Miscarrying mother dies after Irish doctors refuse abortion, saying: 'This is a Catholic country'

 

•  Savita Halappanavar, 31, was found to be miscarrying when she was admitted to Galway University Hospital
•  The dentist, who was 17 weeks pregnant, was denied a medical termination despite being in 'agonising pain'
•  Mrs Halappanavar, who went on to suffer a miscarriage, developed septicaemia and died on October 28
•  Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has come under renewed pressure to legislate for abortion
•   A demonstration is due to take place outside the Irish parliament 
•   Abortion is illegal in the Republic of Ireland

United Nations declares November 10 as 'Malala Day'

The United Nations has announced to observe ‘Malala Day’ today i.e November 10 (Saturday) under its supervision across the world in the honour of child activist from Swat, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has extended his support to the young girl and her fight for education, describing her as the “global symbol” of every girl’s right to an education.

 Ban Ki-moon’s Special Envoy for Global Education, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said November 10, a month after Malala was shot at by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, has been declared Malala Day.

“Malala doesn’t just represent one young woman, she speaks out for all those who are denied an education purely on the basis of their gender,”

Fit, Yet Fat? A Little Exercise May Add Years to Life

Middle-aged people who walk briskly for as little as 75 minutes per week may live 1.8 years longer, even if they are overweight. If they spend more time walking, running, swimming, cycling, or sweating in aerobics class, they may boost their life expectancy by 3.4 to 4.5 years.
Steven C. Moore, PhD, from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and coauthors report the findings of their pooled analysis online November 6 in PLoS Medicine.
More than 100 epidemiological studies have sought to clarify the role that physical fitness plays in lowering mortality risk. Dr. Moore and colleagues went a step further by looking at gains in life expectancy associated with varying durations of physical activity during leisure hours and at varying body mass index (BMI) measurements. The analysis comes as US physical activity levels have plummeted and waistlines have bulged.
The researchers pooled 6 prospective cohort studies, including 654,827 participants aged 21 to 90 years. With such a large sample size, the researchers were able to examine years of life gained after age 40 years, according to varying activity levels and with such added granularity as mortality hazard ratios by smoking status and race. Slightly more than half (56%) of the participants in the pooled analysis were women, 96.4% were white, 2.4% were black, and the median age was 61 years. The researchers measured the energy cost of such leisure time activities as sports and exercise through their metabolic equivalent (MET). Moderate- or vigorous-intensity activities, for example, rank 3 METs, which is about the same intensity as walking briskly. 

Walk Your Way to a Longer Life, Study Says

Consequences of Physical Inactivity Are Comparable to Those of Smoking or Obesity

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that not engaging in moderate exercise for 150 minutes a week (what is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) was linked with 5.3 million deaths worldwide in 2008 -- about 9 percent of all deaths.
"With elimination of physical inactivity, life expectancy of the world's population might be expected to increase by 0.68 years," researchers wrote in the study. "These findings make inactivity similar to the established risk factors of smoking and obesity."
(Researchers noted that that additional 0.68 years seems low because that figure was calculated taking into consideration both active and inactive people.)
The researchers analyzed past studies on the effects exercise has on the risk of different diseases. They found that not engaging in the recommended exercise levels was the main cause of 6 to 10 percent of coronary heart disease, breast cancer, colon cancer and Type 2 diabetes cases around the world.
Specifically, not meeting the recommended exercise levels was linked with 6 percent of coronary heart disease cases, 7 percent of cases of Type 2 diabetes, and 10 percent of cases of colon and breast cancer.

The CDC recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes per week of a moderate aerobic exercise -- like walking briskly -- plus two or more days of muscle-strengthening activities. Or, another recommended combination is 75 minutes per week of vigorous aerobic exercise -- like running -- along with two or more days of muscle-strengthening activities. Yet another recommended combination is doing a mix of vigorous and moderate aerobic exercises along with the two days or more of muscle-strengthening exercise.

Gynaecologists to conduct ultrasound, LATEST ON PC PNDT (2012)

According to this news, Gynaecologists will not depend on radiologists for conducting ultrasound clinical imaging and thus they will do the Ultrasound themselves. According to the latest circular from the Centre, medical practitioners with post graduation degrees in Gynaecology and obstetrics are qualified for conducting ultrasound in a genetic clinic/ultrasound clinic/imaging centre. The ministry of health and family welfare had issued the circular and asked all states to disseminate the information to appropriate authorities.