A new study conducted at Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, southwest India, has revealed that listening to iPod can increase one’s chances of having earache.

The researchers also disclosed the fact that sharing in-earphones with one another is really unsafe for health, as it can transfer one’s bacteria to another.

According to scientists, those who use iPods and other mp3 on a regular basis are more prone to higher rates of bacterial infection as compared to those who were not regular users.

Bangkok  - Government officials accounted for 3 per cent of HIV/AIDS patients to receive treatment in Thailand over the past 24 years, health officials revealed Sunday.

Public Health spokesman Suphan Srithamma said that since HIV/AIDS was first detected in the country in 1984, there were 337,989 accumulated patients at government hospitals of whom 92,111 had died, reported the Bangkok Post online news service.

It has already been disclosed that moderate intake of alcohol everyday keeps heart diseases at bay.

This time, the researchers at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) revealed some more advantages of alcohol intake.

The new research suggested that consumption of alcohol at light to moderate levels can also help older people to avoid the chances of developing physical disabilities that would prevent them from performing common tasks such as walking, dressing and grooming.

A new study has revealed that spending 30 minutes in garden daily (five days a week) can lessen impotency risk by 38 percent.

This study was conducted by scientists of the Vienna Faculty of Medicine.

The study published in the journal ‘European Urology’ claimed that other forms of moderate exercise, such as dancing or jogging can also act as “natural” Viagra.

Men who do sports regularly can halve their chance of impotence and poor bedroom performance.

According to UNICEF’s recent report, “Uttar Pradesh is the most dangerous state of the country for a women to give birth to a child.” Health services are not good in the state and the state has high rate of death of mother during childbirth there.

In Uttar Pradesh maternal death rate is 1:42 whereas in Kerala it’s just 1:500. Around 1/3 of all maternal deaths in India are reported from UP alone. Main causes of high maternal and neonatal deaths are inadequate nutrition, lack of birth spacing and less reproductive health care.

Here’s a wake-up call for this Himalayan nation.

A Cabinet meeting headed by PM Prachanda said that Nepal has detected its first bird flu case of the season.

While speaking on this, Nepal’s agriculture Minister, Jai Prakash Prasad Gupta stated, “The virus has been found in chicken and ducks. We have confirmed it is H5N1 virus.”

The minister informed the media persons that the deadly H5N1 bird flu was reported in poultry from the southeast Nepal town of Kakarvitta, bordering India.