YOGA NOT AS HEART-HEALTHY AS YOU THINK
NEW DELHI: A comprehensive review shows that yoga doesn’t match up to traditional exercise for improving vascular health. Activities like Pilates, Tai Chi, and interval training prove more effective in keeping arteries resilient, especially in sedentary adults. While yoga remains valuable for accessibility and cultural significance, experts say it should be supplemented with more vigorous […]
STUNNING RESULTS OF COMMON DRUG ON COVID
NEW DELHI: A cheap, inhaled drug may revolutionize treatment for COVID-19 and other deadly lung infections. Inhaled heparin significantly lowers the risk of death and ventilation in COVID-19 patients while also showing potential against other respiratory infections. With its unique triple-action benefits, it could serve as a powerful and accessible treatment worldwide. A widely available […]
TAKE FRUITS FOR HEALTHIER LUNGS
NEW DELHI: Eating more fruit could help protect lungs from air pollution damage, particularly in women. Researchers point to antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds in fruit as possible defences against harmful airborne particles. A study was presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam by Pimpika Kaewsri, a PhD student from the Centre for Environmental […]
ONLINE MONEY GAMING HEARING OFF TO NOVEMBER
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred to November hearing on petitions filed by gaming companies challenging the law that banned money gaming. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan heard the matter briefly and said it would be taken up after the Diwali vacation. Lawyers representing gaming companies, including lead petitioner […]
NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE TO 3 SCIENTISTS OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to three professors of the University of California for their experiments on a chip revealing quantum physics in action. The winners are: John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis. In a press release, the Academy said […]
SMARTPHONE CAN DETECT MENTAL HEALTH RISKS
NEW DELHI: Smartphone sensors are revealing surprising insights into mental health, capturing everyday behaviors that may hint at anxiety, depression, or other disorders. Researchers are showing how phone sensors can track patterns tied to a wide range of mental health symptoms. Instead of relying only on self-reports, clinicians may soon be able to gather continuous, […]
HOW TO BLOCK PAIN WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS
NEW DELHI: Scientists have discovered a way to block pain while still allowing the body’s natural healing to take place. Current painkillers like ibuprofen and aspirin often come with harmful side effects because they shut down both pain and inflammation. But this new research identified a single “pain switch” receptor that can be turned off […]
ALCOHOL BLOCKS HEALING OF LIVER, EVEN AFTER YOU QUIT
NEW DELHI: Alcohol doesn’t just damage the liver — it locks its cells in a strange “in-between” state that prevents them from healing. Even after someone quits drinking, liver cells often get stuck, unable to function normally or regenerate. Scientists have now traced this problem to runaway inflammation, which scrambles the cell’s instructions and silences […]
NEW PEE TEST COULD IDENTIFY PROSTATE CANCER
NEW DELHI: Researchers have created a new urine-based test to ID prostate cancers. This new approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies. By analyzing urine samples from prostate cancer patients before and after prostate-removal surgery, as well as samples from healthy individuals, researchers identified a panel of three biomarkers—TTC3, H4C5, and […]
MENOPAUSE CAN CHANGE YOUR VOICE
NEW DELHI: A new study provides a comprehensive and innovative examination of a previously underexplored phenomenon: vocal changes that women may experience during menopause, often the result of falling levels of estrogen and progesterone. The groundbreaking paper from a group led by Yael Bensoussan, inaugural director of the University of South Florida Health Voice Center […]
