PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago’s chief selector, Tony Gray, believes Denesh Ramdin remains the best gloveman in the region, despite the rise of several other wicketkeepers in recent years. The 35-year-old Ramdin’s 217 Test...

THE LAST two months have been two of the worst in the life of former national netball star Nichala Gibson. She lives in New York City, the epicentre for the COVID-19 virus in the United States. Gibson and her sister suffered, then recovered from...

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Research suggests that gut bacteria may directly affect brain structure and function, offering new ways to treat multiple sclerosis and psychiatric conditions

Far from being silent partners that merely help to digest food, the bacteria in your gut may also be exerting subtle influences on your thoughts, moods, and behaviour. And according to a new study from researchers at University College Cork, your gut microbes might affect the structure and function of the brain in a more direct way, by regulating myelination, the process by which nerve fibres are insulated so that they can conduct impulses properly.

The surprising new findings, published today in the journal Translational Psychiatry, provide what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that gut bacteria can have a direct physical effect on the brain, and suggest that it may one day be possible to treat debilitating demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even psychiatric disorders, by altering the composition of the gut’s microbial menagerie in some way or another.

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Faces are important to us. From the moment we are are born, we prefer to look at faces than at other, inanimate objects, and, being social animals, we encounter faces every day of our lives. The face is the first thing we look to when identifying other people; faces also convey emotions, informing us of peoples’ mood, and from them we can usually determine a person’s sex and, sometimes, roughly how old they are. Eye movements can also reveal to us something about another person’s intentions.

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A study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that black subjects who were exposed to highly segregated neighborhoods in young adulthood exhibited worse performance in cognitive skills in mid-life.

There has been a surge in demand for spots in most regions as businesses reopen and parents go back to work. Daycare operators need to figure out how to shuffle around the children of essential workers. 

Lima, Peru, May 9, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Peruvian congresswoman Luz Milagros Cayguaray Gambini has demanded the country’s health minister provide the legal and scientific basis for a directive that would allow abortion when a pregnant woman is infected with the novel coronavirus.

Abortion is illegal in Peru except when pregnancy would cause death or permanent harm to a pregnant woman.

On April 22, Peru’s Minister of Health Victor Zamora issued a directive calling for provision of emergency contraception in the country, and allowing abortion for pregnant women who test positive for the coronavirus.

In a May 5 letter, Cayguaray demanded Zamora to “Indicate what the legal basis” is for the directive that allows doctors to “end the pregnancy,” if the mother has contracted COVID-19.

The legislator also challenged Zamora to indicate “the scientific and medical basis the norm is based upon.”

At issue is whether a positive test for coronavirus is sufficient to establish that a pregnancy threatens the life of a woman. Gambini says that assertion is unproven and unfounded.

Cayguaray has also written to Dr. Enrique Guevara Ríos, director of the country’s Perinatal Maternal Institute, asking him to report how many pregnant women with COVID-19 have been treated to date, “how many have had their pregnancies terminated,” “on what grounds,” and “what current regulation has been applied to carry out the interruption of those pregnancies.”

The Arequipa Doctors for Life Association has criticized the health directive in a statement.

"At this time in which all our efforts as a nation should be aimed at improving our precarious health system to mitigate the serious impact of the pandemic, the circumstances are being used to dictate measures that threaten the lives of Peruvians in their most vulnerable stage, life in the womb,” the group said.

Regarding the “morning after pill,” the group expressed surprise and concern “that the Ministry of Health promotes the irresponsible and reckless use of this drug in the general population and particularly for minors, and even worse, dispenses with obtaining the person’s medical history, which is an essential tool for the responsible practice of medicine, thus seriously exposing the users to danger."

Aborting a child because the mother has COVID-19, the doctors said “is contrary to the principles that govern medical practice, which must always be based on the application of therapies that are based on rigorous scientific studies and with respect to elementary ethical principles” which guide medical science in providing the best strategies to protect patients.

When a woman is pregnant “we have two patients to take care of, the mother and the unborn child," the doctors association stressed.

Concerning the babies themselves, five newborns whose mothers have COVID-19 were recently discharged from a government hospital in Peru. A sixth, also born of a coronavirus patient who is in serious condition in the intensive care unit, was born prematurely and remains hospitalized. None of the babies have tested positive for COVID-19.

