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Light marijuana use not linked to kidney disease: Study
Occasional and relatively light use of marijuana may not increase risk of kidney disease in healthy adults below the age of 60, suggests new research.
Tea seller sets benchmark by making Rs. 12 lakh per month
A tea seller in Maharashtra's Pune city has set a benchmark for his competitor by making Rs. 12 lakh per month.Yewle Tea house has become one of the famous stalls in the city.Navnath Yewle, co-founder of Yewle Tea house, says he is going to make it an international brand very soon."Unlike 'pakora' business. this tea selling business is also creating employment for Indians. This business is growing fast and I'm happy," Navnath told ANI.Currently, Yewle Tea House has got three centers in the city and every center has about 12 employees working in it.
US firm DiabetOmics sets up manufacturing unit in Hyderabad
DiabetOmics Inc, a US-based medical diagnostics company, today launched its new manufacturing facility here. Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao inaugurated the plant which will manufacture non-invasive point-of-care diagnostic tests for monitoring diabetes, the company said in a press release. The facility, constructed on a three-acre plot with a built-up area of 34,000 sq ft, will cater to the global needs of DiabetOmics , it said. The unit has an annual manufacturing capacity of 10 million test strips and can assemble 15,000 readers to begin with. The commercial production is likely to commence in the second quarter of 2018, it added. Varaprasad Reddy, Chairman, DiabetOmics Medical (P) Ltd, said the vision of the company is to bring affordable, accessible and easy-to-use diagnostic tests for monitoring of diabetes to those who need it most. "With the new facility we are well on the way to realising this vision; our non-invasive and patient-friendly .
Children with low birth weight at higher risk of heart disease: study
Children with a birth weight under 2.5 kilogrammes stand at risk of becoming underweight and can experience cognitive difficulties as well as diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life, a study has found. However, early iron supplementation seems to provide some protection, researchers said. The study consisted of 285 children who were born with a marginally low birth weight, 22.5 kilogrammes, and a control group of 95 children born with a normal birth weight. Data on weight, height, body composition, blood pressure, and blood tests for blood sugar, insulin and blood lipids were collected. In addition, the children's IQ, and various other abilities were tested. Among the children born with low birth weight, a clear majority only have a marginally low weight, but they are rarely prioritized in studies. "The results were surprising. That low birth weight children who received early iron supplementation had a lower blood pressure in school age has never been shown before," said ...
Diabetes can be divided into five different groups: Study
People suffering from diabetes can be divided into five separate groups, not just two, as commonly thought, says a new study.
Immune-suppression must while planning for smallpox outbreak
Unprecedented levels of immunosuppression in countries like Australia and the US must be considered in planning for the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the world, a study warns. "Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 but in 2017, Canadian scientists created a smallpox-like virus in a lab using just mail order DNA," said Raina MacIntyre from University of New South Wales in Australia. "Now in 2018, these same scientists published a step by step method to create a pox virus in a lab, making the threat of smallpox re-emergence even greater," said MacIntyre. In the nearly 40 years since smallpox was eradicated, much has changed in society. Advances in medicine mean that many more people today live with a weakened immune system - such as people with HIV, people being treated for cancer and autoimmune conditions. The study, published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, showed that children and young people aged 0-19 years will have the highest risk of infection in a smallpox ...
Teachers can treat children's mental health problems: study
Scientists have found that school-based services delivered by teachers can help reduce mental health problems in elementary-aged children. "Given the limited accessibility of traditional mental health services for children school-based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the reach of supports and services for so many children in need," said Amanda Sanchez from Florida International University in the US. "Treating children in schools can powerfully overcome issues of cost, transportation, and stigma that typically restrict broad utilization of mental health services" said Sanchez. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, are based on a meta-analysis of 43 controlled trials that collectively had almost 50,000 elementary-aged children participate in school-based mental health services. The researchers examined the overall effectiveness of ...
Kids with low birth weight at higher risk of heart disease
Children with a birth weight under 2.5 kgs may be at increased risk of becoming underweight and can experience cognitive difficulties as well as diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life, a study says.
