“Health is wealth”, they say. He, who has health, has hope and he, who has hope, has everything. Good health is one of the most precious jewels of our life.
Good Health and Happiness
We seem to be living in a world marred by hectic schedules and busy routines with no time to spare even for ourselves. In our craze or race for securing ‘happiness’, we are actually moving away from it. Life has become so mechanized that it is taking its toil on our health and wellbeing. And the results are obvious. More and more people seem to be suffering from a host of health related problems, courtesy stresses of everyday life.
There has always been a raging debate as to whether bottled water is safe to drink or not. In recent years the number of plastic water bottles has increased manifold despite these being banned in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and many other states.
The practice of banning bottled water baffles the consumers as they are left wondering if it is safer than tap water. According to Dr. Sarah Janssen, a science fellow with the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco, which conducted a study on bottled water in 1999, “Bottled water isn’t any safer or purer than what comes out of the tap.”
"It is not about money. No amount of money will give back my limb," said a 65 years old woman with diabetes (name withheld on request) who underwent limb amputation at the Gandhi Memorial & Associated Hospitals (GM & AH), India.
She couldn't have been right in conveying the message in the lead up to the World Diabetes Day, 14 November 2008, to prevent many diabetes-related complications that are extremely devastating.
A new study suggests anti-epilepsy drug, topiramate elevates the risk of birth defects in the foetus, when taken by a pregnant woman and if taken along with drug called valproate, it simply adds fuel to the fire.
In the near future, those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis will have restricted treatment options at their disposal to choose from. The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence is in full groove to recommend the use of only one anti-TNF (anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha) drug for patients residing in England and Wales.
Sleep is a crucial activity but too much or too little of it can pose a threat to the life of elderly women. A new study claims that too much or too less of sleep, more than 9 hours or less than 6 hours can increase the risk of a stroke in the older women.
The dream of every woman to have slim and trim figure, from now on, may not just be linked to looking attractive with prefect posture but may also be associated with cutting down on the risk of developing pancreatic cancerdefine.
While Britons visit their kith and kins in Africa to relax and spent some quality time together, more or less consciously or sub-consciously natives of Britain bring home a deadly form of malaria with them.
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