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A Quora user recently asked, “What are the potential risks of taking high-dose vitamin D supplements for an extended period of time? How long can one safely take high-dose vitamin D before experiencing negative side effects?” It’s a relevant question, especially in India, where vitamin D deficiency is rampant and self-supplementation is common. To clear the confusion, we spoke to Dr Vyankatesh Shivane, Consultant Diabetologist and Metabolic Physician, Department of Endocrinology, Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, and Dr Vimal Pahuja, Associate Director, Internal Medicine and Metabolic Physician, Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital, Powai.DISCLAIMER: This article is based on information from the…

Soumya Swaminathan, chairperson of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said on Monday (May 18, 2026) that gains in global health achieved over recent decades are becoming increasingly fragile, while progress in maternal and child health is being reversed due to geopolitical challenges and declining development funding.Delivering the keynote address at the inauguration of the sixth annual Philanthropy Asia Summit (PAS) here, she said, “Some of the gains we have made in maternal and child health are getting reversed because of geopolitics and loss of development funding in many countries.”Increase domestic violence“Gender-based violence and domestic violence increase significantly with climate change,…

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Sony reportedly won’t release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Hermen Hulst, who heads up PlayStation’s studios business, informed employees in a town hall on Monday about the change in strategy. Schreier had previously reported on the shift in March, saying that Sony scrapped plans to launch PC versions of last year’s Ghost of Yōtei and “other internally developed games.” Online games will still come to multiple platforms following this change in strategy, Schreier reported at the time.Sony may not be the only one to go back to exclusives; Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s new…

Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week that the company was in talks to acquire Stainless, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for more than $300 million. The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said…

New Delhi: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal Monday asked Indian manufacturers to identify goods that can be produced locally for eliminating their imports, noting that even small preferences for foreign goods can weaken the domestic industry.He also urged stakeholders to study import trends through the commerce department’s trade portal and identify opportunities for domestic manufacturing and import substitution.”You should keep an eye on what goods are being imported, you will see opportunities in that too, what things can be manufactured in India…(on the portal), we will show import substitution, whatever is coming from abroad where our requirement is huge…

New Delhi: The Indian Patent Office has refused to grant a secondary patent to AbbVie for its blockbuster Hepatitis C drug combination glecaprevir/pibrentasvir, sold globally under the brand name Maviret. Civil rights activists said the move will ensure continued access to affordable treatment for millions of patients in India and globally.In the order dated May 7, 2026, the Patent Office refused the application under Section 15 of the Patents Act, 1970, after the US company failed to contest pre-grant oppositions filed by civil society groups, and subsequently informed the Patent Office that it wished to abandon the application. ET has…

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New Delhi: European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will be inked by the end of 2026 and assured that the “mother of all deals” will be operationalised at record speed.Speaking at the European Round Table for Industry in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Sunday alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson, she said that the agreement heralds a transformative new era for global commerce. “We are committed to signing the agreement by the end of the year and making it fully operational at record speed,” von der Leyen said at…

Britain would not be able to rejoin the EU on the special terms it enjoyed in the past, veterans of the Brexit negotiations have said.According to former officials from around Europe, the UK should not expect to achieve as beneficial a deal as it once had if it decided to begin negotiations on re-entry.The warnings came as senior Labour politicians jostling for the leadership of their party and country talk openly about wanting to return to the union at some point in the future.Georg Riekeles, a former adviser on the EU’s Brexit taskforce, said he expected member states would take…