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- Lose weight post-pregnancy - but don't rush it
- Experts wary of Lancet's study on good cholesterol
- Summer vacations bring drought in blood banks: Experts
- Cassady, Chen, Dewhirst to be honored with ASTRO Gold Medals
- University of Southampton and Roke develop technology world first to support stroke patients
- 9 out of 10 non-elderly Californians will be covered under Affordable Care Act
| Lose weight post-pregnancy - but don't rush it Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:04 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, June 15 - Gaining weight after pregnancy is natural. Then why fuss over Aishwarya Rai's extra pounds, ask health experts. Regular crunches, low-impact exercises and small but frequent meals a day can help new moms get back in shape. But stay away from dieting. Gynaecologist Archana Dhawan says it is unfair to compare Aishwarya's frame with those of Hollywood's yummy mummies as the body structure of each person varies. People have their own pace to lose weight, or they would have their own targets. Some can lose in six months whereas others take more than a year. As long as you are making a constant effort and you are feeding the baby regularly and doing exercise, you can lose weight, Dhawan, from the capital's The Nurture Clinic, told IANS. Whether it's Aishwarya or any normal adult, everybody has a right to decide at what speed they want to lose weight. As long as you are losing it, good enough. As per geographical distribution, the body frame also varies across the world, she said. A proper exercise regimen is of utmost importance, says Amrapali Patil, CEO of Trim N Tone The Obesity Clinic. Exercising after pregnancy helps to lose those extra pounds put on during pregnancy, alleviate postpartum depression. Unlike dieting, it doesn't interfere with your breastfeeding, she said. Experts suggest yoga, indoor exercises and regular crunches to shed extra flab. It is important to consult a physician before commencing any exercise programme as the post-pregnancy period is a delicate state. Till six months, when women are breastfeeding, they should take high calorie diet. But after those six months, one should maintain a low calorie and low carbohydrate diet, said nutritionist Rekha Gonsalves. Since dieting can create a problem for mothers and indirectly to the newborn, regular exercise is the safest way out. New mothers are advised exercise only after a certain period. Weight loss of about half a kg a week is safe... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Experts wary of Lancet's study on good cholesterol Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:52 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, June 14 - Reacting to a study report that 'good cholesterol' - known to check harmful cholesterol from blood - does not lower risk of heart diseases, international health experts Thursday said here that it is too early to draw conclusions on its negative effects. It is a good study that was badly interpreted. The positive spinoff from the study is that it provided the prod for moving away from over-focusing on the contribution of cholesterol, said Philip Barter, director of heart research institute in Sydney, reacting to British medical journal Lancet's study on good cholesterol. Known to be vital in the functioning of cardio-vascular system, high density lipoproteins - works by sweeping the bad form of the fatty substance called low density lipoproteins - out of the blood-carrying arteries to reduce clogs. It can steer towards an evaluation of the broad range of high-density lipoprotein - functions, Barter said in a media interaction organised here. While the study found that people with a genetic condition that causes high HDL level have the same heart-attack risk as the general population, experts said the findings had to be seen in a context. The study suggested that there's no guarantee the drugs will make a difference in increasing HDL and lowering LDL. Barter was accompanied by John Chapman, president of the European Atherosclerosis Society, who said there is still time to understand why good cholesterol would have a negative effect. It is important not to jump to conclusions - as HDL is structurally and functionally much more complex than LDL, Chapman said. Moreover, the understanding of why low levels of HDL or good cholesterol has such a negative effect on cardio-vascular diseases is still incomplete, Chapman told IANS. While the international experts said there is still time to go for the study to show results, experts here believe that the trick to balanced cholesterol for Indians is a balanced diet... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Summer vacations bring drought in blood banks: Experts Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:41 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, June 14 - Every summer, 10-year-old Aditya's parents face a tough time trying to arrange two units of 'A negative' blood for their thalassemia-afflicted son as the student community, who constitute a major chunk of donors, goes on vacation. Most of Delhi's blood banks face a shortage particularly from April to August, as many of these rely on student donors. As schools and colleges shut for summer vacation, there is a sharp fall in blood donation camps during summer. The blood banks run out of blood and its components, right from the month of April till August, N.K. Bhatia, medical director of Jan Jagriti Blood Bank of Delhi, told IANS. There is shortage of blood during summer. Though we keep in regular touch with the blood banks in and around Delhi and NCR region, every year during April to July we need to hunt for his - blood group A negative as we need fresh blood to create components and A negative is a very rare group, Seema Chopra, Aditya's mother laments. Thalassemic patients between the age of one to five years need one unit of blood every month, between the ages of five to 10 - two units every month, between the ages of 10 to 15 - three units are needed every month, and an adult thalassemic needs four units of blood every month. India requires 90 lakh units of blood every year, but the country manages to get only six lakh units. There is a perennial shortage of 25 lakh blood units. Out of six lakh units, 60 percent is donated by volunteers, Bhatia said. Delhi and National Capital Region - require 7 lakh to 8 lakh units of blood a year - but get only 4 lakh to 5 lakh units. Over 75 percent of our donors are students in schools and colleges. With most educational institutions on holiday at this time, there is a huge shortage in supply. During summer if we target 100 volunteers, only 30 turn up, a senior official of the Indian Red Cross Society - told IANS. He also said that there is irrational use of blood... