BBC 17 year old Eliza has to regularly take time off from college due to severe period pain A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when teenagers experience period pain and whether it is linked to developing chronic pain in later life. In what is described as a world first, researchers … Read more
Lisa Hawker The family of a young girl say her life was saved after a pioneering study was able to diagnose her incredibly rare genetic disorder, leading to better treatment. Jaydi Hawker, 11, has a form of dwarfism thought to affect fewer than 50 people in the world. There are thousands of such genetic disorders … Read more
View of Telangana High Court building, in Hyderabad. Picture used for represenational purpose only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Telangana Government has appointed Justice Shameem Akhter, former Judge of Telangana High Court to head the one-man commission constituted under the Commission of Inquiry to study on sub-classification within Scheduled Castes reserved categories and make … Read more
Getty Images Children’s eyesight is steadily getting worse with one in three now short-sighted or unable to see things in the distance clearly, a global analysis suggests. The researchers say Covid lockdowns had a negative impact on eyesight as children spent more time on screens and less time outdoors. Short-sightedness, or myopia, is a growing … Read more
Parents are not to blame for “fussy eating”, researchers say, as a large study suggests fussy eating tendencies are mostly down to genetics rather than parenting styles. And the tendency to be fussy over food can persist into early teenage life, the team says, building on their previous work looking at toddlers. The UK study … Read more
A sobering discovery has led to Cambridge University academics calling on the government to stop serving beer in pints to reduce Britain’s alcohol intake. A study found that beer consumption dropped by 10% when pubs shelved pint glasses and served customers with glasses two thirds the size instead. That could be enough to make an … Read more
Hyderabad: A new study by the Indian School of Business (ISB) highlights the potential to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise the Indian healthcare ecosystem while underscoring the need to address the policy gaps hindering the widespread adoption of AI. A new study titled ‘Understanding the Canvas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare in India’ … Read more
Sydney: Every time you are prescribed medicine in hospital a computer will prompt your doctor about the appropriateness of the medicine and its dose. Every time health professionals update patient records on the computer they need to fill in the appropriate information in the correct spot, or choose an option from a drop-down menu. But … Read more
Getty Images Scientists have studied more than 2,000 samples of poo from babies in the UK to get a clearer idea of which types of bacteria first colonise a newborn’s gut. Researchers say they were surprised to find baby poo fell into three distinct microbiological profiles, with different “pioneer bacteria” being abundant in each. One … Read more
