An antiobiotic-resistant gene that was initially discovered in India has been spotted in the Arctic region, some 16,000 kms away. The genetic bug's far-flung encroachment reveals how rapid and fast-moving the spread of antibiotic resistance has become. The bug was discovered in a remote terrain with almost no population save for some research groups and is said to have been carried over by migratory birds according to findings published in the Environmental International journal.

65-year-old dog lover, Linda Munkley from Wales claims that her two German Shepherd dogs saved her life as they helped detect her breast cancer. According to a report in&nbsp;The Mirror, Linda noticed that the dogs kept sniffing her chest area and strangely they kept doing it for about two months. The dog lover then noticed a lump in one of her breasts and was diagnosed with breast cancer.

A new Nielsen company study shows an explosive growth in the time spent streaming television in the US. The study shows that&nbsp;&nbsp;consumers have embraced streaming as an alternative to live TV and services like&nbsp;Netflix&nbsp;account for 19% of television viewing. The percentage has gone up from 10% in March 2018 to 19% in the last three months of 2019.&nbsp;More than half of the consumers with the capacity to stream,&nbsp; subscribe to two or more services, Nielsen found. And, in a survey, 93% said that they planned to either increase or maintain that number.&nbsp;Smartphone usage accounts for virtually all of the increase. People spent just under four hours a day on their phones, compared to 2 hours, 31 minutes in the last three months of 2018.&nbsp;

Death toll in China from coronavirus has gone up to 1,631 with 143 new fatalities reported from all over the country, Chinese health officials said on Saturday. Hubei Province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 2,420 new confirmed cases and 139 new deaths on Friday, China's National Health Commission said. Two deaths were reported from Henan and one each from Beijing and Chongqing.&nbsp;The latest report brought the total confirmed cases in Hubei province to 54,406 cases. The total number of cases in China have gone up to 67,535.

Almost 300,000 children globally are diagnosed with cancer every year, says the WHO. But, there are some NGOs&nbsp;working to ease the burden on these children and their families and bring back their smiles.&nbsp;
1. St. Jude India ChildCare Centre operates in 8 cities including Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai. It aims to provide&nbsp;cost-free, holistic care during the treatment. Safe accommodation, transport to medical centres and recreational activities are provided by the organisation.&nbsp;
2.&nbsp;CanKids...KidsCan&nbsp;is a Delhi-based family support group working for the welfare of child cancer fighters as well as their families. Through their Go Gold India campaign, the organisation aims to make childhood cancer a child health priority in India.&nbsp;
3. 'Bringing happiness back to our children' is the motive behind the Butterfly Cancer Care Foundation. They work to help pediatric cancer patients from less-&nbsp;privileged families in India. They provide financial, clinical, educational, logistics and moral support through their team of professionals and students from across the globe.&nbsp;
4. Spiritual and educational support are the main agendas of the&nbsp;Samiksha foundation in Bengaluru. The organisation provides a space away from the hospital where children with cancer can learn and unlearn through creative activities.&nbsp;
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Sitting&nbsp;for too long has been associated with heart disease and diabetes, and now, a new study published in the renowned journal Lancet Psychiatry, has linked it to increased risk of depressive symptoms in adolescents. Lead author&nbsp;Aaron Kandola from University College London shared that&nbsp;young people who are inactive for a long time during a day face a&nbsp;greater risk of depression by the age of 18.&nbsp;The study also found that it's not just more intense forms of activity that are good for your mental health,&nbsp;but any degree of physical activity that can reduce the time&nbsp;we spend&nbsp;sitting&nbsp;down is likely to be beneficial. The study is based on data from over 4,000 adolescents.&nbsp;
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People who stay active tend to be happier, says a new study by Yale and Oxford scientists published in the renowned Lancet journal. Scientists collected data about the physical behavior, income and mental mood of over 1.2 million people.&nbsp;The study found that physical activity contributes to better mental well-being than having a lot of money and being inactive.&nbsp;According to the study, three to five training sessions, each lasting between 30 to 60 minutes, are ideal per week.&nbsp;The scientists also noticed that certain sports that involve socializing &mdash; such as team sports &mdash; can have more of a positive effect on your mental health than others.
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Thailand has become the latest country to reject the&nbsp;Westerdam cruise ship entry to its ports over coronavirus&nbsp;fears. Over 2,000 passengers and crew are now desperate to disembark after almost two weeks at sea. Ports in Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Guam sent it away earlier, according to the WHO. Health authorities may try to board the ship to assess passengers&rsquo; health.&nbsp;The refusal and quarantine of cruise ships are the latest efforts by governments around the world to contain the outbreak. Carnival&rsquo;s Diamond Princess and its 3,700 passengers are&nbsp;quarantined&nbsp;in the port of Yokohama as authorities struggle with an increasing number of infections on board.

After reviewing 11 years of published, scientific studies, the US Food and Drug Administration states that there&rsquo;s no obvious health risk posed by exposure to radio waves from&nbsp;mobile phones. The new report says that there&rsquo;s no conclusive evidence and no consistent pattern that supports concerns about tumors or cancer. The US&nbsp;FDA continues to urge researchers to conduct live studies on animals and humans, as well as shift some of the focus from the general population to subsets of people who many be predisposed to tumor risk.

