Kolkata: Hridaya 2017 raises funds to support treatment of underprivileged children
May 29, 2017, at 08:27 pm
Kolkata, May 29 (IBNS): Tollywood actor Rituparna Sengupta and many others attended the charity function Hriday 2017 organised by the Rotary Club of Calcutta Old City, on Sunday.
Bengaluru continues to be plagued by allegedly toxic froth from city lake
May 29, 2017, at 06:49 pm
Bengaluru, May 29 (IBNS): Parts of Bengaluru continue to struggle with the chemical and toxic froth from the Varthur lake, according to media reports on Monday.
Kolkata: Park Clinic reiterates focus on community services on Foundation Day
May 29, 2017, at 06:06 pm
Kolkata, May 29 (IBNS): Park Clinic of Kolkata, whose community health services include a range of activities, including providing subsidised health care to economically poor patients to health camps in remote areas of Sunderbans, to name a few, recently celebrated its 20th Foundation Day recently.
WHO confirms Zika virus cases in Gujarat
May 28, 2017, at 02:08 am
New Delhi, May 27 (IBNS): The Who Health Organization has confirmed cases of Zika virus in India.
NASA’s SDO sees partial eclipse in space
May 27, 2017, at 11:08 pm
Washington, May 27 (IBNS): On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun.
Study identifies cost-effective ways to combat HIV risk among intravenous drug users
May 27, 2017, at 02:37 am
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): With the abuse of opioids on the rise in the United States, Stanford University researchers are concerned that increased HIV transmission from shared needles won’t be far behind.
New stretcher to prevent baby deaths in ambulances
May 27, 2017, at 02:10 am
London, May 26 (IBNS): Academics and industry partners in Birmingham, UK are developing a new device that will ensure newborn babies could survive in the event of a crash in an ambulance at up to 40 miles per hour.
A whole new Jupiter: First science results from NASA’s Juno mission
May 26, 2017, at 09:49 pm
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.
New horizons deploys global team for rare look at next Flyby target
May 26, 2017, at 09:47 pm
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): On New Year’s Day 2019, more than 4 billion miles from home, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will race past a small Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69 – making this rocky remnant of planetary formation the farthest object ever encountered by any spacecraft.
Didi Maa Sadhvi Ritambhara gifts a gym to people of east Delhi
May 26, 2017, at 05:27 pm
New Delhi, May 26 (IBNS): Considering India’s rapidly growing need of wellness and fitness among the people of all ages, Didi Maa Sadhvi Ritambhara gifted a prime and fully equipped gym to the people of east Delhi.
Obesity is in the eye of the beholder: Cornell study
May 24, 2017, at 09:50 pm
New York, May 24 (IBNS): Doctors have a specific definition of what it means to be overweight or obese, but in the social world, gender, race and generation matter a lot for whether people are judged as “thin enough†or “too fat,†according to a new Cornell University study.
Common sweetener in low-cal foods also a marker for weight gain, says study
May 24, 2017, at 09:49 pm
New York, May 24 (IBNS): A new study has identified the sugar alcohol erythritol as a biomarker for increasing fat mass. In contrast to previous assumptions and research, erythritol can be metabolized by, and even produced in, the human body.
Chocolate bars can potentially reduce heart conditions, study finds
May 24, 2017, at 06:25 pm
London, May 24 (IBNS): Six bars of chocolate a week can reduce a person's heart condition by a quarter, a new study by Harvard University suggested.
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Indian cities lag far behind in installing rooftop solar: Greenpeace analysis
May 24, 2017, at 04:37 am
New Delhi, May 23 (IBNS): Despite policies and net metering guidelines in several states, a subsidy of 30 percent offered by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), the installation of solar rooftop systems has been dismal in leading metros in the country, especially in Chennai and Mumbai, says a Greenpeace India analysis, titled ‘Indian cities slacking on rooftop solar’.
Cognizant introduces healthcare administration platform powered by Microsoft Azure
May 23, 2017, at 01:28 am
New York, May 22 (IBNS): Cognizant on Monday announced the launch of the TriZetto Healthcare Cloud Solution, a new secure, compliant managed services platform for healthcare payers of any size, powered by Microsoft Azure.
