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Medicine: Dabur’s three foreign subsidiaries face cases in US, Canada

18Oct

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Business

Medicine: Dabur’s three foreign subsidiaries face cases in US, Canada

NEW DELHI: Homegrown FMCG major Dabur on Wednesday said its three foreign subsidiaries are facing cases in federal and state courts in the US and Canada. The three Dabur India subsidiaries facing cases are Namaste Laboratories LLC, Dermoviva Skin Essentials Inc. and Dabur International Ltd, according to a regulatory filing.As per the filing, certain consumers in the hair relaxer product industry have alleged that some industry players/defendants sold and/or manufactured hair relaxer products that contain certain chemicals and that the use of the hair relaxer product has caused ovarian cancer, uterine cancer and other health issues."Cases have been filed in both federal and state courts in the United States and Canada. The federal cases were consolidated as a Multi-District Litigation, als...

Why Dizziness Is Still a Medical Mystery

10Oct

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Entertainment

Why Dizziness Is Still a Medical Mystery

One morning last August, while making my bed, my entire visual field shifted sharply to the left, as though I were watching a movie and someone had bumped into the projector. After half a second, my vision snapped back into position. I froze, pillow in hand, and carefully looked around. The furniture in my room was still, apparently innocent of whatever had just happened. But I felt a lingering unease that my surroundings were not bolted down.I went for a jog along the East River, in Brooklyn. Everything seemed to be in the right place—clouds above me, wooden boardwalk below. Still, the 7 A.M. sunlight seemed brighter than usual, and the water rippled in a disjointed way, like a film reel missing a few frames. My head was heavy on my shoulders. Confusingly, it also felt as though it might...

2Oct

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Money

It’s really not all about money

A young couple I know, recent grads from a state university, share a walk-up apartment in a gritty part of town. They buy their T-shirts used. They share a 22-year-old Honda Accord with well over a century of miles on it. Their health club is weights in a garage. And they spend about $700 a month on food.They know what they spend because they put every single purchase on a spreadsheet. "We spend more on food than most frugal people — we eat out sometimes — because our other expenses are so low," the guy told me. "Otherwise we could probably cut it by 100 to150 bucks if we really wanted."Thing is, they are happy as clams. The spreadsheet is a fun puzzle. Finding a cool T-shirt for a couple of dollars at Savers is not sacrifice but a victory.Now switch over to stor...

Oregon auditors flag millions in misspent money in state agencies | News

25Sep

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Money

Oregon auditors flag millions in misspent money in state agencies | News

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The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

20Sep

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Technology

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

UC Davis veterinary records cited by the Physicians Committee—which WIRED also obtained through a subsequent California public records request—chronicle a battery of complications that developed following procedures involving electrodes being surgically implanted into monkeys’ brains. The complications include bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema, a conditional colloquially known as “brain swelling.”For example, in an experimental surgery that took place in December 2019, performed to determine the “survivability” of receiving an implant, an internal part of the device “broke off” while being implanted. Overnight, researchers observed the monkey, identified only as “Animal 20” by UC Davis, scratching at the surgical site, which emitted a bloody discharge, and yanking on ...

High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It

19Sep

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Technology

High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It

The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every three adults globally. That figure has doubled since 1990. It’s now up to 1.3 billion people.High blood pressure might sound like a disease of rich nations, but in a report released today during the United Nations General Assembly, the WHO said that three-fourths of people living with hypertension reside in low- and middle-income nations. Nearly half of them have no idea they have the condition, which causes heart attacks, kidney disease, and stroke. Four-fifths of them, including both people with a diagnosis and those who don’t know they are affected, aren’t getting adequate treatment to control it.If that co...