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Hormone therapy can treat eating disorder

Life Desk : Hormone therapy may help reduce the symptoms of eating disorder such as anorexia and binge-eating among transgenders, finds a study. Eating disorders including anorexia, bingeing, self-induced vomiting and the misuse of...

Health habits to adopt after 40

Life Desk :Reaching 40 is a milestone, signalling a time of transition from young adulthood to middle-age. It is that time of life where the risk of many health conditions increases so it is...

Shoes for the monsoon

Life Desk :The pleasant monsoon showers are around the corner to give a much needed break from the scorching summer heat. While this season is a respite from summers, keeping up with looking spic...

Meat-based diet improves length growth in infants

Life Desk :Giving formula-fed infants a higher protein diet such as pureed meat can improve their early length growth, new research suggests. The findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that...

Predictor of Parkinson disease developed

Varvara Novikova :Scientists from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), ITMO University, both Russian Academic Excellence Initiative (Project 5-100) participants, and the Institute of Experimental Medicine developed a unique program which can...

Best lighting fixtures for a dream home

Life Desk :Setting up the ambience of your home with all that exquisite furniture and classy flooring? What about the lighting? Did you overlook that aspect? While many tend to ignore this one facet...

Eat blueberries while treating cervical cancer

Life Desk :“Radiation therapy uses high-energy X-rays and other particles such as gamma rays to destroy cancer cells,” said lead author of the study Yujiang Fang, professor at University of Missouri School of Medicine....

The painful inherited blood disorder

Life Desk :A healthy person has spherical red blood cells, but one suffering from Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) will have rigid, sticky and crescent-shaped, sickle-like red blood cells (RBCs).It is an inherited blood disorder...

Foods to eat before and after donating blood

Life Desk :Blood donation is a life-saving act that helps patients with serious medical conditions maintain healthy blood levels. Blood donors may experience certain side-effects like:Fatigue or weaknessLight-headedness or dizzinessIron-deficiency anemiaHowever, these side-effects mostly...

World Vitiligo Day

Life Desk :World Vitiligo Day is observed globally on the 25th June, pop singer Michael Jackson’s death anniversary to raise awareness about this ignored skin disease. Vitiligo patients are subject to severe social stigma...