Health Jockey

Today, Debiotech and STMicroelectronics announced an agreement that is aimed at manufacturing and delivering a unique miniature sized insulin-delivery pump. Aptly named the Nanopump, this device is a breakthrough concept that allows a tiny pump to be mounted on a disposable skin patch to provide continuous insulin infusion to diabetic patients.
Insulin pump therapy, or Continuous […]

A new study has said that drinking at leas two cups of tea daily can protect you from developing skin cancer. However, scientists are calling for more research on the subject to strengthen the findings.
Tea has disease –fighting properties that appear to protect the body against squamous cell carcinomas and Basal cell carcinomas. These […]

This week, US health officials approved a vaccine to prevent bird flu in humans. The vaccine called Sanofi-Aventis happens to be the first vaccine that has been approved by the US FDA to prevent people from becoming infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus.
The H5N1 Avian Influenza virus has killed a large number of […]

Prospects of long waiting lists and fears of contracting lethal infections in UK hospitals drove 50,000 British patients to fly to India and other countries providing low cost and high quality treatment last year.
The figures marked an increase of over 25 per cent compared to the previous year and is expected to further increase […]

Bleeding gums is a very common problem amongst many. A new study has claimed that consuming garlic and lemon daily could help to push up the level of vitamin C and thus stop the gums from bleeding.
The study claims that consuming two grams of garlic and a medium sized lemon a day can prevent […]

People who want to lose weight successfully should drink at least two litres of fluids a day, said the Consumer Rights Protection Centre in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Another German study had shown that drinking cold water could help to shed those extra kilos.
The centre said that many overweight people drank too little […]

If you want to reduce the risk of common types of cancer read on. A trio of new studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research on Sunday found that vegetables and fruits help lower your chances of getting head and neck, breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancers.
One of the […]

The Manipur government in India has banned illegal transborder movement of poultry products, including pigs from Myanmar to the state.
In view of communications from the High Commission of Bangladesh, regarding spread of avian influenza in Bangladesh, the Manipur government has formed a state-level monitoring committee.
Director of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry T H […]

Eating fish polluted by manmade toxic chemicals and industrial effluents in sea and soil could increase your diabetes risk, a new study shows.
Until now, obesity was thought to be the most important factor in the development of type 2 diabetes - a disorder in which the body does not produce enough insulin - […]

Scientists at Zurich University have developed a promising new therapy that targets the progression of diabetes type 2. Type 2 is the most common form of the disease and affects 90 per cent of diabetics. Type 2 diabetes is also on the rise worldwide due to health and lifestyle factors such as being overweight.
Diabetes […]