All citizens of the country can now buy a pension plan at retirement age with the pension regulator increasing the maximum age for entering the new pension scheme (NPS) from 55 years to 60 years.The decision was taken at the last board meeting of the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA). NPS, earlier restricted to government employees, was opened to all citizens up to 55 years of age...
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new formula more accurately calculates a smoker's "lung age," which researchers hope will help persuade patients to quit the habit. A research team from Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, developed and evaluated a new lung age formula based on %FEV1/FEV6 rather than the current lung age formulas based on height and FEV1 or FVC. They found that the new formula...
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age and sex, according to residence, India, 2005-06.Note: Total includes usual residents with missing information on age,...
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Percentage of women and men age 15-49 and men age 15-54 by their use of tobacco, and percent distribution of those who smoke cigarettes orComments...
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York, Nov 21 : The number of elderly people in Europe is on the rise and responding to their changing needs is one of the biggest challenges that governments have to face this century, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has said.In Europe, there are now 4.4 people of working age for every person aged 65 years or older, UNECE said. By 2025, there will 3 working-age people for...
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health: Increased obesity rate likely narrows gender gap for cardiovascular diseaseMiddle-aged men still have higher rates of heart attacks and heart disease than middle-aged women, but those gender differences appear to be narrowing, according to a study published Monday.The findings follow earlier research, published in a 2007 issue of the journal Neurology, establishing that stroke prevalence among...
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Aging has an effect on the way we function. After years of toil our organs begin to show wear and tear. This section deals with effects of aging and the ways to combat and delay the process..Two thirds of all people eventually experience some significant loss of mental lucidity and independence as a result of aging.Heart functions begin to slow down with age.Its pumping power declines, and the maximal...
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Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent of people over 65 in the United States, and will afflict an estimated 28 million Americans by 2030."Age-related hearing loss is a very common symptom of aging in humans, and also is universal among mammal species, and it's one of the earliest detectable sensory...
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Various people's stories don't match up in connection with the mother-daughter case, which started Oct. 18.WINTER HAVEN | The mystery surrounding a missing 29-year-old Georgia woman and her 3 1/2-year-old daughter deepened Friday when police announced they had arrested a man who was found driving the woman's car.Nafateria "Angel" Fletcher, from Alma Ga., is worried about her sister Ronkeya Holmes,...
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Right to education which was a fundamental right only to children aged up to 14 years should be extended up to children aged up to 18 years.These appeals were made at the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child held here on Saturday.The UN convention stated that a child means every human being below the age of 18 years. Even India ratified the convention in 1992,...
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