The researches find that the the largest laboratory operator in the GCC, initiated a blood donation campaign at Kuwait Hospital, Sharjah as part of their community support mission. The campaign, witnessing huge response from the people of Sharjah by showing up in support of saving lives, has collected units enough to support over 130 patients…
These new ‘search-and-destroy’ treatments are starting to show promise even in men with prostate cancer for whom targeted treatments and chemotherapies have stopped working but not all patients respond. In the new study, scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that testing men for faults in DNA repair gene; in their tumours could…
Up to two hours of endurance and resistance exercise daily during a long space flight mission; combined with IV fluid replacement after landing, help astronauts prevent dizziness and fainting during normal activity when they return to Earth. “This problem has bedeviled the space program for a long time, but this condition is something ordinary people…
As severe malnutrition is associating with lower exposure to the antimalarial drug lumefantrine in children treated with artemether-lumefantrine; the most common treatment, for uncomplicating falciparum malaria. Children under the age of five are particularly vulnerable; to malaria infection with 61% of all malaria deaths worldwide occurring in this group. Malnourished children are at an even…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Carmit Levy and Dr. Tamar Golan of the Department of Human Genetics and Biochemistry at TAU’s Sackler School of Medicine, have discovered that fat cells are involved in the transformation that melanoma cells undergo from cancer cells of limited growth in the epidermis to lethal metastatic cells…
Drug overdoses and suicides have been rising since 2000; and are major contributors to a 3‐year decline in US life expectancy. Studies suggest that workplace injury have elevated rates of depression and opioid use; but no studies have measured excess mortality related to these risks. A study co-authored by Boston University School of Public Health…
The implimentation of using contraceptives in Nepal; As only 43% of all married women of reproductive age in Nepal have access to modern contraceptives, according to the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) 2016 report. Although it was only 26% in 1996, there is still a huge unmet need for family planning. But the Nepal’s population clock…
The study find that the ordering CT for women who are pregnant, a new study suggests. During the past 2 decades, rates of exposure to ionizing radiation from medical imaging during pregnancy has increased dramatically in the United States and Canada, report Marilyn L. Kwan, PhD, from the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California,…