Antibiotic misuse may impact cancer treatment efficacy: study
Overuse and misuse of antibiotics may leave you drug resistant, vulnerable to infection and can also hamper cancer treatment, a study has found. Any negative impact of antibiotics on cancer treatment appears to go back to the gut and to whether the microbiota is needed to help activate the T cells driving treatment response, according to researchers. "It likely depends on what types of therapy physicians are giving to patients and how often they also are giving them antibiotics," said Gang Zhou from the Augusta University in the US. Infections are typically the biggest complication of chemotherapy, and antibiotics are commonly prescribed to prevent and treat them, according to the study published in the journal Oncotarget. "We give a lot of medications to prevent infections," said Locke Bryan from the Augusta University. "White blood cell counts can go so low that you have no defense against bacteria, and that overwhelming infection can be lethal," said Bryan. In this high-stakes ...
Young males at risk of developing severe mental disorders: study
Young males are more likely to experience first-episode psychosis, defined as the first manifestation of one or more severe mental disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, compared to women in the same age group, a study has found. Ethnic minorities and people living in socioeconomically disadvantaged area are also at risk of developing severe mental disorders, according to researchers at University of Sao Paulo Medical School in Brazil. In European countries, these disorders have been found to be more frequent in large cities than smaller towns or rural areas and also to be relatively frequent among ethnic minorities. The researchers conducted an investigation in 17 urban and rural areas in six participating countries - England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil - between 2010 and 2015. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, also showed that the incidence of first-episode psychosis was higher among men aged 18 to 24 than among ...
Antibiotic misuse may adversely affect cancer treatment
Long-term antibiotic overuse or misuse may make people drug resistant and vulnerable to infection, impacting cancer treatment efficacy in a negative way, new research suggests.
Kerala CM admitted to Chennai hospital for check up
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was admitted to the Apollo Hospital here for a routine medical check-up and would be discharged tomorrow, the hospital said today. The 73-year-old Vijayan was admitted to the hospital at Greams Road here at 11.55 pm yesterday for "routine annual medical check-up", a hospital bulletin said. According to the Chief Minister's Office in Thiruvananthapuram, he is scheduled to be discharged tomorrow evening.
Co-sleeping with babies for long may make mothers depressed: study
Mothers who co-sleep with their infants beyond six months are more likely to feel depressed, a US study has found. After analysing moms' sleeping patterns, the researchers found that mothers who were still co-sleeping - sharing either a room or bed - with their infants after six months were more likely to feel depressed. They were worried about their babies' sleep and thought their decisions were being criticized, the researchers said. The researchers said that while most American families begin co-sleeping when their babies are first born, most of those families transition the babies to their own room by the time he or she is six months old. "In other parts of the world, co-sleeping is considered normal, while in the US, it tends to be frowned upon, said Douglas Teti from Pennsylvania State University in the US. Co-sleeping, as long as its done safely, is fine as long as both parents are on board with it. If it's working for everyone, and everyone is okay with it, then co-sleeping ..
Liver cancer: New method identifies splicing biomarkers
Turns out, a new method has identified splicing biomarkers for liver cancer.According to a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-study, researchers have developed a method for identifying splicing-based biomarkers for the most common form of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).The researchers, led by Professor Adrian Krainer, believed the method will be useful in other cancer types as well. Since, liver cancer is particularly diverse, genetically, and prone to relapse, identifying biomarkers that can predict disease progression is a critical goal in the fight against it."This study underscores the potential for learning how RNA splicing variants can contribute to cancer and points to these variants as potential biomarkers for cancer progression," Krainer said.Splicing refers to a process in which an RNA message copied from information encoded in a gene is edited before it is able to serve as a blueprint for the manufacture of a specific protein.A gene can give rise to multiple RNA ...
Young men more vulnerable to mental illness than women
Young men are more likely to experience first-episode psychosis, defined as the first manifestation of one or more severe mental disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and depression, compared to women of the same age group, says a new study.
