LEARNING IN WOMEN SLOWS DOWN AFTER ONSET OF MENOPAUSE

A new research concluded that onset of menopause in women slows down learning in women. This was concluded after a four year research in California. The research was conducted on 2362 women in the age group 42 to 52 and who had one menstrual period within the three months before the study started

SCIENTIST DISCOVERED NEW WAYS TO DIAGONOSE HYPERTENTION IN CHILDREN

A new way to diagnose high BP in kids has been discovered. David Kaelber a paediatrician at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. David Kaelber and his team found that nearly 70 percent of hypertension and 90 percent of pre-hypertension in children and adolescents go undiagnosed. They felt that one of the main reason for this could be one of the complex chart currently used to help physicians identify high BP in children . Hence David Kaelbers team simplified the chart –focussing solely on a child’s age and gender-eliminating the need for a height percentile and reducing the number of values in the blood pressure table from 476 to just 64.