Health Update

Urge to have a tanned body can be risky

Urge to have a tanned body can be risky The urge to have suntanned body

Calories to be mentioned on menus to help children make healthier choices

Calories to be mentioned on menus to help children make healthier choices Rising rate of obesity in children has become a serious issue demanding wholesome efforts of parents and society to fight it. Obesity has risen dramatically since the early 1990s. Faulty food habits are one of the prominent reasons behind rising rate of obesity. The Ontario Medical Association made proposal which could help in cutting down high rates of obesity in children.

Surgical team call off a heart transplant as donor baby survived without respirator

Surgical team call off a heart transplant as donor baby survived without respirator   A heart transplant was cancelled as the donor baby was able to breathe without the ventilator. Two-month-old Kaylee Wallace suffers from Joubert Syndrome, a rare genetic brain condition. In this condition, a baby is unable to breathe without a machine when she sleeps. She also has severe problems related to kidney. She was being kept alive with help of a respirator. Her parents decided to donate her heart to another baby.

Study: BMI and waist size influence heart failure risk

waist size influence heart failure risk According to a new study related to belly fat and heart failure, the body mass index (BMI) and the waist size of people influence their risk of being hospitalized with the heart failure condition or even death from the same.

The findings of the study indicated that each additional BMI point increased the risk of heart failure hospitalization or death by 3 percent in women and 7 percent in men; while a waist-size increase of 10 centimeters furthered the risk by 19 percent in women and 30 percent in men.

ACOG clarifications on HPV test vis-à-vis Pap Smears

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

Govt To Set Up Five Mobile Hospitals In India

Govt To Set Up Five Mobile Hospitals In IndiaWith the intention to cater to regions hit by natural or man-made calamities, the government has made announcement about the launching of five mobile hospitals in India that can be established at any calamity hit region within a short span of six hours.

Five mobile hospitals would be established with a total cost of Rs 30 crore each.

Dr. Shakti Gupta, the member of the steering committee of the National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) under the Home Ministry, took this decision.

“The work is in progress and would be completed soon,” he said.

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