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Study finds new trigger of brain inflammation in Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers discovered that an inflammatory trigger similar to that found in viral infections is higher in Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain illness.
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Expert warns of COVID-19 spike in Japan amid rapid rise in daily cases
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Daily covid tally could reach the Japanese government's earlier projection of 4,50,000 nationwide, according to Toho University Professor Tateda Kazuhiro, who is on the government's coronavirus advisory panel.
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Chinese citizens move out with vengeance, prefer Covid infections for immu
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Their logic is if they get infected and are quarantined at home for 14 days, they will recover and get immunity from the virus.
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Researchers suggest how brain game can predict risk of infection
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
If your alertness and reaction speed fluctuate more than usual, you may be more vulnerable to a viral disease.
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Lyme disease heightens risk of mental disorders, suicidality: Study
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a new study, U.S. and Danish researchers report that patients hospitalized with Lyme disease had a 28 per cent higher rate of mental disorders and were twice as likely to have attempted suicide post-infection, compared to individuals without the diagnosis.
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Newly discovered anatomy shields and monitors brain
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
From the complexity of neural networks to basic biological functions and structures, the human brain only reluctantly reveals its secrets. Advances in neuro-imaging and molecular biology have only recently enabled scientists to study the living brain at a level of detail not previously achie
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WHO criticizes China for "under-representing" COVID-19 cases, "narrow" def
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Incidentally, the scale of the current outbreak of the Covid infections has made it difficult for the authorities to track the Covid infections, following the end of the mandatory mass testing as part of the easing of Covid restrictions.
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40 pc of Chinese people infected with Covid in last month, say experts
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to an internal document of the Chinese CDC, 248 million people were infected by the coronavirus between December 1 and 20. As of now, the total number of Covid infections has reached 665 million globally while 6.69 million people have died, Asia Times reported.
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Covid surge in China hits its commercial hub Guangzhou, dents economic pre
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
China's reversal of its Covid-19 restrictions in early December was meant to help places like Guangzhou. But the chaotic approach has contributed to a tsunami of infections that has swept across the nation, overwhelming hospitals and funeral parlours.
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India witnesses slight increase in Covid infections with 188 new cases in
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
India saw a slight increase in Covid infections on Thursday as it witnessed 188 new cases in the last 24 hours on Thursday, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
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Omicron subvariants BA.5.2, BF.7 responsible for latest COVID outbreak in
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a statement, WHO said that the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) held a meeting with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday and said, "The China CDC analysis showed a predominance of Omicron lineages BA.5.2 and BF.7 among locally acquired in
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'Jumping genes' help fungus kill salamanders: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same "jumping genes", scientists have discovered. Jumping genes, called transposons, can "copy and paste" themselves and impact the organism.
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