India’s drug Controller DCGI on Friday approved the Covishield coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, following the data scrutiny by manufacturer in India Serum Institute (SII) a day before. The decision comes after the United Kingdom’s approval on Thursday, bringing hope as the New Year dawns. India has recorded the world’s second-most Covid-19 infections after ...
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World Diabetes Day: Most Europeans Not Sure How to Tackle Diabetes, Says study
Despite greater access to health information, new research found that many Europeans were confused about diet and lifestyle changes related to increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, revealed 2015 research, conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC). In a survey of over 2,800 European adults across the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands and Finland to ...
Read More »PM Modi Brushes Aside Secrecy, Orders to Declassify Netaji Files on Jan 23, 2016
The much-awaited meeting between Netaji family members and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cleared the path to make public all classified files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on January 23, 2016 and more than 130 files are with the central government, which are supposed to reveal the state watch on Netaji before he smuggled himself out of India in 1939. ...
Read More »Survey Reveals 68% Yet to Use Mobile-Based Financial Services
Amdocs has released the results from a new global survey around mobile financial services (MFS) which revealed that more than 68 percent of the respondents have yet to use mobile financial services, and that new innovative solutions for savings, loans, and insurance will drive the next phase of mobile financial services growth across emerging and mature markets. Conducted by analyst ...
Read More »Watch Supermoon Tonight: When, Where to see, Live Stream, Doomsday Prophecy
Today, August 29 marks the August month’s Supermoon, which is the first of three spectacular lunar shows this year. If skies are clear, it will be visible in the sky as the brightest moon also known as ‘Blood Moon’ due to its reddish feature unlike the usual white. The moon and sun rise and subside in opposite directions, with the ...
Read More »Low Iodine Intake During Pregnancy Leads to Lower IQ in Babies: Study
Iodine can be a real decider of how your kids turn out to be in the future, vouches a new study. Researchers from University of Birmingham discovered in a new study that those women who consume iodine supplements pre and during pregnancy are likely to have kids with better IQ levels. For the study, the research team examined a modeled ...
Read More »Ashes 2015: Anderson Ruled Out of Fourth Test Due to Injury
England’s paceman James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the third Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston and the next weeks fourth test at Trent Bridge. Anderson suffered a side strain on Thursday after bowling three balls into his ninth over he left the field, An England and Wales Cricket Board statement issue on Friday confirmed about ...
Read More »90 minute memory: How William reminds us of movie characters?
Amnesia is a syndrome caused due to brain dysfunction from damage, mental trauma or disease. Existing in two different forms – retrograde and anterograde, amnesia means “memory loss” in basic sense of the word. Retrograde amnesia means the incapability to remember events before a particular incident while anterograde means the incapability to remember events after a particular incident. Over the ...
Read More »Casual dental checkup left him with just 90-minute memory forever
March 14, 2005 was a normal day for William who was scheduled to visit his dentist for a root canal surgery after hitting the gym in the morning and going to office. A member of the British Armed Forces at that time, he returned to Germany only the previous night after attending his grandfather’s funeral. However, something unusual happened while ...
Read More »Half of Smokers Live with COPD Not Knowing About it: Study
More than half of the long-time smokers and former smokers who could pass the lung function test easily with breathing out forcibly may be suffering from COPD that was not detectable easily or in its early stages, warn researchers. The early stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis cannot be detected with mere symptoms ...
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