Month: May 2021

Dementia is a general term for the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday activities. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia although dementia mostly affects older adults, it is not a part of normal ageing. Experiencing these two visual problems could be early warning signs. "Dementia and sight loss are both more common as you get older. There are many causes of sight loss in people with dementia. Having eye conditions such as cataracts or macular degeneration is common with dementia. "People with dementia can also have visual difficulties because the dementia affects the parts of their brain that handle visual information coming from the eyes. "This means they will have visual problems but have healthy eyes.” ...

More than a year after the pandemic started, Covid-19 is still ravaging parts of the world, but now scientists are warning that another virus could be a serious threat in the coming months: influenza. This season, the flu virtually disappeared, with less than 2,000 lab-confirmed cases in the United States to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a typical flu season, the U.S. could see more than 200,000 lab-confirmed cases by this time of year, a tiny fraction of the true number of cases, estimated to range from 9 million to 45 million annually. Scientists and public health experts say this year, Covid-19 mitigation measures, like social distancing and masking, most likely stopped flu transmission. But according to scientists li...

Aditi TandonTribune News ServiceNew Delhi, May 9 With evidence mounting on a new fatal black fungal infection among Covid-19 survivors and infected patients, especially those with diabetes or kidney/heart failure history, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday issued an advisory, urging people to look for the warning signs. WARNING SYMPTOMS Sinusitis, nasal discharge (black or bloody), pain on cheek bone, one-sided facial pain, numbness/swelling, blackish discoloration over the nose bridge, toothache, loosening of teeth, blurred or double vision with fever, skin lesion, thrombosis, chest pain, shortness of breath The evidence-based advisory covers screening, diagnosis and management of mucormycosis (black fun...