Non-EU patients, including those from India, to be charged in UK savita7 Dec 2015 3:40 PM ISTLondon: The UK government is preparing to introduce charges for non-EU national, including from countries like India, accessing doctor's services in...
Link between congenital heart disease and neurodevelopment issues in children found Pooja5 Dec 2015 9:56 AM ISTScientists have confirmed the role of a set of gene mutations in the development of congenital heart disease and simultaneously discovered a link...
More than half of U.S. doctors experience burnout Meghna A Singhania3 Dec 2015 12:37 PM IST(Reuters Health) - Burnout among U.S. doctors is becoming more common and now affects more than half of practicing physicians, according to a new...
Unique weight loss surgery performed on Bangladeshi woman savita3 Dec 2015 12:31 PM ISTExperts at the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) here have performed a weight loss surgery on a 53-year-old...
Over 800,000 lung cancer patients in China by 2020 savita2 Dec 2015 10:59 AM ISTBeijing: China is expected to have over 800,000 lung cancer patients diagnosed annually by 2020, with nearly 700,000 people dying from the disease...
Found: A way to grow retinal nerve cells in lab Pooja2 Dec 2015 9:00 AM ISTWashington: Scientists have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal nerve cells that transmit visual signals from the eye...
WHO, UNICEF support Myanmar's polio vaccination campaign savita1 Dec 2015 10:37 AM ISTThe World Health (WHO) Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) support Myanmar's Ministry of Health to conduct a polio...
Anti-diabetes campaign among children launched in Scotland savita30 Nov 2015 3:04 PM ISTA campaign has been launched in Scotland to encourage warning signs of type 1 diabetes to be spotted early in children, a media report said on...
Adolescent deaths from AIDS tripled since 2000: Unicef savita28 Nov 2015 4:24 PM ISTNew York: The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years, most of the patients having acquired the disease when they...
HIV infection surged to record numbers in Europe in 2014: WHO savita28 Nov 2015 3:39 PM ISTCOPENHAGEN: A record number of people - over 142,000 - were diagnosed with HIV in Europe in 2014, the World Health Organisation, WHO announced on...
China's plastic surgery industry set to become world's 3rd largest savita25 Nov 2015 3:53 PM ISTChina's cosmetic plastic surgery industry will be valued at 400 billion yuan ($62.6 billion) by the end of this year and is expected to double in size...
FDA approves Opdivo to treat advanced form of kidney cancer Pooja24 Nov 2015 10:10 AM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Opdivo (nivolumab) to treat patients with advanced (metastatic) renal cell carcinoma, a form of...
