For nearly two years, the collective attention of researchers worldwide has focused on understanding what infection with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, does to the human body. As a result, scientists have amassed evidence of a wide range of effects on the heart, lungs, brain and various other organs. Much of that insight has […]
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Gene Therapy in Rare Respiratory Diseases: What Have We Learned So Far?
The genes in your body’s cells play an important role in your health — indeed, a defective gene or genes can make you sick. Recognizing this, scientists have been working for decades on ways to modify genes or replace faulty genes with healthy ones to treat, cure or prevent a disease or medical condition. Now […]
Air pollution exposure linked to increased autoimmune disease risk
Long term exposure to air pollution is linked to a heightened risk of autoimmune disease, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, connective tissue and inflammatory bowel diseases, finds research published online in the open access journal RMD Open. Environmental air pollution from vehicle exhaust and industrial output can trigger adaptive immunity–whereby the body reacts to a specific disease-causing entity. […]
Remote monitoring: Keeping your heart health in check with technology
Cardiology, Evolving technology is altering the way healthcare is delivered, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) is leading a transformation in primary and specialty care settings. Cardiology was one of the first specialties to incorporate RPM with the introduction of connected cardiac implants Remote monitoring: Keeping your heart health in check with technology. Now, the particularities […]
Rare diagnosis of penile cancer causes higher mortality rates and stigma
On both the patient and physician sides, there are some stigmas. Patients with penile cancer are mostly middle-aged to older men. Something is amiss with the penis, and it is a private area. We don’t often discuss these topics among men. As a result, this causes humiliation and a delay in obtaining medical help. I’d […]
Breastfeeding reduces risk for lower respiratory tract infections, asthma in infants
Breast milk provides abundant and easily absorbed nutritional components, antioxidants, enzymes, immune properties, and live antibodies from mother. Mother’s more mature immune system makes antibodies to the germs to which she and her baby have been exposed. These antibodies enter her milk to help protect her baby from illness. Immunoglobulin A coats the lining of […]
How MBBS Seat Crunch Can be Tackled
Apart from a sense of sadness for what they had to undertake in war-torn Ukraine, everyone seems to have an opinion about these kids’ credentials. On March 17, Justice Rekha Palli of the Delhi High Court stated that she “cannot forget the reality that prospective students are frequently forced to leave the nation and study […]
Efficacy of Probiotics Supplementation On Chronic Kidney Disease
Probiotics are the focus of a thorough investigation as a natural biotreatment due to their various health-promoting effects and inherent ability to fight specific diseases including chronic kidney disease (CKD). Indeed, intestinal microbiota has recently emerged as an important player in the progression and complications of CKD. Because many of the multifactorial physiological functions of […]
Association Between Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD)
IBD and ASCVD have been linked in several meta-analyses. In a 2017 meta-analysis of eleven cohort studies, researchers discovered a multivariate-adjusted independent link between IBD and coronary heart disease (pooled relative risk (RR) 1.24; 95 percent confidence interval (CI) 1.14-1.36). This link was also found in CD and UC subgroup analysis. Similar relationships were seen […]
Telemedicine can mitigate barriers for access to obesity care, weight loss management
According to a research published online in Obesity, The Obesity Society’s flagship magazine, telemedicine presents new prospects to lower obstacles to obesity care faced by healthcare providers, patients, and health plans. “Telemedicine and remote healthcare are becoming more widely recognised by healthcare providers and policymakers,” said Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, FTOS, director of the National […]
