A new research is showing promise in helping to fight novel drug-resistant H7N9 influenza virus, which has caused more than 130 human infections with 43 deaths in China.
The study by Juergen Richt from Kansas State University is working with scientists at Hemispherx Biopharma Inc. to develop novel pharmacological treatments.
On Jan 20 and 22, Middle East watchers will be riveted on two different conference venues in Geneva or thereabouts.
The first meeting will concern itself with the agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme.
The five Permanent Members of the Security Council, the US, Russia, China, Britain, France plus Germany and Iran agreed on a deal Jan 12. It will be watched for six months. The same deal, in a somewhat raw form, had actually been announced in November. Technical details had to be filled in. This was accomplished Sunday.
A high fibre diet is essential for colon health and reduces the risk of severe colon problems, shows research, alerting people not to misuse antibiotics.
“A high-fibre diet reduces the risk of colon problems and that when fibre is lacking, vitamin B3 just may help keep the colon healthy as well,” said Vadivel Ganapathy, from Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University (GRU) in the US.
The researchers found that mice lacking the receptor – Gpr109a – were prone to inflammation and cancer of the colon.
Smoking – known to cause lung cancer and heart disease – can even trigger diabetes, erectile dysfunction, arthritis, blindness and liver cancer, according to a new US report released today which also found that modern cigarettes are more dangerous than ever.
The report by the acting US surgeon general, Dr Boris D Lushniak, significantly expands the list of smoking-caused diseases.
A Chinese man was sent to 10 months in prison and fined for blackmailing a restaurant owner to the tune of 5,500 yuan after finding a strand of hair in his food.
A court ruled Thursday that the 35-year-old man be detained and fined 4,000 yuan for the crime.
In 2012, the man demanded compensation of 8,000 yuan after he found a hair strand in a dish served at a small restaurant where he dined with his three friends in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, Shanghai Daily reported Friday.
The owner apologised and offered to cancel the bill for the meal which amounted to 200 yuan.
Top seed Serena Williams blew past Slovak Daniela Hantuchova in straight sets to reach the fourth round and set a record of 61 Australian Open match wins here Friday.
Williams didn’t face any serious danger in her victory over No.31-seeded Hantuchova, whose only win in their 10 head-to-head matches came in 2006, reports Xinhua.
Williams was off the court in an hour and 20 minutes and had conceded just 12 games in three straight set wins this week.
A Delhi court Friday sent a third person arrested for the gang rape and robbery of a 51-year-old Danish tourist to police custody till Jan 20.
Raju alias Bajji was arrested Thursday afternoon near the Nizamuddin railway station in south Delhi by the Railway Police Force, police said.
Police told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhanshu Kaushik that his interrogation would help them trace the other accused.
The magistrate allowed police to quiz him till Jan 20.
The police said Raju is a scavenger who collects discarded water bottles at the railway station.
The Supreme Court issued a notice to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday after hearing a petition in connection with a disproportionate assets case against her.
The petition sought the registration of a fresh disproportionate assets case against Mayawati. The apex court has given a month’s time for the BSP supremo, CBI and the Centre to file their responses.
US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American businesswoman Shamina Singh to the board of directors of a federal agency charged with strengthening communities and fostering civic engagement through service and volunteering.
Singh’s appointment to the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service which engages more than five million Americans in service through its core programmes – Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Social Innovation Fund – was announced Thursday.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meet on Friday said that the Congress had taken a lot of steps to ensure power to the people and that the Right To Information Act (RTI) was one of them.
“We restored information and information is power. Through the RTI, we gave power to the people of this country. We gave information that was robbed off in government offices,” said Gandhi.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday called for increasing the quota of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) cylinders from nine to 12 per household in a year.
“We need 12 cylinders, nine cylinders are not sufficient. People of India and its womenfolk want 12 cylinders,” Gandhi told party delegates at the All India Congress Committee meeting .
Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily had told reporters Sunday that a final decision in the matter will be taken by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA).
The Google lab known for working on unusual projects like self-driving cars is crafting a contact lens that could help diabetics manage blood sugar levels.
“We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears,” project co-founders Brian Otis and Babak Parviz said Thursday in a blog post.
The lens works “using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material,” Otis and Parviz said.
At work, while replying to an important email, you suddenly start planning your weekend or thinking about next holiday.
It takes a moment before you realise you were daydreaming.
It happened because your brain simply ‘changed channels’ and switched to autopilot mode.
To understand this sudden wandering of thoughts, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Free University of Berlin and University Hospital Freiburg analysed 1.6 billion connections between 40,000 tiny areas of the brain in 19 participants aged between 21-31.
