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Low-tech Tool to Improve Patient Satisfaction During Doctor’s Visit

Low-tech Tool to Improve Patient Satisfaction During Doctor’s Visit

New study shows that if patients are given a simple, one-page form ahead of their doctor visit, it can significantly improve their satisfaction with the care they receive. The study was conducted by a research team at Duke Health. The ...

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Physical and Psychological Benefits of Tai Chi

Physical and Psychological Benefits of Tai Chi

A new study provides insights into the biochemical mechanisms by which Tai Chi-- a mind-body exercise--may provide both physical and psychological benefits. The study is published in Journal of Neuroimaging . Using magnetic resonance ...

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Art Therapy Benefits Cancer Patients

Art Therapy Benefits Cancer Patients

Link between art and health has been explored. Bedside visual art intervention (BVAI) facilitated by art educators was found to improve mood and reduced pain and anxiety in a study involving inpatients with haematological cancers. ...

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Melanoma Skin Cancers Linked With Reduced Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

Melanoma Skin Cancers Linked With Reduced Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s disease risk decreased in patients with malignant melanoma, revealed study published in Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology. ...

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Simple Blood Test Could Replace Painful Bone Biopsy

Simple Blood Test Could Replace Painful Bone Biopsy

The new chip-based blood test vastly improves testing performance and accuracy over previous chips for multiple myeloma, said researchers. The findings of the study have been...

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Pediatric Cancer Center Care Improves Survival of Adolescent Leukemic Patients

Pediatric Cancer Center Care Improves Survival of Adolescent Leukemic Patients

A pediatric cancer center treatment gives adolescents and young adults with acute leukemia a higher shot at survival compared to receiving treatment at an adult center, according to a new study. The study, published in Blood Advances , a journal of the American Society of Hematology, also suggests that treatment at a center affiliated with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) improves overall survival. Background: Evidence suggests that adolescents and young adults (AYA) with acute lymphocytic Read More ...

New Potential Treatment Options for Leukemia

New Potential Treatment Options for Leukemia

New information related to a rare form of leukemia called aggressive NK-cell leukemia has been discovered by an international research consortium led by researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland. The study published in Nature ...

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Tumor Evolution can Help Predict Prostate Cancer Severity

Tumor Evolution can Help Predict Prostate Cancer Severity

Understanding how the tumor has evolved can assess the aggressiveness of prostate cancer accurately, which helps determine what type of treatment can be given to the patient,...

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Naturally Sweet Stevia Better Than Sugar for A Healthier Lifestyle

Naturally Sweet Stevia Better Than Sugar for A Healthier Lifestyle

Hectic lifestyles of today could be one of the major threats for decline in health and general well-being. It is commonly said that, ‘prevention is better than cure’. There has been a sudden surge in the consumption of processed high calories and sugar. But does that mean that consumption of sugary food and drinks should be completely avoided? That need not be the case....

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Healthy Ingredients Like Kale, Beetroot Introduced in Gourmet Dishes

Healthy Ingredients Like Kale, Beetroot Introduced in Gourmet Dishes

Kale, beetroot and quinoa are some of the ingredients that are now being introduced into several restaurant dishes to serve people who are increasingly become more health conscious. Inclusion of these ingredients not only offers wholesome goodness and high nutrient value, but are also packed with great taste, reveal experts. ...

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How Antiepileptic Drug Valproic Acid Causes Problems During Pregnancy?

How Antiepileptic Drug Valproic Acid Causes Problems During Pregnancy?

When human placentas are exposed to valproic acid, an anti-epileptic drug, they express lower levels of transporters for compounds essential for fetal growth and development (such as glucose and folic acid), ...

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World Immunisation Week: Nations Must Ensure Vaccines Reach 90% Population

World Immunisation Week: Nations Must Ensure Vaccines Reach 90% Population

All member countries must ensure covering 90 per cent of the population each time and listed ways to achieve the target, said the World Health Organisation (WHO). Doing so will save countless lives, achieve herd immunity against ...

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Arthritis: Which Pain Medication is Safest?

