Vitamin D may benefit people with multiple sclerosis savita thakur thakur16 Feb 2016 3:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: Taking a high dose of vitamin D3 is safe for people with multiple sclerosis, a nervous system disease, and may help regulate the body's...
Antidepressant may improve mental functions in HIV patients savita thakur thakur26 Feb 2016 6:49 PM ISTNew York: An antidepressant can improve decision-making and reaction time, and suppress inflammation in people with HIV-associated cognitive...
Higher Age of Artery Linked To Risk Of Cancer Kidney Disease supriya kashyap kashyap17 March 2016 3:44 PM ISTNew York : High coronary artery calcium score a measure of arterial ageing puts people at greater risk not only for heart and vascular disease but...
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...
Look-Back Study Suggests Some Major Scoliosis Surgeries Can Be Avoided supriya kashyap kashyap8 July 2016 3:01 PM ISTIn a look-back study of medical records, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine concluded that a major operation to fuse the spines of children with a...
Loss of vision considered WORST ailment: JAMA Study supriya kashyap kashyap6 Aug 2016 3:59 PM ISTWashington : Loss of eyesight is considered a worst ailment compared to other conditions like loss of limb, memory, hearing, or speech, a recent study...
Needle biopsies for noninvasive breast cancer: Routine Diagnostics waste millions supriya kashyap kashyap10 Aug 2016 1:20 PM ISTFor patients with the most common type of noninvasive breast cancer, routine testing for estrogen and progesterone receptors in tissue taken at the...
Severe obesity alone can increase heart failure risk supriya kashyap kashyap23 Aug 2016 3:39 PM ISTNew York : Morbid obesity appears to stand alone as a risk for heart failure, but not for other major types of heart disease, new research has...
New protein found to reduce chances of Parkinson's disease supriya kashyap kashyap3 Oct 2016 12:13 PM ISTNew York : A team of researchers has identified a protein that enables a toxic natural aggregate to spread from cell to cell in the brain and reduce...
Root cause of rheumatoid arthritis may be linked to gum infections: Study savita thakur thakur15 Dec 2016 1:37 PM ISTInvestigators at Johns Hopkins report they have new evidence that a bacterium known to cause chronic inflammatory gum infections also triggers the...
New peptide could improve treatment for vision threatening disease savita thakur thakur27 Jan 2017 5:03 PM ISTJohns Hopkins researchers report that a new peptide holds promise for improving treatment for degenerative retinal diseases, such as age-related...
Updated cystic fibrosis diagnosis guidelines can help in diagnosis, personalized treatment supriya kashyap kashyap5 Feb 2017 10:44 AM ISTThe updated cystic fibrosis diagnosis consensus guidelines now recommend using CFTR2 as an aid to determine whether a patient has the genetic evidence...
