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Study reflects how stress in pregnant mothers affect babies
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): Maternal stress, anxiety, and depression go a step higher if a fetus is found to have congenital heart disease. But this level of anxiety in pregnant mothers can lead to impaired development in key brain regions of the babies before they are born.
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Speech and hearing-impaired girl raped in Madhya Pradesh
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Rewa (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 15 (ANI): A 13-year-old speech and hearing-impaired girl was allegedly gang-raped here on Wednesday.
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Stress in pregnant mothers can affect babies' hearts, says study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): According to recent research, knowing that your unborn fetus has congenital heart disease can cause pronounced maternal stress, anxiety, and depression that can lead to impaired development in key brain regions of the babies before they are born.
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Brain diseases influence speaking ability, study shows
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 12 (ANI): Patients with language impairment due to Dementia have shown signs of reading and speech inefficiency, according to recent research. The study surveyed people whose mother tongue is either English or Italian.
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Visually impaired Tapaswini Das cracks Odisha civil service exam despite a
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Jan 10 (ANI): Despite all odds, visually impaired student Tapaswini Das has cleared the Odisha Civil Service Examination 2018 conducted by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC).
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Study reveals altruism leads to reduction in physical pain
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): A new study states that altruism -- the activities related to helping others without expecting any benefits in return -- might actually be good for our own physical well being.
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Scientists halt ALS using virus-delivered gene silencing therapy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
California [USA], Dec 28 (ANI): In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have successfully managed to halt the onset and progression of ALS in the animal model using a gene silencing therapy. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a ne
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Obesity in pregnant women can negatively affect IQ of their sons: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 24 (ANI): Obesity doesn't just adversely affect the women who directly suffer from it but it also has repercussions for their children, as revealed by a study. Sons of mothers who are severely overweight while pregnant suffer from long term cognitive deficits, whic
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SC refuses urgent hearing on PIL seeking direction for subtitles in films,
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused an urgent hearing on public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions that films and TV news should have subtitles for the people with hearing impairment.
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30 autorickshaws join the cause to rehabilitate hearing-impaired people
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Hubli (Karnataka) [India], Dec 15 (ANI): As many as 30 autorickshaws on Sunday left for Panaji as a part of 'Rickshaw Run 2019,' an event organised by Sewa UK, a humanitarian non-profit organisation in Birmingham.
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Indian banks' loan write-offs to continue: Fitch Ratings
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Singapore, Dec 5 (ANI): Indian banks are likely to take significantly more loan write-offs against a backdrop of rising provisions and weak recovery prospects, Fitch Ratings said on Thursday.
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Dantewada Collector assures to send visually impaired man to Raipur for ch
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], Dec 4 (ANI): Dantewada Collector Topeshwar Verma has stepped forward to help the 27-year-old visually impaired man, Santosh and has decided to send him to Raipur for a checkup and treatment.
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