seeDoc launches a revolutionary new medical service changing the way people consult Doctors

seeDoc launches a revolutionary new medical service that is changing the way people consult Doctors and access medical care from the comfort of their homes or office, providing unparalleled convenience and quality of service. Employing India’s leading Doctors from top institutions with years of experience in General Medicine, Internal medicine, Sexual Health, Dermatology, Diabetes, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Gynecology and other key areas enables the company to ensure a high quality of service. The convenience of consulting Doctors 7 days a week from the comfort of your home or office is of immense value to patients.

seeDoc users can opt for either an immediate high quality paid video consultation or ask a free question from leading specialists and doctors, which gets answered within 48 hours. With over 300,000 users already and growing rapidly, seeDoc is serving upto 500 video consultations daily originating all across the nation, making it India’s #1 video consult company. It is led by one of India’s strongest team in the Internet Industry and currently has over 50 employees and doctors who are 100% utilized and who have contributed in establishing this market leadership position.

The strong technology experience of the founders, Jaideep Singh and Vivek Bansal, who have created over $2 Billion of startup value as entrepreneurs in the US, has enabled seeDoc to create useful and unique technology in areas such as low bandwidth video, audio, analog voice to make sure the service works in India. Additionally the company is focused on creating artificial intelligence allowing Doctors to make fewer errors, reducing misdiagnosis and therefore provide the highest quality of care possible at a global level. Speaking at the launch Mr. Vivek Bansal, a founder of seeDoc said “One of the founding principles at seeDoc is transparency. Transparency at each step ensures that patients receive the highest quality of care at affordable prices. There is an acute shortage of quality medical care, and seeDoc is witnessing unprecedented demand as it fills that vacuum perfectly.”

seeDoc integrates physical examinations at Doctors’ clinics, delivery of medicine through local chemists, and lab and diagnostic tests via India’s leading providers in a few select cities. There will be a lot more to come in this area, and the company will have a major announcement in the next 30 days.

“Our team of doctors has been handpicked from the best in the medical fraternity. They are MCI and state registered from top medical institutions and colleges such as AIIMS, Fortis, Medanta, Max, AFMC, MAMC, and Manipal. We have combined the best medical practices from the NHS in the UK, and from India, to make sure that patients receive the highest quality of medical care. Not only can patients rely on us when needed, Doctors love working with us too as their time is fully utilized, they can provide care conveniently, and they earn significantly higher income. This makes our model powerful and unique in the world. Our doctors are currently available 7 days a week and the service will soon be available 24x7,” said Dr. Anuj Agarwal, Chief Medical Officer & co-founder at seeDoc.

About seeDoc

seeDoc, India’s fastest growing online medical consultation company, is founded by two Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneurs Jaideep Singh and Vivek Bansal. seeDoc combines advanced video, voice, mobile, and artificial intelligence with the medical knowledge and experience of India’s leading Doctors. It focuses its practice on providing the highest quality of medical care in a transparent and trustworthy manner, while integrating delivery of medicines and lab tests giving unparalleled convenience to patients. 

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Starting work before 10 AM is equivalent to torture and is making staff sick and stressed: Researcher

When I saw this study, I knew I needed to compose an article about it, however I chose immediately that it would most likely must be composed after 10 AM.

Dr. Paul Kelley, a researcher at Oxford University, has deductively validated the claim that about each worker to ever live has made: that it sucks to work before 10 AM. In an interview, Kelley said:

"Before the age of 55, the circadian rhythms of grown-ups are totally out of sync with normal nine-to-five working hours, representing a "serious threat" to performance, mood and mental health."

With that data, Kelley has verified that there should be a global shift in the way we work beginning our work days after the fact, as well as beginning our kids' school days after the fact also. Studies have demonstrated that the normal 10-year-old battles to concentrate on school work on the off chance that it happens before around 8:30 AM and that the best instructive results happened at around 11 AM.

Dr. Kelley affirms that the general instructive experience youngsters get, if it somehow managed to happen toward the evening as opposed to morning, would bring about a general evaluation increment by 10% no matter how you look at it. Obviously, beginning mid-morning doesn't simply help kids.

"Staff are generally sleep denied." Kelley declares. "We have a sleep-denied society. It is enormously harming on the body's frameworks in light of the fact that you are influencing physical passionate and performance frameworks in the body. Your liver and your heart have distinctive patterns and you're requesting that they shift a few hours. This is a global issue. Everybody is enduring and they don't need to."

"On the off chance that we take a gander at the associations between the human body, Earth, and the light from the sun's common rhythms, it isn't generally conceivable to change its 24 hour cycle. Later begin times ought to influence each part of society, including jails and healing facilities. In these settings, individuals are typically woken up and given nourishment they don't need. You're more biddable in light of the fact that you're thoroughly out of it. Sleep deprivation is a torture," Kelley proceeded.

WHO approaches countries to reduce sugars intake among adults and children

Another WHO guideline prescribes adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to beneath 5% or around 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would give extra health advantages.

