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Daily health text messages may help in managing diabetes
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): If you wish to know how to control your diabetes, then a team of researchers has revealed that patients, who received health-related text messages every day for six months showed improvements in their blood sugar levels that equaled those resulting from
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Obesity in elderly diabetic patients may live longer
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): Are you worried about your over-weight grandparents?
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New drug may benefit blood cancer patients
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): A team of US researchers has found that a drug alone or with combination of chemotherapy may show promising results in treating patients with blood cancer.
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Radiotherapy may cause long-term cognitive impairment
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): U.S. researchers have found that radiation therapy (RT) used for treating patients with brain tumors can alter neural networks and cause long-term cognitive impairment.
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Excess weight ups risk of complications after joint replacement surgery
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 9 (ANI): A study has found that obese patients, who are undergoing shoulder joint replacement surgery, are at increased risk of complications, including the need for 'revision' surgery.
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Amazon, Facebook name DocsApp as medical app of the year
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): DocsApp, a mobile app that connects patients to specialist doctors via chat or call in less than 30 minutes, has been declared as the medical app of the year in the emerging apps category.
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As for STD treatment, killing two birds with one stone helps
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 5 (ANI): According to a recent study, places that allow doctors to treat a patient's sexual partner without an in-person visit may find more success lowering rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
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Patients nearing death don't mind 'deprescrition' of statin
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 4 (ANI): Patients nearing the end of their lives because of a "life-limiting illness," such as cancer or heart disease, may not feel medically abandoned if their doctor wants to take them off the cholesterol-lowering statins, according to a recent study.
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1 in 3 hospitalized patients suffers from depression: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): A recent study suggests one in three hospitalized patients show symptoms of depression which could delay recovery time, increase length of hospital stays and increase the frequency of readmissions.
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Bengaluru: Doctors, teachers Association protest demanding adequate securi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 2 (ANI): The Medical College Doctors and Teachers Association here staged a protest over a demand for adequate security after a doctor was assaulted by a patient's relative.
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A 'game changer' test for antibiotic drug resistance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 2 (ANI): When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay, standardised in 1961 by the World Health Organization and used worldwide, is potentiall
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'Quit-smoking' drug safe for patients with lung disease: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Medication that helps smokers to quit is safe for people with chronic lung conditions, research suggests.
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