Fearing the effects of the Zika virus on their unborn children, pregnant women in Latin America increasingly have sought out abortion pills online from a nonprofit aid agency, a new study has found. The research, published on Wednesday as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine, is theContinue Reading
Selfie-addicts, take note! Constantly exposing your face to the light and radiation from smartphones may damage your skin, speed up ageing and promote wrinkles, dermatologists have warned. Doctors can tell which hand a person holds their phone in just by looking at which side of the face is most damaged,Continue Reading
People struck by Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, were the subject of an international conference in Rome last week. Jointly organized by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Healthcare Workers and a number of charitable foundations and organizations, the June 9-10th conference brought together leading experts in treating and caring for thoseContinue Reading
Some good news on the AIDS prevention front. The number of AIDS deaths annually has declined by 70-81 per cent during 2007-2015 in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra. However, this does not represent the true picture as far as Tamil Nadu is concerned. Overall, India is estimated to have registeredContinue Reading
Pune: There is bad news for the residents of Delhi. Air pollution will take away 6.3 years from your lifespan. Those living elsewhere in the country can breathe a little easy. Pollution will cut only 3.4 years from their lives. This was revealed by a study conducted by Pune-based IndianContinue Reading
Someday, dialysis patients might free themselves of clunky machines, moving about with a “wearable artificial kidney” instead. That’s the promise of a new clinical trial that suggests this type of technology is finally within reach. “This would be a game changer,” said one kidney specialist, Dr. Maria DeVita. “The factContinue Reading
Michigan(USA): Without a heart to pump oxygenated blood around the body, you die pretty quickly. In the meantime, however, one 25-year-old man has proved that it’s possible to live over a year while literally heartless. Stan Larkin went a massive 555 days wearing an ‘artificial heart’ backpack, which filled in afterContinue Reading
Of the various drugs abused, the most widely distributed and commonly used drug in the world is ‘tobacco’. A study titled “Prevalence of Tobacco Consumption in School Going Adolescent Boys in Urban Slum of Mumbai”, conducted by doctors of R N Cooper Hospital, has found that one in every sixthContinue Reading
A simple new blood test could hugely increase the effectiveness of cancer treatments by easily showing how effective it is. By detecting special chemical markers within the patient’s blood a doctor can now see whether the treatment is working or not. Thanks to its speed and ease of use the newContinue Reading
A necklace that stores two years of immunization records and a soap pen that encourages better hygiene among three to six year olds have been revealed as winners in a new ‘Wearables for Good’ challenge. Unicef, Arm Holdings and frog joined forces to host the event, which attracted 2,000 registrantsContinue Reading
