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By Medindia Health
- Aug 18, 2019
PROTEINS THAT MIGHT RESTORE DAMAGED SOUND-DETECTING CELLS IN THE EAR DISCOVERED
Scientists have discovered a pair of proteins that precisely control when sound-detecting cells, known as hair cells are born in the...
Hair
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 18, 2019
WHOLE BODY VIBRATION BENEFITS DIABETICS
In diabetes condition, whole body vibration appears to improve how well our body uses glucose as an energy source and adjust our microbiome...
Diabetes
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
ABDOMINAL OBESITY: MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR PREMATURE DEATH
General and abdominal obesity were strongly associated with mortality among Mexican adults. Each 5 kg/m2 increase in BMI above 25 kg/m2...
Obesity
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY LUPUS ANTIBODY TARGET
Scientists have discovered a specific target of antibodies that are implicated in the neuropsychiatric symptoms of lupus.
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
ANTISEPTIC RESISTANCE IN BACTERIA COULD LEAD TO NEXT-GEN PLASTICS, SAY RESEARCHERS
The molecular machinery used by bacteria to resist chemicals designed to kill them could also help produce precursors for a new generation...
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
NEW WAY TO CHOOSE THE SEX OF OFFSPRING DISCOVERED
A new and reversible chemical treatment was found to segregate X-bearing sperm from Y-bearing sperm.
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
NEGATIVE MEMORY STORAGE AFFECTS DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS: STUDY
Physical manifestations of negative memories in the hippocampus could underlie cognitive symptoms of depression, stated study.
Depression
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
STRONG BONES FOR ALL AGE GROUPS
Bone health is important for women and men at any age, but particularly for older people.
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
OPIOID USE DISORDER TREATMENT LINKED WITH INCREASED TREATMENT OF OTHER CHRONIC DISEASES
Patients receiving treatment of opioid use disorder are more susceptible to use medications for chronic and unrelated ailments.
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
MELANOMA CANCERS AND MOLES HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON
Skin cancer is affected by the number and types of moles on the body. Scientists have uncovered specific gene variation which may be...
Skin, Cancer
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
DAMAGED SOUND DETECTION CELLS IN THE EAR RESTORED USING NEW PROTEINS
Irreversible deafness may be restored in the future using the newly discovered proteins.
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
CYSTIC FIBROSIS CAN BE DIAGNOSED USING NEW INTRA-NASAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
Cystic fibrosis patients can be diagnosed using a minimally invasive new tool for viewing differences in the nasal airways at a cellular...
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
NOVEL PROTEIN IDENTIFIED COULD MAKE OPIOID USE SAFER IN THE FUTURE
GPR139 could someday play a significant role in decreasing withdrawal symptoms in patients, making opioids safer to prescribe, finds...
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES FOR END-OF-LIFE INTERVENTIONS IN ADVANCED DEMENTIA
Many older nursing home residents with advanced dementia have a lower life expectancy. Men received burdensome interventions and antibiotics...
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
STRESS CAN CURB THE DESIRE TO EAT
When a neurocircuit is activated in the mice, there was an increase in anxiety or stress levels and a decrease in appetite, finds a...
Stress
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
E. COLI CAUSE THE WORST POSSIBLE INFECTION BY LOCATING OXYGEN-FREE AREAS OF THE GUT
E. coli have a natural sensing process whereby a small form of RNA activates particular genes when the oxygen is low, and the bacterium...
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
HOSPITAL-BASED ADDICTION INTERVENTION CAN IMPROVE SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT ENGAGEMENT
Addiction intervention in hospital proves successful in treating substance use disorder , reveals a new study.
Hospital
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
NEW STUDY REFINE GUIDELINES FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN INJURIES
Measuring carbon dioxide level through the artery can be more effective than the noninvasive method for pediatric brain injuries, finds...
Brain
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
WEARABLE SENSORS TO DECODE SWEAT COMPOSITION
New non-invasive wearable sensors can detect the composition of sweat such as sweat rate, electrolytes, and metabolites.
Sweating
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By Medindia Health
- Aug 17, 2019
NEW SKIN-HUGGING SENSOR CAN TRACK YOUR HEALTH IN REAL-TIME
New skin-hugging sensor developed to monitor health. This new wearable wireless sensor that sticks to the skin uses a new type of radiofrequency...
Skin
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The headlines of Master Doctor
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Alfie Dingley, one year on after he changed the law on medicinal cannabis
Alfie Dingley, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, pictured here with his mother Hannah, left, used to suffer 75 seizures a day until he was prescribed an oil-based cannabis...
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45% of Americans Are Out Here Wearing the Same Underwear For 2 Days in a...
Today in things you wish you didn't know: a new survey shows that 45 percent of Americans wear the same pair of underwear for two days or longer. Meanwhile, 13 percent took...
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Yes, You Can Eat Dairy and Still Lose Weight - and These 3 Foods Will Help...
Dairy products have something of a bad reputation with putting on pounds, but does eating dairy actually make you gain weight? It's a fair question to ask, because the people...
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Stress can Curb the Desire to Eat
When a neurocircuit is activated in the mice, there was an increase in anxiety or stress levels and a decrease in appetite, finds a new study.
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New Skin-Hugging Sensor can Track Your Health in Real-time
New skin-hugging sensor developed to monitor health. This new wearable wireless sensor that sticks to the skin uses a new type of radiofrequency identification to beam signals...
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School Shootings and Lockdowns: How do Kids Cope?
School shootings have become much more common occurrences in the 21st century. What affect are these events - and the drills designed to protect kids from them - having on...
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Why I Won't Cry When My Child Starts Kindergarten
In a few weeks I'll hand over the keys to my most valuable commodity: my child.
She'll march into kindergarten, without me. She'll eat lunch, laugh, sing, read stories, and...
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Weed poisonings in kids doubled after medical marijuana was legalized in...
Most of the calls were for older kids who intentionally got into adults' legal stashes of medical marijuana - but may have been 'surprised' by the potency, new University of...
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British women who developed a form of cancer linked to their breast implants...
Linzy Bromfield, 50, 'thought she was going to die' after she developed implant-associated lymphoma in 2016. She has the implants put in at a private clinic in the UK in 2005.
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Study: Can nanoparticles be used to deliver treatments to injured brain and...
A research team from Purdue University has designed a cutting-edge treatment that could quickly repair brain and spinal cord cells that have been injured. The treatment method...
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