200 Million Indians Suffer From High Blood Pressure: Global Study supriya kashyap kashyap18 Nov 2016 1:38 PM ISTLondon : The number of people with high blood pressure has almost doubled in 40 years to over 1.1 billion worldwide, scientists said, with the burden...
Indians more prone to die from cardiovascular diseases: UAE experts savita thakur thakur19 Dec 2016 3:41 PM ISTIndians are more likely to face premature death due to heart attacks and strokes owing to genetic factors as compared with people of other...
Ebola vaccine found safe and effective in human trials says the WHO supriya kashyap kashyap24 Dec 2016 12:17 PM ISTAn experimental Ebola vaccine has been found to be 100 per cent affective against the deadly virus in a major human trial in Guinea, giving doctors a...
New treatment could fast-track elephantiasis elimination :The Lancet supriya kashyap kashyap28 Dec 2016 9:00 AM ISTLondon : If a recently proposed combination of three particular drugs is used, the devastating elephantiasis disease can be prevented or treated...
HOT-HMV trial-New hope for patients with severe lung disease Anjali Nimesh Nimesh23 May 2017 2:33 PM ISTPatients suffering from severe lung disease could see their lives transformed thanks to a 'game-changing' clinical trial carried out by UK experts and...
New antibiotic class found effective against gonorrhea in the laboratory Anjali Nimesh Nimesh11 Aug 2017 9:40 AM ISTThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 700,000 people around the world die annually from drug resistant infections. It also listed...
Only 39 percent of Indian mothers initiate first hour breastfeeding Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 Sept 2017 9:20 AM ISTIn India, malnutrition claims one out of three lives among children under five.A large majority of these deaths are attributed to inappropriate...
You can 'pick up' a good or bad mood but not depression from your friends Anjali Nimesh Nimesh27 Sept 2017 9:35 AM ISTNew research suggests that both good and bad moods can be 'picked up' from friends, but depression can't.A team led by the University of Warwick has...
A simple, easy-to-administer Nanopatch polio vaccine developed Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 Oct 2017 10:05 AM ISTEfforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research led by University of Queensland bioscience experts and...
Current anti-hypertensive medicines control BP but don’t restore microvascular function Anjali Nimesh Nimesh4 Nov 2017 7:45 PM ISTTreatments for high blood pressure do not totally reverse its damaging effects on the vascular rhythms that help circulation of the blood say...
N90 masks useful for protection from ill-effects of pollution Anjali Nimesh Nimesh13 Nov 2017 7:00 PM ISTAs the rising levels of air pollution in the national capital has hit 70 times the World Health Organisation's safe limit, doctors have suggested...
How to reduce Trans fats- worst fats in food supply Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli11 Dec 2017 8:00 PM ISTDr. Lirije Hyseni and associates have published a Systematic review of dietary trans-fat reduction interventions in Bulletin of World Health...
