Have Scientists found a cure to cancer ?? Meghna A Singhania17 Feb 2016 12:52 PM ISTHeads seemed to turn, when a medical scientist, Dr. Stanley Riddell at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre shared the preliminary results of...
PRP injections: New alternative to knee surgery savita thakur thakur16 Feb 2016 11:39 AM ISTPlatelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment, a blood plasma injection with the patient's own blood, is being considered a new alternative to knee surgery for...
Younger T cells may improve immunotherapy for cancer in kids savita thakur thakur15 Feb 2016 10:40 AM ISTNew York: Enriching T cells - a type of white blood cell - to attack certain cancerous diseases may prove beneficial to an increasing number of...
Type 2 diabetes drug can deplete insulin-producing cells-Study savita thakur thakur14 Feb 2016 10:26 AM ISTNew Delhi: Long-term use of liraglutide, a substance that helps to lower blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes, can have a deteriorating...
80 percent of elderly consider bone surgery non-recovering Meghna A Singhania14 Feb 2016 9:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Nearly 80 percent of senior citizens in India do not undergo bone surgery thinking they won't be able to recover post operation, say...
UK-India call for wider use of vaccines savita thakur thakur13 Feb 2016 11:35 AM ISTNew Delhi: A recent study by British Economist Lord Jim O'Neil, Chairman of the Review on Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR) has come up with path...
Diabetes drug Byetta may help treat cocaine addiction - Study savita thakur thakur12 Feb 2016 12:48 PM ISTNew York: Researchers have found that a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug currently used for obese patients and Type-2 diabetics has...
High dose statin treatment can help restore sight savita thakur thakur11 Feb 2016 1:12 PM ISTLondon: A common cholesterol-lowering drug statin can restore vision in the patients with a hard-to-treat version of the leading cause of blindness in...
Scientists find potential treatment for sudden cardiac death savita thakur thakur11 Feb 2016 10:56 AM ISTNew York: Scientists at a US university have developed a possible treatment to prevent hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) – a common cause of sudden...
Researchers identify drug target for dengue virus savita thakur thakur10 Feb 2016 8:26 AM ISTWashington: Till date no vaccine or drug has yet become available against the Dengue virus.A flavivirus like the newly prominent Zika virus, Dengue...
Zika virus may be transmitted through saliva, urine savita thakur thakur7 Feb 2016 9:57 AM ISTBrasilia: Brazilian researchers found traces of Zika virus in the saliva and urine of patients with symptoms of the disease, which means the virus is...
BMI a wrong measure of health: Study savita thakur thakur6 Feb 2016 1:37 PM ISTUsing body mass index (BMI) to gauge health is a wrong practice as it is a deeply flawed measure, reveals a study while adding that BMI should not be...
