Mammograms Can Also Highlight Heart Risks

Mammograms Can Also Highlight Heart Risks

WEDNESDAY, March 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Your annual screening mammogram may do more than spot breast cancer early — it may give you a heads up on your heart disease risk, too. Digital breast X-rays can also detect a build-up of calcium in the arteries of your breasts, an early sign of heart disease. … Read more

Need Better Sleep? Try a Resistance Workout

Need Better Sleep? Try a Resistance Workout

March 16, 2022 — Having trouble sleeping? New research suggests you might want to try a new type of exercise. In a head-to-head comparison, results of a new study show that resistance exercise promotes better sleep among inactive adults, especially those who are poor sleepers. “We thought resistance exercise would be somewhere in the same … Read more

Vaccination drive: Over 23,000 children aged 12-14 years received first dose of Corbevax vaccine

Vaccination drive: Over 23,000 children aged 12-14 years received first dose of Corbevax vaccine

According to CoWIN, vaccination for this age group picked up pace around 3 pm on Wednesday and 23,457 children aged 12-14 years have received vaccine doses till 9 pm. Over 23,000 children aged 12 to 14 years received their first dose of the Corbevax vaccine on the first day of the vaccination drive for this … Read more

Covid. War. Inflation. Recession fears. The stock market can’t keep up

Covid. War. Inflation. Recession fears. The stock market can’t keep up

The combination of these major macroeconomic and geopolitical issues will make it difficult for stocks to climb out of their hole and finish 2022 in positive territory, some experts say. “There are way too many headwinds to expect good returns for stocks this year,” said David Spika, president and chief investment officer of GuideStone Capital … Read more

Earthquake jolts Japan’s northeast coast, cuts power to parts of Tokyo; tsunami alert issued

Earthquake jolts Japan’s northeast coast, cuts power to parts of Tokyo; tsunami alert issued

The tremor registered magnitude 7.3 and as high as a 6-plus on the Japanese shaking intensity scale in some areas — too strong for people to stand, according to public broadcaster NHK. A strong earthquake jolted Japan’s northeast coast on Wednesday, shaking buildings, leaving parts of Tokyo without power and triggering a tsunami warning. The … Read more

Poll debacle: Sonia appoints leaders to assess situation in 5 states, suggest organisational changes

Poll debacle: Sonia appoints leaders to assess situation in 5 states, suggest organisational changes

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday engaged five senior leaders to assess the post-poll situation in five states and suggest organisational changes following its electoral debacle, a day after the state unit chiefs were asked to resign. Rajya Sabha MP Rajani Patil has been asked to assess the situation in Goa, Jairam Ramesh in Manipur … Read more

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya directs high alertness, aggressive genome sequencing as Covid cases spike in Asia, Europe

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya directs high alertness, aggressive genome sequencing as Covid cases spike in Asia, Europe

At a high-level meeting, chaired by the minister, the government’s decision of resuming scheduled international flights from March 27, the vaccination situation and the level of genomic surveillance were reviewed. Amid a rise in Covid cases in some European and East Asian countries, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday directed officials to maintain a … Read more