Medibulletin Desk
A new cholesterol-lowering drug, bempedoic acid could help treat patients unable to take statins due to side effects
A new cholesterol-lowering drug, bempedoic acid reduces levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol or ‘bad cholesterol’ by blocking an enzyme ATP citrate...
Study shows how learnings from tobacco have been used to push sell sugar sweetened beverages
Tobacco conglomerates once used colors, flavors and marketing techniques to entice children as future smokers. When they bought food and drink companies starting in 1963,...
Study shows herbs may offer treatment options for kidney diseases
Dialysis is a way of life for many patients suffering with kidney ailments in the country.
In view of limited options for treatment of the kidney disease in allopathy, experts representing...
Most deaths of children aged 5-14 in India are from communicable diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and vaccine-preventable diseases, says The Lancet
Most deaths of children aged five to 14 in India, China, Brazil and Mexico arise from preventable or...
Study finds more adolescents are now exposed to communicable and non communicable diseases, also violence
In the first study to track recent global changes to adolescent health, published in The Lancet, researchers estimate that, compared with 1990, an additional 250 million...
Study shows that when pregnant women smoke, chances of sudden unexpected infant death go up
The first findings to result from a collaboration between Seattle Children's Research Institute and Microsoft data scientists provide new information about how smoking before and during pregnancy...
Study shows areas of the brain associated with thinking skills are the worst affected by smoking, hypertension, obesity
Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood and pulse pressures, obesity and diabetes can also...
Study shows that sleep disordered breathing or sleep apnea more common in athletes
A study of university rugby players has shown that they are more likely to suffer sleep disordered breathing such as sleep apnea.
The study also showed that the...
Even low amounts of exposure to passive or secondhand smoke linked to higher risk of kidney disease
A new study has revealed a link between exposure to secondhand smoke and the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
This study, provides additional...
A minimally invasive procedure called robotic stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) increases accuracy of intractable epilepsy surgery
A new procedure called robotic stereoelectroemcephalography can make surgery for intractable epilepsy more accurate.
A study, published this week in JAMA Neurology, revealed that patients who had...
