Nanoparticles safe treatment for inflammatory bowel disease Geeta Sharma Sharma8 April 2016 4:10 PM ISTNanoparticles designed to block a cell-surface molecule that plays a key role in inflammation could be a safe treatment for inflammatory bowel disease...
Overcoming opioid addiction is possible, but challenging savita thakur thakur28 May 2016 3:54 PM ISTA team of researchers has recently surveyed patients to understand barriers to reducing the use of opioids to manage chronic pain.Millions of...
Predicting Advanced Prostate Cancer Outcomes with NaF-PET/CT supriya kashyap kashyap9 Jun 2016 5:57 PM ISTReston : A recent pilot study reported in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine found that sodium fluoride (Na-F-18) positron emission...
Long Term Opioids May Not Be Best Pain Management Option for All Sickle Cell Patients supriya kashyap kashyap22 Jun 2016 2:57 PM ISTIn a small study looking at pain assessments in adults with sickle cell disease, researchers at Johns Hopkins says overall, those treated long-term...
WHO urges use of polio detection systems to screen for Zika-linked disorder supriya kashyap kashyap7 July 2016 3:11 PM ISTGeneva : A neurological condition linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus could be targeted globally with existing national programmes for detecting...
Surgery found to increase risk of chronic opioid use : Stanford study supriya kashyap kashyap12 July 2016 2:11 PM ISTA study of health insurance claims showed that patients undergoing 11 of the most common types of surgery were at an increased risk of becoming...
Link found between traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's, but not Alzheimer's supriya kashyap kashyap12 July 2016 2:15 PM ISTTraumatic brain injury (TBI) with a loss of consciousness (LOC) may be associated with later development of Parkinson's disease but not Alzheimer's...
There’s hope for reversing stroke induced long-term disability: study supriya kashyap kashyap28 Aug 2016 9:31 AM ISTPermanent brain damage from a stroke may be reversible thanks to a developing therapeutic technique, a USC-led study has found.The novel approach...
Screening for syphilis infection in non pregnant adults and adolescents: USPSTF recommendations supriya kashyap kashyap26 Sept 2016 4:29 PM ISTSyphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. The signs and symptoms of syphilis vary...
AIDS patient Zero: Myth or Reality supriya kashyap kashyap27 Oct 2016 2:29 PM ISTA combination of historical and genetic research reveals the error and hype that led to the coining of the term 'Patient Zero' and the blaming of one...
Potential target identified for preventing long-term effects of traumatic brain injury supriya kashyap kashyap2 Nov 2016 9:38 AM ISTMore than 200,000 U.S. soldiers serving in the Middle East have experienced a blast related traumatic brain injury, making it a common health problem...
US: New drug resistant fungal infection kills 13 people supriya kashyap kashyap7 Nov 2016 12:47 PM ISTWashington : Thirteen individuals have become ill from a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection previously unseen in the United States, the...
