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Teas to help you unwind after a long day
Tea offers a number of other advantages, including the ability to de-stress and relax you. Starting and ending your day with a cup of tea can prove to be very relaxing. Tea has a lot of health benefits and only a few ingredients to make it tasty. Antioxidants in tea are beneficial in the battle against inflammation. It's even been found to help with blood vessel hardening prevention.
Omicron can survive 8 days on plastic, 21 hours on skin: Study
The study posted on pre-print, and not peer-reviewed yet, analysed the differences in viral environmental stability between the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain and all variants of concern (VOCs). The findings showed that on plastic and skin surfaces, Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants exhibited more than two-fold longer survival times than those of the Wuhan strain and maintained infectivity for more than 16 hours on the skin surfaces.
Why Omicron variant is less severe than Delta
Now, a new study has shown that Omicron variant viruses are particularly sensitive to inhibition by the so-called interferon response, an unspecific immune response that is present in all body cells. The study, led by researchers from the University of Kent and the Goethe-University Frankfurt, provides the first explanation of why Covid-19 patients infected with the Omicron variant are less likely to experience severe disease.
Pfizer, CornoaVac vax linked to heart inflammation risk in adolescents
Despite low absolute risk, there is an increased relative risk of carditis -- a type of heart inflammation -- associated with Covid vaccine developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and China's CoronaVac, researchers have found. The findings, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, show a significant increased risk in adolescents after the second dose. Patients who received Pfizer were three times more likely to experience carditis than unvaccinated patients.
90% people lost some degree of vision due to pandemic: Experts
Retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy or age-related macular degeneration have few or minor symptoms at first and are only detected by eye examination or screening.
These conditions have the tendency to create severe damage to the eyes if not timely intervened with.
46% of girls under 15 anaemic in India: Report
The findings by SRL Diagnostics is based on a total of 8,57,003 haemoglobin tests conducted in the past 7 years, between January 2015 and November 2021. The study shows that 63 per cent of all samples, across all age groups of women, tested positive for anaemia. But in girls less than 15 years, the percentage of samples positive for anaemia was 46 per cent. Of these, 13 per cent were severely anaemic.
Pandemic causing 'generation-defining disruption' among children
In a research review from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, pediatrician Prof Sharon Goldfeld said children are facing a "generation-defining disruption" with public health restrictions and interventions, the Guardian reported.
Recipes to keep you warm this winter season
Winters mean hot chocolate, lots of chai and coffee... and snacks to go along with these. This also leads to gaining of those unwanted pounds..., OZiva, a leading clean, plant-based nutrition and wellness brand gets their their in-house dietician and nutritionist, Nidhi Shah, to share a few guilt free recipes to keep you warm this season.
50% of Covid infected may have lasting loss of smell: Study
From the early pandemic days, sudden loss of smell, or an impaired or distorted perception of odours, emerged as an unusual symptom of Covid. While some people recovered, for some the sense of smell never quite returned to normal.
Omicron's immune evasion behind rapid spread, say studies
The Omicron variant, first reported from South Africa and Botswana in late November, has now been detected in 171 countries so far. In many countries it has rapidly surged past other variants to become the dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain. The two studies show that the variant has achieved success despite causing viral levels in the body that are similar to -- or lower than -- those of its main competitor, the Delta variant, Nature reported.
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