Life
Harsh Gupta Becomes IIT Gate Topper, Gets All India Rank 1 In Chemical Engineering:
Chinmayee Dande -0
Happiness is spread everywhere in this Gupta family in Jaipur as by their younger son, Harsh Gupta has secured All India Rank 1 in chemical engineering. Results of Graduate Aptitude Test in engineering i.e GATE 2017 are just out and Harsh Gupta is clearly a topper by securing 999 out of 1000.
A BTech final year student at Malviya National Institute...
A new smartphone app and a device has been developed that is able to measure a man's sperm count and quality and let him know his level of fertility with up to 98% accuracy, in a matter of minutes whether he suffers from infertility, an Indian scientist and a team of US researchers said on Wednesday (March 22). So...
Disaster
Madhya Pradesh Government Hospital : SHOCKING! 70-Year-Old patient’s body found half eaten by dogs
Roopa Kanthraj -
Madhya Pradesh witnessed yet another horror show of healthcare, where dogs have eaten up the body of a woman aged 70 who went missing from a government hospital in Rajgarh on March 22. This is the fifth such incident recorded in the state in less than 10 months, and the second this year.
Some sanitation workers chanced upon the grisly...
Health Care
Stem Cell therapy reduces lung damage; COPD and cystic fibrosis cause the inflammations that can now be cured
Sowmya Seshadri -
With growing amount of industrial pollution, we expose our body to these harmful chemicals and dust, everyday. Instead of fresh air, we breathe in polluted air that in turn damages our lungs.
Lungs start losing their function because of chronic inflammation. Several diseases cause this chronic inflammation. COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and cystic fibrosis are the main cause. These...
Life
Indian-Americans raise $100,000 for Ian Grillot,who took a bullet for Indian Techie in Kansas
Ramesh Kolanthara -
The Indian American community in Houston has presented $100,000 to Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old American who was shot while trying to save Indian techies Srinivas Kuchibotla and Alok Madasani during a shooting in Kansas.
Ian Grillot was injured when he tried to intervene in the shooting by a Navy veteran targeting Indians at a bar in Olathe, Kansas last month.
Grillot...
Health Care
Lower your risk for diabetes with exercise:10 mins of vigorous exercise may cut diabetes risk in kids.
Roopa Kanthraj -
Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in the US found that replacing light-intensity physical activity with brief periods of vigorous exercise may provide significant cardiometabolic benefits in young people with relatively large waist measurements and elevated levels of insulin in their blood.
Ten minutes of high-intensity physical activity every day may help some children reduce their risk of developing heart...
Health Care
Two thirds of cancer may strike due to bad luck,than lifestyle or genetics:Experts say.
Roopa Kanthraj -
Though genetic and lifestyle factors can play a significant role in the development of certain cancers, a new study has found that bad luck in mutating stem cells is the biggest risk factor for 2/3 of all cancers overall.
The study was conducted by Cristian Tomasetti and Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Kimmel...
Health Care
Critical step in DNA repair, New vitamin may help reverse ageing process,fight cancer.
Roopa Kanthraj -
Life extension science, also known as anti-aging medicine, indefinite life extension, experimental gerontology, and biomedical gerontology, is the study of slowing down or reversing the processes of aging to extend both the maximum and average lifespan.The ability to achieve this, however, does not currently exist.
The body's ability to repair DNA damage declines with age, which causes gradual cell demise,...
Boasting about how hectic life is, or humblebragging may be the new status symbol among Americans, suggests a study by the Harvard University.
It was found that Americans tend to perceive busy and overworked people as having high social status. While high status Americans a generation ago may have boasted about their leisure time, today they are likely to engage...
Health Care
Taking the contraceptive pill can protect women against certain cancer types, major study suggests
Susovan Panda -
Women have long been told if they take the contraceptive pill they may be at higher risk of cervical cancer or breast cancer. But according to the new research from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), those women who have taken the oral contraceptive pill are protected from three common cancers for as long as 30 years.
Researchers at the University...