health and lifestyle

Indian school teacher infected with deadly virus in China

Indian school teacher becomes first foreigner to contract deadly virus in China.

A 45-year-old Indian school teacher is undergoing treatment for a new strain of pneumonia outbreak spreading in the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Shenzhen, becoming the first foreigner to have contracted the mysterious SARS-like coronavirus.

Does Donating Blood Make You Weak? 8 Myths Busted By a Doctor.

Artificial intelligence can accurately detect diabetic eye.

Water Borne Diseases in Monsoon: Tips to Safeguard Yourself

An Apple Watch Saved This Man’s Life by Calling For Help After a Bad Fall.

It has been well documented how the Apple Watch has often warned users about potential health issues which allowed them to get treatment in time. Now, we are also seeing the Fall Detection feature play its part in saving lives. Over the weekend, a man from Spokane, Washington posted on social media the details of how an Apple Watch saved his father’s life. Gabe Burdett says the father and son duo were supposed to meet up at a pre-designated location for some mountain biking at the Riverside State Park. At some point while waiting for his father, Bob Burdett, he received a text on his phone from his father’s Apple Watch, which said that a hard fall had been detected along with a map to his present location. At the same time, the Watch also notified the emergency services who responded immediately.

Mosquito infestation at Gujarat's campuses

Gujarat: Mosquitoes lay siege on education campuses.

AHMEDABAD: Educational campuses in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar are reeling under aspike in students falling sick to dengue, malaria and other vector borne diseases (VBD). The lush green campuses that stimulate creative ideas are apparently turning into breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

IITians Develop Affordable and Easy to Use Products to boost woman hygiene

IIT’ians Develop Affordable and Easy to Use Products to Help Boost Woman Hygiene

If you thought startups are all about technology, IITians are out to redefine that, smash taboos and create awareness around issues, like women hygiene, in their own innovative manner and ways. One of such efforts is a startup named ‘Sanfe’. Set up about a year ago by Archit Agarwal and Harry Sehrawat, both students of IIT-Delhi, it has touched the Rs 1 crore revenue mark as per their claims. On a trip to the mountains, one of their female friends contracted urinary tract infection after using a dirty public washroom. It pushed them on the path of thinking and they realized over 50 percent of Indian women face this kind of problem. They decided to develop a device, which could be affordable and also easy to use. And thus came the ‘Stand and pee’. Priced at Rs 10 apiece, the device has registered good online sales.

3D printed heart model made from collagen

Scientists create 3D printed heart using collagen

U.S. scientists have successfully built functional heart parts out of collagen using a 3D bioprinter, a breakthrough they say could one day create entire organs.

WHO: Let your kids watch TV than making Tik Tok videos

When 11-year-old Pallavi (name changed on request) was gifted a smartphone on her birthday in April this year, a big smile greeted her parents who decided to bid goodbye to the TV set three years ago hoping their daughter would spend more time with some creative stuff around.

Facebook to reduce sensational health claims on your News Feed!

Facebook has begun addressing sensational and misleading nutrition, health and fitness claims on its platform by lowering them in your News Feed. The social networking platform said has made two ranking updates to reduce posts with exaggerated or sensational health claims and posts attempting to sell products or services based on health-related claims. “For the first update, we consider if a post about health exaggerates or misleads — for example, making a sensational claim about a miracle cure,” Facebook said in a blog post late Tuesday.