No mortality benefit of PSA screening for prostate cancer : JAMA Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 8:00 PM ISTThere is no national screening programme for prostate cancer in the UK, but men over 50 can ask their GP for a PSA test.Prostate cancer screening...
Cutting salt intake most important - Healthy diet does not offset increased salt intake Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:30 PM ISTThe recommended upper limit of adult salt intake in the UK is 6g a day - around one teaspoon.Previously, experts believed that eating high amounts of...
Escalating inhaled steroid dosages doesn't not prevent asthma flare-ups in children Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:28 PM ISTAsthma flare-ups in children are common and costly, and to prevent them, many health professionals recommend increasing the doses of inhaled steroids...
Buprenorphine-naloxone preferred first-line treatment for opioid use disorder -Canadian guidelines Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:20 PM ISTA new Canadian guideline for managing opioid use disorders has been released.This has been created for a wide range of healthcare providers to address...
People over 85 with high cholesterol have low risk of cognitive decline Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:15 PM ISTDr.Jeremy Silverman, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and associates conducted a study to assess whether marked...
Classifying Diabetes into 5 groups in India: What Masters Opine Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:10 PM ISTRecently a very important paper from Dr. Leif Groop’s center at the Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden has been published in the Lancet...
Text-Messaging prevents alcohol relapse in Liver-Transplant Candidates Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:10 PM ISTA liver transplant is an operation that replaces a patient's diseased liver with a whole or partial healthy liver from another person.Liver failure...
New donor screening tests approved by FDA to make Blood Transfusion Safer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 March 2018 7:05 PM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved new tests for donor screening to make Blood Transfusion Safer.These tests include Imugen Babesia...
HbA1c between 7% and 8% okay for T2DM patients-New ACP Guidelines Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 March 2018 8:30 PM ISTAn HbA1C test measures a person's average blood sugar level over the past two or three months. An HbA1C of 6.5 percent indicates diabetes.But...
Oral contraceptives linked with increased Risk of Ischemic Stroke Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 March 2018 8:00 PM ISTIschemic strokes, which account for about 85 percent of all strokes, are caused by blood clots while hemorrhagic strokes are caused by bleeding in the...
Omega fatty acid supplementation in preterm toddlers improves autistic symptoms Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 March 2018 7:30 PM ISTDr. SarahKeim and her team from Nationwide Children's Hospital conducted a study on toddlers who were born prematurely and found that omega fatty...
Tree Nuts increase disease free survival in Colon Cancer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 March 2018 7:25 PM ISTDr.Charles S. Fuchs and other researchers at Yale Cancer Center conducted a large cohort study which revealed that disease-free survival increases in...
