Indian Man injects Ex-Wife with HIV-Positive Blood

An Indian man is reported to have injected his ex-wife with HIV-positive blood. The incident happened in Gujarat and it is believed to have been a case of revenge after she refused to live with him. According to the Indian police officials, the accused identified as Shankar Kamble, aged 35, was arrested following his former wife’s complaint. Shankar Kamble used […]

People sleep the least from early 30s to early 50s

People sleep less in mid-adulthood than they do in early and late adulthood, finds a new study led by UCL, University of East Anglia and University of Lyon researchers. Sleep duration declines in early adulthood until age 33, and then picks up again at age 53, according to the findings published in Nature Communications. The study, involving 730,187 participants spread over […]

10 Top Lip Balms to have in Your Bag

A lip balm is not just a beauty product, it is a necessity. The skin on our lips is certainly not the same as the skin on the rest of our faces. For one thing, the skin on our lips is a lot thinner, approximately 3-5 cell layers thick, while the skin on the rest of the face is up […]

Treating COVID-19 infection with molnupiravir does not decrease deaths or hospital admission in high-risk, vaccinated patients, but can lead to quicker recovery

Molnupiravir (taken as an 800mg dose twice daily for five days) does not reduce hospital admissions or deaths in vaccinated adults with COVID-19 infection who are at higher risk of mortality, according to the results of a randomised controlled trial, published in The Lancet journal. However, the patients treated at home with molnupiravir recovered quicker compared to the control group. Previous studies […]

Can the AI driving ChatGPT help to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease?

The artificial intelligence algorithms behind the chatbot program ChatGPT — which has drawn attention for its ability to generate humanlike written responses to some of the most creative queries — might one day be able to help doctors detect Alzheimer’s Disease in its early stages. Research from Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems recently demonstrated that […]

Treating gut pain via a Nobel prize-winning receptor

Targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain associated with gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome. A team examining the colon, led by Professor Hongzhen Hu at Washington University and Professor Nick Spencer at Flinders University, […]