A view of the Supreme Court of India. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has constituted an all-women bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M. Trivedi to hear transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and bail matters on Thursday. This is the third occasion in the history of the … Read more
Karnataka High Court had concluded that wearing hijab was not an essential practice in Islam Karnataka High Court had concluded that wearing hijab was not an essential practice in Islam Though the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on students’ right to wear hijab in school, both judges on the Bench seemed to … Read more
Maybe you know a smoker who never exercises and is living happily into old age. Or perhaps you read about a veggie-loving marathon runner who had a heart attack in middle age. These kinds of stories can’t help but make you think: If your health is simply written into your genes, what’s the point of … Read more
For transgender kids, the simple act of finding and using a restroom has been complicated by adult politics, particularly at schools. More than 100 anti-trans bills passed this year in the U.S., with many focused on children and students. Most recently, Oklahoma’s governor signed into law a bill that forces all public school students to use … Read more
Feb. 2, 2022 — Dejuan Patterson was returning home from work one night when he was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head. Seventeen years old, he was left to die. Although doctors saved his life, the Baltimore native, who’s now 33, questions the treatment he received from the hospital. He had surgery and … Read more
I thought I was doing everything right. I never missed my annual mammogram. I did self-exams, ate healthy, and had no known risk factors for breast cancer. Yet, one day I felt a lump. I wasn’t particularly worried. I had recently had a “normal” mammogram, which didn’t detect anything. Then I was sent for a … Read more
My father died at 54 from prostate cancer, and his brother had prostate cancer at the same time. I have several cousins who also have this problem, so I knew that I needed to get screened since prostate cancer runs in my family. I was also having certain symptoms: incontinence, pain in my groin, and … Read more
The weight you carry into your pregnancy matters even more than how much you put on during it, according to research. Source link
Ouslander agreed. “We all have a social responsibility,” he said. “Just because you’re not going into a nursing home,” he added, “doesn’t mean you can’t be a source of infections there.” The findings, recently published in JAMA Network Open, are based on U.S. federal data from 13,312 nursing homes. As of Sept. 13, … Read more
TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Could the color of your hair as you age be determined by the color of your skin? Yes, according to new research that suggests race plays a role in when and how your hair goes gray. The scientists conducted a search of 69 publications to review … Read more