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New finding may improve type-2 diabetes treatment in India: Lancet study
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Australian government cracks down on smoking and vaping
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Breastfeeding trends show most developing countries may miss global nutrition targets
Research has illuminated the longer-term health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for the mother and child. These benefits include reducing the risk of overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence and certain non-communicable diseases later in life and enhancing human capital in adulthood.
Additionally, breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancers, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure among mothers.
Way forward Breastfeeding requires a lot of effort from mothers and support from wider networks, including their families, communities, workplaces, health systems, and government leadership.
Study finds primary cause of current obesity epidemic
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that obesity affects more than 40 per cent of American adults, placing them at higher risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.
UK court rules under-16s can get puberty blocking drugs
Hormone blockers are drugs that can pause the development of puberty, and are sometimes prescribed to help children with gender dysphoria by giving them more time to consider their options.
Patient needs and insights drive new era of global kidney research, discovery, and personalised treatments
Kidney patients worldwide are demanding an end to outdated dialysis care, characterized by staggeringly high mortality rates, and greater access to new products and solutions aimed at detecting, preventing, and treating kidney diseases earlier and in ways that improve quality of life and decrease dependency and disease-related unemployment. They are also organizing and coordinating their policy and grassroots efforts in a sophisticated effort to advance more common sense regulatory and payment reforms that prioritize patient needs and fully support the timely entry of new, safe products into global consumer markets.
U’khand High Court seeks replies from Centre, state govt on virtual post-mortem
The PIL said that the process being followed for post-mortem of bodies at present is wrong and inhuman. It said that if MRI and CT scans could be performed virtually during the ongoing Covid pandemic, then it was plausible that even post-mortem could follow a similar procedure virtually.
Woman sues for right to freeze her eggs in Beijing
She is suing Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital at Capital Medical University, a public hospital that forbids her from freezing her eggs, citing national law. Xu’s victory could mark an important step for unmarried women in China who want to access public benefits. Unlike in the U.S., though, court judgments in China do not rely on precedence.
NIH grants $470 mln to conduct studies on long-term effects of COVID-19
The grant is part of an initiative the main U.S. health research body launched in February to understand why symptoms of the illness persist long after infection in some cases – a condition known as “long COVID”- and why some individuals develop new or returning symptoms after recovery.
The most common prolonged symptoms include pain, headaches and fatigue, but the condition has been linked to a higher risk of kidney problems as well as smell distortions in other studies.
Coronavirus compounds climate disasters but shows action can work- Red Cross
Almost half of 140 million people around the world, who are hit by to disasters caused by extreme weather fuelled by climate change, with more severe storms, floods, and heatwaves live in the Asia-Pacific region, the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said in a report published this week.
“Recovery from disasters is so much harder when livelihoods have been hit hard by COVID-19 and the measures taken to contain it,” said Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and author of the report.
Covid-19 pandemic had psychosocial impact on healthcare workers: ICMR study
“Manifestations of stigma have been reported in India with doctors, and nurses being forced to vacate from their premises and reports of physical violence on HCWs in many parts of the nation. This reported stress, anxiety, depression and sleep-related issues among HCWs,” the study stated.
Eating wild meat significantly increases zoonotic disease risk: UN report
According to the report, there is strong evidence that zoonotic disease outbreaks are linked to human activities, as is strongly believed by many scientists in the case of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
The taking of wild meat and consumption has been identified as the direct and causative agent for the spill-over into humans for Monkeypox virus, SARS, Sudan Ebola virus and Zaire Ebola virus, with subsequent human-to-human transmission.