AHA releases statement on interactions between statins, other heart disease drugs supriya kashyap kashyap18 Oct 2016 3:00 PM ISTStatement Highlights: The risk of interactions between statins and other heart disease drugs in patients with heart disease can be managed or...
Telemedicine may work as well as in-person visits for depression: Research supriya kashyap kashyap3 Dec 2016 11:34 AM ISTTreating depression with video conference calls may offer symptom improvement similar to in-person visits, a recent U.S. study suggests.Researchers...
The lasting effects of ministrokes may contribute to dementia: Study supriya kashyap kashyap19 Jan 2017 11:18 AM ISTEvidence overwhelmingly supports a link between cognitive decline and cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, and...
Dolphin genes could help treat kidney failure supriya kashyap kashyap28 Feb 2017 2:11 PM ISTNew York : A new database of genes from the bottlenose dolphin may unveil clues to treat diseases such as stroke and kidney failure in humans, say...
Aphasia recovery via speech therapy related to structural plasticity of the ventral stream supriya kashyap kashyap15 July 2017 9:41 AM ISTLanguage disturbances (aphasia) are common after stroke and can manifest as difficulty identifying the correct word to use (semantic problems) and/or...
Pyridostigmine reverses pediatric complications of botox therapy Anjali Nimesh Nimesh29 Jan 2018 7:22 PM ISTPhysicians at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report the first pediatric use of a treatment to reverse complications from botulinum...
Novel device that quickly identifies severity of concussions Anjali Nimesh Nimesh15 Feb 2018 7:30 PM ISTIn children, as many as a quarter of annual traumatic brain injuries are sustained during high-contact recreational activities or sports. At present...
A simple blood test to rule out lung cancer accurately Anjali Nimesh Nimesh20 April 2018 8:25 PM ISTMore than 1.6 million lung nodules are detected in patients in the US every year out of which 75 to 85 percent turn out to be benign but they can...
Procedure time of 30 to 60 minutes vital for thrombectomy success in Stroke Hina Zahid16 April 2019 7:30 PM ISTProcedure time of 30 to 60 minutes vital for thrombectomy success in Stroke, finds a new study.Stroke intervention procedures including thrombectomy...
Have difficulty in swallowing- Spoonful of peppermint oil may help meal go down Hina Zahid29 April 2019 8:10 PM ISTHave difficulty in swallowing- A spoonful of peppermint oil may help meal go down.Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)...
Estrogen suprisingly abundant in men with scleroderma, tied to low survival Hina Zahid7 Jun 2019 7:05 PM ISTEstradiol -- a type of female hormone estrogen -- is surprisingly found more abundantly in older men with scleroderma than postmenopausal women with...
New study examines the way estrogen affects methamphetamine addiction Hina Zahid10 Feb 2019 4:42 PM ISTIn a paper published in eNeuro, MUSC researchers suggest that the brain of a female rat responds differently to drugs like methamphetamine and that...
