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Monsoon rainfall has become more unpredictable in India. Floods and droughts have become more common and pose multiple risks to human health and wellbeing, with children under five being particularly vulnerable. New research finds that more assistance needs to be provided to communities in flood-prone areas to protect children under five from undernutrition. Little is […]

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Human Vaccines Project announce the Human Immunomics Initiative, a joint project that aims to revolutionize the understanding of the human immune system and accelerate the creation of effective vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments. The Human Immunomics Initiative (HII) will bring together Harvard Chan School experts in […]

Former Bigg Boss 13 contestant Arti Singh urges people to practice yoga during these times of COVID-19 stress. The quarantine has given a chance to people to do the things that they didn’t otherwise get time for, owing to their busy work schedules. Apart from doing daily household chores, cooking and catching up on films […]

Tamil actor Sayesha Saigal is using the lockdown period to display her culinary skills. The actress, better know as Sayyeshaa often posts the end product of the delicious food items such as Biriyani, Choux pastry and baked penne. This time, polishing on her lost habit of baking, Sayyeshaa has gone to making a mango cheesecake. […]

A video of Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya with fiancé Natasa Stankovic is breaking the internet. In the video, one can see the Mumbai Indians all-rounder, asking Natasa, “Baby, main kya hoon tera? (who am I for you)” To which she replies, “Jigar ka tukda (a piece of my heart)”. Recently, the ace cricketer had shared […]

The first sign of trouble for a patient with a growing brain tumor is often a seizure. Such seizures have long been considered a side effect of the tumor. But now a joint team of Columbia engineers and cancer researchers studying brain tumors has found evidence that the seizures caused by an enlarging tumor could […]

Klotho-VS heterozygosity (KL-VSHET+ status) is associated with a reduced risk for Alzheimer disease (AD) and β-amyloid (Aβ) burden in cognitively normal individuals aged older than 60 years who carry apolipoprotein e4 (APOE4), according to research published online April 13 in JAMA Neurology. Michael E. Belloy, Ph.D., from Stanford University in California, and colleagues combined 25 […]