Doctors at Mumbai’s Motherhood Hospitals gave a new lease of life to 10-year-old girl by carrying out low impact laparoscopic surgery on a 10-year-old girl to remove a paraovarian cyst, the size of a small melon.

There are numerous dos and don’ts when it comes to pregnancy. The most common ones pertain to diet and exercise — what pregnant women must (or must not) eat or do to maintain her as well as the baby’s health. As such, when a Twitter user asked whether a pregnant woman should weightlift, we also wanted to know the answer. Sharing a video on the microblogging site, he asked, “I can’t believe! Isn’t that bad for the baby?”

Girls suffer a lot during this period time. They face mental and physical problems. One of them is the problem caused by sanitary pads. Many people who use pads have itchy thighs and other areas. The heat from using the pads can also cause a rash. For these reasons, many people are switching from sanitary pads to menstrual cups.

Malaria is a disease that is transmitted through an infected mosquito that carries the Plasmodium parasite. When this infected mosquito bites a pregnant woman, the parasite travels to the liver where it matures. After several days, the mature parasites enter the bloodstream and infect the red blood cells which multiply causing the infected cells to burst open. 

Microplastics, the tiny fragments of plastics less than 5 millimeters in size, are becoming a threat to not just our environment and surroundings but also our health. Microplastics originating from plastic bottles, tiffin, containers, chip packets, and single-use straws are making their way into our bodies.