Contrary to general belief that vaccines cause asthma, allergies or other chronic diseases, a new study identifies flaws in such proposed explanations. Paul A. Offit of Philadelphia rejects biological explanations for how vaccines cause chronic diseases and reviews current research on associations between vaccines and those diseases.
The anticoagulant warfarin, administered in small doses and over an extended period, appears to be very effective in reducing the risk of blood clots, US researchers have announced.
Most patients treated for depression with medication should continue taking it after their gloom has lifted, new research suggests.
A new study carried out by international scientists has discovered that deaths from severe forms of malaria could be reduced by providing a food supplement, a naturally-occurring amino acid, to the patients.
Specially prepared titanium mesh and bone marrow cells allow new bone cells to grow in bone fractures. This was shown in a research project carried out at the University of Nijmegen in Holland.
For years, doctors have reassured epilepsy patients that seizures are relatively benign. While a fall during a seizure may cause injury, the surge of electricity in the brain does no actual damage, patients were told.
In 1991, New York City experienced an outbreak of MDR TB that eventually claimed more than 500 lives. Recently, a MDR TB outbreak in Russia has killed many more. WHO has recommended a new treatment method ‘DOTS’ (Directly Observed Treatment, Short course) after the resurgence of the tuberculosis and increased incidence of drug resistant tuberculosis.
US researchers have now found that teenage girls who eat eggs regularly are less likely to develop breast cancer later in life.
Could eating ice cream make you healthier? There is growing interest in adding nutriceuticals – foods with medicinal properties – to ice cream.
It is getting close to allergy season again, and to most allergy sufferers freedom from this dread condition is literally nothing to sneeze at. This freedom, however, is a distant dream for many allergy sufferers. Allergies can be imprisoning.