Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an 'ingestible pill' which enters the stomach and swells up to the size of a soft ping-pong ball, tracking ulcers, stomach cancer and other stomach-related troubles. The pill, which has a sensor attached, tracks the temperature of the stomach for about 30 days and can be removed by drinking a calcium solution, which helps it shrink. The pill is made of two types of hydrogels. 

Living until the&nbsp;age&nbsp;of 100 is everyone's dream, but&nbsp;according to a Harvard Medical School professor of&nbsp;genetics, it is possible for humans to live much longer! On the&nbsp;Rich Roll&nbsp;podcast,&nbsp;professor David Sinclair explains that&nbsp;you&rsquo;ve got to get your body out of its comfort zone.&nbsp;The first thing people should do to live longer is to &ldquo;eat less often&rdquo;, he says.&nbsp;Sinclair suggests fasting frequently and recommends limiting meat consumption. The next step is to exercise frequently. He concludes by sharing that &ldquo;80 per cent of our&nbsp;health&nbsp;in old age is due to our lifestyle and how we live; and only 20 per cent is genetic&rdquo;.&nbsp;

A new report by the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the Lancet Commission shares that the world is failing to ensure a 'liveable' planet for our children. Ecological degradation, climate change and exploitative marketing practices are putting children at risk. The report ranked 180 countries on the likelihood of a child being able to "flourish". It urges countries to come up with radical changes to protect children&rsquo;s health and future. While India secured the 131st spot on the flourishing ranking, Norway topped the list and the Central African Republic was amongst the bottom five.&nbsp;

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discovered a powerful antibiotic using artificial intelligence. The antibiotic is capable of killing some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world. The drug is a first of its kind and researchers trained a &ldquo;deep learning&rdquo; algorithm to identify the molecules that can kill bacteria. In tests, the drug&nbsp;cleared infections in two different mouse models, according to the MIT&nbsp;News. The researchers believe their discovery could pave the way for such newer drugs using artificial intelligence.&nbsp;

Egypt is free from the novel coronavirus that began in China and has infected over 73,000 people globally, revealed a WHO Egypt representative at a conference in Cairo. There was one suspected case of COVID-19 detected last Friday but the person has tested negative for the virus. However, the person will remain in isolation and hospitalised.

Two passengers of the cruise ship quarantined by Japan over coronavirus spread have died of the virus. Over 600 of the 3000 passengers and crew on the ship were reported to have been infected with the virus. According to Japanese media reports, the two Japanese cruise passengers who died from the virus were an 87-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman. Passengers began to return to land on Wednesday after a two-week quarantine due to coronavirus.

A woman with a brain tumor played the violin while undergoing surgery to remove it at the King's College Hospital in London. Surgeons operated on Dagmar Turner on the 31st of January, a violinist with the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra, who feared losing her skill if the procedure did not go as planned. The doctors devised a plan to bring her out of anesthesia during the procedure so she could play the instrument. This would help them ensure that there was no damage to that part of the brain that controls movements in her left hand since the tumor was located at the right frontal lobe. The tumor was successfully removed and the functions in her left hand were retained, according to the hospital.

Shanghai has sent its largest ever batch of medical professionals&nbsp;to Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus.&nbsp;A total of 513 medical staff from six hospitals left for Wuhan. Officials shared that doctors were waiting for such an order, prepared with their luggage and protective outfits.&nbsp;Local hospitals received an order from the central government on Sunday night and called for doctors and nurses willing to go to the frontline. So far, over 1,500 local doctors, nurses and support staff have gone to Wuhan.

China reported a dramatic drop in new cases in the province at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday. Central Hubei province had 349 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, down from 1,693 a day earlier and lowest since January 25. The death toll rose by 108, down from 132 the previous day, bringing to total in China to over 2,100 deaths and 74,000 cases. Scientists, however, have reported the new virus may spread even more easily than previously believed.

Eating a diet of junk food for just one week was enough to damage a part of the brain that signals&nbsp;overeating, suggests a new research by experts at Macquarie University in Sydney.&nbsp;Researchers found that after seven days on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers in their 20s scored worse on memory tests.&nbsp;The findings suggest that a junk food diet makes it harder for people to regulate their appetite and damage to the 'hippocampus'&nbsp;is a possible cause.&nbsp;The hippocampus normally stops us from binging on more food when we are full by suppressing memories of how tasty it is. The phenomenon has been demonstrated for the first time in humans, say researchers.&nbsp;

According to health officials and data from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention,&nbsp;more than 80% of the coronavirus cases have been mild, with the sick and elderly most at risk. Officials studied&nbsp;more than 44,000 cases of the virus in the biggest study since the outbreak began.&nbsp;The research also points to the high risk to medical staff.&nbsp;The highest fatality rate - 14.8% - is for people aged 80 and older, say experts.&nbsp;The findings put the overall death rate of the Covid-19 virus at 2.3%.

