New Delhi: Till now people said that taking a lot of tea may not be good for health, but now experts say that if you take 8 cups of tea daily, your heart and brain may be healthy.
Though, previous studies have already linked the drink’s healthy antioxidant properties and high flavonoid content to preventing heart disease and cutting the risk of some cancers.
Independent dietician Dr Carrie Ruxton’s research on caffeine at King’s College, London, saw her review 47 published studies to reach the conclusion that caffeinated drinks such as tea, coffee and cocoa have positive effects on mental function.
Ruxton has supported earlier reports by claiming that an optimal intake of 400mg of caffeine a day leads to “key benefits in terms of mental function and heart health”.
She assessed three studies, accounting for almost 90,000 patients, to find that drinking four cups of tea or coffee a day reduced chances of cardiovascular disease.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be soon back to work. He’s affected with Swine Flu and is recuperating fast, sources said.
The Gujarat chief minister was diagnosed with the Swine Flu on October 29 after his return from a trip abroad.
The doctors attending Narendra Modi appreciated his patience and willingness to follow the medical instructions.
Doctors attending the chief minister said that he will be released from isolation on November 5.
They also said that there were no symptoms of Swine Flu in his body and the CM also had no cough or cold in last few days.
Only the personal staff of Modi is allowed to meet him in the isolation, that included his two peons, his doctors, his cook and his private secretaries.
During his brief illness, Modi talked to PM Manmohan Singh, BJP leader LK Advani, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and other senior officials.
Looks like the much in demand vaccine for H1N1 is low in supply in the state of Michigan. The scare of Swine Flu has increased the demand of the vaccine surprisingly high in the recent days.
The Michigan State health officials have announced that there are more people waiting for the vaccine than that was supplied.
To get our data clear, there are about 5 million people in the state to take vaccines but only 1 million vaccines have been supplied so far.
The same is the story with some of the other states as well. Bob Swanson, Director, immunization, Michigan Department of Community Health informed “We’re getting it out as quickly as possible, Oorders are placed on a daily basis.”
Source :Latestnewsonline.net
New Delhi: Another 26 patients were found affected with the deadly virus of swine flu in the capital today. The total number of cases thus turns to 3230.
Kiran Walia, health minister Delhi, today said that so far there are 3230 no of cases have come up,among which 1,697 no are of childrens alone.
All the patients are undergoing treatments in the different hospitals and more than 90 percent of the patients have been discharged. The situation is now under control.
She also said that the government is totally concerned about the matter and is doing its best in providing treatments in the hospital.
If any symptom of Swine flu appears visit the doctor at the earliest, she advised
Bangalore: A gesture which took everyone by surprise is that of a group of sex workers came together to launch a regional centre on HIV and AIDS to fight the spread of the disease. Sex workers from across Karnataka came together for the inauguration of Ashodaya Academy.
Located in Mysore, the project is a collaboration of Unaids and Ashodaya Samiti, a Mysore-based organisation working for the welfare and health issues of sex workers in Karnataka.
“The Ashodaya Academy is the first learning site on HIV-AIDS in the Asia Pacific region run entirely by sex workers. The idea behind the academy is to develop the role of sex workers themselves in raising awareness about AIDS and its further prevention,” executive director of Unaids Michel Sidibe said at the inaugural ceremony.
“They are the MARP (most at risk population) to HIV-AIDS and thus sex workers can play a key role in HIV prevention and intervention,” added Sidibe.
“Declared as a learning site, the Ashodaya Academy will provide opportunities to consolidate the valuable experiences and learning of sex workers in scaling up prevention, intervention, mobilization of communities and ensure delivery of services. It’s an effort to showcase the fact that when sex workers are in the lead, they can change the course of the HIV epidemic,” said Sushena Reza Paul, adviser at Ashodaya Samiti.
New York: Head of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s preparedness and response unit, Denis Coulombier, warned that a second wave of swine flu infections could be expected within weeks.
