Pain is a common and often significant problem in old age. Geriatric patients seem to be at especially high risk of having their pain overlooked. “A major reason for this appears to be a number of widely held misconceptions that reinforce its mismanagement”, says Dr KJ Choudhary, Pain Management specialist, Apollo Hospital.
People should get no more than 10 per cent of their calories from sugar, experts say in a new report on how to stem the global epidemic of obesity linked diseases.
Vitamin D supplements can prevent fractures in men and women aged over 65 years, according to a new study in British Medical Journal (BMJ). Researchers identified 2,686 people (2,037 men and 649 women) aged between 65 to 85 years living in the community.
It is getting close to allergy season again, and to most allergy sufferers freedom from this dread condition is literally nothing to sneeze at. This freedom, however, is a distant dream for many allergy sufferers. Allergies can be imprisoning.
If a little thinking is good, a lot is better. That’s wrong, insists psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, whose ground breaking research shows the downside of stewing over life’s issues. It amplifies sadness and makes problems harder to solve.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have revealed that elderly men and women even with normal body weight are at the risk of type 2 diabetes if they have large amounts of muscle fat or visceral abdominal fat, according to Diabetes Care.
Good news for people who constantly fret about not burning enough calories. A new research has revealed that people in fact exercise more than they think.
In March 2000, some of the USA’s top psychologists and neuroscientists came to India for a research collaboration – with the Dalai Lama. They wanted to find ways in which people can better control their destructive emotions. Some results of that research have begun to emerge.
The American Heart Association has warned that cold weather can be dangerous for heart patients because such people are more prone to hypothermia, a condition where the body temperature falls below normal.
Researchers are using yeast to home in on the genes behind people’s adverse reactions to antibiotics. Some 5-10% of us develop symptoms ranging from harmless rashes to serious allergies or organ damage when we are treated with these.