A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that’s mostly due to recent guidelines that expanded how many people have high blood pressure. The American Heart Association said Thursday that more than 121 […]
New Delhi, Jan 27: Delhi Sunday recorded ‘poor’ air quality and it is likely to deteriorate due to drop in wind speed that slows down dispersion of pollutants, officials said. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, the overall air quality index (AQI) in the city was […]
WASHINGTON — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. […]
MIAMI — A worldwide search is on to find blood donors with a rare genetic variation to help save a 2-year-old South Florida girl battling cancer. Zainab Mughal has neuroblastoma and needs life-saving transfusions. But finding compatible donors is immensely challenging, because she’s missing a common antigen most […]
Guwahati, Dec 3: About 68 per cent people in India are protein deficient, while 71 per cent have poor muscle health, a recent survey has pointed out.Citing reports, experts on Monday said 84 per cent of Indian vegetarian and 65 per cent of non-vegetarian diets are protein deficient. “According […]
JOHANNESBURG — A new study says many South African health facilities designated to help survivors of sexual violence don’t offer counseling to children who have been raped. Doctors Without Borders, which released the study on Wednesday, says there are critical gaps in mental health care in a country […]
Washington, Nov 20: A significant proportion of suicidal teens treated in a psychiatric emergency department said that watching the popular web-series “13 Reasons Why” had increased their suicide risk, a US study has found. The hit drama, which centres around a 17-year-old student who recorded cassettes that detail 13 […]
As the nation once again pauses to commemorate the journeys of patients and their loved ones during Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM), November also represents a moment of celebration. It is a time to share stories of survival, recognize progress achieved by advocates in the lung cancer community […]
Japanese researchers said Friday they have transplanted stem cells into the brain of a patient in the first stage of an innovative trial to cure Parkinson’s disease. The research team at Kyoto University injected induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells — which have the potential to develop into any […]
Skin cancer deaths among men have soared in wealthy nations since 1985, with mortality rates among women rising more slowly or even declining, researchers told a medical conference in Glasgow Sunday. Reasons for the discrepancy between sexes are unclear but evidence suggests men are “less likely to protect […]
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