The growing influence of doctors of Indian heritage is evident, as increasingly ...
Smokers beware. You maybe at a higher risk of suffering hearing loss, as a new study suggests that smoking affects the ability to hear both high and low frequency sounds. "These results provide strong evidence to support that smoking is a causal factor for hearing loss and emphasise the need for tobacco control to prevent or delay the development of hearing lo...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed "Disease X", which could potentially trigger deadly global epidemic in the near future, among priority diseases, calling for urgent measures to accelerate research and development to tackle it. "Disease X" was listed in the 2018 annual review of R&D Blueprint, a list developed by the WHO to ident...
Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new paediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC) that may help to calculate a specific risk for appendicitis in kids. With this new method, clinicians will be able to provide tailored medical and surgical guidance to a patient, the researchers said. "This method i...
The Modi government has released less than half of the budgeted allocation for health insurance of poor families in fiscal 2017-18, even as it promised to step up coverage with the proposed launch of what is called the world's largest government healthcare programme. The revenue allocation of Rs 975 crore for the Rashtriya Sw...
Researchers have found that patients with anal cancer, living in low median household income areas are at an increased risk of early death. According to the researchers, squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (SCCA) accounts for 8,200 new cancer cases and more than 1,000 cancer-related deaths in the US annually. "Our findings reveal that...
Finding it difficult to sleep? Blame your genes, say researchers, who identified specific genetic factors that may trigger the development of sleep problems. The findings established that insomnia was linked to the occurrence of specific variants on chromosome 7. It also demonstrated a genetic link between insomnia and psychiatric disorders and physical condit...
Researchers have identified a protein in saliva that protects the body from traveller's diarrhoea, a finding that may lead to the development of new preventive therapies for the disease. Traveller's diarrhoea is a digestive tract disorder that commonly causes loose stools and abdominal cramps. The findings showed that the protein histatin-5 in hum...
Let me start by saying that I don't want to sound a fanatic, for I don't suggest anything that I can't do myself. I quit smoking recently. And that's no small feat. Tobacco is the most common form of addiction and one of the most harmful as well, much more than the dreaded cannabis or for that matter Ecstasy, let alone alcohol. If, and I know it's a big if, alcohol is...
Eating more of dietary fibres that promote a type of gut bacteria may help in the fight against Type 2 diabetes, researchers suggest. Research findings showed that a diversified high fibre diet can promote 15 strains of gut bacteria that produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which provide energy to gut cells, reduce inflammation and help regulate...
