Further, the team also found that sitting for more than eight hours...
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Nearly 50 adults in India insufficiently physically active in 2022 Lancet Study
They projected that in 2030, 60 per cent of the adults could be...
US Surgeon General calls for social media warning labels to protect adolescents
Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General,US US Surgeon General Murthy wrote in...
Study reveals why Canadian wealthy people are more likely to develop skin cancer
"A higher socio-economic status is known to be associated with more vacations in sunny climates and recreational tanning, which likely ultimately drives melanoma incidence in this population," highlights Dr. Ivan Litvinov, an Associate Professor in the Department of...
Precarious employment conditions may increase risk of early death: Study
“This is the first study to show that changing from precarious employment to secure employment can reduce the risk of death,” says the paper’s last author Theo Bodin, assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Precarious...
45% phones carried Covid-19 virus during pandemic: Study
"You can wash your hands as many times as you want but as soon as you touch your mobile phone, you cross-contaminate yourself all over again.Mobile phones are in the hands of billions of individuals, negating lifesaving hand-washing practices and might be responsible...
15-20% spinal injuries in India due to road accidents, says doctor
"We are receiving more and more patients of trauma and spinal cord injuries now due to the increasing number of road accidents.This may be due to the low level of safety standards in vehicle manufacturing, absence or inadequacy of appropriate safety measures in...
Live-in relationship cannot provide stability, security: Allahabad HC
The court said, "The brutish concept of changing partners in every season cannot be considered to be the hallmark of a stable and healthy society. The security and stability which the institution of marriage provides to an individual's life cannot be expected from a...
Replacing saturated fat, salt with herbs, spices is both tasty, healthy: Study
“Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally, and limiting saturated fat and sodium intake are key recommendations for reducing the risk of developing this disease,” said Kristina Petersen, associate professor of nutritional sciences, Penn State In...
Study reveals importance of controlling traditional cardiovascular risk factors to prevent Alzheimer’s disease
A new study by scientists at Madrid's Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) provides new data on this relationship; the findings confirm the importance of controlling traditional cardiovascular risks factors, such as hypertension, cholesterol,...
Groundwater depletion rates in India may triple in coming decades, warns study
"We find that farmers are already increasing irrigation use in response to warming temperatures, an adaptation strategy that has not been accounted for in previous projections of groundwater depletion in India," said senior author Meha Jain, assistant professor at the...
Human-caused climate change may lead to 1 billion premature deaths over next century: Study
The study, published in the journal Energies, proposes aggressive energy policies that would enable immediate and substantive decreases to carbon emissions. It also recommends a heightened level of government, corporate and citizen action to accelerate the...
What your hands say about your health
If you find your palms are becoming sweaty in the absence of nervousness, hot temperatures or exercise, it could be down to faulty nerve signals causing the sweat glands to become active. This can be benign, in which case it is called primary hyperhidrosis. But...