Patients who have recovered from the coronavirus outbreak,&nbsp; are donating their plasma to aid those in serious conditions across China, according to a state media. The&nbsp;National Health Commission stated that convalescent plasma therapy is an important method for effectively treating patients with severe and critical symptoms.&nbsp;The government has called upon cured patients to donate plasma as initial results had indicated the effectiveness of convalescent plasma-derived therapeutic products in curing infected patients in critical conditions.

Gyms and restaurants are mostly deserted in China as millions of people choose to or are forced to stay indoors because of the coronavirus epidemic.&nbsp;Business owners are looking for ways to keep themselves busy till customers venture back.&nbsp;According to a Reuters report, livestreaming&nbsp;has become one of the biggest trends to hit the fitness industry in China&nbsp;with gyms going online to help keep residents fit. A majority of these classes are being offered for free. Most gym owners didn't anticipate that the suspension of business was going to last so long, currently at over three weeks and it is likely to&nbsp;continue to the end of the month.

Death toll from deadly coronavirus has crossed 2000. China&rsquo;s National Health Commission said there was a total of 74,185 confirmed cases as of Tuesday and 2,004 people have died so far. Hubei province reported an additional 132 deaths and 1,693 newly confirmed cases related to the pneumonia-like coronavirus as of the end of Tuesday.&nbsp;Most of the fatalities in Hubei occurred in the city of Wuhan, where the disease was first detected in late December.

According to reports, the&nbsp;Tianjin University of China has developed a rapid diagnosis&nbsp;kit that can identify coronavirus infections&nbsp;in just 15 minutes.&nbsp;The kit has been developed in collaboration with Beijing Biotech company, reportedly.&nbsp;A 'fast test card' detects the virus and could accelerate&nbsp;on-site screening.&nbsp;The kit is undergoing clinical trials and will be sent to the health regulator for approval.

In a bid to encourage blood donations, a restaurant in Mangaluru&nbsp;offers 'free biryani' to those who donate blood. Utada Mane works in collaboration with the KMC blood bank and has been conducting this drive for the last&nbsp;six years. This year too, they organised a blood donation camp from the 8th to the 14th of February and encouraged visitors to participate.&nbsp;

The Director-General of the World Health Organization shared in a recent conference in Geneva that the organisation&nbsp;is working day and night to combat the deadly coronavirus. From training health workers to sending testing kits to labs across the globe and ensuring regular supply from manufacturers, the organisation stated that they have a window of opportunity but need the resources now.&nbsp;He also said that as more data comes in from China, officials are beginning to understand the outbreak, how it's developing and where it could be headed.

Fast food companies in China like&nbsp;McDonald&rsquo;s and Starbucks have set up &ldquo;contactless&rdquo; pickup and delivery services to keep their workers and customers safe amid the deadly coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak.&nbsp;Customers can order remotely and employees seal the meals in bags and put them in a special spot for pickup without human contact. For delivery orders, drivers drop packages at building entrances, disinfect their delivery bags and wash their hands more frequently. All delivery people have their temperature taken daily as fever is one of the main symptoms of infection.&nbsp;Starbucks suggests customers order coffee via its app and then wait outside its caf&eacute;s until they get a pick-up notice.&nbsp;If they do enter Starbucks locations, customers have their temperature taken at the door.&nbsp;

Th National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States has revealed new, detailed images of the novel coronavirus as seen under laboratory&nbsp;microscopes.&nbsp;The digitally colorized images illustrate the crown-like appearance of the virus and show&nbsp;how the virus replicates and emerges from the surface of cells.&nbsp;The spikes on the surface of coronaviruses give this virus family its name &ndash; corona, which is Latin for &ldquo;crown". The deadly virus has killed over 1700 people and infected more than&nbsp;70,000 people globally.&nbsp;

A popular weight-loss drug&nbsp;Belviq, manufactured by a Japanese company Eisai Inc., has been voluntarily pulled off the shelves after the US Food and Drug Administration pointed out its risk in elevating cancer. While Eisai Inc disagreed with US FDA's analysis, they did undertake a voluntary recall. In a study, FDA found that 7.7% of people who took Belviq were diagnosed with cancer either of the lung or pancreas. The FDA, however, clarified that there was no need to get screened for cancer for whoever took belviq as the risk was for those with extended use of the drug. The drug is often used by people with a Body Mass Index of 30 and above.&nbsp;

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.

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