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  • Scientists have for the first time explained the mechanisms that the dengue virus has developed to optimise its ability to cause outbreaks as it travels across the globe to new places and revisits old ones. Dengue virus has been spreading throughout warm regions of the world, prompting the virus to adapt to new environments.

  • India and China suffer over USD 1.89 trillion annually in terms of the value of lives lost and ill health caused from air pollution, according to a report. Quoting OECD estimates, a new study published in The Lancet says, "The cost of ambient air pollution in terms of the value of lives lost and ill health in OECD countries, plus India and China, to be more than USD 3·5 trillion annually (about 5 per cent gross world product [GWP]), with India and China combined accounting for 54 per cent of this total."

  • (NewsVoir); 1mg.com, India’s leading m-health platform and ePharmacy network today launched its Diagnostic Test booking service, available through the popular “1mg” mobile app and 1mglabs.com. The m-health startup, which has over 3M downloads and is growing rapidly, has now added a new service to enable users to book wide-ranging diagnosis tests with some of the top quality certified laboratories, ensuring quality service. Presently, top labs like Metropolis, Oncquest, Thyrocare, Molecure, Wellness Pathcare etc are the partners, with plans to add more leading labs in the coming weeks. Currently, the service is available in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Thane, and Pune. Now, 1mg offers Pharmacy, Diagnostic and also Homeopathy products through its platform as it prepares to be the one point destination for all healthcare content, products and services.

  • On the occasion of the visit of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to India, the two countries have decided to expand their existing cooperation in the area of large scale cohort studies with a Joint Cohort study on HIV patients in India. "It is proposed that the joint cohort study will be carried out by various partners in both India and the Netherlands including Erasmus University Medical Centre (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), India, with support from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)," said an IAVI statement.

  • Prior knowledge impacts how the brain processes what we see, says a new study. From the smell of flowers to the taste of wine, our perception is strongly influenced by prior knowledge and expectations, a cognitive process known as 'top-down control'.  The study appears online in Nature Neuroscience.

  • The researchers from University of Colorado found that brain structures involved in reward, learning and executive control showed vast changes in women even after a prolonged period of abstinence from drug use. These brain areas are important for decision making, emotion, reward processing and habit formation. The paper published in the journal Radiology.

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