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World Cancer Day: Best cure for cancer is early detection
The causes of delay in diagnosis in India range from patients ignoring the symptoms, delay of up to three months in seeking professional help, lack of access to specialised facilities, stigma attached to cancer and financial constraints
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World Cancer Day 2023: A way forward to better management of cancer this year!
There is a compelling case for the need for a holistic strategy for cancer prevention that incorporates community initiatives, strengthens PBCRs, and offers medical education
How UK medics successfully treated a 13-year-old girl with leukaemia for the first time
Thirteen-year-old Alyssa suffering from 'incurable' T-cell leukemia received the groundbreaking treatment of base-edited T cells and went into remission
Explained: What's an ovarian cyst that Hailey Bieber spoke about and how worried should women be?
Ovarian cyst symptoms vary from person to person but typically include pelvic pain — which can also vary in intensity, from dull pain to sudden, sharp pain that gets worse during the period
Explained: How British scientists cured a man who suffered from COVID for 411 days
The man, who has a weakened immune system due to a kidney transplant, caught COVID-19 in December 2020 and continued to test positive until January this year. However, researchers successfully treated him by analysing the genetic code of his particular virus to find the right treatment
Urinary Tract Infection: Six ways to treat it without medicine
It is believed that cinnamon might have an impact on the bacteria causing UTIs especially in long- term catheter users. This is because of its potential of preventing the bacteria from coating the urinary tract
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COVID-19: Treatments for better protection against future variants identified
The study, published in the Journal of Infection, found new combination therapies that are highly effective in cell culture experiments and that may reduce the formation of novel variants
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Will tomato flu spread as quickly as COVID-19? How the Centre is gearing up to fight the disease
The disease, believed to be a new variant of the Hand Foot Mouth Disease, is normally seen in children below the age of five. As of date, over 82 cases have been reported from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Haryana, prompting the Centre to issue guidelines to prevent and treat the virus
Findings about Dostarlimab, a new antibody drug, very encouraging, says expert in cancer treatment
According to New York Times, in a small clinical trial, 18 patients took a drug called Dostarlimab for around six months, and in the end, every one of them saw their tumours disappear
Explained: How researchers are trying to design nanoparticles treatments for cancer
While nanomedicine has seen many successes, some researchers have been disappointed by its underwhelming overall performance in cancer
How my F-16 crashed into the cuckoo’s nest: Battling the internal and external demons
More than one in four American adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. The pandemic has further exacerbated acute mental health crises across the world, failing those citizens who are most in need. In January 2022, I became one of those statistics.
New drug resistant fungus claims 2 lives in Delhi: What you need to know about Aspergillus Lentulus
Both the patients had COPD, and neither of them seemed to respond to the antibiotic or antifungal treatment they were administered. Both died during the treatment.
Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy need timely and affordable pediatric care in India
In July 2021, the government finalised the National Policy for Rare Diseases (NPRD) in which voluntary crowdfunding for the treatment of rare diseases like SMA was approved.
Difficult to stop antidepressant medications, more than half relapse within a year finds study
While 56 percent of the patients who discontinued their medication relapsed during the study, a sizeable portion did not, including most who remained on their antidepressants.
Study finds arthritis-treating drugs tocilizumab, sarilumab help reduce COVID-19 deaths
The analysis included information on 10,930 patients, of whom 6,449 were randomly assigned to receive interleukin-6 inhibitors and 4,481 to receive usual care or placebo.
Explained: What is Peter Pan syndrome and how does one treat it?
"Peter Pan syndrome is not technically a diagnosis, it's a pop psychology term," Ritika Aggarwal, Consultant Psychologist, Jaslok Hospital.
While battling its COVID-19 crisis, India struggles with a ‘Black Fungus’ epidemic
PM Modi described the fungal disease as a new “challenge” and said it was “important to create systems to tackle it.”
Too good to be true? Pfizer is working on a pill that could potentially treat COVID-19
Usually, the trials take years, but as the pandemic rages on Pfizer will conduct them in a matter of months.
World Blood Cancer Day: Blood stem cell transplant can give patients a second chance at life
A blood stem cell transplant can be a potentially life-saving treatment for blood cancer patients.
World TB Day: Shorter treatment plans work when long courses fall through
Without treatment, five percent to 10 percent of people with TB infection will develop active TB.