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Waterloo: According to new research, people taking diuretics and renin-angiotensin (RSA) inhibitors for high blood pressure should also be careful to take ibuprofen as the combination can cause acute kidney injury, which can be permanent in some cases. The findings of the research were published in the journal ‘Mathematical Biosciences’. Researchers at the University of […]

Hyderabad: The 2021 World Air Quality Report was released recently. The report presented an overview of the state of global air quality in 2021. IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5. India was home to 14 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities, according […]

England: A new study led by the University of Cambridge has found that girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence. The study was published in the journal, ‘Nature Communications’. Scientists found that girls have experienced a negative link between social media […]

New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed a new technique that can provide a clear and high-quality visualisation through reconstructed ultrasound image. The research could facilitate better diagnosis of diseases, detection of minute abnormalities and better real-time image-guided biopsy procedures and treatment monitoring applications. Ultrasound imaging technique is used […]

San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it is expanding its bug bounty programme to start rewarding valid reports of scraping vulnerabilities across its platforms. Under the programme, researchers will be rewarded for finding “unprotected or openly public databases containing at least 100,000 unique Meta user records with PII (personally identifiable information) or sensitive […]

The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laboratories to detect multiple accreting supermassive black holes and increases the possibility of detecting such occurrences.

This depletion could have significance for global climate change and therefore, understanding this phenomenon is important.

IIIT-H scholars will select 2,000 houses to monitor overall energy utilisation for one year

According to the study published in the Journal Lancet Digital Health, these health checks include measurement of major risk factors, such as systolic blood pressure, cholesterol profile, blood glucose, and smoking status.

Among the 131 patients studied, 94 per cent developed antibodies to the coronavirus

The research was presented at the World Microbe Forum, an online meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), and several other societies that will take place online June 20-24.

Many individuals who develop COVID-19 also experience kidney damage, but it's unclear if this is a direct result of viral infection or a consequence of another condition or the body's response to the infection.

Second wave to come under complete control by June 10, according to SUTRA

Hormonal contraceptives, e.g. the pill, the patch, and the vaginal ring, contain synthetic hormones that prevent pregnancy by either stopping ovulation

Although it is not spread through human contact, Francisella tularensis is one of the most infectious pathogenic bacteria known to science- so virulent, in fact, that it is considered a serious potential bioterrorist threat.

Current Covid-19 treatments simply manage symptoms while the body fights off the infection with its immune defence system.

Acoustic developmental programming occurs when a sound informs embryos about the environment they'll encounter postnatally and changes their development to better suit this environment

The study did not find a direct correlation however, those with the lowest levels of testosterone in the blood were at the highest risk of going on a ventilator, needing intensive care or dying.

The study, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany's Mainz, showed that in most environments and situations, even simple surgical masks effectively reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Check Point found evidence of forgeries of vaccine cards issued by the UK National Health Service and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention