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Hiring Out Important Tasks to Qualified Contractors
As a business owner, you are responsible for making sure your employees get paid on time and that your quarterly payroll taxes are filed without delay. However, as busy as you are, you may not have time to handle these tasks. You might need to hire someone to handle them for you. Rather than miss out on a single payday, Read More
Soon there will be a drug which can reduce excessive sweating
U.S. regulators on Friday approved the first drug developed specifically to reduce excessive sweating, a common condition that can cause people anxiety and affect their social lives. The Food and Drug Administration approved Qbrexza for excessive underarm sweating and will be available in October. The drug is inside a cloth wiped over the skin daily to block sweat glands from Read More
Smoking cigarettes can affect your bone health, delay healing after injury
Smoking is linked to delayed shinbone healing, finds a study. “We are all familiar with some of the more well-known negative health effects of smoking, but the influence on bone healing is less widely known outside the medical community,” said Hannah Dailey of Lehigh University. “Our study recommended that all fracture patients should be provided with support for smoking cessation Read More
Have you heard of momnesia? A pregnancy complication, gynaecologists call it pregnant brain
Motherhood brings with it a host of changes in a woman, be it physical or mental. One of the many changes that hormonal fluctuations can cause is amnesia as the hormones alter the functional ability of the brain. Around 50-80% of expectant mothers report having memory lapse or concentration problems during or post-delivery, a phenomenon that is also described as Read More
Heart attack warning, 4 or more drinks in a row can put youngsters at severe risk
Here’s a heart health advisory every youngster would do well to keep in mind. If you want to keep your heart healthy and stay away from heart attacks and other diseases, stop binge drinking. According to a new study, binge drinking, or having more than four drinks in row, can increase the risk of heart diseases in young adults later in their life. Almost 5,000 young Read More
Older patients can benefit from prehabilitation before heart surgery
Older and frail patients could benefit from prehabilitation before surgery, finds a study. Prehabilitation is the process of enhancing an individual’s functional capacity to enable him or her to withstand a forthcoming stressor. The demand for surgical services is increasing as a result of an expanding “ageing population.” “The increasing number of older adults with a heart disease and subsequent Read More
Insulin for diabetes, this pill could end daily painful injections for diabetics
Diabetes patients, rejoice. In what could potentially revolutionise diabetes management for millions of patients, scientists, including those of Indian origin, are developing an insulin pill that could transform how diabetics manage their blood sugar levels. If successful, it could mean an end to the painful injections diabetes patients have to take every day. Given the choice of taking a pill or injecting oneself with a Read More
Can Online Learning Revolutionize the Education Sector?
The current education has been through various reforms to adjust itself to the growing demand. In this technological era, several constraints of the traditional education system can be easily overcome with the different technology tools. One of the results of technological advancement in the education system is online learning. Online learning refers to a type of learning where internet is Read More
DU admissions 2018: Delhi University’s add-on courses offer decent options
Delhi University students can supplement their studies by joining add-on courses. Most colleges offer add-on courses in foreign languages, media and communications and photography. Institute of Home Economics (IHE) introduced new courses this year – Radio Production & Radio Jockey(under department of communication and journalism), Computer-aided Design, and Certificate course on Organisation and Management of Early Learning Centres. “Earlier we Read More
OnePlus offers extra year of Android security patch updates on its phones
Here’s great news for OnePlus users. The company on Friday said it was revising its security update cycle to provide 12 additional months of Android security updates to OnePlus phones, ranging from OnePlus 3 to the latest OnePlus 6. Under the new OnePlus Software Maintenance Schedule, the company said it will be giving two years of regular software updates from Read More