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• Kids with Covid remain infectious for average 3 days: Indian-origin scientists

  Children infected with the Omicron variant remained infectious for a median time of three days after testing positive for the virus, Indian-origin scientists have found.

  

• 9 million elderly Indians have dementia: Study

  This figure is notably higher than previous estimates, which had put the prevalence at 3.7 million, and underscores the pressing need for better care and support for those living with the condition. The prevalence of dementia in J&K is the highest in the country at 11%. While most of the samples were collected from Kashmir, experts believe there is scope for more detailed study to gauge if the region’s decades-long political turbulence had a role.

  

• Our faculty member is trying to develop a portable MRI machine that can be taken home: Yannis Yortsos, Viterbi School of Engg., Univ. of Southern California

  USC's Biomedical Engineering department allows the School of Engineering to partner with the School of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Dentistry, and the School of Gerontology. The boundaries between medicine and biomedical engineering are becoming less and less distinct, more and more diffused, and they're not sharp; they're not silos anymore.

  

• Low-calorie diet that mimics fasting in the body helps live longer, healthier life: Study

  One group of mice ate a high-calorie, high-fat diet (with 60% of their calories from fat) and became unhealthy and overweight. The second group of mice ate the same poor diet as the first one for approximately 4 weeks, followed by five days where they were fed an FMD and two days of a normal, healthy diet.

  

• Fasting diet with hormone therapy may help treat breast cancer, study explains

  In studies on mice and in two small breast cancer clinical trials, researchers at USC and the IFOM Cancer Institute in Milan -- in collaboration with the University of Genova -- found that the fasting-mimicking diet reduces blood insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and leptin.

  

• New York survey suggests nearly 14% in state may have coronavirus antibodies

  While noting the small sample size of 3,000 people and other limitations of the survey, Cuomo said the implied fatality rate of 0.5% of those infected was lower than some experts feared.

  

• Scientists track link between wildlife and COVID-19 outbreak

  Bats are also believed to be the original source of Ebola virus outbreaks that infected people in Africa from 2014 to 2016, and in 1976. Scientists have found very strong genetic clues that COVID-19 originated with bats

  

• Children of opioid users more likely to attempt suicide: U.S. study

  The study in JAMA Psychiatry published by the American Medical Association found children whose parents were prescribed opioids were twice as likely to attempt suicide as the offspring of people who did not use those drugs.

  

• New prostate cancer prediction tool has unmatched accuracy

  A novel machine-learning framework that distinguishes between low- and high-risk prostate cancer with more precision than ever before has been developed by researchers, including one of Indian origin.

  

• USC agrees to pay $215M to settle doctor sex abuse claims

  The tentative settlement, which needs a judge's approval, will provide compensation ranging from USD 2,500 up to USD 250,000 to women who say Dr. George Tyndall abused them between 1988 and 2016, USC Interim President Wanda Austin said in a statement .

  

• Novel brain implants may help boost memory

  Washington, Mar 28 () Scientists have developed and successfully implanted brain prosthetics that can improve a person's short term memory, an advance that may help manage neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.