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Researchers map deep brain stimulation target for Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the fifth leading cause of death in adults over 65 years old. While many potential treatments for neurodegenerative disease focus on developing drugs to target key culprits, a relatively new approach aims to treat the brain.
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Study reveals why humans get infected with rodent-borne diseases
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In a global study, researchers have identified that most reservoirs of rodent-borne diseases tend to live exclusively or occasionally in or near human dwellings, show large fluctuations in their numbers, and/or are hunted for meat or fur.
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Researchers discover immune reservoir to treat Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers suggested cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that circulates inside of and around your brain and spinal cord, your three-pound brain doesn't feel particularly heavy. This fluid-filled space between your brain and skull shields it from a blow to the head and saturates it with nutrition.
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Researchers reveal intermediate cells that helps to treat resistance in pr
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
From the onset of the disease through the point of androgen independence, where the tumour no longer responds to hormone restriction therapy, researchers have described prostate cancer cell dynamics at a single-cell resolution over the course of the disease.
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Researchers find factors linked to optimal aging
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
What are the keys to "successful" or optimal ageing? A new study followed more than 7,000 middle-aged and older Canadians for approximately three years to identify the factors linked to well-being as we age.
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Combination of bad cholesterol, high blood pressure may increase heart att
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
High levels of lipoprotein(a), a type of "bad" cholesterol, may be associated with an 18-20 per cent higher risk of cardiovascular disease among people who have hypertension. However, CVD risk was not higher among those without hypertension, according to new research
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Government to give Rs 30 cr compensation for cattle death due to Lumpy dis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Remedies are being provided to prevent skin nodule disease from affecting the economic status of farmers and livestock owners as it directly impairs livestock productivity. Minister Prabhu Chavan explained that a maximum compensation of Rs 20,000 for each dairy heifer and Rs 30,000 for bulls
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Elderly people, young children should take serious precautions this winter
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"People should take precautions like wearing monkey caps protecting ears and noses. Woollen clothes like sweaters should be used. Hand gloves can also be used. Pregnant women, children, old age people and people with Hypertension, Diabetes, Kidney and asthma should take special precautions,"
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Measles kills four-year-old girl in Mumbai, toll reaches 16
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a statement issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the girl had an acute respiratory failure due to bronchopneumonia with measles.
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Extreme weather linked to cardiovascular deaths: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Extremely hot and cold temperatures both increased the risk of death among people with cardiovascular diseases, such as ischemic heart disease (heart problems caused by narrowed heart arteries), stroke, heart failure and arrhythmia, according to new research published today in the American H
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Hearts and bodies change with age, heart disease treatments may need to ch
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For people ages 75 and older, age-related changes in general health and in the heart and blood vessels require consideration and likely modifications in how heart attacks and heart disease are treated, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in the Associ
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Three-medicine combination therapy is beneficial in patients with high-ris
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new, phase 2 clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute doctors, a three-medicine combination that drove chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients into profound remissions in a clinical study is very beneficial in patients with high-risk variants of the disease.
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