Free sugars allude to monosaccharides, (for example, glucose, fructose) and disaccharides, (for example, sucrose or table sugar) added to foods and drinks by the maker, cook or shopper, and sugars commonly introduce in nectar, syrups, organic product squeezes and organic product juice condensed.

"We have robust proof that keeping intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake reduces the danger of overweight, obesity and tooth rot," says Dr Francesco Branca, Director of WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. "Rolling out strategy improvements to help this will be key if countries are to experience their responsibilities to reduce the trouble of noncommunicable diseases."

The WHO guideline does not allude to the sugars in new foods grown from the ground, and sugars characteristically display in milk, on the grounds that there is no reported proof of unfriendly effects of devouring these sugars.

A significant part of the sugars devoured today are "covered up" in prepared foods that are not generally seen as desserts. For instance, 1 tablespoon of ketchup contains around 4 grams (around 1 teaspoon) of free sugars. A solitary container of sugar-sweetened pop contains up to 40 grams (around 10 teaspoons) of free sugars.

Overall intake of free sugars changes by age, setting and nation. In Europe, intake in adults ranges from around 7-8% of total energy intake in countries like Hungary and Norway, to 16-17% in countries like Spain and the United Kingdom. Intake is much higher among children, running from around 12% in countries like Denmark, Slovenia and Sweden, to about 25% in Portugal. There are likewise country/urban contrasts. In rustic groups in South Africa intake is 7.5%, while in the urban population it is 10.3%.

Decreasing sugars intake to less than 10% of total energy: an in number recommendation

The recommendations are in light of analysis of the most recent scientific proof. This confirmation shows, in the first place, that adults who expend less sugars have lower body weight and, second, that expanding the measure of sugars in the eating routine is connected with a weight increment. Furthermore, research demonstrates that children with the most noteworthy intakes of sugar-sweetened drinks are more prone to be overweight or hefty than children with a low intake of sugar-sweetened drinks.

Further reduction to less than 5% of total energy intake: a contingent recommendation

Given the nature of existing studies, the recommendation of decreasing intake of free sugars to beneath 5% of total energy is introduced as "restrictive" in the WHO framework for issuing confirmation based direction.

Few epidemiological studies have been attempted in populations with a low sugars intake. Just three national far reaching studies permit a correlation of dental caries with sugars intakes of less than 5% of total energy intake versus more than 5% yet less than 10% of total energy intake.

Sugars intake for adult and children Guideline : WHO by DP2Web

 

Source: WHO Media Center

World Health Organization: Limit Headphone Time To An Hour Per Day

Wrenching up the tunes today may prompt the failure to hear them tomorrow, concurring the World Health Organization. Young people have a tendency to turn the volume excessively high on their mobile music gadgets, and also visit noisy shows and clubs. Thus, more than 1.1 billion people ages 12-35 are at danger of listening to misfortune, the WHO said in a late proclamation.

A few studies have demonstrated that the quantity of young people with harmed hearing has expanded over the previous decade, likely on account of the uplifted utilization of iPods and cell phones to play loud music. In 1994, 3.5 percent of American teens experienced listening to misfortune, however that number rose to 5 percent by 2006. To battle this expand, the WHO prescribes listening to mobile gadgets for a most extreme of one hour per day, and the volume ought to stay around 60 percent.

The thought is to minimize perilous listening practices, which rely on upon two factors: to what extent you listen and how loud the sound is. The sound of a regular discussion is 60 decibels, which won't result in any listening to issues. In any case a sitting out of gear bulldozer is around 85 decibels, which can result in permanent harm after eight hours. Sounds like an applaud of thunder or even a nearby vuvuzela time in at 120 decibels, harming hearing after only nine seconds. Listening to misfortune from these loud, managed sounds can be prompt, or they develop after some time as the fragile structures in the internal ear get to be more harmed.

Be that as it may, headphones can be both great and terrible for our sound-related health, as per Kathleen Campbell, an educator at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine who spends significant time in audiology. Over-ear or clamor scratching off headphones are perfect, in light of the fact that they urge people to turn down the volume of the music they're playing. People have a tendency to incline toward their music to be relatively louder than any foundation commotion, however in the event that they can't hear that clamor, they're not as slanted to turn up the music's volume. Defective headphones, then again, make us more prone to turn up the volume, which can be awful news; headphones at greatest volume can debilitate hearing in only four minutes, and numerous young people don't even understand that those stunning impacts can be permanent.

To prevent listening to misfortune considerably further, WHO takes note of that headphone producers and government regulators ought to do their part to create listening gadgets that don't unavoidably affect listeners. Loud venues like shows or clubs ought to offer earplugs or calm spaces where benefactors can show their ears an a bit of mercy.

However meanwhile, WHO says its dependent upon listeners to deal with their listening ability. The sort of music you listen to isn't as imperative as its volume or span, Campbell says, "yet devotees of distinctive sorts of music have a tendency to have diverse volume inclination." Using commotion dropping headphones may help listeners oppose the allurement to turn it up.