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New research has found out that the brains of overweight people responds less to the hunger feelings when responding to the smell and taste of food, as compared to the healthy weighted individuals.

The study was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the society for research in eating and drinking behaviors, and admitted that that hunger feelings have less effect on the brain response towards the smell and taste of food in overweight individuals.

The Health Ministry has called a meeting of directors of medical institutes, chairmen of medical councils and top minister honchos to discuss on the proposal of IIT's producing doctors by including medicine education in the curriculum.

The three foremost concerns that would be discussed are whether IITs be permitted to start MBBS course, creation of the National Council for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH) which would substitute the existing Medical, Dental, Nursing and Pharma Councils of India and methods of reduction of scarcity of medical recruits in India.

Fresh guidelines and strategies stipulating screening and testing segment for patients to contain swine flu in the country have been issued by the Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad after finalizing the same in a high-level meeting and discussed protocols developed by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Atlanta, USA and National Health Service, United Kingdom and the numerous actions taken by the government for inhibition and mitigation of H1N1 cases considering the escalating swine flu cases across the country.

The first organized training course on Hip Arthroplasty is being conducted by Mediciti Hospitals, a Hyderabad based hospital, in order to train surgeons for this procedure. This hospital is renowned for being India's first facility to have excelled in computer navigated hip replacement.

Dr Ramesh Chandra serving in Mediciti Orthopedics department announced in a conference that with cutting edge medicines and surgery, high bearing hip replacements will assist people in leading productive lives.

An urologist has recently warned all ice-tea lovers that excessive drinking of iced tea may lead to the formation of kidney stones as high concentrations of oxalate has been found in it, which is one of the chief chemicals which causes kidney stones.

Even though warm tea is also a carrier of oxalate, the formation of stones isn't that frequent as it is difficult to large amounts of it. Iced tea is worst for people who have a tendency to form kidney stones. Most at risk are men, postmenopausal women with low oestrogen levels and women who have removed their ovaries.

HSBC Holdings Monday expressed that it devices to commence gently growing its U.S. consumer finance venture once again, in spite a quarter-on-quarter fall in profitability at the component as the U.S. economy slowed.

According to the Chief Finance Officer Douglas Flint the bank might not recommence the unsecured lending or writing subprime mortgages and auto loans in the domains that guided to approx $50 billion in bad loan allegations in the previous few years and those existing loan books are now in excess but that the bank is preliminary to aim new customers at its residual credit-card division.