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New studies suggest that sea levels on Earth have been rising at a much faster speed than they have in the last about 2,800 years. According to the studies conducted in the past, the acceleration is due to global warming caused due to human activity and not only natural phenomenon.

An international group of scientists dug into two dozen sites globally to note down the rising and falling seas over a long period.

The fastest sea level rise was nearly 1 to 1.5 inches in 100 years, until the 1880s and the world’s industrialization. At that time, global sea level didn’t become much higher or lower than 3 inches above or below the 2,000-year average.

A massive fireball dropped over the southern Atlantic Ocean on February 6 but remained unnoticed. The fireball probably exploded roughly 30 kilometers over the ocean, and surprisingly, no one noticed it except for NASA engineers.

The fireball is supposedly the biggest one ever to hit the Earth since February 2013’s Chelyabinsk explosion. The incident took place at around 9 am off the coast of Brazil. The fireball was packed with energy equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. In comparison, the Chelyabinsk explosion brimmed with a groundbreaking energy of 500,000 tons when it crossed the skies of Ural Mountains.

One of the major causes of death in the United States is cardiovascular disease. Every year, an estimated 610,000 people die due to heart related ailments in the United States. Women suffering from heart disease do not showcase symptoms easily, unlike men, who have easy to detect symptoms related to heart ailment. There is a difference about how male and female heart functions and perceives the illness.

American Heart Month teaches women how they should care for their heart. They are at more risk of dying with heart failure as their illness remains unrecognized. Around a two-third of the women die suddenly without advance sign of coronary heart disease. They don’t feel like men when they are sick, so they don’t behave like a male, grabbing chest, crushing and falling over.

On Monday, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that the state has taken nearly six years to fine nursing homes for violations because it possessed just a single part-time employee for processing the fines.

DiNapoli has come up with a sarcastic report on the state’s regulation for the 631 licensed nursing homes. DiNapoli partnered with some senior advocates to announce the findings.

The fines have been called ‘almost worthless’ by Jack Kupferman, president of the senior-citizen advocacy group the Gray Panthers New York City Network. He said that the fines, even if are imposed at all, will be negligible.

On Monday, lawmakers cleared the way for confirming Robert Califf as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, despite objections from senators, who were criticizing his links with the pharmaceutical industry. Califf is a longtime cardiologist and Duke University researcher.

The Senate has overpoweringly supported a procedural motion to stop any legislator from hindering a vote on Califf’s nomination and to restrict debate over the decision to 30 hours. A final vote is expected to come by Tuesday. Many senators have held up the confirmation of Califf in the recent months.

In a latest study, researchers have discovered that a drug used to avoid HIV transmission from mother to child could have small but notable effects on infant development.

Harvard University researchers have found in a study of HIV-positive expectant women that one of many drugs provided to them may affect their child’s development. The impact of drug was noticed on all the kids born, with or without HIV-infection.

The drug named atazanavir is used along with one or more other drugs as part of anti-retroviral regimens used not just for the treatment of HIV patients, but also to reduce the risk of transmission of the disease.