Medical
Doctors Should Talk More about Health with Overweight Teens
Adolescence is the age when habits can be crafted very easily. So why not try inculcating health in them? Study says that better advice about exercise, nutrition and emotion subjects to the heavy teenagers can help them stay away from obesity in their later age. Doctors need to focus more over such issues so that adolescent get a chance to stop developing unhealthy habits before it gets too lat... More »
Soda Makers Responsible for High Obesity Rate in U.S.
US public consciousness campaigns about sugary soft drinks are constantly being legally attacked by beverage makers which has charged health department of New York City and striked local governments with appeal for documents on science behind the initiatives. Tremendously increasing obesity rates in Unites States drive up healthcare costs which has favors discouraging consumption of sugar-swe... More »
New Guidelines For Autopsy for Alzheimer’s Disease
Since many years autopsy was considered as the best way to confirm the presence of Alzheimer’s disease. National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association has proposed new guidelines. These guidelines seek to distinguish between memory changes that are diagnosed by doctors when a person is alive and the changes seen by pathologists in an autopsy. There will also be additional informa... More »
Testing Tissues For Inherited Colon Cancer Might add Years to Life
In America almost 160,000 people are diagnosed with Colon cancer every year, of thisalmost 3% people are found to have an inherited condition which is called LynchSyndrome. This condition causes abnormalities in genes which repair the DNA of bodycells. Over a long period of time if this damage remains unchecked then it leads tocancer. A person who has Lynch syndrome has high probability of deve... More »
Strangely Patients Under More Experienced Doctors Turned Out to Fare Worsen
In spite of common sense, condition of patients under the care of seasoned doctors worsened than those with newcomers. The findings of American Journal of Medicine says that the patients whose doctors were practicing for almost 20 years stayed longer in hospital and were more likely to die as compared to the patients whose doctors were licensed in past five years. According to Dr Niteesh... More »
Have Vitamin C : Avoid cataract
What is Cataract A cataract is a condition that develops in the lens of the eye. These result in clouding of the eye's lens that commonly obstruct one’s vision, especially in old age. Studies suggest that people with higher intakes of antioxidants, including vitamin C, have a lower risk of developing cataract. However these studies can not be relied upon, as they have been all been done ... More »
Millions of Ethiopians in risk of Cholera and other infectious diseases : WHO
According to WHO, a large number of people (5 million) are prone to cholera, in Ethiopia, the place which was recently hit by a severe drought. Acute water diarrhoea has broken out in crammed full and unhygienic conditions. What is Cholera Its a severe intestinal infection and causes watery diarrhoea . It can lead to rigorous dehydration and also death if treatment is not given on time. ... More »
Advanced Never Smoker Adenocarcinoma of the Lung- study of a patient with lung cancer who never smoked
Advanced Never Smoker Adenocarinoma of the Lung: Report of Paired Normal and Tumor Whole Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing, as it is named, is the first in its kind of study about a patient suffering from lung cancer who has never smoked throughout her life. The study is been presented by The Translational Genomics Research Institute and the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Centre at Scottsdale Healt... More »
How a Neuron Responds to relevant singles only, study finds
It is quiet confounding as to how the busy nerve cells of our brain respond to the most relevant of the signals coming to the brain from all the parts of the body? There are a number of activities going on inside a human body simultaneously like gland secretion, muscle contraction, sense of touch, light and sound and all the information is stimulated and processed inside the brain of the body. ... More »
South Asians born in New York at the highest risk of diabetes
A study in the New York City has shown that immigrants from South Asia have the highest risk of developing diabetes. The data was provided by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This fact might get hidden behind the grouping of Indians with other Asians. Using the available data the authors of the study concluded that South Asians born in foreign had the highest risk of d... More »
