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Scientists use artificial intelligence to detect heart disease
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According to a new study, scientists might be able to predict cardiovascular disease in individuals by looking at the genes in their DNA using artificial intelligence (AI). Atrial fibrillation and heart failure are examples of cardiovascular illnesses.
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Intake of Vitamin D might help preventing dementia: Research
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In the study, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, the team found that taking vitamin D was associated with living dementia-free for longer, and they also found 40 per cent fewer dementia diagnoses in the group who took supplements.
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Research: Alzheimer's development linked to cholesterol, toxic protein clu
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Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
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Researchers show new ways of tracking spread of infectious diseases
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In the three-dimensional world we live in, we are used to thinking in terms of shortest paths, for instance, how to go from home to work through the shortest/fastest possible route. But in multi-dimensional systems (adding traffic, multiple modes of transportation, and road constructions), t
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Study reveals using a smartphone help detect anaemia in children
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With just a collection of smartphone photographs, researchers from the University of Ghana and the University of London were able to accurately determine whether or not children had anaemia.
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Researchers reveal insomnia linked to higher risk of heart attack
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Recent studies show that people with insomnia have a 69 per cent higher risk of having a heart attack than people without it over the course of an average nine-year follow-up, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Along With t
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Bill Gates meets PM Modi, discusses India's "incredible progress and innov
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"India has an amazing ability to manufacture lots of safe, effective, and affordable vaccines, some of them supported by the Gates Foundation. Vaccines produced in India have saved millions of lives during the pandemic and prevented other diseases around the world," Gates posted in his bl
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AI might help detect Alzheimer's disease from routine brain imaging tests:
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Although researchers have made progress in detecting signs of Alzheimer's disease using high-quality brain imaging tests collected as part of research studies, a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently developed an accurate method for detection that relies on routinely collecte
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Obesity increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension more than dyslipidemi
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Obesity is becoming more frequent around the world, despite the health hazards and higher mortality associated with the diseases and ailments that accompany it (comorbidities).
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Study finds development of Alzheimer's linked with cholesterol, toxic prot
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Researchers at Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
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Study reveals how neural stem cells potentially be reactivated to form new
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Neural stem cells that are quiescent or latent in some parts of the adult brain may one day become active and create new neurons. Yet, nothing is currently known about the change from quiescence to proliferation.
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Delhi HC pulls up Centre, AIIMS for not informing about clinical trial of
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the central government, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and even the counsel for petitioners for not informing it about the beginning of clinical trials for rare disease medicine. The court was hearing the batch of petitions by the
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