Medical
Over 5 million Pakistani children to be obese by 2030
In absolute terms, the U.S. is expected to have 17 million obese children by 2030, the largest number after China and India . "Most people don't want to have excess weight but there shouldn't be a stigma against the individual". "People are expending less energy, becoming more sedentary and adopting a Western-style diet that's high in sugar, oil, starch and fat", said Dr Tim Lobstein, directo... [Full Article...]
There will be 250 million obese kids by 2030
However, the report says none of the participating countries would meet it-four out of five of them actually have a less than 10% chance of doing so. The number of obese children is predicted to soar exponentially as governments fail to adopt adequate policies to protect children's health in the face of commercial interests, according to a new report. [Full Article...]
Tetraplegic man walks using mind-controlled exoskeleton
Scientists have said that the technology is an experimental treatment for now, but once improved, it could have the potential to improve patients' lives. Electrode grids collected the man's brain signals and transmitted them to a decoding algorithm, which translated the signals into movements and commanded a robotic exoskeleton to complete them. [Full Article...]
Dads-to-be must stop drinking 6 months before conception
Alcohol is a known teratogen - substance that may cause birth defects by having a toxic effect on an embryo or foetus. The most common type of birth defect and among the biggest perinatal killers, these conditions affect almost 1 percent of babies in the U.S. [Full Article...]
Red meat and sausages may not cause cancer
In a comment on the Annals of Internal Medicine website, Public Health Officer Henning Ansor, of the Public Health Department in Santa Barbara County in the USA, said: "For the Annals to publish this article (and for the authors to even write it without concern for the environmental effects of food choices) shows, to what extent we as physicians, are out of touch with the real world". [Full Article...]
Lung Damage From Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns, New Report Says
You can form your own view. Of the 13 samples, says the Times , 13 were taken from men and four from women. Eleven were in Arizona, five in Minnesota and one in Florida. "They're scrambling to try and figure out so they can protect people", Sandi Pontius, a representative for Smoke Free St. Joe Coalition, said. "We were not surprised by what we found, regarding toxicity", says Dr. [Full Article...]
Phone app detects eye disease in kids through photos
Specialists have built up a CRADLE application (Computer Assisted Detector of Leukoria) for Android and iOS that utilizes AI to search for early indications of "white eye" appearance in photographs, alluding to conceivable retinoblastoma, cataracts, and different conditions. [Full Article...]
Volker said 'nothing' to support Democrats' impeachment inquiry, Rep. Jordan says
At a healthcare event in Florida, Trump said Democrats had launched the impeachment investigation because they could not beat him at the ballot box in 2020. When asked whether he thought anything was improper on the phone call, Pompeo said Wednesday that everything the Trump administration has done related to Ukraine has been "remarkably consistent" and focused on confronting the "threat that Ru... [Full Article...]