Over 100 cancer centers come together for the 7th National Cancer Grid meet
May 22, 2017, at 09:51 pm
Mumbai, May 22 (IBNS): The National Cancer Grid (NCG), with the support of Tata Trusts, has announced a major initiative of facilitating a high bandwidth, secure and private network through which cancer care centres around the country can interact directly with other centres, thus enabling inter-centre knowledge sharing and providing access to multiple solutions like Virtual Tumor Board, Digital Nerve Centre and many more, an official release stated.
Now deaf-blind can “watch†television without intermediaries
May 22, 2017, at 03:02 am
New York, May 21 (IBNS): The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Telefónica and FASOCIDE (the Spanish acronym for the Federation of Deaf-Blind Persons Associations) presented the PervasiveSUB technology, ground-breaking software which allows deaf-blind persons to receive and enjoy television content without intermediaries at the same time as the people around them.
Two earthquakes hit Himachal Pradesh for third consecutive day
May 22, 2017, at 01:40 am
Chamba, May 21 (IBNS): Two tremors were felt in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba area for the third consecutive day on Sunday.
Yoga contributes to human happiness, says Yoga Day Canada chairman
May 21, 2017, at 05:52 pm
Toronto, May 21 (IBNS): The popularity of Yoga is rising all over the world in recent times and Canada is no exception.
Six rhino poachers arrest, Assam forest minister directs to take stern action against poachers
May 21, 2017, at 01:51 am
Guwahati, May 20 (IBNS): Assam forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma directed the state forest department officials to take stern action against the poachers and take appropriate measures to protect wild animals across the state.
1888 Indian hailstorm named among all-time deadliest weather events in world
May 21, 2017, at 01:19 am
Geneva, May 20 (IBNS): The UN weather agency has named a hailstorm which hit India in 1888 as the deadliest hailstorm ever.
Two earthquakes hit Himachal Pradesh
May 20, 2017, at 11:01 pm
Shimla, May 20 (IBNS): Himachal Pradesh was rocked two earthquakes on Saturday, officials said.
Frisky female fruit flies become more aggressive towards each other after sex, says study
May 20, 2017, at 12:07 am
London, May 19 (IBNS): Female fruit flies start headbutting each other after mating and become significantly more aggressive and intolerant, Oxford University research has revealed.
Scientists look to skies to improve Tsunami detection
May 19, 2017, at 11:39 pm
Washington, May 19 (IBNS): A team of scientists from Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has developed a new approach to assist in the ongoing development of timely tsunami detection systems, based upon measurements of how tsunamis disturb a part of Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA's CPEX tackles a weather fundamental
May 19, 2017, at 11:32 pm
Washington, May 19 (IBNS): A NASA-funded field campaign getting underway in Florida on May 25 has a real shot at improving meteorologists' ability to answer some of the most fundamental questions about weather: Where will it rain? When? How much?
Conjugate drug extends survival in patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, trial shows
May 19, 2017, at 11:18 pm
New York, May 19 (IBNS): Women with HER2-positive breast cancer that worsened after previous treatment, survived significantly longer, on average, with a combination antibody/chemotherapy drug than with other treatments, an international phase 3 clinical trial led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and in Belgium has found.
Study finds genetic difference in prostate cancer in African-Americans
May 19, 2017, at 11:15 pm
New York, May 19 (IBNS): A new genomic study has identified prostate cancer mutations that may be more common in men of African-American background and which might be a step toward explaining why the disease is more prevalent and deadly in that minority group, says a report from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Eating nuts is linked to higher survival rates in colon cancer, says study
May 19, 2017, at 10:59 pm
New York, May 19 (IBNS): Among patients with stage III colon cancer, consumption of nuts is associated with significantly reduced risks of disease recurrence and mortality, according to multi-institutional research led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists.
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Womb Transplant: Indian doctors successfully conduct surgery in Pune
May 19, 2017, at 04:29 pm
Pune, May 19 (IBNS): A 21-year-old woman from Solapur who was born without a uterus was successfully operated upon by a set of 12 surgeons in a Pune hospital, thereby marking India's first womb transplant case, reports said.
NASA's IceBridge wraps up 2017 Arctic campaign With Southern Greenland flight
May 18, 2017, at 04:58 pm
Washington, May 18 (IBNS): A fjord in southern Greenland, as seen during Operation IceBridge's last flight of the 2017 Arctic campaign, on May 12, 2017.