Health

Ontario [Canada], June 26 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggests that after suffering a stroke, people often are unable to use the arm on their affected side and sometimes end up holding it close to their body, with the elbow flexed.

Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): A study lead by the University of Edinburgh researchers suggests that listening to music while running can be helpful in combating mental fatigue and might prove as a key to improving people's performance too.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 25 (ANI): Fortifying tea with folate and vitamin B12 may help counter the high levels of anaemia and neural tube defects associated with these widespread nutritional deficiencies in Indian women, a new study suggested.

Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. All current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics were designed to disrupt this route into cells, which requires a receptor called ACE2.

Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Connecticut have reported significant findings supporting the nutritional benefits of Connecticut-grown sugar kelp. They found brown sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) inhibits hepatic inflammation and fibrosis in a mouse model of diet-induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, a fatty liver disease.

Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Drugs targeting the gene MAGEA3 may help block the growth of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer and one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the country, new research found.