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The benefits of exercise on mental health

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How important is exercise? Paired with good nutrition, we know physical activity is a key factor in maintaining mental wellbeing. But what is it about exercise that directly benefits our mental health? When we exercise, blood flow and nerve connections increase to our brain, and our brain stimulates happy chemicals like endorphins and serotonin. As a result, we experience: reduced depression and anxiety symptoms improved mood clarity of thought and attention increased productivity improved memory better sleep quality reduction in risk of serious illnesses including diabetes, cancer, heart disease and dementia. Exercise also often brings opportunities to socialise, reducing feelings of loneliness and isolation. How do I get started? If you haven’t done exercise for a while, or never have, it can be hard to know how to begin. The below tips can help with the transition. Take it easy The important thing is starting slow and allowing your body to get used to the new movement. Start by inte...
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Lifestyle factors to improve Mental health

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  You can become your own mental health supporter by taking steps towards a healthy lifestyle. In conjunction with your treatment options, incorporating healthy lifestyle changes into day-to-day life can help you form positive relationships and better manage and cope with life’s challenges. 1. Exercise regularly Along with weight management and physical health, exercise offers protective benefits to your mental health . A study by the National Institute of Health found that aerobic exercises reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Aerobic activities include: jogging swimming cycling walking gardening dancing. Be sure to get in 30 minutes of moderate exercise 3 times a week. 2. Enjoy a healthy diet Less nutritious foods such as processed foods, fast food, and sweets can all undermine mental health. The Mental Health Foundation recommend eating a balanced and varied diet that includes: breads and cereals, mostly wholegrain nuts and seeds beans and lentils fruits lean meats, includ...
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AI in Healthcare

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 Healthcare is increasingly adopting the artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that are pervasive in modern business and daily life. Artificial intelligence in healthcare has the potential to aid providers in many areas of patient care and operational procedures, enabling them to build on current solutions and solve problems more quickly. The majority of AI and healthcare technologies are highly relevant to the healthcare industry, yet hospitals and other healthcare organisations may employ quite different strategies. And although while several papers on the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare claim that it can do specific tasks, including illness diagnosis, just as well as or better than humans, it will be a while before AI is fully used in healthcare. Machine Learning Machine learning is among the most prevalent types of artificial intelligence in the medical field. There are several variations of this broad technique, which is at the foundation of various ap...
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Doctor's Taking over Social media

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  If you still believe that dancing videos and lovely fashion and lifestyle material are the only things available on TikTok and Instagram, we are here to remind you that there is much more to discover on both platforms.In Indonesia, medical influencers are dominating social media, and users of the apps are daily becoming more informed (and entertained) about their health issues.In recent years, major improvements have been made to Indonesia's public healthcare system, and more individuals now have access to accurate health and wellness information from medical experts. It has had an effect on how citizens of the nation are taking greater initiative to take care of their physical and emotional welfare. Even though it appears to be a recent trend, health organisations like WHO made their TikTok début at the height of COVID-19. The #SafeHands competition urged healthcare professionals to provide instructional and informative material for the app and allowed doctors to show how to was...
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New Cancer Drug

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  In individuals who are resistant to immunotherapy, a novel cancer medication can halt the spread of the illness.When conventional treatment options, such as surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy have failed, immunotherapy employs the immune system to target and destroy cancer cells and can save lives. However, not all patients will benefit from it, and certain tumours may develop resistance to it, physicians in the UK discovered that immunotherapy in combination with the innovative experimental medicine guadecitabine can overcome a cancer's resistance to immunotherapy. They discovered that patients who were predicted to pass away after trying all available treatments lived significantly longer. In more than a third of the patients included in the early phase 1 study, the combination of the immunotherapy medicine pembrolizumab and the next-generation DNA hypomethylating agent guadecitabine stopped the progression of the malignancy. The Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer publishes t...
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Poor Countries not having access to medicine

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 A recent report from the World Bank and WHO claims that at least half of the world's population cannot access basic healthcare treatments. And each year, a sizable portion of households are driven into poverty as a result of having to pay for their own medical expenses. At the moment, 800 million individuals spend at least 10% of their household income on medical costs for themselves, a sick kid, or another member of their family. These costs are so exorbitant for over 100 million individuals that they are forced to live on $1.90 or less each day in order to survive. The results were published today in Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report and Lancet Global Health at the same time.In Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, there are significant gaps in the services that are available. While essential health care services like family planning and baby vaccination are becoming increasingly accessible in other areas, the fact that families must pay for these...
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Older Adults Health Problems

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 Globally, people are living longer. Today, the majority of individuals may anticipate living into their 60s and beyond. The number of older people and their share of the population are increasing in every nation on earth.One in six individuals on the planet will be 60 or older by 2030. By this point, there will be 1.4 billion people over the age of 60, up from 1 billion in 2020. The number of persons in the globe who are 60 years or older will double by 2050. (2.1 billion). Between 2020 and 2050, the number of people 80 or older is projected to treble, reaching 426 million. Although population ageing, or the movement in a nation's population's distribution towards older ages, began in high-income nations (for instance, in Japan, 30% of the population is already over 60 years old), the biggest shift is currently being seen in low- and middle-income nations. Two-thirds of the world's population over 60 will reside in low- and middle-income nations by the year 2050. At the ...
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