Some tech companies are doing what is need of the hour and perhaps what is on consumer wish lists, of having products that can help people manage their own health. The first on this segment is, Scanadu Scout, which is a mini device which the user can keep against his temple, to measure vital signs such as heart rate, pulse transit time, electrical heart activity, temperature, heart rate variability and blood oxygenation. The readings are out in just 10 seconds which ...
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A recent video that went viral online is about some of the risks of butt enhancement surgery especially when it goes all wrong. The woman in the video is seen flipping her newly inserted butt implant, and all the while saying : "I don't think it's meant to do that." This woman whose identity is yet unknown found that her butt enhancement surgery got ruined after the interior flat side of the implant flipped and was facing outward, giving her butt a rather odd ...
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Extreme reaction to a simple and perhaps daily feature in many Indian households of reprimanding children by parents as a way to correct them, turned awry for an Indian couple from the IT city of Hyderabad who went to Norway on work. Early this year, the couple has been charged with child abuse for scolding their seven-year-old son, Sairam, for bed-wetting. The Indian couple, Chandrasekhar and his wife Anupama, has been arrested in Oslo and now the Indian mission ...
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In an increasing trend of urban women taking to alcohol to cope with everyday stresses as societal norms ease. A 33-year-old married woman from Chandigarh had never imagined that her excessive clubbing and partying would one day push her to the brink of suicide. But it did. Also a 28-year-old woman working as a senior executive in a property broking firm in Mumbai also developed suicidal tendencies. What started for both the Bacchus lovers as socializing, ...
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The Bihar government's commitment supported by development partners in the polio eradication program has helped the state to remain polio-free for over two years, a health official said. Bihar Health Secretary and Executive Director of Bihar State Health Society Sanjay Kumar said Bihar has been focusing on 41 polio high risk blocks, which have persistently reported polio cases in the past. "Promoting sanitation and hygiene, routine immunization, exclusive ...
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