines and dwindling incomes, Michelle Obama is organizing a vegetable garden at the White House.

The spade was to be turned later Friday for the first such garden at the White House since the victory garden planted by Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II, media reports said.

Fifth graders from a local elementary school in Washington are to help plant, harvest and cook the vegetables, berries and herbs.

London, Mar 20 : Google needs to keep a strict check on the its advertisements and suggested links to avoid providing users with web pages that contain dubious medical claims, warn doctors.

While writing in British Medical Journal, Dr Marco Masoni from the University of Florence in Italy revealed that as the internet is not well policed and regulated, it is up to members of the medical community to be vigilant and to suggest improvements.

Google AdWords is a service that matches key search terms to related advertising.

Washington, Mar 20 : Researchers at Boston University School of Public Health say that hospital practices like supplementing newborns with formula or water, or giving them pacifiers, might reduces new mothers’ chances to breastfeed their child.

The new study showed that among first-time mothers, 70 percent reported an intention to exclusively breastfeed, but only 50 percent achieved that goal at one week.

The researchers suggest that hospital practices were strongly related to those outcomes.

Washington, Mar 20 : Eating out in restaurants, laid back attitude towards exercise, and leading high-risk lifestyles are some of the barriers that stop patients with type 2 diabetes from controlling their condition, say researchers.

In the study involving 8,900 patients, the researchers from Hong Kong and Northern Ireland listed some of the psychosocial, socio-economic, physical, environmental and cultural factors that prove to be major barriers to effective diabetes care.