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Severe mental illness risks patient's heart
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 12 (ANI): People with severe mental illness are at a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population, according to a recent study.
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Srinagar hosts medical conference to create awareness about PCOS
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 12 (ANI): The department of endocrinology in Sher-e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) organised a three day medical conference to promote health sector and treat the challenging diseases and create awareness about possible causes of polyc
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Male, female hearts don't break the same way
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Turns out, certain diseases may need diagnoses and treatments tailored to gender as a recent study has found that the male and female brains react differently during cardiovascular activity.
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Power of personalized music in dementia care
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 10 (ANI): Music can be a cheap and easy way to provide relief to the nursing home residents coping with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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Leader in fight against leprosy bags WHO gold medal
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, has been conferred with the World Health Organisation's gold medal at the Global Partners Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), held in Geneva.
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Vitamin D deficiency? Stop using sunscreens
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 2 (ANI): Results from a clinical review find nearly one billion people worldwide may have deficient or insufficient levels of vitamin D due to chronic disease and inadequate sun exposure related to sunscreen use.
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Indian Council for Medical Research along others to raise awareness of Blo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI-NewsVoir): Recognizing that raised blood pressure or Hypertension is the biggest single contributing risk factor to death and the burden of disease worldwide, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) - Government of India, along with Public Health Foundation o
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Purifying of cells can treat Cancer: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 1 (ANI): According to a new study, refining the purification process of therapeutic cells may help in enhancing their use for treating cancer and many other diseases.
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Why are newborns at greater Herpes simplex virus disease risk?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 30 (ANI): Interferon is a crucial component of the human immune system's response to infection by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), but how important a role it plays in determining the severity of disease and explaining why newborns are so much more suscept
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Join the Breathefree movement and #SAVEYOURLUNGS
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 29 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Our choice of living has made us vulnerable to many lifestyle diseases. Smoking, no physical activity, food preferences and environmental factors like dust storm and pollution are making our lungs weak.
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Parkinson's disease starts in gut: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 27 (ANI): A recent study suggests that parkinson's disease, a disorder of the central nervous system, may start in the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve.
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Soy protein eases severity of inflammatory bowel disease
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 27 (ANI): People suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases should eat a diet supplemented with soy protein as it may serve as an effective adjunct therapy.
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