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Study reveals multiple factors delay timely endometriosis diagnosis
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The researchers discovered a variety of contributing reasons after reviewing qualitative studies over the previous 20 years, including: a persisting stigma around periods; society's normalisation of menstruation discomfort; and a lack of medical knowledge concerning the issue.
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Study finds potential solution for bacterial infection
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
According to a new study, a vaccine originally developed to prevent bacteria-caused diarrhoea has now been found to help infant nonhuman primates grow faster and will treat bacterial infections.
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Study finds how weaker immune response to viral infections in children wit
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered in a recent study that infants with mitochondrial abnormalities had altered B cell function, which resulted in a weaker and less varied antibody response to viral infections. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research
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Afghanistan: Cases of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever increases in Kabul
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) cases have risen recently, according to the medical staff at Kabul's Infectious Diseases Hospital, reported TOLOnews.
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Mexico: 27 including an infant die, 17 severely injured as bus falls into
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Among the dead were 13 women and 13 men and a one-year-old baby.
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Lizol's #NoMoreHalfTruths campaign busts myths around Phenyls; Receives Ma
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5: For decades, Indian consumers have believed that phenyls are highly effective floor cleaners, however studies indicate that ordinary phenyls kill only 50% of germs on mopping**. A joint study conducted by Lizol, India's leading disinfectant brand, and an independen
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Researchers suggest antibiotic regimen for newborns
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Gentamicin is a commonly used antibiotic in the treatment of severely unwell newborns. It is water soluble and is mostly excreted from the body through the urine. As a result, total body weight, which includes the weight of the body's water content, is utilised to calculate gentamicin dose.
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Global efforts to combat infectious diseases must extend beyond childhood:
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to a new study, global efforts to lower infectious diseases must focus more on older children and adolescents as the disease burden shifts to this population.
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Researchers discover effective non-antibiotic approach for treatment of sk
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A research team led by Professor Kelvin Yeung from the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) developed a new microneedle patch to provide a highly effective non-antibiotic approach for the treat
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Hormone therapy can help couples with unexplained infertility: Study
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A small study of couples experiencing unexplained infertility found that hormone therapy may improve their chances of having a child. The study, which was presented at the 39th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, compared couples attempting to conceiv
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Researchers shed light on kids receiving helmet treatment for head-flatten
Updated : 3 years ago IST
For babies with position-related head flattening (deformational plagiocephaly [DP]), helmet therapy has a very high rate of success. On the other hand, infants with Medicaid insurance are more likely to have delayed treatment and are less likely to undergo helmet therapy.
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Researchers reveal how non-invasive approach predicts retinopathy of prema
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The most prevalent cause of avoidable irreversible blindness in infants in the United States, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), has been the focus of an intensive study at Ann & Robert H. Lurie infants's Hospital of Chicago.
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