Now-a-days even mosquitoes are gaining fame due to their deadly bites in human beings. One of the mosquitoes breed mostly found in Asia has the ability to carry the risk of fatal diseases and can be easily passed on from one person to another and is now poised to invade Britain.
This mosquito that […]
Day-by-day scientists are getting closer to finding a way to restrict HIV viruses from growing. Yet another successful step has been taken by them as a protein that restricts the breaking loose of virus from human cells, has been discovered.
Since long, it was known to the scientists that there was an element that controls […]
Researchers at the Duke University have conducted a new study which shows that nitric oxide (NO) system in the life of a cell plays a prime role in disease and the findings have indicated ways to improve the method of treating illnesses like heart diseases and cancer.
Jonathan Stamler, M.D., a professor of medicine […]
People who have developed osteoporosis, check if you have cracks in your spine. There are reports confirming 5,50,000 spinal fractures every year in osteoporosis cases.
Annually there are around 3,00,000 cases of hip fractures which is less than the number of spinal fracture cases, yet patients are more aware of the fracture of the hip. […]
Scientists have finally unmasked the viruses that actually lead to HIV infection through sexual transmission. As per a study conducted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), not all Human immunodeficiency Viruses (HIV) cause the infection. There are particular ones that spread through sexual transmission while the rest remain in the blood.
The effect is […]
According to a study published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, mothers who breast feed for a longer period of time have lower rates of getting rheumatoid arthritis.
A team of researchers from Sweden’s Malmo University Hospital discovered that women who breastfeed their babies for a period of more than a year have lower risks […]
Stanford has found a new way to chemically produce two compounds which are present in plants and can activate and bring out dormant HIV from the host’s T cells. And thus in this way the virus is susceptible to attack by the antiretroviral medicines.
HIV often moves back into the host’s T cells to getaway […]
The World Hepatitis Alliance along with 200 hepatitis patients is gearing for Monday, May 19, the World Hepatitis Day. Have you started preparing yourself for the day? If no then there are possibilities that you are unaware of the fact that every 12th person on earth is afflicted with Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C. […]
Younger women afflicted with epilepsy are at a greater risk of developing osteoporosis if they are treating themselves with the epilepsy drug Dilantin. New York’s Columbia University has put forth a study which says that women under the medication of Dilantin for a year were most likely to lose out their bone density.
The researchers […]
The culprits behind the common problem of heart disease and kidney problems have been identified by researchers. No, this time they are not the high calorie foods or bacteria or viruses but our very own genes.
According to a study published in the journal Natural Genetics, a gene called Osteoglycin (Ogn) that causes the heart […]
