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We can’t ‘boost’ our way out of the Covid pandemic for the long term

While the vaccine is effective at preventing severe disease, it is likely that boosters will become an annual shot. Here's the science behind it.

Not all kinds of alcohol make you fat. Beer might be causing it but you can still drink wine

There are factors that lead to weight gain. Alcohol consumption may be one, but many studies haven't found clear links between the two.

Foetal exposure to medicines can affect brain development of infants: Study

Washington , April 23 (ANI): A new study demonstrates that in utero exposure to mother's antiepileptic or antidepressant medication may affect the development of...

Antidepressants do not improve quality of life long term: Research

Washington , April 22 (ANI): Over time, using antidepressants is not associated with significantly better health-related quality of life, compared to people with depression...

Study details how chemical compound can promote healthy ageing

Baton Rouge (Louisiana) , April 22 (ANI): According to a new study, a chemical compound named BAM15, mitochondrial uncoupler, can prevent sarcopenic obesity, or...

What’s the BA.2.12.1 Omicron sub-lineage, reported to be behind the renewed Covid surge in Delhi

BA.2.12.1, along with its sister lineage BA.2.12 , was also reported to be behind the Covid surge in the US this month. Delhi reported 965 new cases of Covid Friday.

WHO adds Pfizer’s 2-drug antiviral Paxlovid to Covid recommendations for high-risk patients

WHO Guideline Development Group recommends oral drug Paxlovid for patients with non-severe Covid-19 who are at high risk of hospitalisation.

Study illustrates how migraine pain signals are generated and blocked

New York City , April 21 (ANI): A new study discovered how pain is signalled from within Schwann cells and finds several ways to...

Research: Individuals with diabetes, cognitive decline can be at higher heart disease risk

Washington , April 21 (ANI): According to a new study, people with type 2 diabetes who have cognitive impairment could be at greater risk...

Study finds reduced chances of pregnancy, childbirth after IVF with one ovary

Solna , April 21 (ANI): According to an extensive meta-analysis, women who have had one ovary surgically removed (unilateral oophorectomy) are less likely to...

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.