Alphabet's Verily Makes Study Watch a Smartwatch for Health Research supriya kashyap kashyap18 April 2017 11:28 AM ISTAlphabet's life sciences unit Verily unveiled a wrist-worn "Study Watch" designed to gather complex health data in clinical studies.Study Watch is...
World's oldest person dies aged 117 supriya kashyap kashyap17 April 2017 3:06 PM ISTLondon : The world's oldest person believed to be the last known living individual to be born in the 19th century has passed away at the age of...
Telangana: Health authorities suspect mutation in swine flu virus supriya kashyap kashyap17 April 2017 12:46 PM ISTHyderabad : The health authorities in Telangana suspect that the H1N1 virus, that causes swine flu, may have mutated.The state is witnessing swine flu...
New crispr-based diagnostic platform unveiled supriya kashyap kashyap16 April 2017 10:15 AM ISTA team of scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Institute for Medical...
Gonorrhea manipulates anti-infection mechanism in the female reproductive tract supriya kashyap kashyap16 April 2017 10:12 AM ISTThe bacterium that causes gonorrhea infects the female reproductive tract by breaking connections between cells in the tract's protective lining,...
Iraqi girl undergoes stem cell transplant from German donor supriya kashyap kashyap15 April 2017 10:13 AM ISTNew Delhi : A 15-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from a rare bone marrow failure syndrome got a new lease of life after she received stem cells from an...
India vulnerable to infectious diseases like Zika, Ebola supriya kashyap kashyap14 April 2017 11:42 AM ISTNew Delhi : South Asian nations including India are "vulnerable" to emerging infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola and their level of preparedness...
CDC-WHO Ebola guidelines could put sewer workers at risk- Study supriya kashyap kashyap13 April 2017 1:38 PM ISTResearch from Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh suggests that guidelines for safe disposal of liquid waste from patients being...
Milestone: Manipal doctors discover new genetic disease supriya kashyap kashyap11 April 2017 2:21 PM ISTManipal : The department of medical genetics at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal led by Dr. Girish Katta has discovered a new genetic disease called...
Benzodiazepines linked to increased risk of pneumonia in Alzheimer's patients supriya kashyap kashyap11 April 2017 12:37 PM ISTCommonly used sedatives called benzodiazepines are associated with an increased risk of pneumonia when used in people with Alzheimer disease,...
Researchers discover a protein to provide protection from cancer, HIV supriya kashyap kashyap10 April 2017 2:25 PM ISTWashington : A team of US researchers has discovered a protein that can help the vaccinations be more effective and provide protection from cancer,...
Hospitals put your data at risk : JAMA Internal Medicine Study supriya kashyap kashyap9 April 2017 3:47 PM ISTLying in a hospital bed, the last thing you should have to worry about is a personal data breach. Yet recent research co-authored by a Michigan State...
