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The Indian Chest Society unveils special booklet on cough management
With dedicated sections on both dry and wet cough management,...
Asia’s extreme April heat worsened by climate change, scientists say
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Intermittent fasting helpful in managing chronic diseases: Study
According to the study eating daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that limits your food intake to a certain number of hours each day.
Women are more burnt out and considering quitting in US: McKinsey
In the last five years, women’s representation has increased at all levels, the report found. Women hold nearly 50% of all entry level jobs and around a quarter of C-suite roles, each up a few percentage points from 2016.
“Our concerns are the impact of pandemic burnout on women long-term, and what companies need to do in response,” said Rachel Thomas, co-founder and chief executive officer of Lean In.
India reports 18,795 new COVID-19 cases, lowest in 201 days
The cumulative number of COVID vaccine doses administered in the country so far has reached 87,07,08,636 of which doses 1,02,22,525 were administered in the last 24 hours.
PM Modi launches National Digital Mission to ensure health IDs for all
The key components of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include a health ID for every citizen that will also work as their health account, to which personal health records can be linked and viewed with the help of a mobile application, a Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Healthcare Facilities Registries (HFR) that will act as a repository of all healthcare providers across both modern and traditional systems of medicine.
This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers.
Covid caused biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II: Study
The research team assembled an unprecedented dataset on mortality from 29 countries, spanning most of Europe, the US and Chile — countries for which official death registrations for 2020 had been published.
It took on average 5.6 years for these countries to achieve a one-year increase in life expectancy recently, while the progress was wiped out over the course of 2020 by Covid-19, they said.
The largest declines in life expectancy were observed among males in the US, who saw a decline of 2.2 years relative to 2019 levels, followed by Lithuanian males (1.7 years), they said.
COVID-19 virus evolving to get better at becoming airborne, study shows
“The take-home messages from this paper are that the coronavirus can be in your exhaled breath, is getting better at being in your exhaled breath, and using a mask reduces the chance of you breathing it on others,” Jennifer German, a co-author of the study said.
“This means that a layered approach to control measures — including improved ventilation, increased filtration, UV air sanitation, and tight-fitting masks, in addition to vaccination — is critical to protect people in public-facing jobs and indoor spaces,” German added.
UP govt to raise retirement age of doctors to 70 years
“After retirement, doctors open their private clinics, but it will be better that they give their services to us. Keeping this in view, we have prepared the proposal. Yogi Adityanath has also given his consent on this and soon it will be approved by the cabinet,” he said.
COVID smell loss can have profound effects on your life, from weight change to intimacy barriers
For others, things were more fluid. Anosmia could mutate into parosmia. Food that was fine one day could become disgusting the next. This “chaos narrative” – as sociologists call it – meant that smell loss was very difficult to live with, let alone manage. A condition over which there was no control. The effect on appetite was also unpredictable. As might be expected, people had trouble eating – particularly when normal smells were distorted. Some were struggling, reporting malnutrition and severe weight loss.
Country needs at least 600 medical colleges, 50 AIIMS-like institutions, says Gadkari
”The public-private investment model in the road and infrastructure development sector can be replicated in health care and education sectors. The country needs a minimum of 600 medical colleges, 50 AIIMS-like institutions, and 200 super-specialty hospitals. The government is also thinking of providing help to those social organizations that work in the medical and education sectors,” Gadkari said.
He also stressed the need to have at least one veterinary hospital in every tehsil.
Poorly circulated room air raises potential exposure to COVID contaminants
Using CO2 as a tracer to track small respiratory aerosols that travel by air currents in a room, the Berkeley Lab team found that when overhead vents (or diffusers) are supplying heated air, it created thermally stratified conditions that block the flow of clean air down to the “breathing zone” in the middle height of the room.
As a result, even when people are sitting more than 6 feet from each other, some occupants may be exposed to respiratory aerosols from others at a rate 5 to 6 times higher than if the same room were well mixed.