INDIC HEALTH PICK

Aravind Eye Care System in a village outside Madurai (TN) offers extremely subsidised eye examination and surgeries to the poor

General Wellness

A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts warn.

• Simple relaxation with soothing music the best way to ease anxiety
• Papaya may harbour cancer cure
• New asthma program to specifically help teens
• Junk foods become less popular with increasing costs
• Cooperative behavior is contagious

Sexuality

Officials are looking to give the go ahead to a plan to create an Internet domain specifically for adult websites.

• Sweden home to most bisexual babes in the world
• Stress broadens men’s ‘mating’ tastes
• Risk-free treatment for women with low sexual desire
• One in 10 Brit women fakes orgasm
• Healthier men enjoy more years of good sex

Diet & Fitness

A man diagnosed with a rare, incurable lymphoma claims that he has been able to cheat death for 13 years by eating apricot kernels.

• Female wine drinkers at lower obesity risk than teetotalers
• Frozen veggies “more nutritious than fresh ones”
• “Eat fatter chips to stay slim”
• Weight Watchers brand McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets “healthy”
• Coffee is “heart-friendly”

Medicine & Research

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute researchers have claimed that a new drug can significantly lower bad cholesterol, triglycerides and Lp(A), without the side effects that statins cause in many people.

• New drug to slash cholesterol levels
• Early metformin treatment doubles chance of success for diabetics
• New scale to measure anxiety outcomes
• Miss India Worldwide UK trying to find pulmonary hypertension cure
• Skin transplant raises hope for vitiligo patients

Mental Health

When people make decisions, their pupils dilate, a cue that could be used to predict a person’s intentions, says a new research.

• How to control emotional outbursts in front of your partner
• Online questionnaire effective screening tool for mental health problems
• Cyberbullying can cause psychological distress among nonheterosexual youth
• Abused kids more likely to suffer unexplained abdominal pain, nausea
• Major depression more than doubles dementia risk in diabetic adults