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BY VISHAL GULATINew Delhi, Feb 7 : A massive flood in Uttarakhand's Joshimath area on Sunday is a rare incident of a glacial burst, and may be "a climate

Gene panel test enables highly accurate diagnosis of liposarcomas Researchers have leveraged the latest advances in RNA technology and machine learning methods to develop a gene panel test that allows for highly accurate diagnosis of the most common types of liposarcoma. It quickly and reliably distinguishes benign lipomas from liposarcomas and can be performed in laboratories at a lower cost than current "gold standard" tests. The new assay is described in The Journal of Molecular Diagnosis, ...

School gardens may get children to eat more vegetables Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but nutrition researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found one way: school gardens and lessons on using whats grown in them. Researchers worked with 16 elementary schools across Central Texas to install vegetable gardens and teach classes to students and parents about nutrition and cooking. In a study recently published in the International Journa...

Study reveals a deep digital health divide within the older population The COVID-19 pandemic is a great example of the importance of access to the Internet and to digital health information. Unfortunately, historical disparities in health care appear to be reflected in computer ownership, access to the Internet and use of digital health information. However, few studies have qualitatively explored reasons for digital health information disparity, especially in older adults. A study led by Flori...

Decision-support tool may help clinicians to appropriately treat children with diarrhea A decision-support tool that could be accessed via mobile devices may help clinicians in lower-resource settings avoid unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for children with diarrhea, a study published today in eLife shows. The preliminary findings suggest that incorporating real-time environmental, epidemiologic, and clinical data into an easy-to-access, electronic tool could help clinicians appropriately ...

Automated method identifies and tracks harmful tau deposits involved in Alzheimers disease Amyloid-beta and tau are the two key abnormal protein deposits that accumulate in the brain during the development of Alzheimers disease, and detecting their buildup at an early stage may allow clinicians to intervene before the condition has a chance to take hold. A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has now developed an automated method that can identify and track the deve...

"This is the last thing you need to worry about," Fan told The Associated Press. Storms trigger giant waves in the sea, which cause another type of wave. These secondary waves then interact with the seafloor — but only in certain places — and that causes the shaking, Fan said. It only happens in places where theres a large continental shelf and shallow flat land. Fans team found 14,077 stormquakes between September 2006 and February 2015 in the Gulf of Mexico and off Florida, New England, N...

NZ reacts to major climate report Newsroom 31/01/2021 Greenpeace calls it “underwhelming”, while the National Party urges caution. David Williams reports Like most others, Greenpeace campaigner Steve Abel has only started reading the Climate Change Commission’s report this afternoon. But that’s been long enough to form a view on its agricultural section. “It’s going to sound brutal - but pretty underwhelming, to be honest,” he says. “Certainly in regard to the ag stuff it bare...

Obesity may contribute toward neural tissue vulnerability, exacerbate Alzheimers disease New research from the University of Sheffield has found being overweight is an additional burden on brain health and it may exacerbate Alzheimers disease. The pioneering multimodal neuroimaging study revealed obesity may contribute toward neural tissue vulnerability, whilst maintaining a healthy weight in mild Alzheimers disease dementia could help to preserve brain structure. The findings, published in Th...

Scientists develop a computational approach to understand how infants perceive language Languages differ in the sounds they use. The Japanese language, for example, does not distinguish between "r" and "l" sounds as in "rock" versus "lock." Remarkably, infants become attuned to the sounds of their native language before they learn to speak. One-year-old babies, for example, less readily distinguish between "rock" and "lock" when living in an environment where Japanese, rather than English, is s...