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New Year is round the corner and people have already started to plan their New Year resolutions. Here’s something of important for those who are looking forward to lose weight this New Year.

Experts said that not every diet plan is effective for everyone therefore the major change one need to bring in oneself is to change his/her lifestyle.

Dr. Allan MacIntyre, director of bariatric surgery at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center advises that if anyone is looking forward to lose weight in the New Year then the right time to start is now.

He suggest that rather than waiting for 2016 diet, consider to implement a series of better habits that are contributing to a lifetime of better health. So here are few tips that can help you get a success in your weight loss journey.

A new House bill unveiled on Monday by lawmakers aims to fight the rise of opioid abuse. Representative Elizabeth A. Malia said the new legislation would require schools to have a substance abuse policy and would even restrict first-time opioid prescriptions.

According to A. Malia, the new legislation would require the schools to make the substance abuse policy public. It would also mandate substance abuse evaluations for people in acute care hospitals suffering from apparent opioid overdoses.

A latest study has found that the rules to decide when a patient is brain dead differ widely from hospital to hospital, despite the availability of national standards formed to ensure accuracy.

Lead researcher Dr. David Greer, a professor of neurology at the Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn said that in 2010, the American Academy of Neurology followed a set of updated guidelines to judge whether a person has lost all brain function and has been kept alive only via hospital machinery.

Greer said that there were no legal reports of any patient ever being called out brain dead when there weren’t actually, however such judgments are required to be made with ‘100% certainty’.

In Brazil, the number of infants born with small brains has shown as rise, and considering the same Brazil’s health ministry has cautioned pregnant women to take extreme precautions to avoid mosquito bites. Mosquito bites could infect them with a recently arrived virus.

Some of Brazil’s famous obstetricians have in fact now advised women against becoming pregnant.

The surge in microcephaly, which is an incurable type of brain damage, has been accounted for the Zika virus epidemic, which was unknown in Latin America prior to this year.

According to a new study, compared to other countries’ patients, the typical US patient gets more frequently exposed to extreme radiation at the time of myocardial perfusion imaging. Also called a nuclear stress test, myocardial perfusion imaging is conducted on millions of the US people alone in a year to aid diagnose and treat coronary artery disease.

Researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine, online on December 28, that a typical the US patient got a 20% higher radiation dose as compared to someone receiving the test out of the US, partially because American labs were less probably adhere to recommended dosing guidelines.

According to a latest study, even after overdosing on opioid medications, over nine out of 10 patients kept on getting prescriptions for the powerful painkillers. As a result many patients suffered another overdose.

Published on Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, the findings, as per the study authors were ‘highly concerning’. The report examined overdoses, and they were serious enough that some patients were sent to emergency rooms or were admitted to hospitals. The patients must not have escaped the attention of their doctors.