Medibulletin Desk
Lancet Study says globally one in every five deaths is because of poor diet
Globally, one in five deaths (11 million deaths) in 2017 were associated with poor diet, with cardiovascular disease being the biggest contributor, followed by cancers...
Long-term survival improved in advanced pancreatic cancer patients following extended chemotherapy before surgery
Most pancreatic cancers are considered advanced or inoperable when the tumors grow outside the pancreas to encompass veins and arteries. The average survival time is predicted to...
A new male birth control pill has successfully passed initial safety and tolerability tests in humans
A team of scientists announced that a new male birth control pill has successfully passed initial safety and tolerability tests in humans.
The once-daily pill...
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 40 per cent less likely to survive their skin cancer. These are the findings of...
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 of four selected pain medications - offered a promising complementary strategy to treat pain.
The pain...
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 living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV....
Study finds when men choose to have children late, there is increased risk of schizophrenia
Advanced paternal age increases the risk in offspring of early-onset schizophrenia, a severe form of the disorder, according to a study in Biological Psychiatry.
The association between paternal age...
Drug controller following warnings by Canada and US authorities makes warnings mandatory on some diabetes drugs
Diabetes drugs such as canagliflozin, dapagliflozin will have to carry a mandatory warning about the risk of genital infection.
In a circular issued on March...
New guidelines from Endocrine Society say post menopausal women should be treated for osteoporosis
The benefits of treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women outweigh the perceived risks, according to a Clinical Practice Guideline issued today by the Endocrine Society.
The Society introduced...
Study shows effects of TB drugs on gut bacteria could be the reason why they make patients susceptible to reinfection
Current treatments for tuberculosis (TB) are very effective in controlling TB infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). They don't, however,...
