Tooth decay increases in children during the holiday season. The reason behind the condition is an excess of long-lasting candies, gooey frosted cookies, hot chocolate and chewy fudge.
But the age old saying of keeping teeth clean would keep all tooth decay at bay, would work not only at a particular time but throughout the year in preventing tooth decay and cavities.
Recent research has revealed that mood of a person is strongly affected by the people around him. Research team led by Dr Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist at Harvard Medical School, and including Professor Fowler analyzed 53,228 social connections between 5,124 individuals over time.
Researchers said that how grumpy people feel can be influenced not only by the state of mind of those closest to us, but also by friends of friends that we have never met like ripples from "pebbles thrown into a pond".
Earlier studies have shown that cooking meat increases its levels of chemical compounds called heterocyclic amines (HAs), which can cause cancerous tumors.
Recent research by Isabel Ferreira and colleagues at the University of Porto in Portugal revealed that marinating steak in red wine or beer for six hours before frying cut levels of two types of HA by up to 90 per cent compared with untreated meat.
Research team led by Dr. Jiri Krupicka of Na Homolce Hospital in Prague, the Czech Republic conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study to the effect of the long-term administration of candesartan - marketed by AstraZeneca and Takeda as Atacand and BioPress respectively - on patients with Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Generally people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy display mild symptoms or are completely asymptomatic, up to 1 percent of affected people succumb to sudden cardiac death, often with no previous signs of illness.
Researchers from the company Special K conducted a poll to find a relationship between dress size and general happiness and satisfaction level of the women who wear them.
Recent research revealed that antibiotics as a preventive treatment increases the chances of survival in patients under intensive care. Research team led by Anne Marie de Smet, from the University Medical Centre Utrecht studied the effect of antibiotic treatment on 6,000 patients admitted to intensive care units at 13 Dutch hospitals.