India came back from a two-goal deficit to stun reigning Olympic champions and World No.1 Germany 5-4 in a 5-8 position classification match of the Hockey World League Final at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here Friday.
Trailing 1-3 at halftime, man of the match Mandeep Singh scored a hat-trick while Rupinder Singh scored a brace, including a last minute drag-flick, earning the hosts their first victory of the tournament.
India will now take on Belgium for the 5-6 position match while Germany will play Argentina for 7-8 positions.
The US-Pakistan strategic dialogue and ministerial meeting will take place in Washington Jan 27, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Friday.
Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, will lead a senior-level delegation for the ministerial-level dialogue with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Xinhua reported.
The Pakistan-US ministerial-level dialogue was revived in August 2013 during Kerry’s visit to Pakistan.
A court here Friday handed over the custody of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal to Karnataka Police to quiz him in connection with the 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium blast case.
District Judge I.S. Mehta at Patiala House Court here allowed a plea by Karnataka Police seeking the custody of Bhatkal in connection with the stadium blast case.
The court handed over Bhatkal’s custody till Jan 28.
Karnataka Police had requested the court for the custody of Bhatkal.
Patients with contagious and highly drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are being routinely discharged from hospitals across South Africa, exposing others in their communities to potentially deadly infections, researchers said on Friday.
In a study in the medical journal The Lancet, they said the patients, with strains of TB known as extensively-drug resistant (XDR) and totally drug resistant (TDR) TB, have exhausted all available treatment options and are sent home.
With over 90 per cent of Pakistan’s polio cases genetically linked to Peshawar, the World Health Organisation today described the northwestern city as the world’s “largest reservoir” of endemic poliovirus.
According to the latest genomic sequencing results of the Regional Reference Laboratory for polio, 83 of 91 polio cases in Pakistan in 2013 were genetically linked to the virus circulating in Peshawar.
Moreover, 12 of the 13 cases reported from Afghanistan last year were directly linked to Peshawar.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday encouraged greater women representation and participation in parliament and the party.
Addressing the All India Congress Committee meet at the packed Talkatora Stadium here, Gandhi said: “I can see five-six women sitting in front of me but I want to see the day when half of this hall is filled by them.” The audience cheered and applauded.
“I want half of the members of parliament and party workers to be women. We will fight your (women) battle, help you progress, empower you and respect you,” he said.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said six anti-corruption bills should be passed by parliament in the next three months.
“We want to give the country anti-graft bills which will transform the country, punish the corrupt and protect the honest,” Gandhi said in his address at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting here.
“Six anti-corruption bills should be passed in parliament in the next three months,” he said.
Actress Bipasha Basu feels Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are fitness icons of India.
“I feel Akshay Kumar is the fittest actor because right from my first film I have seen.. he is super energetic, looks after his health and eats right.
Salman Khan is a fitness icon… he has got the body into the business. Every single boy aspires to have a body like Salman. They are the iconic stalwarts in the fitness world of our country,” Bipasha said at the launch of her third DVD ‘Unleash’ in the ‘Fit & Fabulous You and Break Free’ series here.
The Supreme Court today said it will look into the plea for CBI probe into Gujarat’s snooping controversy only after verifying that suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma complied with its order to delete “scurrilous” allegations against Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Sharma, who has sought probe into the snoopgate, faced stiff opposition from the Gujarat government, which also slapped several other cases on him including one for attempting to flee the country on fake passport.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today made a blistering attack on BJP saying it believed in lighting fires of communal hatred and turning people against one another.
In a no-holds-barred attack on the main opposition, he told the delegates at the day-long AICC session that BJP believed in disrupting Parliament year after year and day after day in the last ten years stalling important legislations.
“Democracy is not rule by dictates. Democracy is not rule by one man. We will not respond by lighting fires of communal hatred and turning people against one another.
A new survey which was conducted in Universities has revealed that nearly 40 per cent university students are either obese or are over-weight. Almost 27 per cent of students who are rated as obese are in the age group of 17 to 20 and 11 per cent were classified as overweight.
lack of knowledge among students about risks of poor dietary practices, use of tobacco and lack of sleep,eating disorder, coupled with lack of physical activities relationship matters to heart, devoting more time to digital media were some of the reasons.
According to Hyderabad District Administration there are about 152 unrecognised schools located in the city. A warning has been by the District Administration to the managements that unless and until they apply for recognition, their schools will be seized and will not be permitted to function from the coming academic year in June.