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Risks due to climate change need to be urgently addressed, including an effective adaption in health, to ensure desired health and well-being outcomes can be achieved and sustained amidst rising climate risks, the team said |Image used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: Channi Anand Children in India districts that are highly vulnerable to…
The human brain goes through five major eras of structural changes over a lifetime — marked by turning points at ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 — as it rewires to support varied ways of thinking as one grows, matures and ultimately declines, a study has suggested. Brain development stages Age nine is when communications…
When Anjaly Thankappan, a nursing officer at JIPMER, Pondicherry, became a mother for the first time, she thought her professional training would guide her through the early weeks. Yet, the realities of postpartum life and cultural expectations played out differently. At 28 days, her family wanted to conduct nookukettu, a traditional ceremony where relatives gather…
OpenAI defended the use of ChatGPT as it faces a lawsuit alleging that its chatbot coached a 16-year-old California boy into dying by suicide this spring. The ChatGPT-maker expressed its sympathies to Adam Raine’s family but claimed there was “misuse, unauthorized use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and/or improper use of ChatGPT,” on his side, according…
Young mother with baby in her arms vector flat illustration on abstract background of leaves isolated on white background. The concept of breastfeeding and motherhood | Photo Credit: Galina Yureva Is your baby unable to latch on deep enough during breast feeding, does she spit out milk often, or does she seem to choke on…
Healthcare activists added that data exclusivity would prevent India’s drug regulator from using existing clinical trial data to approve generic or biosimilar versions of medicines. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto As the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) considers introducing data exclusivity provisions into India’s drug regulatory laws, healthcare activists warned that…
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurological disorder that affects muscle movement. The name originates from the Greek amyotrophic, meaning lack of muscle nourishment, with ‘a’ meaning ‘no’, ‘myo’ referring to ‘muscle’ and ‘trophic’ to ‘nourishment’. Lateral indicates the spinal cord, where portions of nerve cells that signal and…
We spend so much of our lives rushing from one obligation to the next, forgetting that breathing itself is a miracle of constancy. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images As a pulmonologist, breath is both my profession and my poetry. Each day, I witness its fragility — how a single…
The Indian government often cites the World Health Organization (WHO)’s “benchmark” of one doctor for every 1,000 people. However, this is not a standard officially prescribed by the WHO. Parliament Question and Answer records show that until at least 2010, the government maintained that the WHO had not prescribed any specific standard for the doctor-population…
The patient with the team of doctors who treated her at SRM Prime Hospital in Chennai. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement SRM Prime Hospital has successfully treated a neovaginal fistula in a 22-year-old who had recently undergone male-to-female gender-affirming surgery elsewhere. The condition involved an abnormal connection between the rectum and the neovagina, leading to…