The number of deaths from deadly coronavirus has reached 1110 not with close to 43000 infected by the pathogen that has wreaked havoc in China. According to WHO, there have been 393 cases of coronavirus in 24 countries outside China with 1 death. The WHO has now given an official name COVID-19 to novel coronavirus. The world health body also hoped that vaccine for new coronavirus "COVID-19" could be ready in 18 months

Kerala, which has seen three coronavirus cases till now, has stepped up its vigil against the deadly virus. State health minister KK Shailaja has said that 3447 people have been kept under observation in various districts of the state. Of these, 3420 are in home quarantine and 27 in hospitals. The minister further informed a total of 380 samples of suspected coronavirus cases have been tested so far. Of the 344 samples tested, results of all are negative.

Girls are hitting puberty almost a year earlier than women in the 1970s, according to researchers from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The scientists claim that the global obesity&nbsp;epidemic may be responsible for this. The research, that analysed data from 38 studies examined the onset of puberty by noting when the development of the glandular breast tissue takes place. While they could not identify a clear reason for the early onset of puberty, a few factors like higher BMI could be responsible, however, this wasn't the only reason. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may also play a part.

Amidst the deadly coronavirus outbreak, China has launched an app that warns people if they are at risk of the virus. The&nbsp;'close contact detector' app alerts&nbsp;users if they have been near a person who has been confirmed or suspected of having the virus. The app was jointly developed by government departments and the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.&nbsp;The technology works on the Chinese government's close surveillance of its population.&nbsp;To make an inquiry, users scan a QR code on their smartphones and&nbsp;register with a phone number, their name and their government ID number.

The new coronavirus, called&nbsp;COVID-19 is a "very grave threat for the rest of the world," stated the World Health Organisation.&nbsp;WHO is convening 400 independent experts in a two-day meeting to try to speed the development of tests, treatments and vaccines against the virus. Experts say that it could be months or even years before any approved treatments or vaccines are developed, by which time the outbreak might be over.

According to a new study, published in&nbsp;a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, cervical cancer&nbsp;could be prevented with a single shot of vaccine. The study concludes that a single dose of vaccine is as effective as multiple doses.&nbsp;Tests were conducted on over 1,30,000 women and girls.&nbsp;The findings may help achieve the World Health Organisation's goal of eliminating the disease earlier than expected, say researchers, as administering a single-dose vaccine would be cheaper and easier than a multi-dose programme.

A new study, published in the&nbsp;medical journal JAMA, raises concerns of the possible risks of hospital-related transmissions of the&nbsp;coronavirus. The study&nbsp;analyzed data on 138 patients hospitalized with&nbsp;coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan.&nbsp;The data showed that hospital-related transmissions of the virus were suspected in about 41% of the patients. This means that nearly half of the initial infections in this hospital appear to have been spread within the hospital itself. The study concludes that the virus appears to be quite infectious, and health care workers are at especially high risk.

In the race to develop a new vaccine against the novel coronavirus, British scientists have claimed that they will be able to conduct human clinical trials by the summer. However, the vaccine wouldn't be ready to be used against the infection until late 2020 or early 2021. The vaccine has just started being tested on animals. Robin Shattock, from Imperial College London, stated that they 'were trying to have the vaccine ready if the virus becomes a cyclical rather than a one-off event'. Conventional development of a vaccine takes atleast two-three years but they've managed it in just 14 days time.

A new study conducted by&nbsp;Parag Milk Foods Ltd highlights that 63% Indian consume insufficient&nbsp;protein in their daily diets and are also unaware of its consequences such as hair loss, poor concentration, muscle loss, constant hunger, anaemia, and low immunity. The survey&nbsp;covered over 1,200 respondents in the age group of 18 to 55 years across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad. The study also highlights that about 55 per cent of Indian kids have a protein deficient diet and the lack of protein is becoming a leading cause of lifestyle ailments.&nbsp;

Scientists have revealed the detailed genetic makeup of thousands of cancer samples, giving new insights into the genes that drive the many forms of the disease. The results of the study, published in the Journal Nature, interpret&nbsp;DNA sequences of 2,658 cancer samples.&nbsp;The study&nbsp;is the work of some 700 scientists from around the world.&nbsp;The project found that people's cancers contain, on an average, four to five key genetic mutations that drive a cancer's growth. This can help in developing treatments that attack these "driver mutations".The challenge lies in finding which of these mutations will go on to become cancer and which can be safely ignored.

The death toll in China's novel coronavirus outbreak went up to 630 on Friday, authorities said. Total confirmed cases also rose sharply to cross 30,000. As the virus is transmitted from human-to-human, over 2.82 lakh close contacts of the patients have been traced, with over 1.86 lakh others still under medical observation. Beijing has been expanding quarantine zones and travel restrictions affecting the movement of 56 million people in more than a dozen Chinese cities.

An expert from the Birmingham University suggests that the term 'painkiller' be replaced with 'pain-reliever' to help end the obsession of some people with drugs. The phrase raises unrealistic expectations, Professor Jamie Coleman told BBC. He shared that even in low doses, the medication could become addictive. Changing the culture of 'painkillers' and&nbsp;making such drugs prescription-only could help tackle their misuse.&nbsp;

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