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Women gain significant weight after breast cancer

“As well as significant weight gain, we also found high levels of concern about weight among our survey participants. Timing may be the key in helping women to manage weight after a diagnosis of breast cancer,” said Dr Ee.

Automated AI Diabetic Eye Detection

Artificial intelligence can accurately detect diabetic eye.

In a new advancement in science, researchers have found that an automated; artificial intelligence (AI) screening system is capable of accurately discovering diabetic retinopathy 95.5 per cent of the times.

waterborne diseases Preventive measures during monsoon

Water Borne Diseases in Monsoon: Tips to Safeguard Yourself

A thunderous monsoon at the end of a hot and humid summer is always welcomed with open arms. But this cold shower respite from the heat also brings with it a host of diseases especially, water-borne diseases.

Apple Watch - Life saving technology

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.

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