Celebrate a safe and healthy Diwali amidst COVID-19

Experts suggest tips for people on how to celebrate a safe and healthy Diwali during the COVID-19 pandemic and pollution.

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World Diabetes Day: Focus on Nurses and Diabetes

World Diabetes Day is celebrated on 14th November every year. It aims to raise awareness about the dangers of diabetes and highlights prevention and control strategies to manage the disease.

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World Pneumonia Day: Time to Stop Pneumonia and Reduce Under-Five Mortality!

World Pneumonia Day is celebrated on 12 November every year. It creates awareness about the dangers of pneumonia among the public. Its major objective is to reduce the global burden of pneumonia.

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Emotional Sobriety

Emotional sobriety is less about the quality of the feeling ("good" or "bad") and more about the general ability to feel one's feelings.

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Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Let's Fight This Scourge!

Lung Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated annually in November. It aims to create awareness about the dangers of lung cancer and also highlight the importance of early detection for better treatment outcomes

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Night time Blood Pressure Increases Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

Night-time increase in systolic blood pressure during sleep significantly increases the risk of heart diseases, including heart failure, stroke, and coronary artery disease.

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New Glands That Lubricate Our Throat Called Tubarial Salivary Glands Discovered

A previously unnoticed pair of salivary glands have been discovered in the nasopharynx. These have been named tubarial salivary glands. The discovery could have important implications in treatment of cancer with radiotherapy.

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High Flavanol Diet Lowers Blood Pressure: Here's How

Flavanol-rich foods and drinks such as tea, apples and berries, can help lower your blood pressure levels. Increasing flavanol intake can also reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Can Drinking Green Tea and Coffee Lower Death Risk?

Drinking 4 or more daily cups of green tea plus 2 or more of coffee was linked to a 63% lower risk of death over a period of around 5 years

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Exercise in the Morning to Prevent Cancer

Physical activity done in the morning around 8am -10am throughout lifetime can reduce cancer risk. Researchers have found that time of the day of physical activity plays a crucial role in preventing the development of cancer risk

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Ideal Body Weight Changed for Indian Men and Women

The ideal age, ideal body, nutrient and water requirements for Indian men and women have been changed based on data from multiple reports

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Drink Coffee After Breakfast for Better Metabolic Control

A strong black coffee before breakfast after a bad night's sleep leads to high blood glucose levels. Thus, it is better to drink coffee after breakfast

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World Heart Day- Use Heart to Beat Cardiovascular Disease

World Heart Day is celebrated annually on 29th September to raise awareness of cardiovascular diseases and prevention methods. The theme for World Heart Day 2020 is 'Use heart to beat cardiovascular disease

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Health-Related Quality of Life: A Vital Health Assessment Tool

Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is a multidimensional dynamic concept that includes physical, mental and emotional well-being, as well as optimal social functioning and interaction with the environment.

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Weighted Blankets Can Decrease Insomnia Severity

Weighted blankets can be used as a safe and effective intervention in the treatment of insomnia patients who also have psychiatric disorders. They experienced improved sleep and reduced insomnia severity

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Kidney Damage in Diabetes Linked to Autophagy

A new pathway which reduces autophagy in diabetic patients have been discovered. Reduction in autophagy dramatically reduces the kidney's ability to clean itself and results in diabetic kidney disease

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Cycle Your Way to Better Health

Cycling offers many health benefits by building strength, endurance and bone density. Cycling is also environmentally-friendly as it reduces the carbon footprint

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World Alzheimer's Day - Let's Talk About Dementia

World Alzheimer's Day is celebrated on 21st September every year to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The theme for the year 2020 is 'Let's talk about dementia'.

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Pesco-Mediterranean Diet Reduces Heart Disease Risk

Consuming a Pesco-Mediterranean diet rich in plant-based foods, fish, nuts, and extra-virgin olive oil with time-restricted fasting can lower heart disease risk

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Thyroid Profile

Thyroid profile test is a set of blood tests, which helps in measuring the levels of the thyroid hormones secreted from the thyroid glandsuch as Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), Tri-iodothyronine (T3) and Thyroxine (T4).

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