Studies have found that one in six pregnant women have been abused by a partner,beaten, stabbed, shot, or even murdered.
Pregnancy when coupled with domestic violence is a form of intimate partner violence (IPV) where health risks may be amplified. Abuse during pregnancy, whether physical, verbal or emotional, produces many adverse physical and psychological effects for both the mother and fetus.
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Working night shifts has become a common scenario especially for multinational companies, media houses, call centres and customer care services. It’s convenient and sometimes beneficial to rotate the work cycle but it a pose a health risk for your sleep cycle and other issues connected with it.
A new study, published in the Journal Cell, warns that reversing your sleep...
Hand-held screens like smart phones, tablets, electronic games and other devices might delay an infant’s ability to develop words, a new study warns. The new research that will be presented at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Francisco. The new research says children under two years’ old who are exposed to use too much smartphone tablet and...
Like any bride-to-be, Philippa Charlotte "Pippa" Middleton,the younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge,is pulling out all the stops to ensure she looks her best on her big day.
The Duchess of Cambridge's younger sister will marry financier James Matthews on May 20 with the reception taking place back at the Middleton family home just a few miles away in...
Researchers found that overweight or obese adults experienced slower degeneration of knee joint structures after losing 5 or 10 percent of their body weight over 4 years, compared with those who did not lose weight.
Obesity is a known risk factor for osteoarthritis, one of the leading causes of disability in the United States. A new study provides evidence that...
There is a lot of talk about diets based on starvation mode diets. Starvation mode is what your body can go into if you don't eat. While your body can adjust to a lack of nutrition it can only survive for a few weeks if you are also taking in enough fluids.
Health experts have stressed, time and again, on...
A new study suggests that guidelines for antibiotic use during early pregnancy might need to be reviewed, after finding that some common classes of the drug could double the risk of miscarriage.
Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently.Avoiding drugs and alcohol,...
When experts from Netherlands studied close to 13 lakh participants, the result of their analysis was astounding. The team was able draw a pattern between the blood group of participants and their susceptibility to coronary events. It was found that people other than O as their blood group were more susceptible to suffering a heart attack.
The participants were sourced...
Summers are notoriously getting hotter and it is time we get cautious about our skin. Thanks to the unhealthy lifestyle we lead, we tend to forget the most basic activity of shielding our skin from the harsh UV rays. Most of us neglect applying a sunscreen but apply moisturiser instead and let our skin get exposed to the harsh...
Depression is world's leading illness and is one of the major reasons for suicides globally, says the World Health Organization (WHO).
Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. Depression is different from feeling down or...
