The ID cards for students in 7th to 12th grade in California now have imprinted on them the suicide prevention hot line number in an effort to combat the second most prevalent cause of death among US residents between 10 and 24 years of age. The measure is part of state law SB 972, which requires all California's ...
Just as it is possible to detect alcohol consumption, NASA has now developed a test to detect sleep loss in people by looking at a variety of components of human eye movements. As sleep loss is linked to poor judgement and therefore dangerous consequences, this test can have important implications for individuals who work in jobs ...
Private sector RBL Bank and digital healthcare platform Practo have partnered to launch an industry first co-branded health credit card. This credit card is powered by Mastercard and is available on both Practo and RBL mobile apps and websites. ...
Making exercise a stress outlet may help students attain recommended amounts of physical activity and to maintain that routine, students need social support from family and friends, said researchers including one of an Indian origin. "Accessing internal and external sources of inspiration and resilience is an...
Stressful life experiences such as divorce, death of a loved one or job loss may lead to a greater memory decline and raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease among the middle-aged women, says a new study. The study's findings, published in the International Journal of Geriatric ...
The Unnao rape victim's lawyer, Mahendra Singh, reached the AIIMS Trauma Centre here on Tuesday afternoon. The lawyer, injured in a July 28 truck-car crash along with the victim, was flown from Lucknow and reached the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ...
Posting on social media, texting or calling while high on drugs is prevalent among young people, and many say that they regret this behaviour later, researchers said. "Risky social media posts, including those showing people high on drugs, have the potential to cause embarrassment, stress and conflict for users and those ...
Google Fit now tracks users' sleep patterns from applications that share their data, thus, giving them a better sense of increasing or cutting their sleeping hours. Users can also add and edit their sleep history if companion apps aren't ...
Heart disease and stroke mortality rates have almost stopped declining in many high-income countries and are even increasing in some countries, reveals a new study. For the study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, researchers from the University of Melbourne analysed trends in cardiovascular...
Forty-seven people died and over 200,000 were infected by the dengue virus across Sri Lanka in the first seven months this year, government figures revealed on Monday. Till the end of July, a total of 234,078 dengue cases were reported, with the...
