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01/05/2023

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23/04/2023

Making it 'YOUR' World Book Day

22/04/2023

Invest in our Planet

Earth Day 2023

18/04/2023

Listen to valuable information shared by nearly 100 experts in the field of Diabetes during DiabetesIndia 2023, Indore for 'Infobytes'.

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11/04/2023

This World Parkinson's Day, let’s raise awareness about Parkinson's disease and support those living with it. Parkinson's disease affects more than 10 million people worldwide, and there is currently no cure. Let's come together to support those affected and work towards finding a cure. Share this post to help raise awareness and show your support!

25/04/2022

World Immunisation Week aims to highlight the importance of collective action to protect people of all ages against disease by promoting the use of vaccines.

WHO is raising awareness of the value of vaccines and immunisation by working with countries across the globe and ensuring that governments obtain the necessary guidance and technical support to implement high-quality immunisation programmes.

The ultimate goal of World Immunisation Week is to protect more people and their communities from vaccine-preventable diseases.

22/04/2022

Earth Day 2022

It's time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, and our livelihoods.

Have a look at these real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth.

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21/04/2022

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, developed a drug-releasing hydrogel that can be applied post-surgery to prevent or slow tumour recurrence.


Existing studies show that as wounds heal after surgery, immune cells, known as tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) secrete large amounts of anti-inflammatory factors, these factors help the remaining tumour cells escape immune surveillance.


Hence, reducing TAMs will reduce anti-inflammatory factors, further leading to an increase in the immune response and a reduction in cancer recurrence rates.


The hydrogel contains two active compounds. First is Pexidartinib (PLX), which is known to inhibit TAMs by blocking colony-stimulating factor 1 receptors (CSF1R). And, the second is made up of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (aPD-1) antibodies, which help T cells recognize and attack cancer cells.


The hydrogel delivery system will allow localised delivery of immunotherapy after surgery and limit systemic side-effects as hypothesised by researchers.


Source: Medical News Today

20/04/2022

According to recent studies, DSF in fact inhibits a cytoplasmic protein known as FROUNT, which controls the direction in which certain immune cells migrate.

DSF blocks FROUNT from interacting with two chemokine receptors known as CCR2 and CCR5, which are involved in important cellular signalling pathways.

This leads to suppression of presynaptic glutamatergic transmission in the brain and decreased levels of glutamate in the brain reduce overall anxiety.

Source: Neuroscience News

19/04/2022

Yes, you read that right!


Overconsumption of Sodium leads to hypertension, high blood pressure, and increased risk of heart disease.


Probably we all know it already, but a team of researchers at the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences has made it more clear in their recent comprehensive review that included primary studies, literature reviews, book chapters, and patents covering sodium reduction in food products.


You can always reduce your salt intake when you are cooking your own food and limit the consumption of processed and packaged foods.


The problem is not the unit volume of salt in the food supply but the amount of sodium consumption has gone up, more processed food, more sodium. Sodium is largely used for preservation of processed foods and replacing it with celery powder would help. There is more than one solution and in this case, a combination of solutions would help.


So, what’s the solution?


The researchers have identified five main strategies: Salt reduction, salt replacers, flavour modification, physical modification, and functional modification.


As a food processing company, one must benefit from the research and make more informed decisions to use different strategies than what they have been using so far because it is not helping people.


As a consumer, one must go for a low-sodium version of processed food and add salt to taste.

Source: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences


What do you think about how one should limit sodium consumption? Share your views in the comments below.

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18/04/2022

One of the deadliest and most puzzling conditions in the medical industry is sudden and lethal cardiac arrhythmias.


A new technology built on raw images of patients' diseased hearts and patient backgrounds can now predict more accurately than a doctor. This artificial intelligence-based approach can predict, if and when a patient could die of cardiac arrest.


Sudden cardiac death caused by arrhythmia accounts for as many as 20 per cent of all deaths worldwide and one knows very little about why it’s happening or how to tell who’s at risk. In this case, it becomes almost inevitable to avoid the outcomes without the use of technology.


The team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University are hopeful that the technology will help them make clinical decisions more efficiently and will increase survival from sudden cardiac arrhythmias. The deep learning technology is called Survival Study of Cardiac Arrhythmia Risk (SSCAR).


Source: Johns Hopkins University

17/04/2022

Some families have hemophilia running in the family without them knowing about it. Any incidence of bleeding that is difficult to stop, such as following surgery or injury, or unexplained deaths among brothers, sisters, or other male relatives such as maternal uncles, grandfathers, or cousins, should be discussed with a doctor to see if hemophilia was the cause.