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Using electrolytes as diagnostic tool can help detect eating disorders ear
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
By monitoring electrolyte levels researchers discovered eating disorders more than a year before a diagnosis and this means that patients might start receiving treatment for them sooner.
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13-year-old girl gifts PM Modi portrait during Gujarat roadshow
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Ami had made a painting of PM Modi and wished to gift it to the PM during his roadshow. She stood patiently by the road for four hours, waiting for the cherished moment.
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Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of shuttered blood testing company Theranos, was sentenced to 135 months, or 11 1/4 years, in prison on Friday for defrauding investors. She was found guilty in January of duping investors and lying about the technology.
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Research suggests blinding eye disease linked with cardiovascular disease
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United States, are also highly likely to have either underlying heart damage from heart failure and heart attacks, or advanced heart valve disease, or carotid artery disease associate
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Researchers identify protein that contributes to tau neurotoxicity in Alzh
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have identified a protein that interacts and enhances the spread of neurotoxic species of tau which is primarily found in neurons that appear abnormal in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
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Specific immune cells cause myocarditis in cancer patients: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In a new study, researchers from UC San Francisco and Vanderbilt University Medical Center identified particular immune cells that cause lethal cardiac damage in a small subsection of cancer immunotherapy patients.
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Researchers find new target for Alzheimer's therapies
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The protein medin is deposited in the blood vessels of the brains of Alzheimer's patients along with the protein amyloid-b. Researchers from DZNE have discovered this so-called co-aggregation. They have now published their observation in the renowned journal Nature. "Medin has been known for
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Research: Potential threat to heart health from extreme weather
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
An analysis of nearly 2.3 million Europeans has found detrimental associations between cold weather and deaths from heart disease, particularly in poor neighbourhoods. The late-breaking research is presented at ESC Congress 2022.1 Hot weather was linked with excess deaths from heart disease
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Targeting enzyme could alleviate muscle wasting for cancer patients
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Targeting a specific enzyme in the muscle could help cancer patients preserve muscle mass and potentially prolong their survival, according to research from UTHealth Houston.
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Study: Antibiotic-resistant microbes in the gut make C. difficile more inf
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness and, as its name suggests, can be difficult to study and treat. Approximately 1 in 6 patients infected with C. difficile will be reinfected within two months. Yet scie
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Researchers discover new biomarker for severe Covid 19
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Patients with acute COVID-19 infection have higher amounts of the cytokine IL-26 in their blood, according to researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet. Furthermore, high IL-26 levels are associated with an increased inflammatory response, which indicates severe cases of the disease. The
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Researchers develop promising new cancer therapy
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Immune checkpoint inhibitors such as Keytruda and Opdivo work by unleashing the immune system's T cells to attack tumour cells. Their introduction a decade ago marked a major advance in cancer therapy, but only 10 per cent to 30 per cent of treated patients experience long-term improvement.
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