WASHINGTON — In a randomized and placebo-controlled study, researchers from Karolinska Institute showed that patients with vitamin D deficiency who received vitamin D supplements had a reduced need for pain relief and lower fatigue levels in palliative cancer treatment. Published in the scientific journal Cancers, the study said that vitamin D deficiency is common among patients with cancer in the palliative phase. “The majority of studies found a protective relationship between sufficient vitamin D status and lower risk of cancer,” states the study. “The evidence suggests that efforts to improve vitamin D status, for example by vitamin D supplementation, could reduce cancer…
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WASHINGTON — A team of researchers compared how consuming the single amino acid leucine or its two-molecule equivalent, dileucine, influenced muscle-building and breakdown. The study was done choosing ten random but healthy young guys. The findings made by the researchers said that dileucine boosts the metabolic processes that drive muscle growth 42 percent more than free leucine does. The findings were published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Leucine, isoleucine, and valine are all branched-chain amino acids, famous among bodybuilders and health enthusiasts for their purported muscle-enhancing benefits. Like other amino acids, they are the building blocks of proteins. But leucine also…
NEW YORK — Light therapy helps heal burn injuries faster by triggering growth protein, a new study by the University at Buffalo has revealed. The study was published in an online peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports. Burn injuries are estimated to affect over 6 million people every year worldwide. These injuries cause significant morbidity (infections and scarring) and mortality associated with burn injuries, as per the researchers. “Aggressive clinical management guidelines have been developed based on the severity of burns, such as total body surface area, depth, and co-morbidities,” as per the study. “These strategies focus explicitly on the fundamental burn injury pathophysiology that evokes a range of…
LONDON — Indian fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition from the United Kingdom to India on mental health grounds. High Court judge Martin Chamberlain ruled that Nirav Modi should be given a “substantial hearing” to appeal against an earlier ruling at Westminster Magistrate’s Court in London. The court allowed the appeal because returning to India would harm his mental health and place him at risk of suicide. The Westminster court deemed Nirav Modi fit to be returned to India to face the charges of defrauding an Indian bank, the Punjab National Bank, of around $2 billion and…
NEW DELHI — The Indian parliamentary standing committee for transport, tourism, and culture (including the civil aviation ministry) is expected to take up the increasing fare cost between India and the United Kingdom. Rapid Covid-19 testing cost at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in capital Delhi is also on the agenda of the discussion. The committee will summon a representative from the civil aviation ministry in an upcoming meeting in connection with India-UK one-way airfares skyrocketing upwards of INR 4 lakh ($5,376.16) and the INR 5,000 ($67.20) steeply-priced RT-PCR (rapid polymerase chain reaction test) for United Arab Emirates passengers. T.G. Venkatesh, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing…
Searchers have found the remains of a Russian bomber that were scattered on the ground for decades. The World War II-era craft was discovered on a remote island 70 years after it vanished midflight during a storm in 1950. The wreck was found after two years of fieldwork by the AviaPoisk search association and representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense. They determined that the crash site was on Russia’s largest island, Sakhalin, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago. It is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. The AviaPoisk search group, founded in 2007, is an association of people…
NEW DELHI — The upper house of the Indian parliament, the Rajya Sabha, on Aug. 9 passed a bill, The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021, that seeks to do away with the retrospective tax provision—which has hit India’s prospects as an investment destination. India modified its tax laws in 2012 to make them effective from 1962, using this clause to levy backdated tax charges on Cairn and Vodafone. India also raised retrospective tax demands on other firms, including French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi. The new bill will impact the pending retrospective tax cases like that of Cairn Energy and Vodafone. The bill…
NEW DELHI — Indian investment information and credit rating agency ICRA said that satellite communication would play a prominent role in the country’s broadband inclusion. ICRA, originally named Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited, measures debt instruments issued by corporate entities, commercial banks, non-banking finance companies, financial institutions, and the public sector. “Satellite communication will remain crucial for broadband inclusion of a lot of remote and sparsely populated areas which have not been connected through the terrestrial networks,” said Sabyasachi Majumdar, Group Head and Senior Vice-President at ICRA. “Several foreign players are eying this market and have launched/are…
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The wait for the vaccine for the elderly in Nepal is over. They can now get the second dose of the Covid vaccine after waiting for more than four months. About 8.4 percent of Nepal’s population have been inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine. In contrast, 15.145 percent have received a total dosage of anti-Covid-19 vaccine till Aug. 9, as per Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population data. Baburam Nagarkoti, aged 80, struggled to reach a nearby vaccination center because of poor infrastructure. He was also suffering from paralysis and prolonged asthma illness. But, all troubles vanished…
NEW DELHI — The Indian government on Aug. 9 announced that foreign nationals residing in India could receive their Covid-19 vaccine in the country. The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare allowed foreign nationals residing in India to register on the CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network), the country’s vaccine registration portal, to receive their jab. Foreign nationals can use their passport as identity proof for registration on the CoWIN portal, the ministry said. India has administered over 500 million vaccine doses across the country, as of Aug. 9, the ministry said. “A significant number of foreign nationals are living in India, especially in…