Source: Times of India NEW DELHI: India has proposed to the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a framework for control of alcohol consumption on the lines of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). FCTC was the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO […]
Source: USA Today. Conventional wisdom says that hardship can make us old before our time.In fact, a new study suggests that violence leaves long-term scars on children’s bodies — not just in bruises on the skin, but also altering their DNA, causing changes that are equivalent to seven to 10 years […]
Source: The New York Times The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: A member of the applied sciences faculty at Umm Al-Qura University has won a gold medal for her innovation at the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions […]
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Libyan gov’t owes JD90m to local hotels by Khetam Malkawi | Apr 18,2012 | Jordan Times AMMAN — The Kingdom’s hotels on Wednesday decided to stop receiving Libyan guests due […]
By Zubair Khan Moulvi Dr A Wahab Adam, Amir (Head) of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ghana once again took the lead and became the forefront runner to get the honor for AMM (Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission) Ghana. In collaboration with Academy of Medical Science (AMS) Germany, eighteen dental surgeons from Ghana, Nigeria […]
(NaturalNews) In the current episode ofMental Health Exposed, we enter the world of Leo Babauta, one of the most popular personal development bloggers today. Leo has an uncommon, laser focus on how to simplify your life, let go of unwanted habits and get more done with less distraction. Zen Habitsis […]
by Patricia Islas, swissinfo.ch Psychological ailments are set to become the biggest challenge for the Swiss health service in the next decade. Inadequate or non-existent therapy will only aggravate the situation, as psychologist Alain Malafosse tells swissinfo.ch in an interview. The specialist is not the first person to call for […]
(NaturalNews) If you have ever seen the famous 1975 movieOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, you likely recall several disturbing scenes in which mental health patients are given frontal-lobe lobotomies, or the iconic scene where actor Jack Nicholson’s character undergoes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Today, these horrific forms of so-called mental […]
Express Tribune: LONDON: A British scientist may have fathered up to 600 children at a controversial London fertility clinic which he set up in the 1940s with his wife. The claim […]
Oliva, now six months, was born completely white because she had such a low count of haemoglobin – the chemical which carries oxygen in red blood cells – that it could not officially be classed as ‘blood’. She was given less than two hours to live but survived thanks to […]
Source: Jagran Sooch, Punjab Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Bharat recently arranged free medical camp in the village of Sooch in Punjab, India. Patients from this village were provided with medical counseling and medicine. Chief of the village Satinder Singh assisted medical workers in their efforts and expressed that villagers are unable to […]
Credit: TOI As you age, your memory goes for a toss. Eating right will help those grey cells in working condition and you in tip-top shape! Can’t find your keys … again? Whether your momentary memory loss is linked to doing too many things at once or just a bad […]
Starbucks is coming under fire from vegans for using ground-up bugs to color its Frappuccinos, but the use of cochineal insects is actually quite common in the food industry. In fact, cochineal […]
Source: Scienceshot. To the unaided eye, the most striking feature of the human brain is its squiggly pattern of bumps and grooves. But within those curves is a latticework of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles (above), according to a study published in tomorrow’s issue of Science. The […]
Russian TV: Athletes, coaches and officials vising the summer Olympics in London will be not allowed to marry while they are in Britain. The UK Home Office fears some will […]
New York Times: By DIANE ACKERMAN: A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself […]
Credit: TOI AP Photo NEW YORK: People who ate chocolate a few times a week or more weighed less than those who rarely indulged, according to a US study involving a thousand people. Researchers said the findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, don’t prove that adding a candy […]
Are you tired or have you been taking treatment for low thyroid function and still are tired? If so then desiccated thyroid extract may be something for you to explore! […]