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Too Much Salt In Your Diet Can Weaken Your Immune System
Mar 27, 2020 09:34 ISTAdding too much salt to your food? This can affect your immune system says new study. As per researchers, eating too much salty diet weakens your immune system and makes it harder for your body to fight off bacterial infections. -
Coronavirus: UN Chief Warns Of Losing COVID-19 War
Mar 27, 2020 10:52 ISTCoronavirus outbreak: He asked for massive stimulus to minimize the social and economic impact of the pandemic, and for support for developing countries in increasing their response capacity. -
Taking Hot Bath Daily Good For Your Heart
Mar 26, 2020 09:43 ISTAccording to researchers regular hot tub bathing is linked to a lower risk of mortality from heart disease and stroke. -
Eat Tofu Daily And Cut Your Heart Disease Risk; Know Other Health Benefits
Mar 24, 2020 09:44 ISTTofu health benefits: If you want a healthy heart, eat tofu daily as eating food that contain higher amounts of isoflavones is linked to a moderately lower risk of heart disease -
COVID-19 Virus Stays For 3 Days On Plastic, Stainless Steel
Mar 23, 2020 08:18 ISTCoronavirus: According to studies, the virus that causes COVID-19 can remain for several hours to days on surfaces and in aerosols. -
This Scientist Pioneered Handwashing Practice 173 Years Ago
Mar 20, 2020 01:47 ISTDr Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in clinics. -
Coronavirus Does Not Spread From Pregnant Mothers To Newborns: Study
Mar 16, 2020 03:31 ISTCoronavirus: Chinese researchers have revealed that viral infection is not transmittable from pregnant mothers to newborns at birth. -
Coronavirus: Telangana Shuts Schools, Bans Public Gatherings
Mar 15, 2020 09:59 ISTCoronavirus: Telangana government has ordered closure of all educational institutions and banned public gatherings till March 31 as a precautionary move to check spread of coronavirus. -
Coronavirus: India Reports Second COVID-19 Death; 68-Year-Old Delhi Woman Dies
Mar 14, 2020 09:02 ISTCoronavirus: According to the ministry, the deceased woman had a history of contact with a positive case. Her son who had travelled to Switzerland and Italy between February 5 to February 22 and had returned to India on February 23 and was asymptomatic after he returned to the country. -
Karnataka Begins COVID-19 Containment Steps After 1st Corona Death
Mar 13, 2020 05:32 ISTCoronavirus: A Government statement on Thursday night said the man died due to comorbidity and has also tested positive for COVID-19. It is the first death reported due to coronavirus in India. -
Swapping Red Meat With Plant Foods Can Lead To Longer Life
Mar 10, 2020 10:02 ISTThe study was presented in a meeting at the 'American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention, Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2020' in the US. -
Delhi Weather Conducive For COVID-19, South India At 'Low Risk'
Mar 6, 2020 02:34 IST"The environment plays an important role in determining the survivability and spreadability of the virus. Coronavirus tend to grow more in low temperature and humidity," says Dr Rajesh Chawla. -
Antioxidant Supplements Not Effective In Improving Male Fertility, Study Finds
Mar 2, 2020 05:43 ISTAntioxidant supplements are commercially available to help treat male infertility, but research on its effects on semen quality and rates of pregnancy and live birth are limited. -
Multiple Courses Of Antibiotics Can Make People More Sick
Mar 2, 2020 05:16 ISTPatients who had two antibiotic prescriptions were 1.23 times more likely, patients who had three to four prescriptions 1.33 times more likely and patients who had five to eight 1.77 times more likely to go to hospital with another infection, the study found.
