A girl student of Paul Revere Middle School died due to meningitis on Friday. But still the health officials were unaware about the real cause of the disease – virus or bacteria.
Meningitis can be both viral as well as bacterial. But only bacterial meningitis is contagious.

The exact cause is difficult to ascertain as 13-year-old Ana Cortez recently took antibiotics. Cortez’ classmates were shocked to learn of her death.

“She was real funny, a smart person. Never tried to put nobody down. She always tried to help you out if you were in need,” classmate Dejune Johnson said.

As a precautionary measure, 12 students and 9 staff members were given antibiotics to fight off a bacterial infection.

A study conducted by British researchers on 2645 pregnant women, with average age 30 and with low risk pregnancies revealed that even low amount of caffeine could lead to low weight babies. 

It was found that the average caffeine intake during pregnancy was 159 milligrams a day which is much lower than the 300 mg/day recommended by the U.K.'s Food Standards Agency. Tea was the main source of caffeine (62 %), followed by coffee (14%), cola (12%), chocolate (8%) and soft drinks (2%).

According to a British study conducted on more than 22,000 adults, including 517 with diabetes, it was revealed that eating fish twice a week can reduce the risk of kidney damage in diabetics.

The subjects answered questionnaires about their diet habits. This also included how much fish they ate in a week. The urine samples of the participants in the survey were analyzed for the presence of a protein called albumin. Presence of albumin in urine is an indicator of kidney damage.

As 1.5-billion people around the world shift from Daylight Saving Time to normal standard time, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine by two Swedish doctors - Imre Janszky (Karolinska Institute) and Rickard Ljung (National Board of Health and Welfare) on the relation between sleep and heart attacks, an extra hour of sleep time will reduce the likelihood of heart attack.

Researchers have found that patients with fibromyalgia have characteristic changes in the brain, which don’t show up on images and scans of muscles and bones, can be seen in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans. Patients suffering from fibromyalgia have often been dubbed hypochondriacs and left to deal with the pain characteristic of the disease.

A study by scientists at St. Louis University has shown that more children and teens are undergoing treatment for obesity related health problems such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and depression. The research, published in the US journal Pediatrics, also showed that children and teens between 5 and 19 have also shown an increase in drugs for asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which aren't related to obesity. Also children’s medical prescriptions for the most common form of diabetes doubled between 2002-2005