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Obesity during pregnancy doubles risk of fatty liver in teens
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], June 10 (ANI): Mothers-to-be, alert! Here's another reason for adapting a healthy lifestyle before and during pregnancy, as a study has warned that newborns, who had obese mothers at the start of pregnancy, were twice as likely to develop non-alcoholic fatty li
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Consuming three servings of low-fat milk daily ups Parkinson's risk
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 9 (ANI): Consuming at least three servings of low fat or skimmed milk, yogurt or cottage cheese daily have 34 percent greater risk of developing Parkinson's disease, warns a study.
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Preemies respond worse to flu, lung diseases in adulthood
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 9 (ANI): A study has found that babies born before 37 weeks may respond worse to flu and other lung diseases later in life due to absence of certain lung cells.
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Protective bacteria linked to how subsequent infections enter body: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 7 (ANI): A study of fruit flies shows that the benefits of protective bacteria, which safeguard organisms from further disease without causing harm, depend on how subsequent infections enter the body.
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RSS leader urges Muslims to quit gosht during Ramadan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): In what may spark a fresh controversy, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar has said that Muslims who are observing fast (Roza) during the Holy month of Ramadan should not include 'gosht' (meat) in their meal as it is a 'beema
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Why the heart does not repair itself?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 6 (ANI): According to a new study, a group of researchers has fund that heart muscle is one of the least renewable tissues in the body, which is one of the reasons that heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women.
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This simple step will save people with diabetes from heart disease
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 6 (ANI): A new study has found that, one additional injection of insulin three hours after eating has been shown to protect people with type 1 diabetes from cardiovascular disease.
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Researchers find new screening tool for Parkinson's disease
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 6 (ANI): According to a new study, researchers are using breakthrough gene-editing technology to develop a new screening tool for Parkinson's disease, a debilitating degenerative disorder of the nervous system.
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As for STD treatment, killing two birds with one stone helps
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 5 (ANI): According to a recent study, places that allow doctors to treat a patient's sexual partner without an in-person visit may find more success lowering rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
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Patients nearing death don't mind 'deprescrition' of statin
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 4 (ANI): Patients nearing the end of their lives because of a "life-limiting illness," such as cancer or heart disease, may not feel medically abandoned if their doctor wants to take them off the cholesterol-lowering statins, according to a recent study.
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The Great Barrier Reef is in its last stage, claims study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], June 3 (ANI): Last summer, the record high temperatures around the Great Barrier Reef led much of the coral getting bleached, overcooked, diseased and dying off.
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UP: Mother seeks 'euthanasia' for daughter from PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India] June 2 (ANI): A woman from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking euthanasia for her daughter Anamika Mishra who is suffering from Muscular Dystrophy Disease.
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