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Cassady, Chen, Dewhirst to be honored with ASTRO Gold Medals Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected J. Robert Cassady, MD, FASTRO, George T.Y. Chen, PhD, FASTRO, and Mark W. Dewhirst, DVM, PhD, FASTRO, as the Society's 2012 Gold Medal recipients. Drs. Cassady, Chen and Dewhirst will be recognized with this honor at an Awards Ceremony held during ASTRO's 54th Annual Meeting taking place October 28-31, 2012, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston. The Gold Medal is the Society's highest honor. It is bestowed on revered members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of radiation oncology, including research, clinical care, teaching and service. Recipients are drawn from any of the scientific disciplines represented by the members of the Society. Dr. Cassady's service spans over four decades with a major influence in the fields of pediatric oncology, prostate cancer and hyperthermia. During his residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, Dr. Cassady published, with Robert Sagerman, MD, FASTRO, a highly regarded paper on the treatment of orbital rhabdomyosarcoma. After serving at the National Center for Radiologic Health in Rockville, Md., and a Fellowship at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Dr. Cassady joined the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School, where he became a professor and division head at the Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is noted as an esteemed educator and clinician. In 1984, he became head of the radiation oncology department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and, in 1995, he became chairman of the department of radiation oncology at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. Dr. Cassady was also professor of radiation oncology at Tufts University Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Cassady recently retired from his position at the Lahey Clinic. Dr. Chen is a former member of the ASTRO Board of Directors and a 33-year member of the... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| University of Southampton and Roke develop technology world first to support stroke patients Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The University of Southampton, in collaboration with Roke Manor Research Ltd (Roke), a Chemring company, has pioneered the use of Xbox computer technology to develop the world's first process that measures hand joint movement to help stroke patients recover manual agility at home. The Xbox Kinect works by monitoring whole limb movements allowing controller-free gaming; the gamer becomes the game. However, the University team has taken it a step further to create an algorithm that tracks and measures hand joint angles and the fine dexterity of individual finger movements. The ultimate aim is to capture the data while the patients follow exercises on a TV screen. The project aims to help people recovering from a stroke to do more regular and precise exercises so that they recover faster. The data collected will be fed back to the therapists caring for the patient so they can continually monitor progress, reducing the need for frequent hospital visits. This new system has been developed to complement the home-based physiotherapy care already offered to patients in the UK, and follows a recent Stroke Association report which stated that stroke survivors are being denied the chance to make their best recovery because of a lack of post-hospital care. Health Sciences academic Dr Cheryl Metcalf, at the University of Southampton, has been supervising the project. She comments: Recovering from a stroke can be a daunting and distressing time for patients and their families. Through our research we know that many people recovering from a stroke find their at-home exercises repetitive and often demotivating. If they are already finding it difficult and frustrating to move their hands, they need something to encourage them to try harder. We wanted to create a more engaging way to help them recover faster. Using the Kinect we have been able to take a commercially available product and develop a highly novel tool that aims to be both cost... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| 9 out of 10 non-elderly Californians will be covered under Affordable Care Act Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Nine out of 10 Californians under the age of 65 will be enrolled in health insurance programs as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a joint study by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Between 1.8 million and 2.7 million previously uninsured Californians will gain coverage by 2019, when the law's effect is fully realized, the researchers said. The report, which uses a sophisticated computer simulation model to project the ACA's impact on insurance coverage, comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue its ruling this month on the constitutionality of the law. Under the ACA, more than a million Californians with the lowest incomes are set to become eligible as of 2014 for affordable health coverage through an expansion of Medi-Cal (the state's Medicaid program), while several million more residents from low- and middle-income families will be eligible for subsidies through the new California Health Benefit Exchange, making their coverage more affordable. Specifically, the researchers project that an expansion of Medi-Cal will result in between 1.2 and 1.6 million new enrollees, while between 1.8 million and 2.1 million state residents will enroll in subsidized coverage through the exchange. If the Affordable Care Act is upheld by the Supreme Court and fully implemented, it will significantly expand access to affordable health coverage, said Ken Jacobs, chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the study's lead author. Based on our simulation, millions of Californians stand to gain, either through insurance they wouldn't otherwise have or from more affordable premiums and increased benefit standards. The UC Berkeley and UCLA researchers project that by the time the ACA is fully implemented in 2019, between 89 and 92 percent of Californians under the age of 65 will have... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
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