A hands-free ultrasound device combined with clot buster is safe for ischemic stroke patients, as it could help open up more arteries and improve patient outcomes, according to a new study.
The device is placed on the stroke patient’s head and delivers ultrasound to enhance the effectiveness of the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), according to the report in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
Cuban researchers are working on developing two cholera oral-vaccines, one of which is in advanced clinical trials, experts said here.
Reinaldo Acevedo, deputy director of Cuba’s Finlay Institute, told the 20th Latin American Pharmacology and Therapeutics Congress that the institute is working on a live vaccine and an inactive one, Xinhua reported Thursday.
The live vaccine, in development for more than 10 years, “is composed of live cholera bacteria after extracting the virulence factors. Thus, it is a strain of the disease, but is not pathogenic,” Acevedo said.
Researchers have discovered that a child, as young as 18 months of age, is at an increased risk of developing emotional and disruptive problems if his or her mother suffers from anxiety and depression symptoms.
According to the findings from the TOPP study, the risk persisted into adolescence and also gave an increased risk of depressive symptoms.
Health experts have warned that healthy people who take a daily aspirin in a bid to reduce their risk of disease should stop doing so because of potential health dangers.
Many people take a dose once a day to ward off the threat of cancer or heart attacks.
But a major new NHS review concluded that it is a “fine balance” due to the dangers of bleeding in the brain and stomach, the Mirror reported.
Overall, it warned against taking the drug until there was more evidence.
Dengue cases in the capital Thursday rose to 4,207 from 4,074 Monday, said municipal health officer N.K. Yadav.
Till now, there have been six confirmed and eight suspected deaths from the vector-borne disease, according to the capital’s civic authorities.
Of the 4,207 cases, 4,164 has been reported from Delhi and remaining from the adjoining states.
The north corporation has the highest number of cases (1,814) while the south and east corporations have 1,248 and 986 cases, respectively.
The Supreme Court Thursday awarded Rs.5.96 crore compensation to Kunal Saha, an Indian-American doctor, ordering the Kolkata-based Advance Medicare Research Institute to pay for medical negligence resulting in the death of his wife Anuradha Saha in 1988.
A bench of Justice C.K. Prasad and Justice V. Gopala Gowda passed the order on an appeal by Saha, who had challenged the compensation of Rs.1.72 crore awarded by National Consumer Forum. Saha is a US-based NRI.
The apex court earlier held some of the doctors of the hospital liable for criminal liability.
Doctors have revealed that they may have put HIV into remission in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus.
The new report on the case, which was reported earlier this year, by the New England Journal of Medicine said that the girl who was infected in the womb and was treated unusually aggressively, and has shown no active infection despite stopping AIDS medicines 18 months ago, the Huffington Post reported.
A new research has suggested that a common food additive can block a deadly new strain of avian influenza virus from infecting healthy cells.
The compound, in wide use as a preservative, binds to a part of the flu virus that has never been targeted by any existing antiviral drug, raising hopes for its effectiveness against multi-drug-resistant flu viruses.
A team of researchers have determined that under certain conditions, the sweat gland stem cells could heal skin wounds.
They have claimed that the glands can also help regenerate all layers of the epidermis.
USC faculty member Krzysztof Kobielak and his team used a system to make all of the sweat gland cells in a mouse easy to spot: labeling them with green fluorescent protein (GFP), which is visible under ultraviolet light.
Taking up the issue of the large number of unplanned pregnancies across the globe, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Wednesday underlined the importance of women’s sexual and reproductive health while speaking at a conference in Beijing.
A staggering 222 million women around the world lack access to contraceptive services, leading to 80 million unplanned pregnancies, 30 million unplanned births and 20 million unsafe abortions every year, Azad said while addressing the “International Inter-ministerial Conference on South-South Cooperation” in the Chinese capital.
Listening to music helps in relieving persistent physical pain in four out of ten people, a new study has found.
Out of the 1,500 people surveyed, 66 percent of the 16 to 24-year-olds said music has helped them to soothe pain, reported the Daily Mail Tuesday citing a study conducted by LloydsPharmacy.
Among the various types of music, pop music was the most popular, helping 21 percent of people, followed by classical music at 17 percent and rock or indie music at 16 percent, the report said.
Listening to music helps in relieving persistent physical pain in four out of ten people, a new study has found.
Out of the 1,500 people surveyed, 66 percent of the 16 to 24-year-olds said music has helped them to soothe pain, reported the Daily Mail Tuesday citing a study conducted by LloydsPharmacy.
