Bringing attention to the response towards cancer care, the frequency of cancer is increasing at a tremendous rate.
As 10,000 baby boomers reach 65 each day, cancer is said to be increased by 67 percent between 2010 and 2030.
Cancer is diagnosed at a higher rate, accounting for more survivors, and results in more deaths than in younger patients.
Experts from leading cancers institutions, including AIIMS, submitted a set of recommendations to the Union Health Ministry demanding a part of the taxes coming from tobacco industry be reserved for cancer research.
They also strongly advocated strict enforcement of a law to bring down the easy availability of tobacco products.
“15 years ago cervical cancer was the top most cancer type in Indian females in the cities, but today, it is the second most common cancer type next to breast cancer.
Researchers have developed foam shape memory polymers that could cure Aneurysms.
The researchers funded by NIBIB in Texas A and M’s bioengineering department are moving rapidly to provide a better treatment by using the unique properties of (SMPs) for this serious disorder which affects thirty thousand Americans.
The group, which is led by Associate Professor Duncan Maitland, is using SMPs in a pig model of brain aneurysm to develop a minimally-invasive procedure that fills and stabilizes the aneurysm.
An Indian origin surgeon has performed a historic first retrograde gene therapy, a novel procedure designed to deliver stem cells to the heart to repair damaged muscle and arteries in the most minimally invasive way possible.
Amit Patel, MD, director of Clinical Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering and an associate professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine performed the therapy on American actor, Ernie Lively.
Scientists have found that Alzheimer’s – a neurodegenerative disorder – may actually be a late stage of Type 2 diabetes.
The findings also suggest that losing weight and exercising may ward off Alzheimer’s, at least in the very early stages, researchers said.
The extra insulin produced by those with Type 2 diabetes also gets into the brain, disrupting its chemistry, which can lead to the formation of toxic clumps of amyloid proteins that poison brain cells, researchers said.
A new study has found that women who are members of families with BRCA2 mutations but who test negative for the family-specific BRCA2 mutations are still at greater risk for developing breast cancer compared with women in the general population.
Women with certain mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at increased risk for breast cancer. However, the study suggested that it may not always be true.
A new study has revealed that a simple urine test could distinguish between aggressive and low-grade bladder cancers, thus helping doctors to tailor and speed up their treatment.
Researchers from the University of Birmingham measured levels of a protein shed by bladder tumours in 600 patients and found that higher amounts of the protein, EpCAM, in the urine were associated with more aggressive cancers, News.com.au reported.
A new study has revealed that people with diabetes have a 73 percent higher chance of being admitted to a hospital for heart failure than general population.
The study conducted on more than two million people with diabetes also suggested that diabetics are 38 percent more likely to die early, News.com.au reported.
The National Diabetes Audit, which covers England and Wales, also found that diabetics admitted to hospital for heart failure had more than quadruple the odds of dying in the following year compared to the general population.
Researchers have shown that brain cell damage similar to that seen in Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders results when a gene that controls the sleep-wake cycle and other bodily rhythms is disabled.
A new discovery, by Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pennsylvaniam may help explain the surprisingly strong connections between sleep problems and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
A new study has found that women who are members of families with BRCA2 mutations but who test negative for the family-specific BRCA2 mutations are still at greater risk for developing breast cancer compared with women in the general population.
Women with certain mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at increased risk for breast cancer. However, the study suggested that it may not always be true.
CARe Keralam, which recently scientifically validated the anti-diabetes ayurvedic formulation Nishaakathakaadhi Kashayam (NKK) thus facilitating its sale abroad, is going ahead with the same process for other products too, an official said Sunday.
The scientific validation of the diabetes formulation was a first-of-its-kind attempt in the history of ayurveda. Such validation is necessary for the marketing and sale of ayurvedic products in foreign markets.
A new study has found that cyclin D1, a protein that helps push a replicating cell through the cell cycle also mediates the processing and generation of mature microRNA (miRNA).
The research suggests that a protein strongly implicated in human cancer also governs the non-protein-coding genome.
The non-coding genome, previously referred to as junk DNA, makes up most of the human genome, and unlike the coding genome, varies greatly between species.
Health authorities in Meghalaya today said the number of people living with HIV/AIDS virus has increased many folds since 2007 when only 14 persons were tested positive.
