Mandometer, a new device developed by Cecilia Bergh, Ph.D., and Per Sodersten, Ph.D., researchers at the world-renowned Swedish academic health centre, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, can now be used to…
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Researchers unveils the secret of the association of maltreatment and pain
A study conducted by the researchers from the American Headache Society’s Women’s Issues Section Research Consortium found that incidence of childhood maltreatment, especially emotional abuse and neglect, are prevalent in migraine patients….
Pomegranates could inhibit hormone-dependant breast cancer.
According to a study published in the January issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research,eating pomegranate or drinking pomegranate juice could prevent estrogen dependant breast…
How safe is a kitchen spoon?
How often do you use a proper measuring device such as a measuring cap,syringe or dropper to give prescribed amount of liquid medicine to your little one who has got up in…
Need To Drop Some Weight? Try Sleeping!
This could truly be the ‘dream diet’ (no pun intended). This might seem like a very wild idea, but the good news is that there is medical evidence to validate the thought….
Career And Infertility- The Close Connection
Sometimes, hard work hardly pays. This is especially true if looked at from a woman’s perspective. This day and age of competitiveness and career consciousness has witnessed the sprouting of a sub…
Insect cell based technology for swine flu vaccine
The recent outbreak of swine flu has raised the need for rapid and efficient supply of vaccines for pandemic and inter pandemic strains.However traditions modes of vaccine production fail to meet this…
Born in April? You might be at risk of multiple sclerosis
Scientists from Scotland have discovered a rather interesting phenomenon. People born in April are at a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis at a later stage in life. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is…
Leukaemia Treatment Can Be A Shot Away
An experimental vaccine study that seems to prolong life of those diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic (CLL) leukaemia, offers a glimmer of hope to patients who otherwise have just a bleek hope for…
Correcting defects at the cellular level to cure diabetes
Cells in our body are constantly churning out poisonous forms of oxygen (oxidants) and mopping them up with a countervailing force of proteins and chemicals (anti-oxidants).This balancing act of oxidative stress is…
Nanoparticles in the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors
Treating tumors with nanoparticles has been challenging because immune cells called mononuclear phagocytes identify them and yank them from circulation, preventing the nanomaterials from reaching their target. Recently, a team of researchers…
Jamming cell-cell signals in chronic wound healing
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have identified specific types of chronic wound bacteria and to test their ability to produce cell-cell signaling molecules. In the study, partial gene…
Burj Dubai Worlds Tallest Building opens
Thousands of people gathered in Dubai on Monday evening to celebrate the opening of the world’s tallest building, now called the Burj Khalifa, after UAE President Sheikh Khalifa, according to dpa. The…
Biodegradable Particles Can Bypass Mucus, Release Drugs Over Time
Johns Hopkins University researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body’s sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo. The researchers say these nanoparticles,…
Bone Tendon Hybrids Could Quickly Repair Injury
When some one gets a knee ligament torn, the doctors can only do just a little due to limits of modern medicine: Repairing injured ligaments, tendons, and cartilage is difficult, much trickier…