Yoga once a week may relieve lower back pain
Practising yoga – an ancient Indian meditative practice – just once a week may be enough to provide lower back pain relief and reduce the need for pain medication, a … continue reading
Practising yoga – an ancient Indian meditative practice – just once a week may be enough to provide lower back pain relief and reduce the need for pain medication, a … continue reading
My Fellow Citizens, You are all aware that there has been extensive devastation due to cloud burst and floods in the State of Uttarakhand. A large number of persons have … continue reading
The US stock market finally shook its post-election slump. Investors seized on hope that Washington will reach a deal on the federal budget and drove stocks Monday to their biggest … continue reading
US giant Starbucks, the world’s biggest coffee chain, says an increase in customers boosted revenue in the fourth quarter by 6%. The company said net income at its shops open … continue reading
Contrary to past research, private school students in India do not outperform their counterparts in public schools. The study challenges the claim that private schools are superior – a hot … continue reading
One of the keys to happiness at work is earning a lot of money, but what is equally important, if not more important, is that our earnings not be inferior … continue reading
Strategies for decreasing a child’s risk for obesity often focus on improving eating habits and maintaining a high level of physical activity. While this is one way to address the issue, another way to reduce the risk of childhood obesity could simply come down to positive parenting, according to a Temple University study published in the November issue of Child Abuse & Neglect.
Health insurance reform plans that build on a mix of private and public health insurance, where costs are shared among government, employers, and enrollees would have great potential to move the system to high performance and would be the most practical to implement according to a new report released today by The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Commissioners are a diverse group of leading health policy experts from government, private industry, health care delivery organizations, academia, and professional associations.
The health care of children should be a bipartisan concern, says the UCC’s general minister and president John Thomas, in calling for an override of a presidential veto that blocked a proposed expansion of a children’s health insurance program.
Men who have prostate cancer are on average four times more likely to suffer a hip fracture, with rates rising to eight times in men aged 50 to 65, according to a study of more than 60,000 men published in the October issue of the urology journal BJU International. Danish researchers looked at 62,865 men aged 50 and over, with an average age of just under 67.