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Obesity has a profound effect on the clinical manifestation of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder affecting up to 50% of women in South Asia. About 50% of women with PCOS are overweight, and this increase in body weight has a major influence on...

Our skin is the known as the largest organ in the body. It is your body's first defense against the natural elements, and it is designed to protect you. It helps you stay warm when it's cold, and cool when it's hot. And unless it's...

ACNE is mankind's most common skin disease. Almost everyone has had some type of pimple or blemish on his face, back, or chest sometime in his life. Whether these blemishes are called zits, goobers, blackheads, or hickeys, they are most common during adolescence. Their occurrence...

The body mass index or BMI (a simple index of weight-for-height) is commonly used in classifying overweight and obesity in adult populations and individuals. A person’s weight in kilograms is divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m2). According to LivLife experts, BMI...

Like many life changing inventions, it is difficult to credit one individual for pioneering the laparoscopic approach. In 1902 Georg Kelling, of Dresden is said to have performed the first laparoscopic procedure on dogs and in 1910 Hans Christian of Sweden reported the first laparoscopic...

In this day and age, Obesity is fast becoming a common word. Thus it may not come as a surprising fact that it is a rising epidemic proportions in India. Apparently 5% of the country’s population is affected by morbid obesity. It hasn’t reached the...