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Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg has started a new medicinal marijuana startup called Whoopi & Maya with her cofounder Maya Elisabeth, who’s been running medical marijuana company Om Edibles since 2008. Whoopi will serve as chairperson, while Maya will be the CEO of new venture. They have shared that the company will launch four products infused with cannabis for women to get relief from menstrual pain.

A full term baby is born after 37 to 40 weeks of pregnancy, and births before 37 weeks are termed as preterm or premature. There are many physical and mental complications to infant that come along premature births. Not only this, economic losses associated with such births are also remarkable. A new study is associating preterm births in the US to air pollution.

A new Dutch study suggested that people with persistent symptoms linked to Lyme disease may not get relief from longer-term antibiotic therapy. Researchers associated with the study said that though antibiotics are the right therapy for the treatment of Lyme disease when diagnosed well in time, longer-term use is apparently ineffective against the symptoms associated with the tick-borne illness and could make the patients suffer from side effects.

Study senior researcher Dr. Bart-Jan Kullberg said, “Most patients with Lyme disease are cured after initial antibiotic therapy. But, up to 20 percent of patients report persistent symptoms, such as muscular or joint pain, fatigue or concentration problems, despite initial antibiotic therapy”.

Canadian researchers have reported that beans, chickpeas, peas and lentils can be listed among foods that are helpful in weight loss. The research team analyzed data from 21 clinical trials on such foods, classified under ‘pulses’, and discovered that the foods can make dieters feel as if they are full, thus shedding unwanted pounds.

In an official news release, study lead author Russell de Souza, a researcher at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said, “Though the weight loss was small, our findings suggest that simply including pulses in your diet may help you lose weight, and we think more importantly, prevent you from gaining it back after you lose it”.

The Japanese space agency JAXA succeeded in capturing signals from lost X-ray satellite Hitomi, but unfortunately, the probe has apparently disintegrated into five pieces. US mission team had noticed space debris in the orbit of Hitomi.

On Saturday, JAXA lost contact with Hitomi, or ASTRO-H, when the satellite was to kick-off operations. Since then, the agency has been able to receive two signals from the space probe. First signal was received on Monday at around 8 am, and the other one on Tuesday at 10.30 am.

But, JAXA has no idea until now about what happened to the satellite or whether it can be recovered or not.

Orbital ATK is among the two private companies that presently hold a contract with the US space agency NASA for flying unmanned cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS). The formation of the company took place with a merger of Orbital Sciences Corp. and Alliant Techsystems (ATK).

Specialized in launching tiny satellites, Orbital Sciences was best known for the Cygnus cargo spacecraft launch to the ISS, and ATK gained prominence by making solid rocket boosters for the space shuttles. Since the merger in February 2015, Orbital ATK has been working on defense systems, flight systems and space systems.