Awareness campaign for women against heart diseases

October 9th, 2009 ERLANGEN - A German woman who is in a persistent vegetative state has given birth to a baby 22 weeks after suffering a heart attack that cut off the blood flow to her brain, doctors in Erlangen said Friday. The healthy baby was born several months ago, but it was not announced at the time to protect the family's privacy.

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - Two-thirds of blind people worldwide are women and girls, and the gender bias has resulted in men and boys having twice the access to eye-care, says an international agency in a report to mark the "World Sight Day" Thursday. The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness says in most developing countries, women are less likely to receive eye care services than men, and that additionally, women comprise more than half of the elderly population.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - At least 60 decorated cars, with name and blood groups of occupants pasted on them, were flagged off early Friday as a women's car rally started from here to spread awareness of breast cancer among people. Sixty women, some of them survivors of breast cancer, drove from New Delhi to Agra to spread awareness about the disease that kills 40,000 women in India every year.

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - Being overweight in midlife might give rise to multiple chronic diseases, impair cognitive function and physical function and mental health in women in older age, says a new study. The researchers showed that women who were lean at age 18 and maintained a healthy weight through mid-life had the best odds of achieving optimal health later in life.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sixty women, some of them survivors of breast cancer, will drive from Delhi to Agra spreading awareness about the disease that kills 40,000 women in India every year. The car rally, which will see doctors, health and community activists accompany the women, will begin here Oct 2.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - If you binge on junk food, smoke and don't exercise, you are at risk of developing heart diseases in your thirties. According to doctors, about 46.9 million Indians between 20 and 69 will suffer from heart diseases by 2010 and half of them will be youngsters.

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - A breast cancer awareness ad showing a voluptuous, bikini-clad woman walking into a pool party, with strip club music playing in the background, has raised many eyebrows. 'Save the Boobs', a public service announcement from Rethink Breast Cancer, has an in-your-face message about breast cancer awareness, and is grabbing attention right from youngsters to ethical critics.

September 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday flagged off a fleet of five mobile dental vans to mark World Oral Health Day and appealed to the people to focus on oral health and hygiene. "Basic oral care facilities should be accessible to every individual since oral health is an important and crucial part of ones overall health and wellness.

September 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - A group of four students seek entry into Limca book of records by performing yoga for 180 minutes in Chennai. The students of city's Velamal Matriculation Higher Secondary School struck 999 yoga postures in a bid to get registered in the Limca Book of Records.

September 7th, 2009 German AIDS video uses Hitler look-alikeBERLIN — An AIDS awareness video is using an Adolf Hitler lookalike to illustrate its point that "AIDS is a mass murderer." The Saarbruecken-based Regenbogen, or Rainbow, an AIDS awareness group, launched the video online last week. "We're trying to tell people, that while interest in AIDS declined over the last few years, the number of people with AIDS in actually going up," the group's deputy head, Heiko Schoessling, told The Associated Press on Monday.

September 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The thinner your thighs, the greater your risk of heart disease - that's the conclusion of a new study. According to the research, which looked at more than 2800 men and women with an average age of around 50, thigh circumference is linked to the risk of heart disease and premature death.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the swine flu claiming over 100 lives and infecting nearly 4,000 people in India, the government has planned a Rs.600 million (Rs.60 crore) campaign on street corners, health facilities, schools, cinema halls, television and radio to spread awareness about the virus. Since May, some advertisements have been appearing on television and radio in English and Hindi, but now the health ministry is now planning to air them in 12 regional languages.

September 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Patients with two serious autoimmune disorders that cause mascular inflammation-Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM)- are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a group of Montreal researchers. This is the first time that researchers led by Dr.

September 1st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Dogs, especially strays, may not have an easy life in Punjab with the the state government Tuesday announcing a sustained plan to sterilise them - even engaging a Bangalore-based expert agency to help in the campaign. State government officials said Tuesday that the plan has been mooted following the rising number of dog-bite complaints, especially bites of stray dogs, from across the state.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - A healthy lifestyle, including keeping weight down, exercising for 30 minutes a day and limiting alcohol to a single drink a day, is the simplest and best way for women to cut the risk of breast cancer, says a new study. The study by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF ) has found the strongest evidence yet that lifestyle is linked to the risk of developing breast cancer, reports The Times.