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Researchers find traces of Vitamin C deficiency disease Scurvy in Canada
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have found traces of a disease known as Scurvy in Canada. The debilitating condition is remembered as a disease of pirates.
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Researchers discover new tumour-driving mutations in under-explored region
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Jan 18 (ANI): Researchers have discovered new regions of non-coding DNA that when altered may lead to cancer growth and progression, according to a pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes. The analysis reveals novel mechanisms of disease progression that could lead to new
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Why are men more cancer-prone: Answer may lie in the Y chromosome
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], Jan 17 (ANI): Several studies have indicated that men are more prone to developing cancer as compared to women, however very little is known about why they display a higher susceptibility towards this deadly disease.
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Study reveals women's blood vessels age faster than men's
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 16 (ANI): According to new research women's blood vessels age faster than men's and puts them at risk of heart disease.
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Bioengineers opening up DNA to delete disease: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 15 (ANI): To access previously inaccessible genes to delete disease, protein editorial assistants are clearing the way for DNA editors like bacterial defence system CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).
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Burnout syndrome linked to cardiac disease: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Sophia Antipolis [France], 14 Jan (ANI): The burnout syndrome, which makes people feel excessively tired, devoid of energy, demoralized, and irritable; may lead to the onset of a potentially deadly heart rhythm disturbance. This finding appeared in a large study published in the European Jou
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Stress in pregnant mothers can affect babies' hearts, says study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): According to recent research, knowing that your unborn fetus has congenital heart disease can cause pronounced maternal stress, anxiety, and depression that can lead to impaired development in key brain regions of the babies before they are born.
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Now sonic pressure waves shall open up heart artery blockages
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Jan 14 (ANI/NewsVoir): On 11th January 2020, Dr Ashok Seth, Chairman Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and his team performed the first case in India using Coronary Shockwave Lithotripsy to open a very difficult and hard calcified blockage in a 70-year-old patient who had rece
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Machine keeps alive human livers for a week outside the body
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): Until now, livers could be stored outside the body for only a few hours. In a major breakthrough, researchers have developed a machine that repairs injured human livers and keeps them alive outside the body for one week.
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Lead exposure can be a risk factor for Alzheimer, says study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 13 (ANI): A team led by a scientist from the Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) have established a role of lead as a risk factor in the development of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Study reveals lower levels of lymphocyte blood cells may indicate increase
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. (USA) Jan 13 (ANI): Lower levels of lymphocyte blood cells in a condition called lymphopenia, could be an early warning for future illness according to a recent study conducted in Denmark. The reduced count of the immune cells was associated with a 60 percent increase in deat
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Brain diseases influence speaking ability, study shows
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 12 (ANI): Patients with language impairment due to Dementia have shown signs of reading and speech inefficiency, according to recent research. The study surveyed people whose mother tongue is either English or Italian.
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