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WALES, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A new blood test that acts as an early warning system for cancer is being developed by researchers at Swansea University. It works by detecting mutations in red blood cells in advance of cancer symptoms appearing, and could one day give GPs a simple, non-invasive way to screen patients before deciding whether further investigation is needed. While the research has so far focused just on cancer of the oesophagus, […]
(Reuters Health) By Kathryn Doyle – Girls diagnosed with celiac disease tend to be slightly shorter than their peers and boys to be underweight, but the size differences are not significant or concerning, Israeli researchers say. The study of more than 2 million teens who underwent medical exams over nearly two decades also found that celiac is being diagnosed more often now than in the past. Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disorder that damages the […]
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP) –by Sara Hussein Nine-month-old Amena al-Helou’s skin sizzles as the surgeon cauterises an incision in her chest, beginning a heart operation at a south Lebanon hospital to save the Syrian refugee’s life. She is just one of dozens of refugees treated each year by Lebanon’s leading paediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi, who each week sets aside a day to operate on Syrian and Palestinian refugees. But for all his efforts, including on occasion […]
MANILA, Philippines | AFP | Monday 10/10/2016 – 19:34 GMT+8 | 259 words The Zika virus is set to spread through Asia, the World Health Organization warned Monday, with hundreds of cases reported in Singapore and two Thai babies diagnosed with Zika-linked microcephaly. The mosquito-borne virus has been detected in 70 countries worldwide including at least 19 countries in the Asia Pacific region, said WHO director for health security and emergencies Li Ailan. A […]
(Eagle News) — Mas malaki umano ang posibilidad na magkasakit sa puso ang mga babaeng nakararanas ng depresyon. Ayon sa mga eksperto, kinukumpirma ng isang pag-aaral ang matagal ng koneksyon sa pagitan ng sakit sa puso at depresyon. Napag-alaman ng mga mananaliksik mula US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, tanging depresyon ang mayroon sa higit isang libong babaeng kanilang pinag-aralan sa loob ng sampung taon. Batay sa nasabing pag-aaral, nagkaroon ng sakit sa puso […]
by Marc BURLEIGH PORT-SALUT, Haiti (AFP) — A week after being devastated by a hurricane, Haiti faces a growing cholera outbreak that threatens to turn its disaster even more deadly. In Port Salut, a smashed-up town on Haiti’s southern peninsula that was among those that bore the brunt of Hurricane Matthew — the Caribbean’s most powerful storm in a nearly decade — fears are rising. The town’s sole hospital on Sunday recorded its first death […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015 to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a comprehensive overview of global health released Thursday. These extra years came in large measure thanks to a sharp drop in deaths from communicable diseases, especially over the last decade, said the Global Burden of Disease report, published in The Lancet. Despite population […]
TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycles their content, which could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and Type 2 diabetes. “The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries on mechanisms for Autophagy,” Thomas Perlmann, Nobel […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Mariëtte Le Roux Autophagy, the little-understood method by which human cells dispose of harmful waste and unwelcome intruders, may one day be central to therapies for longer, healthier living, experts said. Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for discovering genes involved in autophagy, a non-stop housecleaning process that keeps cells healthy, and is thought to spur ageing and disease when disrupted. Scientists are […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Widely used prescription and non-prescription painkillers are associated with an increased risk of hospital admission for heart failure, according to a study released Thursday. The drugs in question are so-called NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including several known as COX-2 inhibitors. Many are among the most commonly used drugs to alleviate pain and inflammation, and some were introduced over a century ago with minimal safety checks. The broad link between the use […]
By Ransdell Pierson and Toni Clarke (Reuters) – Medtronic Plc won U.S. approval on Wednesday for an “artificial pancreas” that is the first device to automatically deliver the right dose of insulin to patients with type 1 diabetes, freeing them from continually monitoring insulin levels throughout each day. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in its approval of the device, the MiniMed 670G, hailed it as a breakthrough. The device offers type 1 diabetics “greater […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Morning sickness is linked to a lower risk of miscarriage, according to research out Monday that suggests a woman’s nausea and vomiting early in pregnancy may have protective effects for the fetus. Between 50 and 80 percent of pregnant women report feeling nauseous or throwing up during their first trimester, said the findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. The condition is often called “morning sickness,” […]