“We had a period of anxiety because the first phase developed very, very quickly and the situation was unclear in Mexico” Denis said.
“For several days, we were not very clear ourselves about the severity of the virus. But more facts emerged very quickly, and we realized the virus was circulating in the United States and therefore had been around for a while.”
He further adds, “We did well to prepare in the way we did. We must always prepare for the worst plausible scenario and the work that was done indicated the possibility of a very severe pandemic. So we did not make a mistake with our preparations, and the evolution (of the pandemic) is down to chance.”
At least 4,525 people have died from swine flu since April and there have been more than 378,223 laboratory-confirmed cases globally, according to the World Health Organization.
California: The Swine flu scare isn’t gone yet a recent report says that Asthma conditions dominated in the hospitalized patients in 10 states that too in the severe cases of H1N1 influenza.
Also other chronic conditions include anemia, sickle cell cerebral palsy and/or muscular dystrophy among the children having the infection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was working on the most common conditions in H1N1 patients. The epidemiologists took about 1,400 people who were 18 or more and 500 children in 10 states. These states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Tennessee.
This report concluded that 26% had asthma, about 10 % were having diabetes, with 8% showing chronic lung disease like emphysema and about 7.6% had immunosuppressed from fatal diseases like cancer, HIV or some other ailment along with about 6.1% were pregnant as well as with heart disease.
Snoring may sound a regular problem, but studies show that it can help diagnose specific sleep disorder. Recently, doctors at University of Queensland and the Princess Alexandra Hospital assessed the snoring pattern of 20 patients with sleep apnoea by first recording it. The analysis is done through a computer programme developed by researchers. It was found that the recordings diagnosed the condition successfully in 94 per cent of cases.
“An accurate device to diagnose sleep apnoea from recordings of snoring would be extremely helpful,” said a sleep expert.
“Many patients are told about their snoring by their bed partner, but some can go years not even realizing there is a problem, only that they are constantly exhausted. This (method) seems to be very accurate for low level sleep apnoea.”
“Such a device this could also mean that we are forced to revise upwards the number of people that we think have this condition. “
“At the moment the only thing many GPs think they know about this illness is that it affects fat, middle-aged men, which suggests many cases among people who do not fit that profile are not being picked up,” the expert added.
Sleep apnoea can also lead to increased risk of high blood pressure and heart attack.
New Delhi: Eight more people succumbed to swine flu taking the death toll to 359 in the country.
185 fresh swine flu infections have also reported, taking the total number of positive cases to 11,253 in the country according to the Union Health Ministry.
One death from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, two from Maharashtra and one from Karnataka are reflected in the cumulative total.
A ministry official said samples from 47,145 people have been tested for Influenza H1N1 in government laboratories and a few private laboratories across the country and 23.8 per cent of them have been found positive.
Mexican researchers have found evidence that the usual seasonal flu vaccine may offer protection against the new pandemic H1N1 swine flu. They say that people who had been vaccinated against seasonal flu are the least expected to be sick or to die from H1N1.
The new H1N1 swine flu virus is a very distant cousin of the H1N1 seasonal flu virus, which is included in the mixture provided every year in the seasonal flu vaccine.
These findings offer good news for people who have been vaccinated against seasonal flu, especially as governments are handing out newly made swine flu vaccines.
However, Lourdes Garcia-Garcia and colleagues at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca wrote in the British Medical Journal stated that these results should be considered carefully and point out that seasonal vaccine would not substitute vaccination against pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009.
Garcia’s team studied 60 patients with confirmed swine flu and 180 similar people with other diseases being treated in the Mexico City area.
Another study in Canada suggested other ways. This study reveals that in fact people who got seasonal flu vaccines may be more likely to become infected with H1N1, although the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both expressed doubts about the findings.
The Mexican government distributes seasonal flu vaccine and only eight people who had been vaccinated against seasonal flu were among the swine flu cases.
The researchers found that 29 percent of unvaccinated people in the study became infected with H1N1, versus 13 percent of vaccinated people.
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