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Usage of microbes linked to making supercharged rocket fuel

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): According to research, when out of five drawing tasks, the features of those combined drawings are extracted, it results in the accurate classification of individuals having normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease.

2022-07-09T16:58:12.788685+00:00 IST

Research: Women with anorexia likely to have underweight babies

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): A recent study found that pregnant women with the eating condition anorexia nervosa are five times more likely to give birth to babies who are underweight.

2022-07-09T14:10:38.802012+00:00 IST

Healthier body image in children gets promoted by theatre shows

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Theatre productions can help to promote healthier body image in young children, suggests the findings of a recent study.

2022-07-09T13:31:23.162479+00:00 IST

Study: Mindfulness meditation relieves pain

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Neuroscientists have recently been able to find out how individuals have been employing mindfulness meditation to try to reduce their suffering for generations.

2022-07-09T12:37:34.584648+00:00 IST

Male dogs more likely to get mouth, nose cancer than female dogs

Cambridge [England], July 9 (ANI): A recent study found that male dogs are four to five times more likely than female dogs to develop the oro-nasal variant of a canine transmissible venereal tumour.

2022-07-09T10:16:15.634768+00:00 IST

Trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Researchers have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission.

2022-07-09T01:22:12.789511+00:00 IST

Study find that copper leads to protein aggregation

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Copper exposure in the environment and the protein alpha-synuclein in the human brain could play an important role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Researchers were able to show how the protein takes on an unusual shape when exposed to large amounts of copper ions. The findings could help develop new strategies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

2022-07-09T00:25:36.240791+00:00 IST

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Childhood socioeconomic stress might be linked to obesity

Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Stressful childhood environments are a precursor for obesity later in life according to a University Alberta study that challenges the notion that advertising junk food is at the root of the obesity epidemic.

2022-07-08T14:02:01.271705+00:00 IST

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Childhood obesity occurring at greater frequency, younger ages

Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Despite numerous public health initiatives to encourage healthy behaviours and improve living conditions the rates of new cases of obesity in elementary school are higher and are occurring earlier in childhood than they were even a decade earlier, according to a new study.

2022-07-08T10:48:15.278370+00:00 IST

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Fatty food may damage cognitive function: Study

Australia [Oceania], July 8 (ANI): Eating fatty meals may not only increase the waistline but also damage cognitive function, according to an international study led by UniSA neuroscientists Professor Xin-Fu Zhou and Associate Professor Larisa Bobrovskaya.

2022-07-08T07:58:15.460539+00:00 IST

$Shocking! Man fractures penis during sex$

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Shocking! Man fractures penis during sex

New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Who would have thought that sex, one of the most pleasurable things in the world, could actually become a punishment for a 50-year-old man in Indonesia.

2022-07-08T05:17:43.501668+00:00 IST

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Brain pathway that helps to explain light's effect on mood

Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Improved understanding of a neural pathway connecting light-sensitive cells in the retina with the cortical brain regions involved in mood and cognition has implications for the development of treatments for mood disorders.

2022-07-07T23:02:53.564653+00:00 IST

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Brain ripples may bind information across the cortex

Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): According to a study, brain recordings show that ripples are ubiquitous and occur simultaneously in widely distributed brain regions during human sleep, waking, and memory recall.

2022-07-07T22:21:19.725395+00:00 IST

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Study finds poor physical and mental health in older adults

Toronto [Canada], July 7 (ANI): According to a recently published study by University of Toronto researchers, older persons who experienced physical abuse as children were much more likely to experience chronic pain and chronic physical illnesses in later life. In comparison to those who did not experience this early trauma, they had a twofold increased risk of developing depression and anxiety disorders.

2022-07-07T11:12:21.407362+00:00 IST

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Study: Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain

Washington D.C. [USA], July 7 (ANI): A team of neuroscientists have found a new approach to how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. The study revealed that the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain is very much like chimpanzee brains and has expanded more than ever thought in the past.

2022-07-07T05:52:18.974483+00:00 IST

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New way to reduce inflammation and prevent rrepigmentation

Washington D.C. [USA], July 7 (ANI): According to a recent study, a group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine found out that the cell-to-cell communication networks could perpetuate irritation and help to prevent repigmentation in patients with vitiligo disease.

2022-07-07T02:43:41.467242+00:00 IST

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Death of a family member may increase heart failure risk

Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): Heart failure patients experiencing grief or in mourning following the loss of a close family member are at an increased risk of death, particularly during the first week following the family member's death, according to a new study.

2022-07-06T22:22:34.290634+00:00 IST

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Detailed views of HIV protein may lead to novel treatments

Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): Scientists have determined the molecular structure of HIV Pol, a protein that plays a key role in the late stages of HIV replication, or the process through which the virus propagates itself and spreads through the body.

2022-07-06T22:16:32.736786+00:00 IST

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Multi-layered strategies required to protect public health from oil and gas drilling effects: Study

Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): Efforts to mitigate the potentially damaging effects of oil and gas drilling often focus on single measures, such as B. major setbacks, the minimum allowable distance between wells and homes, schools and other sensitive locations. However, in a July 6 comment in Environmental Research Letters, a group of public health experts from various universities and organizations urges a multi-pronged approach to developing policies to mitigate the impacts of gas operations and oil. They create a framework for decision-making that they believe would facilitate the application of further public health protection measures.

2022-07-06T17:43:11.010397+00:00 IST

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Here's what expert say about sexual activity- heart diseases connection

New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): A shocking incident where a Nagpur man dies of cardiac arrest while having sex with his partner recently, has raised serious concern and queries in society, about the interrelation between a heart attack and sex.

2022-07-06T11:48:38.499753+00:00 IST

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Scientists revealed new device to detect brain abnormalities

Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): Detecting concussion, epilepsy and dementia has now become more accurate, affordable and portable as a group of scientists developed an advanced device in the new research.

2022-07-06T11:42:33.673860+00:00 IST