Monthly Archives: March 2019
Smokers are 40% less likely to survive skin cancer, show new study
Smokers who have skin cancer have a 40% less chance of surviving it compared to others
Melanoma patients with a history of smoking cigarettes are...
Music and painkillers work better than just medicines, finds study
Pairing music and painkillers improves pain and inflammation by 70-90%, finds a study
New research has found that pairing music and painkillers - with one...
Dementia or Alzheimer’s can be diagnosed at home over phone, internet
Researchers say using options such as telephone calls or a computer interface could be effective in assessing dementia progression at home
Clinical trials to develop new...
Despite clean air plan, 674 mn Indians could breathe polluted air in 2030
Study by IIASA and CEEW predicts that more than 674 million Indians could breathe polluted air in 2030, even if India were to comply with...
To curb smoking increase the legal age for buying, experts argue
Experts say increasing the legal buying age from 18 to 21 years would help curb smoking
Increasing the legal age for tobacco purchase should be...
The first HIV positive kidney transplant in the world is a success
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medicine perform the first transplant of an organ from one HIV positive person to another
For the first time, a person...
Global warming puts 1 bn more at risk of mosquito-borne diseases
Scientists say mosquito borne diseases like dengue, malaria etc can see a huge increase because of global warming
As many as a billion people could...
Does a heart patient need pacemaker? Computer can tell
Johns Hopkins develops a computer algorithm to tell whether heart patients with cardiac arrhythmias need pacemaker
Researchers led by Johns Hopkins have developed a computer-based...
To reduce stress, wish others well, say Iowa varsity researchers
Researchers from Iowa University say wishing others well reduces stress and anxiety
Wishing others well reduces stress and anxiety.
We all have a remedy - a...
Births by C-secs increased in India at twice the pace of the world
The drivers of increase in C-sec births in India are poorly understood, say French researchers who looked at the latest government data
Are Indian women...
