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Immunotherapy for egg allergy may soon allow patients to eat egg safely
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA]: A new research, presented by study author Edwin Kim, at the annual Americal Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAI) conference in San Francisco, found that after completing up to four years of egg oral immunotherapy (eOIT) treatment, certain participants were
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New study could offer protection to patients with rare genetic disease
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 24 (ANI): A new University of Bath study now finds that skin cells taken from patients with a rare genetic disorder are ten times more sensitive to damage from ultraviolet A (AVA) radiation in laboratory tests, than those from a healthy population.
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New method identifies which asthma patients respond to systemic corticoste
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): With help from a dozen clinical variables, researchers have been able to identify using machine learning techniques, which of their patients with severe asthma are likely to benefit from treatment with systemic corticosteroids -- and which might only suff
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Gender transition hormone therapy may increase cardiovascular risk: Study
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 19 (ANI): A new study revealed that patients receiving hormone therapy as a part of their gender-transition treatment are at an elevated risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, including strokes, heart attacks and blood clots.
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Smoking may limit body's ability to fight dangerous form of skin cancer: S
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): A new research now finds that melanoma patients with a history of smoking cigarettes are 40 per cent less likely to survive their skin cancer than people who have never smoked.
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Drug combination may treat advanced kidney cancer
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): An investigator from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute now says that a combination of two drugs - one of them an immunotherapy agent - could become a new standard, first-line treatment for patients with metastatic kidney cancer. The investigator made the cl
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Patients' own cells could be the key to treating Crohn's disease
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 16 (ANI): A new study now sees experts developing a technique using patients’ own modified cells to treat Crohn’s disease. The study which has been successful on human cells is awaiting clinical trial of the treatment in the next six months.
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Women less likely to be given geriatric care for emergency hip surgery
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA]. Feb 11 (ANI): A new study now finds that more than 70 per cent of patients receiving surgery for hip fracture are women, and yet they are less likely than men to receive geriatric care during hospitalisation, or an anaesthesiology consultation before surgery.
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Marijuana edibles pose major risk to elderly patients with cardiovascular
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 11 (ANI): With marijuana being legalised across North America, there is a changing perception that sees people believing that weed is the safest recreational drug.
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Fire at Noida hospital, no casualties yet
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Feb 7 (ANI): A fire broke out in the Metro Hospital in Noida's sector 12 on Thursday morning.
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Merck Foundation marks World Cancer Day by increasing the limited number o
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI)[BusinessWireIndia]: Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany marks ‘World Cancer Day 2019’ themed ‘I am and I will’ through their Cancer Access Program with the aim to improve patient’s access to quality and
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Katni: Women made to rest on floor after being operated
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Katni (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Feb 2 (ANI): Patients undergoing sterilisations are being made to lay on the floor after being operated at the district hospital here.
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