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Evaluating grip strength to identify early diabetes
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 11 (ANI): To provide healthcare practitioners with an easy-to-perform and time-efficient screening tool for type 2 diabetes (T2DM), researchers have developed a valuable new grip strength metrics. The practitioners can use this assessment of normalised grip stren
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Study reveals alcohol consumption by fathers before conception could negat
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 4 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have discovered the relationship between parental alcohol consumption, before conception in the case of fathers, and during pregnancy in the case of mothers and child development.
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Indian Army advises all to not use alcohol-based sanitisers before lightin
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): The Indian Army has advised all citizens to be careful while lighting diyas or candles on April 5 as requested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They have asked people to wash their hands using soap instead of using alcohol-based sanitisers before lighting ca
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Kerala HC stays state govt order allowing liquor supply to those suffering
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], April 2 (ANI): The Kerala High Court has stayed the state government's order that permits state Excise Department to allow the supply of alcohol to a person on production of a medical certificate that he/she is suffering from Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS).
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40 applications after Kerala Govt issues orders to provide special alcohol
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Apr 1 (ANI): A day after the Kerala Government issued orders to provide special alcohol passes on doctor's prescription to tipplers, who exhibit withdrawal symptoms, the Excise Department received 40 applications from across the state.
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Lockdown effect: Emergency wards across country see surge in severe alcoho
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): Amid a lockdown in the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus, health facilities across the country are seeing a surge in patients with severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms--reveals a report published by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AI
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One die, 2 hospitalised after drinking surgical spirit in Andhra Pradesh
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
West Godavari (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Mar 31 (ANI): One person died while two others were hospitalised after they consumed isopropyl alcohol or the surgical spirit, Police said on Tuesday.
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Kerala to give alcohol passes on doc's prescription, to those with 'withdr
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Mar 31 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing lockdown period, Kerala government has decided to provide special alcohol passes on doctor's prescription for drinkers, who exhibit withdrawal symptoms, to purchase liquor from the Excise Department.
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Alcohol consumption by fathers before conception could negatively impact c
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], Mar 31 (ANI): A recent study conducted by scientists from the University of California, explores the relationship between parental alcohol consumption -- before conception in the case of fathers and during pregnancy in the case of mothers -- and child development.
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Alcohol-based hand sanitisers should be used carefully, says doctor after
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 30 (ANI): A man was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here on Sunday with 35 per cent burn injuries after he accidentally spilled hand sanitiser on his clothes which caught fire due to close proximity with cooking gas.
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Kerala's 'liquor prescription' move amid COVID-19 lockdown is 'not scienti
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Mar 30 (ANI): The Kerala chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said that the state government's decision to sell alcohol to those with a prescription from doctors for having withdrawal symptoms is not a scientific one.
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45 distilleries, 564 manufacturers given permission to produce hand saniti
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 26 (ANI): With the demand of hand sanitisers increasing amid threat of coronavirus spread, the Centre has advised authorities to remove any bottlenecks in the supply of ethanol or extra neutral alcohol (ENA) to manufacturers of the product and give permissions to the a
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