by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 1, 2020 | Health and Medicine
As per a study published in the journal science in October 2020, both cases and deaths due to Covid-19 are mainly concentrated in the 40-69 year age group in India than in seen in high-income countries. The study, which included researchers from Government of Tamil...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 30, 2020 | Health and Medicine
As per a new study, published in the medical journal The Lancet in October 2020, air pollution, high blood pressure, tobacco use, poor diet, and high blood sugar were the top five risk factors for deaths in India in 2019. The latest disease estimates, which are part...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 27, 2020 | Health and Medicine
A study conducted at two eye care centres—Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai and Sankara Netheralaya, Chennai—and published in JAMA Ophthalmology in March 2020, showed that the artificial intelligence’s (AI) performance exceeded the conventionally used manual grading...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 27, 2020 | Health and Medicine
As per the media reports in April 2020, a study published in Nature, conducted by Ajith Vasanthakumar, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Peter Doherty, Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Australia, finds crucial differences in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 27, 2020 | Health and Medicine
A study conducted by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in March 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that an enzyme, SITRI, which is associated with regulation of metabolic activities and ageing, is directly...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 18, 2020 | Health and Medicine
bats are among mammals, which carry the highest number of zoonotic viruses that spread from animals to humans. The Wuhan coronavirus of 2019 is yet another bat-borne virus that has caused an outbreak bearing striking similarities to the Sars outbreak of 2002. The...
