Chicago- A new resuscitation technique, which involves a round of two hundred chest compressions prior to a defibrillator shock, can increase the survival rate of persons when they experience a cardiac arrest, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

In Arizona, rescue teams who employed the new technique of resuscitation on people who have had a cardiac arrest outside the hospital saw the survival rate triple when compared to that of the standard approach.

“Cardiac arrest is extremely common but the survival rate is very low,” said Dr. Bentley Bobrow, whose study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The new study was conducted in two cities in Arizona and it included 2,460 persons who had cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. About 1,799 people received treatment before the emergency personnel got trained in the new technique, which is named as minimally interrupted cardiac resuscitation (MIRC).

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“Five million people were killed due to smoking in the year of 2000 alone and half the deaths of the smokers aged 30 to 69” – researchers from Harvard University and the University of Queensland have calculated.

The major cause of death was cardiovascular disease. The heart disease alone killed over 670,000 in the developing counties and 1 million people in the developed countries. Lung cancer due to smoking killed over 500,000 people in the developed world. Chronic obstructive airways disease (COPD), bronchitis has also killed more people.

“We must not forget that there are real people with these statistics like mothers, fathers, and loved-ones who have suffered lost up to 30 years of life because of their smoking addiction”. - Said Amanda Sandford, of the anti-smoking charity Ash.

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People are given guidelines to make use of hands-free sets, shorter calls on mobile phones and let children to make only essential calls. This can help to limit exposure to electromagnetic energy. It is an important health concern to know if cell phone use can affect your sperm cell count and make you to suffer with brain cancer.

New York - Preliminary research suggests that spending many hours on a cell phone can affect the quality of a man’s sperm. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found the changes due to cell phone use and the sperm quality in a study of 361 men. Lowest sperm counts found in men who talked more than 4 hours a day had - study says.

Men who spent more hours on their cell phones are found having the lower level of sperm count and the percentage of abnormal sperm has got increased. The research findings were published in the fertility and sterility journal. Adding to this research, some studies have also linked long-term cell phone use with higher risk of brain tumors. The electromagnetic energy from mobile phones could damage DNA.

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