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Test Your Knowledge on Lazy Eyes

Test Your Knowledge on Lazy Eyes

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Lazy eye or amblyopia occurs when sight in one eye is less than the other in early childhood due to eye problems, causing the brain to prefer the better eye, making the other eye lazy. This quiz will tell you more on lazy eye.

Tracheal Cancer (Cancer of the windpipe)

Tracheal Cancer (Cancer of the windpipe)

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Tracheal or windpipe cancer is a rare cancer and its cause is unclear. The most common squamous cell type of cancer has been linked to smoking. The main forms of treatment include surgery and radiotherapy.

Tecovirimat - Drug Information

Tecovirimat - Drug Information

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Tecovirimat can be used to treat smallpox disease in adult and pediatric patients who weigh at least 13 kg. The drug, tecovirimat has a high level of specificity and selectivity against orthopoxvirus, a specific virus responsible for causing this disease.

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Genes or Lifestyle? Study Explores Effects of Exercise on Identical Twins

Genes or Lifestyle? Study Explores Effects of Exercise on Identical Twins

Research News Jul 22 2018 3:51 PM

Health benefits of exercise were established in a study on identical twins that set out to explore if genes or lifestyle had a higher impact on a person's fitness. One was a truck driver and another an athlete.

Cause of Prostate Cancer Advance to Incurable Stage Revealed

Cause of Prostate Cancer Advance to Incurable Stage Revealed

Cancer News Jul 22 2018 3:22 PM

Prostate cancer aggressiveness is being traced with novel genes and mechanisms that can explain how a genomic variant in a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs11672691 influence cancer progression.

Overweight? Obese? Don't Blame Your Genes

Overweight? Obese? Don't Blame Your Genes

Obesity News Jul 22 2018 12:23 PM

Overweight and obese people can't blame it on their genes anymore. There are no firm indications that certain genetic factors are associated with the total intake of calories, carbohydrates, and fat, observes a recent study

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Diabetes May Increase Cancer Risk in Women Than Men

Diabetes May Increase Cancer Risk in Women Than Men

Health Watch Jul 21 2018 4:35 PM

Women with diabetes have a higher risk of developing cancer than men. Diabetes showed a higher site-specific cancer risk for women than men for oral, stomach and kidney cancers and leukemia.

Changing Completely to Second-line Type 2 Diabetic Drugs Increases Risk of Major Complications

Changing Completely to Second-line Type 2 Diabetic Drugs Increases Risk of Major Complications

Health in Focus Jul 20 2018 5:44 PM

Treatment with certain antidiabetic drugs could make a type 2 diabetic person have an increased risk of complications.

Sensitivity to Bitter-Taste may be Associated with Cancer Risk

Sensitivity to Bitter-Taste may be Associated with Cancer Risk

Health Watch Jul 19 2018 7:27 PM

Link found between high bitter-taste sensitivity and increased risk of cancer among older British women by a recent study that involves 5,500 women whose diet, lifestyle, and health has been tracked for about 20 years.

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High Blood Pressure in Later Life May Link to Alzheimer's Disease

High Blood Pressure in Later Life May Link to Alzheimer's Disease

High blood pressure (hypertension) in older people may increase the risk of brain disease, especially brain lesions. It is also linked to Alzheimer's disease.

New Device to Catch Your Fall

New Device to Catch Your Fall

Falls are the most common cause of injury in elderly. A new wearable device can help predict if an elderly patient is at an increased risk of falling or not.

Vigorous Exercise can Lower Heart Disease Risk in Teens

Vigorous Exercise can Lower Heart Disease Risk in Teens

Teens who exercise vigorously and keep the blood pressure at bay may have a lower risk of developing heart disease later in life.

Doxycycline: Antibacterial Drug Treats Pneumonia, Cholera, Syphilis, and Pimples or Acne

Doxycycline: Antibacterial Drug Treats Pneumonia, Cholera, Syphilis, and Pimples or Acne

Doxycycline is prescribed for treating bacterial infections, respiratory tract infections, rickettsial infections, sexually transmitted infections, and ophthalmic infections. It is considered as an alternative drug of choice for actinomycosis and syphilis.

Testosterone: Know More About The Male Sex Hormone and Its Role

Testosterone: Know More About The Male Sex Hormone and Its Role

Testosterone is an androgenic hormones prescribed as a replacement therapy in male patients for acquired or congenital primary hypogonadism, hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, and to stimulate delayed puberty in males.

Minoxidil Treats High Blood Pressure and Prevents Hair loss or Alopecia

Minoxidil Treats High Blood Pressure and Prevents Hair loss or Alopecia

Minoxidil is a peripheral vasodilator agent prescribed with other blood pressure drugs for treating severe high blood pressure and to stimulate hair regrowth in conditions like androgenic alopecia or hair loss.

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