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07 July 2015
Organ transplant rejection may not be permanent
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Rejection of transplanted organs in hosts that were previously tolerant may not be permanent, report scientists from the University of Chic...
19 October 2013
Robotic Surgery and Other Medical Machines - An Infographic
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Medical technology is catching up with science fiction in terms of machines performing medical procedures. Computers and robots are now bec...
04 April 2013
Cell Therapy Ushers In Future Of Medical Technology
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For the past few years, medical science has grown leaps and bounds in the development of treatments and therapies based on living cells. Ce...
29 December 2012
Quantum Day Top 10 Most Read Articles For 2012
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For the past year, Quantum Day has released around 730 articles. Topics range from the reduction of rainfall in tropical forests to stem ce...
28 September 2012
Eating 10 To 12 Cherries A Day Can Reduce Gout Attacks By 35%, Higher When Combined With Medication
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Gout is a recurrent painful inflammation of joints (arthritis) that predominantly affect males 40 years old and above. It is one of the mos...
03 September 2012
Asthma Drug Budesonide Stunts Children's Growth
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Asthma is a breathing disorder that causes air passages of the lungs, called bronchioles, to swell and narrow. During an asthma attack, the...
02 June 2012
Cancer Treatment Utilizing PD-1/PD-L1 Pathway Boosting Immune System Pathway Ready For Wider Testing
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Immunotherapy is a treatment of a disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response. There are two ways to immunotherapy; A...
25 May 2012
Study Shows No Benefit In Using Magnesium Sulphate Treatment For Hemorrhagic Stroke
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13% of stroke cases are hemorrhagic strokes. Hemorrhagic strokes happen when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures and bleeds into its sur...
MIT News: New Needleless Jet Injector Does Away With Hypodermic Needles
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The hypodermic needle is a hollow needle used with a syringe to inject substances into the body. It can also be used to extract fluids from...
20 May 2012
Cholesterol Control Drug Statin Prevents Cancer in Heart Transplant Patients
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Statins are drugs used by patients to lower cholesterol levels in the body. Cholesterol is a waxy steroid of fat that is used to establis...
11 May 2012
Clot-busting Drug Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) For Stroke Patients Safe To Use With Blood Thinner Warfarin
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A stroke is a brain condition where it doesn’t get enough oxygen because of a blood clot in the blood vessel. Because the brain does not ge...
08 May 2012
Study Finds Second Generation Antipsychotics (SGAs) Activates MC4R Gene Trigerring Obesity and Weight Gain
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Second Generation Antipsychotics (SGAs) are antipsychotic medication used to treat psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia. Other condit...
05 May 2012
New Drug Screening Technique Paves Way To Better Anti Virus Research - Idarubicin As First Study
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A new technique being developed to help identify drugs and other applications for it has yielded some surprising and useful results. The ...
03 May 2012
Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) and Cardiovascular Risk Explained
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Ibuprofen NSAIDs are Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs. They are also known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents/analgesics (NSAI...
30 April 2012
Combined Metformin and Rosiglitazone Therapy Better For Type 2 Diabetes Than Single Drug Therapy
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Metformin is an antidiabetic drug that is taken orally. Metformin is prescribed to people who have type 2 diabetes, in particular with over...
24 April 2012
Many Treatments Available To Help Prevent Migraine Unused
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A migraine is a common type of headache. With most people, the migraine is felt on only one side of the head. Symptoms of a migraine atta...
13 April 2012
DNA Sequencing Technology Used to Review Ingredients Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) covers many different medicine practices and processes. It is based on Taoism and the practice is more t...
12 April 2012
AstraZeneca and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) To Develop Drugs For NTDs Such As Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, and Sleeping Sickness.
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Tropical diseases are diseases that occur and are unique to tropical and subtropical regions. These kinds of diseases are not found or less...
04 April 2012
Anti Cancer Drug Rapamycin (Sirolimus) Can Cause Diabetes
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Rapamycin is an immunosuppressant drug that is prescribed to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, especially with kidney transpl...
03 April 2012
Cholesterol Drug Helps Chemotherapy Research in Effectively Treating Cancer
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Cancer is a disease where the body's cells grow and reproduce uncontrollably. This rapid growth of cells is called a malignant tumor. T...
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