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IS DEPRESSION AFFECTING THE MAJORITY OF PUBLIC HEALTH?

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Depression is one of the leading causes in the Public Health which is spreading worldwide in a rapid manner. Depression is often related with other chronic diseases and can worsen their associated health outcomes. On overall Health Status, studies have explored the effect of depression, alone or as a group. A study on adults was conducted by the World Health Survey (WHS) aged 18 years and older to obtain data for health, health-related outcomes, and their determinants. An algorithm, known as, Diagnostic Item Probability study was used to estimate the Prevalence values for four chronic physical diseases namely angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes. The Mean health scores were constructed using factor analysis where the data’s were compared across different disease states and demographic variables. Regression Modelling was used to determine the relation of the disease states and mean health scores. Participants from 60 countries, all around the world, were availabl
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Has the Economic growth of Medical Tourism developed rapidly?

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  One of the fastest growing economies in the Healthcare industry is the Medical Tourism. Medical tourism holds the centre of attraction for both the developed and developing nations; it also gives an economic boost to not only developed countries but also small or deprived regions, which proves to be an excellent region for the traditional Medicine. The main impact of medical tourism is it contributes greatly to the government by generating millions of revenues by the direct foreign exchange earnings. It also offers employment and business opportunities to the local people and the start-up entrepreneurs in the Healthcare industry.                                    The growth of medical tourism has been rapidly spreading worldwide which on the other hand also helps in generating either direct employment which includes jobs, such as taxi services, hotels, restaurants, etc or indirect employment such as the goods being delivered and also various other services required by the w
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Break Through in the Nutrition and Health

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In Nutrition and Health, Food safety has become one of the vital factors for the enrichment and quality of the food that is being developed these days. Small peptides and toxins can largely affect the food materials by disrupting the receptors or the enzymes present. This can affect in either form, such as internal or external forms. In order to avoid these contaminations and diseases, food safety management has developed various detection techniques which are capable of detecting various toxins and chemicals. Although, the factors such as sensitivity, specificity, etc is being detected by using the Atomic Force Microscopy. It is one of the widest nanotechnologies for imaging and measurements in biophysics and biology. Its high sensitivity in probing specific, single-molecule binding between molecules is applicable to food toxin detection. Elevating the ability to evaluate food quality and safety in a rapid, sensitive and reliable manner is of great importance in food industry.
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AI applications in Healthcare

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AI applications in Healthcare The field of health AI is far-reaching and covers a large area from wellness to diagnostics to operational technologies.                                                        The fields that are developed are listed accordingly: ·          AI-assisted robotic surgery . In orthopaedic surgery, a form of AI-assisted robotics can analyse data from pre-op medical records to physically guide the surgeon’s instrument in real-time during a procedure. It can also use data from actual surgical experiences to inform new surgical techniques. ·          AI-powered virtual nurse assistants have enormous potential in helping patients. The recently developed AI named Sensely’s “Molly” is an AI-powered nurse avatar being used by UCSF and the UK’s NHS to interact with patients, ask those questions about their health, assess their symptoms, and directs them to the most effective care setting. ·          Errors and fraud also pose a dangerous issue for heal
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Recent Advances in Drug Development

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                                                                          One in eight women is being diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime .Chemotherapy, which is one of the most followed therapy for cancer results in destroying the First –line cancer DNA-creating proteins, but BRCA genes have a backup plan that repairs the DNA and is carried out by poly-ADP-ribose polymerases (PARPs). The new class of breast cancer drug Abemaciclib , which belongs to CDK4/6 inhibitors have shown the most positive effect on metastatic breast cancer, especially in HER2+ breast cancers .This was designed as the breakthrough therapy Abemaciclib and is armed with certain advantages over its rivals. The clinical studies results have put Abemaciclib roughly on par with its competitors in the first-line setting. Side effects that occurred in 20% or more of patients in studies were diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, leukopenia. Verzenio is another type of medicine which is used to treat a type
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Scalp Cooling – An aiding principle in cancer? One of the fatal disease that kills half of the nation’s population is” Cancer”. Patients who are newly diagnosed by cancer are put in a situation where they must undergo a lot and the toughest part is the loss of hair. The inevitable loss of hair is often one of the hardest that most of the women undergo. New technology has raised in US where the researchers were looking forward to eliminating this problem from several patient’s lists of worries. The principle of “ Scalp Cooling ” majorly works by reducing the temperature of the scalp a few degrees immediately before, during and after chemotherapy has been shown to be highly effective for preserving hair in women receiving neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer.                                                                  The hair loss prevention system in this study uses cooling fluid to keep the helmet and scalp cold, causing cutaneous vas
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Another breakthrough in 3D printing technology?

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The recent breakthrough in the field of stem cell technology is that, for the first time, researchers developed a customized low-cost 3D printer to print electronics on a real hand. This technology could be used by soldiers on the battlefield to print temporary sensors on their bodies to detect chemical or biological agents or solar cells to charge essential electronics which will be one of the driving factors. Researchers also successfully printed biological cells on the skin wound of a mouse where the principle of the technique lies in developing new medical treatments for wound healing and direct printing of grafts for skin disorders. One of the major advancement of the new 3D-printing technique is that this printer can adjust to small movements of the body during printing. The skin is scanned by placing temporary markers on the skin. The printer uses computer vision to adjust to movements in real-time. This 3D-printing technique also includes a rare feature where it uses
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