In a May 5 interview with the El Comercio daily, Dr. César García Aste, who heads the hospital’s neonatology department, explained that there are strict protocols as to how the baby is to be fed in order to avoid infecting it.

A doctor from the hospital is assigned to follow up daily by phone on the baby’s condition for an average of 14 days, and “so far we haven’t had a problem with any of the five babies,” Garcia said.

 

A version of this story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news agency. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

 

A small Black Country, UK, church were blessed by the efforts of five young missionaries from different parts of the world.

Lima, Peru, May 9, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Peruvian congresswoman Luz Milagros Cayguaray Gambini has demanded the country’s health minister provide the legal and scientific basis for a directive that would allow abortion when a pregnant woman is infected with the novel coronavirus.

Abortion is illegal in Peru except when pregnancy would cause death or permanent harm to a pregnant woman.

On April 22, Peru’s Minister of Health Victor Zamora issued a directive calling for provision of emergency contraception in the country, and allowing abortion for pregnant women who test positive for the coronavirus.

In a May 5 letter, Cayguaray demanded Zamora to “Indicate what the legal basis” is for the directive that allows doctors to “end the pregnancy,” if the mother has contracted COVID-19.

The legislator also challenged Zamora to indicate “the scientific and medical basis the norm is based upon.”

At issue is whether a positive test for coronavirus is sufficient to establish that a pregnancy threatens the life of a woman. Gambini says that assertion is unproven and unfounded.

Cayguaray has also written to Dr. Enrique Guevara Ríos, director of the country’s Perinatal Maternal Institute, asking him to report how many pregnant women with COVID-19 have been treated to date, “how many have had their pregnancies terminated,” “on what grounds,” and “what current regulation has been applied to carry out the interruption of those pregnancies.”

The Arequipa Doctors for Life Association has criticized the health directive in a statement.

"At this time in which all our efforts as a nation should be aimed at improving our precarious health system to mitigate the serious impact of the pandemic, the circumstances are being used to dictate measures that threaten the lives of Peruvians in their most vulnerable stage, life in the womb,” the group said.

Regarding the “morning after pill,” the group expressed surprise and concern “that the Ministry of Health promotes the irresponsible and reckless use of this drug in the general population and particularly for minors, and even worse, dispenses with obtaining the person’s medical history, which is an essential tool for the responsible practice of medicine, thus seriously exposing the users to danger."

Aborting a child because the mother has COVID-19, the doctors said “is contrary to the principles that govern medical practice, which must always be based on the application of therapies that are based on rigorous scientific studies and with respect to elementary ethical principles” which guide medical science in providing the best strategies to protect patients.

When a woman is pregnant “we have two patients to take care of, the mother and the unborn child," the doctors association stressed.

Concerning the babies themselves, five newborns whose mothers have COVID-19 were recently discharged from a government hospital in Peru. A sixth, also born of a coronavirus patient who is in serious condition in the intensive care unit, was born prematurely and remains hospitalized. None of the babies have tested positive for COVID-19.

In a May 5 interview with the El Comercio daily, Dr. César García Aste, who heads the hospital’s neonatology department, explained that there are strict protocols as to how the baby is to be fed in order to avoid infecting it.

A doctor from the hospital is assigned to follow up daily by phone on the baby’s condition for an average of 14 days, and “so far we haven’t had a problem with any of the five babies,” Garcia said.

 

A version of this story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news agency. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

 

The North Central PA LaunchBox is driving collaborative relationships with and between local, regional and state organizations, as well as government, to drive economic development in the region.

Amended FDI regulation is problematic under the WTO law. India should adopt a more facially neutral regulation

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s UP government has announced to waive off mandi fee for 46 perishable fruits and vegetables.

Al Arabian Novel Factory is the sequel to Jasmine Days, the story of young radio jockey Sameera Parvin, an immigrant in the city from Pakistan, and her guitar-playing colleague Ali Fardan.

Every parent wants the best for their baby and therefore, it is imperative to take the right steps to ensure a safe an healthy delivery.

Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Retailers, architects, town planners have suggested Nitin Gadkari to allow malls resume operations, e-commerce operations for non-essential items, relief in rentals for retailers, extend moratorium period to nine months and more.

Tremors of the earthquake were felt in the afternoon in parts of Delhi and NCR right after a dust storm and rains lashed south and east Delhi. Authorities have not reported any damage to life and property yet.

