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Seborrheic Dermatitis Scalp and Treatments
If you see your head is scaly, flaky, and looks greasy you need to be more detailed in taking care of your hair daily, as it starts to show the symptom of seborrhoeic dermatitis scalp. In common term, we usually called it as Dandruff. The seborrhoeic dermatitis scalp could also occurs in babies ( cradle cap ). Unaware to most people, this symptom can also happen in other parts of the body such ... 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 »
Early Lazy Eye Treatment Showed Better Response to Treatment
According to researchers, it is found that treatment of lazy eye is proven to be more successful in younger children than older children. Older children can also get benefit from this treatment but according to the new survey, it is found that this treatment works more effectively in young children. On a survey of nearly 1,000 children treated for amblyopia, doctors found that that kids betw... More »
Despite new guidelines, overuse of heart treatment continues
Even after setting up new landmarks stating that costly therapies do not aid the heart patients well, Doctors in United States continue to high rated treatments for heart diseases. In the country, more than half of the heart patients who survived out of heart attack have a stent fitted in their blocked coronary artery to keep it open. A stent is a small metal mesh tube placed to clear the pathw... More »
Vitamin D may help to control Type2 diabetes
In a study it was found that Vitamin D supplements helped in reducing the risk factor for type2 diabetes. It was found to improve the functioning of insulin producing cells. Among the authors of the study was Dr. Anastassios Pittas, an endocrinologist at Tufts University Medical Center in Boston. Type2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes and it affects millions of people. The main char... More »
Screening of non-smokers for lung cancers: recommends a study in Japan
A recent study conducted in Japan has showed that chest scans of people who have never smoked will help in diagnosing cancer at the early stage. Such a step will also help in decreasing the number of deaths due to lung cancer. Health experts say that in non-Asian countries the results of the study will not be applicable. In the non-Asian countries most cases of lung cancers are those people who... More »
Road to Artificial Pancreas for Diabetes Solutions
Researchers are looking forward to formulate artificial pancreases that will ape the functions of an actual pancreas. This system consists of insulin pumps and sensors detecting glucose levels in the blood and will provide insulin to the diabetics. There was a three decade research going over this project and it just near to its complete development. In U.S, diabetes advocates and lawmak... More »
Striking improvements in Hepatitis C Treatment through a Drug
An international team of investigators headed by Dr. Ira M. Jacobson from New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center said in a breakthrough in Hepatitis C treatment that the drug telaprevir (Incivek) renders a spectacular improvement in the cure of the most common form of Hepatitis C infection. As a result of their study which has been published in the New England Journa... More »
Cancer Treatment Heading Towards new Dimensions with Molecular Movement
Researchers at University of London have come up new studies that reveal that the molecular movements can aid in treatment some of the aggressive types of the cancer. It is found that Met, a molecule, is the main reason to trigger and spread cancer as it relocates the negative part of the cell. It is the movement of these molecules from the inner side of the cell to the periphery that could sto... More »
Prostate Cancer Treatment
Yes it does ! Viagra could become part of treatment for prostate cancer. Scientists claim that drug potency may drastically reduce tumors. Laboratory tests on mice have shown that if the pills are combined with chemotherapy, not only reduce tumor size, but at the same time protects the heart, writes The Telegraph. Clinical researchers are planning further experiments to discover whether the... More »
