eMedinews Editorial

·         A 12-month exercise training and lifestyle intervention in patients with chronic kidney disease is linked to better cardiorespiratory fitness, body composition and diastolic functions. According to a randomized trial published in August edition of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the exercise involves 150 minutes per week moderate intensive aerobic and resistance and group behavior and lifestyle modification session.

·         A case-control study from Australia has proved that vaccination against flu virus reduces the risk of future heart attacks. In the study, it was shown that influenza vaccination was significantly protective against acute heart attack with infected people almost twice as likely as vaccinated to have acute heart attack. The study was published in August issue of journal Heart. 

·         Bharat Biotech has launched world's first clinically proven typhoid conjugate vaccine, Typbar - TCV, for infants above six-months as well as adults. The newly launched typhoid conjugate vaccine would help make the vaccinated immune to the disease for a longer period of time as against the existing vaccines in the market that provide protection only for two to three years.

·         Liver cancer — the third most frequent cause of cancer death in India, mostly could be prevented with simple lifestyle changes such as avoiding excess alcohol, having protected sex and getting vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus. 

·         Rajya Sabha passed a bill on Monday making it mandatory for the wife to get a share of her husband’s immovable property over divorce. The Marriage Laws (Amend-ment) Bill now needs to be passed by the Lok Sabha to become law. The bill provides for a three year deadline within which marriages can be dissolved on the new ground of “irretrievable breakdown” which will allow the party to file for divorce either jointly or separately in cases where the marriage has broken down for all practical purposes.