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Study: People using reusable contact lenses are at higher risk of rare eye
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], September 23 (ANI): According to a study, a group of researchers found that those who wear reusable contact lenses are nearly four times more likely to get a rare sight-threatening eye infection than those who wear daily disposables.
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Pakistan faces spread of Malaria, other diseases in flood-hit areas
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], September 23 (ANI): As Pakistan continues to bear the brunt of ongoing floods, infectious diseases like Malaria, typhoid and dengue fever are fast spreading across regions as the death toll reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, the Express Tribune reported.
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Study sheds light on blood cells' precancerous 'clonal expansion'
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], September 22 (ANI): According to a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, the New York Genome Center, Harvard Medical School, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a typical, spontaneous mutation in blood stem cells, which has been linked to h
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Every 2 seconds, 1 person under 70 dies of noncommunicable diseases in wor
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Diseases relating to the heart, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases claim the lives of every one person every two seconds under the age of 70, a World Health Organisation report has said.
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Heart attack is most common cause of Cardiac arrest: Top Expert after Come
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Hours after the demise of comedian Raju Srivastav on Wednesday, the top experts at Fortis Escorts said that heart is the most common cause of Cardiac arrest in people.
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Study reveals process of how Parkinson's disease spreads in brain
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], September 21 (ANI): According to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers, aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein spread in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease via a cellular waste-ejection process.
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Adult ADHD linked to elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): Adults with ADHD are at greater risk of developing a range of cardiovascular diseases than those without the condition, according to a large observational study.
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Pakistan floods: Infectious diseases kill nine people in Sindh in 24 hours
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], September 20 (ANI): As infections continue to rise across flood-hit Pakistan, at least nine people have been reported dead of viral diseases in Sindh on Monday, ARY News reported citing the data of the Ministry of Health.
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Study suggests more attention on synanthropic flies, disease carriers
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Amherst [US], September 20 (ANI): According to a new study, "synanthropic" flies, or non-biting flies that live with us, need to be paid more attention as disease carriers. While epidemiologists have focused on biting flies, which can spread diseases by transferring infected blood from host
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Floods heap miseries, diseases on young Pakistanis
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 19 (ANI): The catastrophic floods in Pakistan have heaped miseries and diseases on its young population, local media reported. Besides, the flood-ravaged country is also facing onslaught of malnutrition.
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Outbreak of infections in Pakistan's Sindh 'uncontrollable' as floods wrea
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], September 19 (ANI): Unprecedented floods across Pakistan have resulted in a widespread outbreak of infectious diseases in the country, posing a severe threat to the health of the citizens.
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WHO expresses concern over wave of diseases, deaths post floods in Pakista
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): The World Health Organization on Saturday expressed deep concerns about the potential for a "second disaster in Pakistan: a wave of diseases and deaths" following the unprecedented floods caused by climate change, that have engulfed over 1,500 lives
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