A person was completed his SSLC on 98,There after +2 discontinued because of health,Then he applied UG degree through Annamalai university,A university announced without+2 will do UG Degree in year 2000 Open university stream he applied and successfully completed the same on 2003.. Then he completed PG. M.A, on same university distance mode Joined 2007 completed 2014 Due to some personal reason it took time to complete.. Mean while he applied and completed his MBA 2011 -2013 on same university Distance mode.. Now he interested to join LLB any where in India, or Tamil Nadu or south India is there any possibility to join . One more query is his degrees are valid for Central and State public services examination TNPSC.. Seeking your valuable reply here. Above degrees are approved by DEC,UGC, AICTE If so please share me G.O, Judgement copies for the same

Cadence is hosting a Front End Design Summit on Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:30am – 5:00pm at Cadence San Jose headquarters, 2655 Seely Avenue, Building 10. Logic designers will hear from customers including Cisco, Chelsio, PMC, Spansion, and Via Technologies...(read more)

This is an exploit for the chunked encoding buffer overflow described in MS03-051 and originally reported by Brett Moore. This particular modules works against versions of Windows 2000 between SP0 and SP3. Service Pack 4 fixes the issue.

This is an exploit for the chunked encoding buffer overflow described in MS03-051 and originally reported by Brett Moore. This particular modules works against versions of Windows 2000 between SP0 and SP3. Service Pack 4 fixes the issue.

RegLookup is a small command line utility for parsing and searching registry files from Windows NT and later.

RegLookup is a small command line utility for parsing and searching registry files from Windows NT and later.

RegLookup is a small command line utility for parsing and searching registry files from Windows NT and later.

European Union leaders backed the most-ambitious carbon emissions goals of any major economy, in a bid to crank up pressure on the U.S. and China ahead of climate talks in December.

U.S. electricity markets face years of higher prices as clean-air regulations shut more coal-fired power plants than earlier forecast, cutting supply and forcing producers to rely more on natural gas.

Earlier this month, when EPA proposed a new health-protective air quality standard for the pollutants that form “ozone,” some critics predictably pounced on it as another example of a long string of “job-killing EPA regulations.” Yet last week, we learned that the U.S. economy created about 320,000 new jobs in November, and average wages are starting to rise as the labor market tightens.

In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule to restrict the amount of carbon dioxide released from power plants. The rule calls for reducing carbon 30 percent by 2030 over 2005 levels. Many have praised the aggressive proposal, while others are less favorable.

U.S. electricity markets face years of higher prices as clean-air regulations shut more coal-fired power plants than earlier forecast, cutting supply and forcing producers to rely more on natural gas.

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Evidence from low- and middle-income countries suggests that digital and mobile communication technology can improve management of diseases.

The post Mobile technology can improve access to healthcare in Nigeria – if it’s regulated appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State says he has no regrets revealing the identity of the state’s COVID-19 index case, Mrs. Susan Okpe, despite the uproar the issue has generated.

The post I’ve no regrets revealing the identity of Benue COVID-19 index case — Ortom appeared first on Vanguard News.

Un homme de 69 ans vivant � Dakar d�c�d� le 7 mai pass� au centre Nabil Choucair �tait porteur du virus. ......

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Rarely has a single piece of legislation been as keenly debated as the Regulations to implement the Agency Workers Directive in the UK. Against a background of increasingly politicised and opposing views, draft Regulations have today been published b...

In a short announcement to the House of Commons this morning, Ed Davey, Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs confirmed that the Government's much awaited review of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 is concluded. No changes...

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With the new advances, fertility doctors will be able to hand-select the healthiest and quality sperm for artificial insemination, in effect increasing a woman's chance of becoming pregnant.

When international opera star Warren Mok learned in March that he had contracted Covid-19, he immediately checked if his voice was affected.“I tried my voice right away. It was still there,” Mok said, recalling his relief that his vocal cords remained in good shape.Dubbed one of China’s Three Tenors, the world-renowned singer’s battle with the deadly virus involved spending a total of 38 days in isolation, first in Thailand, then in Hong Kong.Sharing his ordeal with the Post, the 61-year-old…

Alberta Health Services has ordered two Calgary businesses to close for violating provincial COVID-19 regulations.

Repatriators working to bring Hutus back to Rwanda often find a blurry line between refugee and ex-combatant