Among the various types of music, pop music was the most popular, helping 21 percent of people, followed by classical music at 17 percent and rock or indie music at 16 percent, the report said.
Moms-to-be who smoke may significantly raise their babies’ risk of developing respiratory and other infections, a new study has warned.
Researchers found that infants of mothers who smoked were 50 per cent more likely to be admitted to a hospital or die from any of a wide variety of infectious diseases than babies of mothers who did not smoke.
For the study, researchers reviewed hospitalisation records and death certificates of 50,000 infants born in the state of Washington between 1987 and 2004.
Vision researchers and eye care professionals are working on defining and managing the causes of contact lens discomfort (CLD) which is the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction with, and discontinuation of, contact lens wear throughout the world.
Jason J. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, Professor at the University of Houston College of Optometry, said up to half of all contact lens wearers experience CLD, but, there is no global consensus concerning the definition, classification, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, management and the proper design of clinical studies for CLD.
Scientists have developed a fast, efficient way to turn cells extracted from routine liposuction into liver cells.
The scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine performed their experiments in mice, but the adipose stem cells they used came from human liposuction aspirates and became human, liver-like cells that flourished inside the mice’s bodies.
A daily dose of vitamin D can be used in the battle against Type 2 diabetes, experts have revealed.
Researchers are carrying out a major clinical trial to confirm whether taking vitamin D can prevent or delay the condition, the Daily Express reported.
They believe that the “sunshine vitamin” may reduce diabetes risk by 25 per cent.
The study led by Professor Philip Raskin, from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, is a four-year trial across America which will track 2,500 people age 30 or older who have pre-diabetes.
A new study has revealed that coffee consumption can reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the most common type of liver cancer, by about 40 percent.
The research also indicated that three cups of coffee per day reduces liver cancer risk by more than 50 percent.
A new type of underwear has been designed using chemical warfare technology to filter your farts.
The hi-tech pants, created by Shreddies Ltd. based in Loughborough, feature a highly absorptive carbon cloth back panel which traps and neutralises flatulence odours, the Daily Star reported.
The thin and flexible cloth, which contains Zorflex – the same activated carbon material used in chemical warfare suits – is reactivated simply by washing the pants.
A new paper describes the observation-based relationships of the structure and supersonic internal motions of molecular clouds where stars form.
The paper has provided an explanation for the origin of three observed correlations between various properties of molecular clouds in the Milky Way galaxy known as Larson’s Laws.
The analysis by the UC San Diego researchers is based on recent observational measurements and data from six simulations of the interstellar medium, including effects of self-gravity, turbulence, magnetic field, and multiphase thermodynamics.
The Indian Railways will provide special meals on demand for diabetic and ailing passengers travelling on Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains.
This was stated in a communique from the railway ministry to Jagat Prakash Nadda, Rajya Sabha member of parliament (MP) from Himachal Pradesh.
Nadda had in February written to the railway minister seeking provision of special meals for travellers suffering from diabetes or cardio-vascular disease (CVD). He raised the issue through a question in the Rajya Sabha in August.
There has been a 280 percent rise in cancer patients in the past three decades in Kerala, reveals a study by the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) here.
“In the past one decade, there has been a 50 per cent growth itself and every year there are 25,000 new cancer patients in the state,” revealed the study.
Incidentally, the only full fledged cancer centre in Kerala is the RCC, while the Malabar Cancer Centre in Kannur district is as yet only partially operational.
A new study of the full genetic code of a common human virus has offered proof of the “out-of-Africa” pattern of human migration, which earlier had been documented by anthropologists and studies of the human genome.
Senior author Curtis Brandt, a professor of medical microbiology and ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that the virus under study, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), usually causes nothing more severe than cold sores around the mouth.
Infants who are bottle-fed are more likely to develop hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, than those who are breastfed, according to US researchers.
The risk appears to be magnified when mothers are older and have more than one child, researchers from the Seattle Children’s Hospital in Washington reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, Xinhua reported.
A new research has shown that learning only certain activities, such as photography, may help elderly improve their cognitive functioning.
These findings reveal that less demanding activities, such as listening to classical music or completing word puzzles, probably won’t bring noticeable benefits to an aging mind .
A new study has shown that obese adults live on average two to three months less after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, compared with healthy weight patients, even after adjusting for factors that are known to predict survival for patients with this disease, such as age and disease stage.
This association was statistically strongest for people who were overweight two decades before their diagnosis.