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5 days ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
Eighty percent of IT professionals in India have fatty liver due to work pressure, a sedentary lifestyle, and poor lifestyle choices, says a recent study. This cross-sectional study involved 345 IT employees in Hyderabad, India, who responded to a questionnaire on their occupational sitting, shift work, stress, sleep duration, smoking, physical activity, and food habits. “The median age of the employees was 38 years (34–43 years) with a body mass index (BMI) of 244 (70.72%) obese.
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6 days ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
During an appearance on The Great Indian Kapil Show recently, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan disclosed his battle with three serious neurological conditions- trigeminal neuralgia, brain aneurysm, and an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). The 59-year-old actor was answering a question about his marriage on the show when he candidly talked about enduring excruciating pain yet continuing to work.
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6 days ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
First Check received a video via our tipline featuring a woman claiming that men who urinate while standing make a critical health mistake. She asserts that standing urination contributes to various health issues, including urinary tract infections (UTIs), bladder stones, prostate enlargement, prostate cancer and kidney problems.
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1 week ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
The LLM (Large Language Model) has reduced friction in our work, but it has come at a cost. Over-reliance on ChatGPT for writing could severely impair cognitive abilities, introducing a phenomenon termed “cognitive debt,” a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed.
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1 week ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
An Instagram reel posted by @medication3d, titled “How is arthritis treated?”, showcases a needle aspiration procedure on a patient’s knee to address arthritis-related swelling. “Inflammation caused by arthritis leads to an overproduction of synovial fluid in the knee, resulting in swelling and pain.
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1 week ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
Artificial intelligence (AI) can now detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in small blood samples. Fragle, a new AI tool, very small amounts of cancer remaining after treatment, known as minimal residual disease (MRD), helping doctors identify potential relapse at an early stage.
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1 week ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
Every June 18th, the world celebrates Autistic Pride Day, an occasion to recognize autistic people’s unique skills, creativity, and perspectives. This day, founded in 2005 by the autism solidarity and campaigning group Aspies for Freedom, is inspired by the gay pride movement and encourages us to consider autism as a thriving element of human diversity rather than a disorder.
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1 week ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
First Check came across an Instagram reel, in which the creator claims that birth control pills aren’t a permanent cure for the permanent cure for PCOD, or Polycystic Ovarian Disease. “Taking birth control pills will cause you anxiety, increase fat, and cause hair fall,” the creator says, suggesting eating right food and working on lifestyle to cure the condition. The video has garnered around 1.7 million views and more than 30 thousand likes.
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3 weeks ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
In a recent YouTube video, tech entrepreneur and biohacker Bryan Johnson claimed that a 90-day regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) reversed his biological age, giving him the “biology of a 10-year-old.” HBOT is a medical treatment in which a patient breathes pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. This increases oxygen levels in the blood, helping to heal wounds, fight infections, and treat conditions like carbon monoxide poisoning and decompression sickness.
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3 weeks ago | 
firstcheck.in | Sneha Richhariya
In response to the global burden of severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease among infants, WHO has recommended that all countries introduce either the maternal vaccine, RSVpreF, or the monoclonal antibody, nirsevimab, in order to protect infants from the severe effects of the infection.