Immune-suppression must while planning for smallpox outbreak
Unprecedented levels of immune-suppression in countries like Australia and the US must be considered in planning for the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the world, an expert in infectious diseases has warned.According to a University of New South Wales professor, Raina Maclntyre, "Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 but in 2017, Canadian scientists created a smallpox-like virus in a lab using just mail order DNA"."Now in 2018, these same scientists published a step by step method to create a pox virus in a lab, making the threat of smallpox re-emergence even greater", continued Professor Maclyntyre."Experts have long feared this scenario, and it is now a reality," said Professor MacIntyre. "This highlights the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the world, without terrorists needing to access closely guarded stockpiles of the virus."In the nearly 40 years since smallpox was eradicated, much has changed in society. Advances in medicine mean that many more people today live with a ...
Regular walking may protect against heart failure: study
Walking for at least 40 minutes several times per week at an average to fast pace is associated with a near 25 per cent drop in the risk of heart failure among post-menopausal women, according to a study. The benefit appears to be consistent regardless of a woman's body weight or whether she engages in other forms of exercise besides walking. About 6.5 million adults have heart failure, a condition in which the heart becomes too weak to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs, researchers said. The risk of heart failure rises with age; women 75-84 years of age are three times as likely to have heart failure compared with women 65-74 years old, they said. "We already know that physical activity lowers the risk of heart failure, but there may be a misconception that simply walking isn't enough," said Somwail Rasla from Saint Vincent Hospital in the US. "Our analysis shows walking is not only an accessible form of exercise but almost equal to all different types of exercise that have .
Antibiotics influence cancer treatment efficacy
Turns out, antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy.Any negative impact of antibiotics on cancer treatment appears to go back to the gut and to whether the microbiota is needed to help activate the T cells driving treatment response, said Dr Gang Zhou, in a study conducted at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.Antibiotic use is known to have a near-immediate impact on our gut microbiota and long-term use may leave us drug-resistant and vulnerable to infection."It likely depends on what types of therapy physicians are giving to patients and how often they also are giving them antibiotics," said Zhou, corresponding author of the study.They have some of the first evidence that in some of the newest therapies, the effect of antibiotics is definitely mixed. Infections are typically the biggest complication of chemotherapy, and antibiotics are commonly prescribed to prevent and treat them."We give a lot of medications to prevent infections," said Dr Locke Bryan, a ...
New tech to provide better understanding of cancer spread
Seems like, a new technology can help provide a better understanding of cancer spread in patients.According to a study conducted at Purdue University, a 3-D-written lifelike cancer environment made out of polymer can help better predict how drugs might stop its course.Luis Solorio of Purdue University has created the model.Previous research has shown that most cancer deaths happen because of how it spreads, or metastasises, in the body. A major hurdle for treating cancer is not being able to experiment with metastasis itself and knock out what it needs to spread."We need a much finer resolution than what a 3-D printer can create," said Solorio, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering.Rather than 3-D printing, Solorio and a team of researchers have proposed 3-D writing. The device that they developed, a 3-D jet writer, acts like a 3-D printer by producing polymer micro-tissues as they are shaped in the body, but on a smaller, more authentic scale with pore sizes large enough ..
Improved paediatric asthma care is possible
Improving paediatric asthma care is possible, a new research has found.According to a University of Connecticut-study, improved personalised inpatient assessments can enhance the accuracy of the prescribed asthma therapy, a child receives.Paediatric asthma is the most common chronic childhood condition and one of the leading causes for paediatric hospital admissions.Asthma can be severely disabling and even deadly. Asthma kills more than 3,600 people annually including several hundred children. It also leads to more than 300,000 adult and over 136,000 paediatric hospitalisations annually."The key to caring for paediatric asthma patients is that the most appropriate medication at the right dosage must be prescribed, and the child has to take their medication every day," said Dr. Alexander Hogan who led the quality improvement study.The study showed the quality of asthma care improved after clinicians were equipped with streamlined patient care decision tools, an electronic medical ...