If Health Ministry is indeed serious about promoting healthy dietary habits, why has it failed to introduce clear front-of-package labels to caution consumers of food products loaded with fat, sugar and/or salt, and nothing to regulate advertisements?.

RT @krishnamku: Drug combinations are resorted to by pharma to push up prices and offload unwanted medication. @jsa_india.Good blog by @la….

RT @RPrasad12: 17 lakh babies in India are born each year with birth defects, many of which are due to genetic conditions. 1 in 250 childre….

Most antihistamines as generics are inexpensive. But irrational combinations with montelukast sell at 2-4 the cost of an antihistamine alone. The drug combinations are nothing but a sinister way to profiteer from common conditions, writes @lancelot_pinto .

17 lakh babies in India are born each year with birth defects, many of which are due to genetic conditions. 1 in 250 children has a treatable genetic disease. Yet, genetic screening at birth is nonexistent in public sector, write @bani_jolly @vinodscaria.

Analysis of DNA from the teeth and bones of 1,313 ancient humans spanning 37,000 years unravelled the first direct genomic evidence that close contact with livestock dramatically increased humanity’s burden of infectious diseases (2/2).

The dawn of animal domestication 6,500 years ago unleashed a hidden epidemic crisis across Eurasia, with zoonotic diseases becoming more widespread about 5,000 years ago, @NirajRai3 writes (1/2).

At least 25 papers of a Chennai-based researcher have been retracted in recent months. It will not be surprising if more papers are retracted in the coming weeks and months as many of the papers listed on PubPeer have serious integrity issues .

2 studies confirm that enamel—highly mineralised, durable tissue that serves as an extraordinary molecular archive—is capable of preserving endogenous peptides far beyond the temporal limits of ancient DNA, which typically degrades within a million years.

RT @vinodscaria: Researchers at Sanger Institute in the UK have used genomic tools to unravel the chemotherapy mutograph in hematopoietic….

RT @vinodscaria: Chemotherapy is a double edged sword and while effective against a number of cancers, and often the first line of therapy….

17 of 23 individuals exposed to chemotherapy had far more genetic mutations than could be explained by normal aging. Eight unique mutational signatures were found only in the chemotherapy group; 4 of them were entirely new to science, writes @vinodscaria.

RT @SutirthDey: Announcing the 9th Edition of the online "Biostatistics: A User's Perspective" course. This will be an intuitive understan….

RT @nadalprop_: ‘F*ck it, I’m Rafael Nadal.’

RT @Wimbledon: No. Words. 🤯. #Wimbledon | @DjokerNole

RT @RajeevJayadevan: Is there a link between sudden deaths and COVID vaccines? I discuss the published evidence pertaining to the topic, wh….

There’s no evidence linking COVID vaccines to sudden deaths. COVID-19 itself has a significant cardiovascular risk, even years after recovery, vis-a-vis reduced risk of subsequent cardiovascular events, deaths after COVID vaccines, writes @RajeevJayadevan.

For the first time, researchers have sequenced the whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date. The body belongs to an adult male — 157.4-160.5 cm tall, & 44-64 years old.

Inspired by Ahmedabad’s success, >130 cities in India have developed Heat Action Plans. A variety of heat-mitigation strategies have also been implemented. Yet, significant challenges remain in addressing heatwave-related problems, @ajaynagpure writes.

Previous genetic studies had proposed that Sinhalese had migrated from northern or northwest India to Sri Lanka. But a recent study has found that the genetic ancestries in Adivasi & Sinhalese are similar to Dravidian speaking people in South India .