WASHINGTON — Do reading clinical outpatient visit notes affect patients? A new study has assessed how patients with multiple chronic conditions perceived the benefits and risks of the increased transparency offered by open visit notes. The findings of the study were published in the ‘Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.’ As of April 2021, federal law requires US healthcare organizations to provide patients with access to their electronic health records, including outpatient visit notes. Previous studies have shown that patients who read their visit notes report feeling more in control of their care, remembering their care plan better, and trusting their clinicians more.…
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PHILADELPHIA — Decades of research on dieting have been re-evaluated in a new study to redefine how researchers and the public define and understand dieting and weight-loss culture. The findings of the study were published in the journals “Appetite” and “Physiology and Behavior”. The research was conducted by Michael Lowe, Ph.D., a professor in Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences. For decades, there has been an accepted definition of dieting in academia and society. As per Lowe, the most pressing problem is not dieting itself but the collision of the modern food environment with our immutable evolutionary heritage that drives us to find and consume…
NEW DELHI — In an interim order, the Supreme Court of India on Aug. 18 allowed female candidates to take the exam for the National Defence Academy, the joint defense service training institute of the Indian Armed Forces established in 1954. The court’s order came on a plea seeking directions to allow eligible female candidates to join the National Defence Academy and the Indian Naval Academy at par with the men. For around 66 years, Indian women have not been allowed to appear for the joint defense training institute exams. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Hrishikesh Roy said female candidates…
MOSCOW — Russia on Aug. 18 announced that its one-shot Sputnik Light vaccine demonstrated 93.5 percent efficacy and high levels of safety against Covid-19 after use in Paraguay. “The one-shot Sputnik Light vaccine has proven to be highly effective against Covid among more than 320,000 subjects who had received the vaccine based on the data collected by July 30, 2021,” the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in an official release. “Thanks to its safety and efficacy, single-component Sputnik Light vaccine is now both used on (a) standalone basis and also studied in combination with vaccines from other producers in several…
NEW DELHI — Amid rising global security concerns, India’s defense minister Rajnath Singh has strongly pitched for a completely self-reliant defense industry. He spoke after launching the Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0, an initiative under the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) that acts as an umbrella organization to promote technology development for the defense sector. Addressing the event, Singh said the Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0 was another step towards self-reliance in the defense sector, fitting the spirit of freedom in the country’s independence week. “The launch of Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0 will be a massive leap towards leveraging the startup…
NEW DELHI — India’s National Cabinet on Aug. 18 gave its nod to an INR-11,040 crore ($1.48-billion) scheme, called National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), to reduce dependence on imported edible oils. “Today’s Cabinet decision will be a game-changer when it comes to helping oil palm farmers and creating an Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India),” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet. “The northeast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands will especially benefit from this,” he said. Of the total financial outlay for the scheme, INR 8,844 crore ($1.18 billion) would be the central government’s contribution, and INR 2,196 crore…
PANAJI, India — Business and tourism representative bodies of western Indian state Goa, on Aug. 17, urged the state’s chief minister Pramod Sawant to resume international charter flights to revive tourism. Tourism, the most adversely affected sector during the Covid-19 pandemic, is one of Goa’s major revenue-generating industries. The tourism industry employs over 40 million skilled and trained manpower and generates about $29 billion foreign exchange per annum, according to the organizations. The Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industries (GCCI) and Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) made a joint representation to the chief minister. They said that a complete closure of international flights and…
WASHINGTON — It is a popular notion that when putting together a team for a project, leaders might pick people with cheerful, optimistic dispositions and flexible thinking. However, contrary to that belief, the team might also benefit from people who are exactly the opposite, as per a new management study conducted by experts at Rice University, the University of Western Australia, Bond University, and the University of Queensland. The paper titled “Feeling differently, creating together: Affect heterogeneity and creativity in project teams,” published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, is among the first research to reveal how, why and under…
MUMBAI, India — Netflix’s new upcoming anthology “Ankahi Kahaniya” will chronicle “three unheard and untold tales of love.” Directed by filmmakers Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Abhishek Chaubey, and Saket Chaudhary, the anthology is set to release on Sept. 17, 2021. “Ankahi Kahaniya” features an ensemble cast of Abhishek Banerjee, Zoya Hussain, Kunal Kapoor, Nikhil Dwivedi, Palomi Ghosh, Rinku Rajguru, and Delzad Hiwale. Tiwari, known for her films like “Bareilly Ki Barfi,” “Nil Battey Sannata,” and others, will return with a tale of love that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. It stars Banerjee with the story credited to Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, and Nitesh Tiwari.…
MUMBAI, India — “Helmet” starring actors Aparshakti Khurana and Pranutan Bahl will premiere on the streaming platform Zee5 on Sept. 3, 2021. Satram Ramani directs the film with a screenplay and dialogues by Rohan Shankar. The film is a quirky depiction of the entrenched taboos and diffidence surrounding the simple act of buying condoms. Sony Pictures Networks Productions and actor Dino Morea’s DM Movies have produced the upcoming film. “This is a film which has been made with a sense of humor with a sweet message,” said Morea speaking about the upcoming film. “I am also excited about the wonderfully talented ensemble cast, the refreshing storytelling by…