Today 1163 persons are living with the virus and authorities believed there could be more who are yet to come forward to test.
Research has shown that aspirin could be a cheap and simple way to prevent dementia and cancer.
Scientists said that preliminary tests have proven that the common pill which is already routinely taken to protect against coronary disease, heart attacks and stroke, may prevent the two chronic illnesses as well, the Daily Express reported.
Research team leader Professor Mark Nelson added that the study will start next summer and results are expected by 2018. (ANI)
A new study has revealed that sex can be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life.
The research, which was conducted on fruit flies, found that male fruit flies that perceived sexual pheromones of their female counterparts- without the opportunity to mate- experienced rapid decreases in fat stores, resistance to starvation and more stress. The sexually frustrated flies lived shorter lives.
Mating, on the other hand, partially reversed the negative effects on health and aging.
In a first, Spanish scientists have designed small synthetic molecules that can block the replication of the deadly AIDS virus.
The newly designed molecules inhibit the output of genetic material of the virus from the infected cell nucleus to the cytoplasm, thus the virus replication is blocked and avoids the infection of other cells.
This achievement has been obtained for the “first time in the world” by a group of researcher led by Jose Gallego from Universidad Catolica de Valencia.
American cardiologists appear staunch in their support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform, although some fear that its rocky launch could derail efforts to improve preventive care for needy patients.
The broad support for the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, emerged in interviews last week in Dallas with more than 20 cardiologists at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association. The group has set an aggressive goal of reducing heart disease and deaths from heart disease and strokes in the United States by 20 percent by 2020.
A new study has revealed that sex can be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life.
The research, which was conducted on fruit flies, found that male fruit flies that perceived sexual pheromones of their female counterparts- without the opportunity to mate- experienced rapid decreases in fat stores, resistance to starvation and more stress. The sexually frustrated flies lived shorter lives.
Mating, on the other hand, partially reversed the negative effects on health and aging.
A new study has shown how spatial information is incorporated into memories and why remembering an experience can quickly bring to mind other events that happened in the same place.
A team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University showed used a video game, in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, to discover how brain cells that encode spatial information form “geotags” for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.
A Chinese man was born with his heart in his abdomen and is hoping that doctors will put it in the right place.
Ho Zhiliang is suffering from congenital cardiac exposure syndrome, where his heart is seen visible right below the skin of his abdomen, the New York Daily News reported.
According to Xie He Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, more than 90 percent of the people born with this rare condition die at birth or soon afterwards.
The UN Children’s Fund says it is alarmed about increasing HIV and AIDS rates among adolescents over the last seven years and is advocating an aggressive program that includes condom distribution and antiretroviral treatment.
In a more positive development, UNICEF found that mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus has been dramatically reduced and estimated that some 850,000 cases were prevented in low- and middle-income countries.
Consuming nuts at least seven times a week can reduce risk of death from any cause by 20 percent, says a new study.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), also establishes a significant association between the consumption of nuts and a lower incidence of death due to heart diseases, cancer and respiratory diseases.
The study said nutrients in nuts, such as unsaturated fatty acids, protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants may confer heart-protective, anti-carcinogenic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Researchers have suggested that breast cancer growth can be fuelled by high cholesterol, as a by-product of cholesterol functions like the hormone estrogen to enhance the growth and spread of the disease.
The researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute also found that anti-cholesterol drugs such as statins appear to diminish the effect of this estrogen-like molecule.
A range of studies have shown dementia cases have been declining among those born later in the last century.
B. Larson, MD, MPH, executive director of Group Health Research Institute and Group Health”s vice president for research, said people are tending to live longer, with worldwide populations aging, so there are many new cases of dementia. But some seem to be developing it at later ages—and they are optimistic about this lengthening of the time that people can live without dementia.
A less intoxicating version of Vaportini, which allows inhaling of alcoholic beverages, has been created by Camellia’s Tea House in the UK, enabling tea lovers to experience their drink in a new way.
The Breathable Tea Room was demonstrated at the Experimental Food Society Spectacular 2013, where a number of its blends were vaporized and served as a smoky gas, which visitors could inhale through a straw.
According to Springwise.com, besides providing a new experience for the tea drinker, the innovation could also help avoid burned tongues.