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In a latest announcement, China has said that it is looking forward to come up with a space telescope, even more powerful than NASA’s Hubble, with the capability to observe and capture our universe in extraordinary detail.

The so far anonymous telescope is going to have the ability to dock with the modular space station of China, the Tiangong.

The plans have been announced by Chinese officials during parliamentary sessions. They have claimed that the latest telescope is going to have 300 times the Hubble’s field of vision.

The telescope would be able to dock with a close-by space station, due to which any repairs can be possibly carried out by Chinese taikonauts in no time, in comparison to the huge time of 3.5 years NASA takes to fix issues with the Hubble Space Telescope.

An almost unanimous US Senate has passed a package of measures to deal with opioid abuse. A day after that, on Friday, the Obama administration released $94 million in funding for treatment centers across the country, including $1.8 million for Pennsylvania.

But, the Pittsburgh region has been left out of the federal funding. It is the place where heroin-related deaths have been skyrocketing.

As per a latest study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Allegheny County is at second position, following Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, in the number of heroin overdoses.

Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) is a procedure in which patients decide to get their healthy breasts removed when breast cancer is detected in one of the breasts. More patients are opting for CPM, the rates even increased by more than thrice in a decade. The proportion is on rise despite the fact that research has shown that risk for disease recurrence is extremely low even in case of CPM.

The facts were published on March 11 in Annals of Surgery. Though CPM is considered beneficial, the risk of recurrence couldn’t be always abolished. This can be good for patients with mutations to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes; this mutation is responsible for raising risk for breast cancer by as much as 85%. However, the surgery is not essentially required for women without the mutation.

According to findings published in January edition of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, an artificial sweetener, Splenda, has an association with leukemia. The study was led by Italian researchers.

The researchers found after taking high amount of sucralose, another name for Splenda, for lifetime, there were increased cases of malignant tumors and hematopoietic neoplasias in males. They said sucralose is approximately 600 times sweeter than sucrose and used in over 4,500 products. The artificial sweetener is made by chemically reacting sugar (sucrose) with chlorine, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).

A latest study has suggested that younger siblings could be good for your health. The longitudinal study tracked roughly 700 children throughout the US. The researchers discovered that the kids, who didn’t have a sibling till they were in first grade, have more chances of being obese at that age in comparison to children, who got a sibling in the ages between three and four.

Basically, the birth of a sibling some years into the life of a child was linked to a healthier body mass index (BMI) trajectory for the first child. The study has appeared recently in the journal Pediatrics.

A latest Taiwan study suggested that the birth date of a kid may play a part in determining which children are going to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and then can be put on medication for treatment.

The researchers discovered that preschool and school-age children, born in August were more vulnerable to be diagnosed with ADHD and getting medication for the same, in comparison to their peers born in September.

Published on March 10 in The Journal of Pediatrics, the study cleared that the findings aren’t applicable on teens.

In Taiwan, the cutoff birth date for getting into school is August 31, due to which the kids born in August are naturally the youngest ones in their grades, whereas September-born children are usually the oldest.