Cheaper alternative to Keratitis treatment found supriya kashyap kashyap16 Nov 2016 9:38 AM ISTBacterial keratitis, an infection of the cornea often caused by contact lenses, malnutrition, or an injury, can lead to corneal scarring, one of the...
Progesterone may protect women from flu supriya kashyap kashyap23 Nov 2016 10:47 AM ISTIn mouse studies, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that progesterone a female sex hormone contained in...
Malaria parasite evades rapid test detection in children supriya kashyap kashyap24 Nov 2016 9:53 AM ISTThe Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the highest rates of people living with malaria. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) account for more...
1.2 billion people at Zika risk in India: Study supriya kashyap kashyap18 Dec 2016 9:00 AM ISTParis : At least 2.6 billion people, over a third of the global population, live in parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific where Zika could gain a new...
Osteoporosis - Standard Treatment Guidelines supriya kashyap kashyap28 Dec 2016 9:00 AM ISTOsteoporosis is a disease of bones that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone...
Zika vaccine for women not likely before 2020: WHO supriya kashyap kashyap3 Feb 2017 1:15 PM ISTGeneva : About forty potential vaccines for the Zika virus are being tested, but none are likely to be available for women of childbearing age before...
New malaria vaccine effective in clinical trial supriya kashyap kashyap17 Feb 2017 10:16 AM ISTUniversity of Tübingen researchers in collaboration with the biotech company Sanaria Inc. have demonstrated in a clinical trial that a new vaccine for...
Scientists uncover how Zika virus causes microcephaly supriya kashyap kashyap19 Feb 2017 12:10 PM ISTA multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has uncovered the mechanisms that the Zika virus uses to alter brain...
Breakthrough: New test can detect HIV within one week of contracting infection supriya kashyap kashyap18 Feb 2017 5:07 PM ISTMadrid : Spain's top research institution said it has patented an HIV test that can detect the AIDS-causing virus within a week of infection, the...
WHO lists 12 most worrying bacteria, Check out details supriya kashyap kashyap1 March 2017 12:30 PM ISTWHO published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat...
Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year: WHO supriya kashyap kashyap7 March 2017 11:12 AM ISTLondon : A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air,...
Scientists close in on vaccine for Chagas disease supriya kashyap kashyap18 April 2017 11:31 AM ISTMexico : A team of scientists has taken a step closer to developing a vaccine for the potentially life-threatening Chagas disease, which is...
