 | Daily supplements of folic acid could improve the memory and brainpower of elderly people, say experts.
Dutch researchers from the University of Wageningen gave a group of 818 volunteers aged 50-70 either low dose folic acid supplements or a... More |
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 | The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to implement a new nutrition programme for children, pregnant women and nursing mothers through several 'anganwadis' (mother and child care centres).
"Preparations to provide nutritious food to... More |
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 | As many as 300,000 students, led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, took part in the 'surya namaskar' - a warm-up yoga exercise that begins with salutation to the sun as the primal source of energy - in government schools across the state as... More |
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 | Men with blue eyes prefer blue-eyed female partners and two blue-eyed parents are likely to produce a blue eyed child, says a new study.
The study in the University of Tromso in Norway found that blue-eyed men find pictures of women with the same... More |
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 | An Indian American scientist has made a breakthrough in research that will help make certain vaccines much cheaper and ideal for people in poor countries.
Henry Daniell of the University of Central Florida's Burnett College of Biomedical... More |
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 | Karnataka will spend Rs.350 million to provide health insurance to around 1.2 million families below the poverty line (BPL), Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy announced here Wednesday.
"We are aware of the health challenges and the economic... More |
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 | A Bosnian Serb mechanic Slobodan Mocevic from eastern Sarajevo managed to fix a medical device in a local hospital so that doctors could remove a stone from his kidney.
Mocevic, according to media reports, came to a local hospital in eastern... More |
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 | Concerned over the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Karnataka and hoping to dispel the stigma attached to the disease, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will spend Tuesday night in the hut of a HIV positive family.
Kumarswamy will reach Ingalagi... More |
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 | Drinking two cups of coffee before exercise may reduce post-workout muscle pain by over 50 percent - more relief than a pain reliever medicine like aspirin can provide, says a study.
Researchers studying caffeine's effect on post-workout muscle... More |
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 | Healthier lifestyle can protect a person from developing Type 2 diabetes, says a new study.
This diabetes is the most common form in which either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin.
Insulin is necessary... More |
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