Health Jockey

Texas Instruments, a designer of digital signal processing solutions has showcased a thought-controlled motorized wheelchair. Jointly developed by Texas Instruments and Ambient Corp, this wheelchair happens to be the world’s first thought-controlled motorized one.
The recently showcased Texas Instruments wheelchair is not controlled mechanically nor is it controlled by speech. Rather, it is controlled by thought […]

A US study has suggested that moderate physical exercise could result in decreased inflammation of damaged skin tissue.
According to University of Illinois researcher K. Todd Keylock, “The key point of the study is that moderate exercise sped up how fast wounds heal in old mice.”
He also speculated that the reaction “may be the result […]

An Indian has managed to successfully create the world’s first breed of ‘super mice’ that are resistant to cancer, even in the most highly aggressive forms. Dr.Vivek Rangnekar, originally from Mumbai but who is now settled in the US is a professor of radiation medicine at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Rangnekar spent over 25 […]

A 14-year-old boy from Washington State has died of leukemia, after declining to undergo blood transfusion since he was a Jehovah’s Witness.
Named Dennis Lindberg, the 14-year-old died on Wednesday night in Children’s Hospital in Seattle. His death occurred just a few hours post the judge ruled that the boy could not be forced […]

An Australian study has found that fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids may stop young people from developing schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a psychotic condition that is characterized by hallucinations and delusions.
Researchers from the Orygen Research Centre in Melbourne conducted an experiment. The study found that 3% of 40 people aged 13 to 24 and previous […]

A new study has suggested that women living and working in cities may face higher risk of developing breast cancer than those who do not live or work in such places. The researchers labeled pollution as the major reason.
Scientists had earlier found that those who have densest breasts are four times more likely […]

According to a new study, regular washing of one’s hands and wearing protective gear like masks, gloves and gowns, may just be more effective than drugs in the prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses like the flu and SARS.
The study’s findings come at a perfect time just when the UK government announced that […]

Computed tomography, widely referred to as CT scans, uses radiation to assist doctors in the diagnosis of health problems inside the human body. In spite of being an extremely valuable technology, CT scans have now raised concern by experts.
In a new study doctors from Columbia University Medical Center have warned that the excess radiation […]

Endolite India Limited has announced its plans to introduce an artificial limb centre in the south Indian state of Mangalore. This news will come as a joy to those who are now impaired due to loss of limbs in accidents or due to any other reason as well.
Such patients will definitely find relief at […]

The Indian government together with the National AIDS Control Organization (Naco) and the ministry of health and family welfare are taking some huge initiatives to help curb the shortage of blood supply in India.
Together they plan on setting up a quasi-legal regulatory authority, four large metro blood banks and a battery of blood storage […]