Dhoni Escapes Sacking, Continues On As The Captain

A while back, rumors were doing the rounds that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be out of cricket business soon. To say that the Indian team hasn’t done particularly well would be sugarcoating the whole unsavory scenario that has befallen our home team. It is quite natural, that some of the blame for India’s three series defeats should rest on the shoulder of the one who led the team through these matches- the captain.

People are maniacal, but they won’t move a muscle against their skipper; after all Dhoni was the underdog that they rooted for since 2004. All that the spectators can do is watch and try their level best to ‘not’ keep their opinions to themselves. Where would India be, if we didn’t follow the example of the barking dog that never bit anyone? So irrespective of what The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) decides, there will always be a bunch of us who will, with all the unbridled enthusiasm of an immature teenager, counteract the decision, replete with expletives and hand gestures.

India’s exit from the T20 World Cup held at the West Indies was the final straw. Suddenly it wasn’t just the people, but fellow cricketers chimed in to voiced their disappointment and disapproval of Dhoni as the captain of the Indian team. Former cricketers such as Sunil Gavaskar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth had previously urged the BCCI selectors to remove Dhoni from the position of the Test Captain following his flop show, last year. Bishan Singh Bedi, of the ex-cricketer fame, was the last to join the ‘sack-Dhoni’ club. He quickly dismissed Dhoni’s 99 runs as a trivial conquest and pitched the idea of Virat Kohli as the new Captain of the Indian Cricket Team. He prefers Kohli’s sharp as a tack cricketing strategy to Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s statistics. He further added that cricket is a young man’s game and that it is time to lose the dead weight and give the more capable players a chance to run the game.

All the five selectors of the BCCI committee were in sync with the decision to terminate Dhoni from the Captain position. But luck was on Dhoni’s side; Owner of Chennai Super Kings and BCCI president, N Srinivasan, intervened and allowed Dhoni to continue the captaincy. Following what transpired, Mahendra Singh Dhoni profile remains unscathed. Wish the same could be foretold for India’s cricketing future.

How to Choose the Right Home Health Care Service Provider for You?

A home health care center or service provider offers daily assistance to the patient just to ensure the daily living activities. Home health care services assists people in need to live independently and recover faster from chronic health issue or medical set-backs.

Be it any age, a person recovering post-surgery, or in need of additional support to avoid unnecessary hospitalization can avail the facility of Home Healthcare centers.

Types of Services:

Health Care Services are available to individuals who require immediate skilled nursing care. The services available under the designated term “HOME CARE” includes nursing care, Post-Operative Care, Physiotherapy and many more. With our article we would like to give you a gist on the home health care center that provides 24 hour, 7 days home healthcare services to the patients in need.

Nursing Care:

The highly qualified nurses administer medication, injections and provide medical treatment related to health conditions. With a strict focus on individual needs and care for each and every patient, Porvoo’s caregivers pass through stringent hiring assessments.

Nurses give timely updates to Doctors
Caregivers are punctual with medicines and injections as prescribed
Maintain proper hygiene around the patient
Available at the disposal of the patient and cater to their needs
Post-Operative Care:

To avoid hospitalization which can sometimes be a pressure over finances, Home Health Care Centers like Porvoo Home healthcare make sure that an experienced caregiver is present around the patient as per convenience. Depending on the patient’s health, the medication would vary and will be monitored accordingly.

Critical Care:

Nurses make it their top most priority to take care of the patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital but still need the same amount of care with a home like feeling. Since the procedure is run by the format of International standards, Home Health Care Center has professional nurses and doctors on call for the patient satisfaction.

Specially trained nurses to monitor patients
Complex life support
Intrinsic decision making
Pro-active rather than reactive care
Physiotherapy:

The role of a physiotherapist is to enhance performance of the patient after they have suffered from an injury. Physiotherapy keeps the patient’s muscles and bones inclined with the body and strengthens it.

Muscle Mobilization
Strengthen the joints for better movements
Reduce pain and stiffness
Recover from bone or muscle injury quicker
Sleep Study:

Home Health Care Services Center like Porvoo provide the new state-of-the-art sleep study unit which helps the patient gather more conclusive evidence to overcome sleeping disorders.

Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, periodic limb movement disorder, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, insomnia, and nighttime behaviors like sleepwalking and REM sleep behavior disorder are monitored and diagnosed by the doctor.

To get a better understanding of the disorder or what is happening inside the brain and body of the patient, the tests are run during the patient is asleep.

EEG and ECG:

To measure the electrical activity of the brain, doctors will provide with the best services of EEG (Electroencephalogram). On the other hand, ECG (electrocardiogram) is used for measuring activities of heart.

The well-trained nurses and certified doctors evaluate and detect the tests of the patient to avoid any complications.

Conclusion

Choosing the right home health care can be a task and stressful too yet it can be easy with the right information. There are many questions that arise in the mind of a person while looking for the best home healthcare center. Like how long has it been to this home care, is it genuine or just to earn money, will they offer the treatment as per the requirement of you or your loved one, is the patient confidentiality maintained etc. It becomes really crucial for a person to know the background of the nurse before letting them in their home to follow the procedure. However, that is not the concern at the centers as the background of the caregivers is kept in check by the healthcare center authorities before hiring. Healthcare centers like Porvoo chart a stringent hiring standard and thorough references check.

Proteins that Controls Sex-linked Disparities in Cancers Found

Nowadays, a cancer diagnosis notice is more like a “death notice” for many families. Did you know that there is a difference between men and women in the incidence and mortality of various cancers? In general, men have about 20% higher cancer incidence and 40% higher mortality than women. The study also found that women had more side effects from chemotherapy and were more likely to develop thyroid cancer. Tracing back to the source, genetic and molecular factors are thought to be responsible for these differences, but the specific mechanisms involved are poorly understood.

A study by the Institute for Biomedical Research (IRB Barcelona) in Barcelona, Spain, recently found that the “behind-the-scenes players” responsible for the tumor differences between the sexes. The results were published in the journal Science Advances.

“We have identified the likely manipulators responsible for the tumor differences between male and female flies,” said Cayetano González, head of the laboratory at the IRB Cell Division in Barcelona.

In this work, researchers analyzed brain tumor development in the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila melanogaster has been used in scientific research as a model organism for more than a hundred years, and through them, researchers have discovered many proteins that are closely related to human cancer. In recent decades, various experimental models of human cancer, such as leukemia, neuroblastoma, glioblastoma, and ovarian cancer, have been developed in this animal model.

Specifically, the researchers observed that male flies had more aggressive brain tumors and were more likely to develop malignant tumors than females. They also found that protein expression levels were significantly elevated in brain tumor cells of male flies compared to female flies. Notably, these proteins are also present in humans.

Among these discovered proteins, the researchers focused on Phf7, which is also present in humans. However, in Drosophila, PHF7 is only present in male Drosophila tumor cells and shows strong invasiveness. When the researchers removed this protein from male flies, the tumors were significantly less invasive and returned to levels similar to female flies.

“Our results suggest that proteins responsible for the differences between male and female tumors can be regulated to reduce the malignancy associated with the sex of the affected individuals,” explains Kerry Cristina Molnar, a post-doctoral researcher at the IRB in Barcelona, who led the study.

González added: “Understanding the molecular basis of sex-related differences in cancer incidence and development allows us to find specific treatments for men and women.”