BDS INSIGHTS by Dr Manish Khazane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmyOt7uRIRg What can you do for your kidneys? Kidney diseases are silent killers, which will largely affect your quality of life. There are however several easy ways to reduce the risk of developing kidney disease. Keep fit and active Keeping fit helps to reduce your  blood pressure  and therefore reduces the risk of Chronic Kidney Disease. The concept “on the move for kidney  health ” is a worldwide collective march involving the public, celebrities and professionals moving across a public area by  walking , running and cycling. Why not join them – by whatever means you prefer! Check out the events section of the WKD website for  more  information. Keep regular  control of your blood sugar level About half of people who have  diabetes  develop kidney damage, so it is important for people with diabetes to have regular tests to check their kidney functions. Kidney damage from diabetes can be r...

WASHINGTON: The swine flu virus in India which has already killed more than 1,500 people since December may have acquired mutations that make it more severe and infectious than previously circulating H1N1 strains,  a new MIT study has warned. The study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contradicts previous reports from Indian health officials that the strain has not changed from the version of H1N1 that emerged in 2009. READ ALSO:  Four factors that gave the swine flu virus more teeth MIT researchers found that the recent Indian strains carry new mutations in the hemagglutinin protein that are known to make the virus more virulent. Hemagglutinin binds to glycan receptors found on the surface of respiratory cells and the strength of that binding determines how effectively the virus can infect those cells. In the past two years, genetic sequence information of the flu-virus protein hemagglutinin from only two influenza strains from India has been deposited into p...