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Antipsychotic Drugs Increase Stroke Risk

Psychosis treatment drugs can lead to increased risks of stroke. It is found by top Antipsychotic Drugs Increase Stroke RiskResearchers in the UK. The research team was headed by Ian J Douglas of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 

The team also discovered that people who suffered from dementia and use antipsychotics are at double risk as compared to those without dementia. The physicians have started research in 2002 on the increased risks of stroke for regular taker of atypical antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are used to control psychotic symptoms in patients.

11-month-old Colombian baby weighs 61 lbs, average weight of eight year old

Average weight of an 11-month-old baby is somewhere between 13 lbs and 15 lbs, but an 11-month-old baby in Colombia weighs 61 lbs.

Glasgow Children Have Shorter Life Compared To Indian Children

On Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) claimed that children of the deprived Glasgow Children Have Shorter Life Compared To Indian Childrensuburbs of Glasgow have less life expectancy than that of children in India, children in poor parts of Glasgow other than not having proper health facilities have high mortality rate due to social factors.

WHO came on this conclusion after three year analysis of social determinants, which put forward the fact that more than genetic factors, the social factors were responsible for huge variation in ill-health and life expectancy around the world.  

Research Finds Chewing Gum As A Good Stress Buster

Here’s good news for the chewing gum eaters. According to a recent research done in Research Finds Chewing Gum As A Good Stress Busteran Australian university, chewing gum can reduce the stress as well as anxiety.

The study conducted at Swinburne University in Melbourne by Professor Andrew Scholey said that chewing gum helps to reduce the anxiety and/or acute psychological stress.

Apart from this, the study also maintained that chew gum eaters are able to perform multi task activities as compared to the no chew gum eaters.

Birth of first Indian frozen egg cell baby marks the starting of new era

Doctors at GG Hospital, Chennai brought first Indian frozen egg cell baby into this world on Wednesday. The baby boy, weighing 2.5 kg was born after an elective caesarean in the 36th week of pregnancy. The mother was healthy and will be nursing the baby from Thursday. This incidence has given hope to many childless couples.

Frozen egg cell procedure is an artificial reproduction method. In this method the egg cells from a woman are frozen and later fertilized to yield a foetus. However in this case a frozen egg cell from a donor was fertilized with his father's sperm cell. It was then implanted in the mother.

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