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Two recent news items have made us ponder over these issues. Nigeria is a large African country owning rich reservoirs of oil and gas.
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Canada: It is common to hear this question after New Year’s party and any other day people choose to go clubbing: “Why do we drink the way we do?” A group of researchers has found that at least some of it has to do with a particular protein in the part of the forebrain that […]
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The analysis was carried out by academics from the Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) Centre at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. The study was published in 'Child Development'.
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The study conducted by them was published in the Nature journal 'Communications Biology'.
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Utah: A new study has found that pregnancy intentions often change over as short as a 12-month time period, and they specifically vary with partner status, household income, and employment status. The study has been published in the ‘PLOS ONE Journal’. “When we think about whether or when people would like become pregnant, people often […]
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Sindh: Over 36 child fatalities in Thar, a district in Sindh province in Pakistan, in the first month of 2022, have created a difficult situation for the provincial government, reported The Express Tribune. While verifying the deaths of the 36 infants, Hyderabad’s Deputy Director-General Health Dr Irshad Memon said that children born in Tharparkar district […]
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London: About 50 per cent of people infected with Covid-19 during the first wave of infections in 2020 may have long-term and even permanent changes to their sense of smell, according to preliminary research from Sweden. From the early pandemic days, sudden loss of smell, or an impaired or distorted perception of odours, emerged as […]
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The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, showed that higher body fat in females whose paternal grandfathers or great-grandfathers had started smoking before age 13 compared to those whose ancestors started smoking later in childhood (age 13 to 16).
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New Delhi: The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros where new cases have been rising exponentially, the INSACOG has said in its latest bulletin. It also said BA.2 lineage, an infectious sub-variant of Omicron, has been found in a substantial fraction in […]
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A key figure from our study is that for every 1,000 steps per day, our results showed a 6 per cent lower diabetes risk in this population.
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The issue is important because many students with attention problems don't get an official diagnosis, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, said Anderman who is also the lead author of the study.
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Evanston (Illinois): A new study by Northwestern University has found that sleep reactivates memory and helps in face and name learning. The paper titled, ‘Targeted memory reactivation of face-name learning depends on ample and undisturbed slow-wave sleep’ was published in the Nature partner journal, ‘NPJ: Science of Learning’. The researchers found that people’s name recall […]
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New Delhi: Prominent public health officials in the US have increasingly highlighted the limitations of cloth face masks, pushing for more effective respirator masks such as N95s as the Omicron variant is rapidly spreading across the country, a shift in messaging from earlier in the pandemic, the Washington Examiner reported. Officials encouraged the use of […]
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New York: Of hospitalised children who tested or were presumed positive for SARS-CoV-2, 44 per cent developed neurological symptoms, and these kids were more likely to require intensive care than their peers who didn’t experience such symptoms, a new study suggests. The findings, published in the journal Pediatric Neurology, indicated that the most common neurologic […]
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Barcelona: A new study has paid adherence to the Mediterranean diet through an index made with biomarkers finding that it is associated with lower mortality in adults over 65. The study has been published in the ‘BCM Medicine Journal’. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Cristina Andres-Lacueva, head of […]
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New Jersey: During a time, when depression rates are increasing day by day due to COVID-19, a new study has revealed that people who feel depressed are more likely to believe vaccine-related misinformation. The study, which was co-authored by a Rutgers researcher, was published in the ‘Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open’. The […]
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Published in the Science journal, the analysis which is done at near atomic resolution using cryo-electron microscopy, reveals how the heavily mutated Omicron variant attaches to and infects human cells.
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Florida: A new study has found patients with cancer who receive chemotherapy — and some targeted therapies may mount an inadequate immune response to COVID-19 vaccination. The research has been published in the ‘Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovation, Quality & Outcomes Journal’. “It is important for patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy to receive a […]
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago conducted an online survey of 501 adults with asthma to better understand the extent of, and the problems related to, mask use in the era of COVID-19.
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In new research published in the journal 'Psychological Science', researchers used a haunted-house experience to study participants' subjective and physiological responses to perceived threats in a safe yet immersive environment.
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In contrast, the findings indicated that COVID-19 infection among males may temporarily reduce fertility -- an outcome that could be avoidable through vaccination.
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Among 25,183 women ages 50-79 years, there were 1,455 heart failure hospitalisation cases during a median follow-up of 16.9 years.
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The editorial provided a comprehensive review of what is known about the harmful effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women themselves, the effects on their newborns.
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Ohio: During a recent study, researchers found the best way to improve sad mood. They suggested that people who were feeling sad improved more quickly when they used a mood-improving method that they were told was their strongest skill. These participants improved more quickly than people asked to use a skill that they were told […]
