Maywood: Now dieticians are offering a new option to treat obesity – a grapefruit-size gastric balloon that takes up as much as half the volume of the stomach.

Our country is afflicted with the dual burden of disease – non-communicable diseases (NCDs) posing a major public health challenge. On one end are the nutritional deficiencies / infectious diseases associated with poverty, deprivation and poor environmental conditions; while on the other are the NCDs caused due to dietary excesses / imbalances and metabolic disturbances. (Read in Hindi)

Hand rashes can be frustrating, especially when the cause of your rash is unknown. Was it a new brand of hand soap? Eczema? Or just really dry skin? 

Over the course of their lives, about 80 percent of persons suffer from back pain at one time or another. A recent study found that more than a third of adults say that low back pain has affected their ability to perform the tasks of daily living, exercise, or sleep. Treating this pain remains a difficult problem, and for millions of people the pain is chronic.

Ann Arbor: Nearly half of women treated for early stage breast cancer reported at least one side effect from their treatment that was severe or very severe according to a new study.

A yoga program for children with cancer can be carried out even during cancer treatment, and has quality of life benefits for the children as well as their parents, suggests a study in Rehabilitation Oncology, official journal of the Oncology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.