A New Laser Can Target And Kill Bloodstream Cancer Cells in Real Time
A team of scientists from the University of Arkansas have successfully tested a laser that can track down cancer cells and kill them – all from outside the skin. While being completely non-invasive,...
View ArticlePrimary health centre in Bihar being used as cow shelter even as encephalitis...
Startling medical apathy is coming to light from the state of Bihar where as many as 172 children have reportedly died due to encephalitis, a majority of them at the Kejriwal Hospital and Sri Krishna...
View ArticleHorns Are Growing on Human Skulls Because of Phone Use
By Zaria Gorvett From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower, our bones are changing in surprising ways Today...
View ArticleHorns Are Growing on Human Skulls Because of Phone Use
By Zaria Gorvett From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower, our bones are changing in surprising ways Today...
View ArticleOver 50 children die in Bihar, India, from brain disease linked to lychee fruits
At least 53 children have died in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, in northern India, from a brain disease thought to be linked to lychee fruit, while dozens more have been hospitalized. Acute Encephalitis Syndrome...
View ArticleHow alcohol damages stem cell DNA and increases cancer risk
Kate Kelland Drinking alcohol produces a harmful chemical in the body which can lead to permanent genetic damage in the DNA of stem cells, increasing the risk of cancer developing, according to...
View ArticleAntipsychotic drugs, restraints and seclusion: Mental health treatments...
Melbourne woman Jessica* is still struggling to come to terms with the debilitating impact of being on antipsychotic medications for long periods. She started taking them from her early 30s, when she...
View ArticleWHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition in 2018
In 2018, playing video games obsessively might lead to a diagnosis of a mental health disorder. In the beta draft of its forthcoming 11th International Classification of Diseases, the World Health...
View ArticleArsenic poisoning is spreading. We need drastic steps to tackle it
In a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the Union ministry of water resources said 239 million people across 153 districts in 21 states drink water that contains high levels of arsenic. That’s...
View ArticleAt 732 Million, India Tops List on Number of People Without Access to...
In addition to the increased risk of disease, the lack of sanitation facilities also makes women and girls susceptible to harassment. India, the world’s second-largest country by population, has the...
View ArticleIndian Doctors Only Spend 2 Minutes With Patients, Which Is Among The Worst...
The length of medical consultation, also called as primary care consultancy, on an average is 2 minutes in India, a study has revealed. The study published in medical journal, BMJ Open, which is the...
View Article3D cell printer tipped to be ‘game changer’ in preventing osteoarthritis
Australian surgeons hope to prevent the onset of osteoarthritis in patients by using 3D technology to print live cells to repair damage to bones, muscles, tendons and tissue in organs. The Aikenhead...
View ArticleAntibiotics linked to double the risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy
Antibiotics can double the risk of miscarriage if taken during early pregnancy, a new study suggests. A major review involving more than 95,000 women has found five common classes of the drug were...
View ArticleAt Least 64 Children Died Every Day In Madhya Pradesh In 2016
At least 64 children below the age of six died every day in the last year in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, and its infant mortality rate is worse that some African countries. The government was forced to...
View ArticleLearning from kangaroos: How skin-to-skin contact with parents saves newborn...
Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the coastal region of Montería...
View ArticleIndian children died after eating lychees on empty stomach
US and Indian scientists say a mystery illness that killed more than 100 children a year in northern India was caused by eating lychees on an empty stomach. For more than two decades, apparently...
View ArticleBaby not burping? This 10 point formula may help make your baby burp
Are you worried by seeing your baby getting uncomfortable and fussy after being fed? The fussiness and uneasiness of your baby may be because of lack of proper digestion and trapped gas in the stomach...
View ArticleWork-life balance ‘increasingly stressful for fathers’
Nearly half of working fathers would like a less stressful job so they can spend more time caring for their children, a study has found. About a third would take a pay cut to achieve a better...
View ArticleStudy: Smoking will kill eight million a year by 2030
Study conducted with US National Cancer Institute says 80 percent of deaths occur in low and middle-income countries Smoking will kill more than eight million people a year by 2030, according to a...
View ArticleBill Gates warns world “vulnerable” to deadly epidemic in next decade
LONDON: Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates warned on Friday that the world was vulnerable to a deadly epidemic of an illness like flu, with the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks underlining...
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