Arthritis: Which Pain Medication is Safest?

Patients with arthritis taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in combination with esomeprazole (stomach acid-reducing medicine) had infrequent gastrointestinal side effects, ...

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Boosting Female Farmer’s Physical Fitness With a Low-cost Anti-hookworm Drug

Boosting Female Farmer’s Physical Fitness With a Low-cost Anti-hookworm Drug

Treatment with a low-cost deworming drug significantly improved the physical fitness of impoverished female farm workers infected with intestinal parasites known as hookworms. The benefits were seen even in those with low level infections, according ...

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Erectile Dysfunction Drugs can Now Treat Various Other Conditions

Erectile Dysfunction Drugs can Now Treat Various Other Conditions

Drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction such as phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors were also found to have clinical uses for a wide variety of conditions, reveals a new study....

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DeepDDI: New Technology Helps Predict Drug-drug and Drug-food Interactions

DeepDDI: New Technology Helps Predict Drug-drug and Drug-food Interactions

A computational framework called DeepDDI has been developed that helps predict and generate 86 types of drug-drug and drug-food interactions accurately, where the sentences are in a human-readable format, reveals a new study....

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Research News »

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Brain Processes Sight and Sound in Same Manner: New Study

Brain Processes Sight and Sound in Same Manner: New Study

The human brain was found to process both sight and sound in the same manner, reveals a new study done by neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center. ...

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Indian Health News »

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Calcium Intake Among Adults in India Much Less Than Required

Calcium Intake Among Adults in India Much Less Than Required

A global map of dietary calcium intake that was recently launched stated that Indian adults consume only half the amount of calcium required for healthy bones....

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Sexual Health News »

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Promising, New Male Contraceptive Compound Discovered

Promising, New Male Contraceptive Compound Discovered

EP055 compound identified by researchers binds to sperm proteins to significantly slow the overall mobility of the sperm without affecting hormones, making EP055 a potential "male pill" without side effects. Findings of the research published in the ...

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News on IT in Healthcare »

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Mobile App to Promote Car Seat Safety for Children

Mobile App to Promote Car Seat Safety for Children

An innovative mobile application that has been designed to promote proper car child safety can help parents follow better safety measures, finds a recent study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health....

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Genetics & Stem Cells News »

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Gene Therapy Safe and Effective for Beta Thalassemia

Gene Therapy Safe and Effective for Beta Thalassemia

Gene therapy for patients with a severe form of the blood disorder beta-thalassemia can be safe and effective, according to a study led by Philippe Leboulch, MD, a sponsored collaborator in Brigham and Women's Hospital's Division of Genetics and ...

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Child Health News »

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Why Do Kids with Asthma Miss Their Medications?

Why Do Kids with Asthma Miss Their Medications?

Children with asthma are not taking their daily dose of anti-asthma drugs. Scientists found that there was a lack of communication among patients, families and pediatric clinicians, reveals a new study....

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Environmental Health »

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Swapping Cars for Shared Bicycles Could Decrease Death Rate and Reduce Expense

Swapping Cars for Shared Bicycles Could Decrease Death Rate and Reduce Expense

The use of shared bicycles systems by people who previously used their cars avoids 5 deaths and saves 18 million euros per year. If all public bicycle trips were made by previous car users, 73 deaths and 226 million euros would be saved every year. ...

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Environmental Pollutants and Genes May Up Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Environmental Pollutants and Genes May Up Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Interaction between environmental factors and genes can increase the risk for rheumatoid arthritis and leads to bone destruction, reveals a new study....

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Heart Disease News »

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Eyes of Adolescents Could Signal Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Eyes of Adolescents Could Signal Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Structural changes in the retina of adolescents could signal cardiovascular disease risk, say researchers. The findings showed adolescents -- particularly males -- with poorer health-related quality of life had wider arteriolar and ...

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Senior Health News »

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Antioxidants Improve Vascular Function in Older Adults

Antioxidants Improve Vascular Function in Older Adults

A novel antioxidant has been developed that can help reduce the risk of age-related cardiovascular diseases in older adults, reveals a new study....

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