According to the study, men and people over 85 years old are at particularly high risk for osteoporosis and fractures, which highlights the need for greater research, prevention, and treatment.
Several fungal pathogens like C. parapsilosis and C. glabrata are showing increasing resistance to commonly available antifungal medicines such as fluconazole, thus requiring close monitoring in the next few years.
Dietary intakes and consumption of artificial sweeteners were assessed by repeated 24-hour dietary records and a range of potentially influential health, lifestyle, and sociodemographic factors were taken into account.
The research also found that Azithromycin 500mg tablet was the most consumed antibiotic formulation (7.6 percent) in India, followed by cefixime 200 mg tablet (6.5 percent) during the year.
No association was observed between overall ultra-processed food consumption and the risk of colorectal cancer among women.
The research, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, analysed the probability of vaccinated people becoming infected with the subvariant BA.5 currently in circulation.
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Tea contains helpful substances known to reduce inflammation. Past studies in China and Japan, where green tea is popular, suggested health benefits. The new study extends the good news to the UK’s favourite drink: black tea.
The study on 25 patients with monkeypox, published in the journal JAMA, is one of the earliest to assess and report the outcomes of treating patients with the disease with this antiviral.
The number of young hypertensives is dynamically increasing and the factor leading to it is stress, he said. Menon also pointed out the physiology of Indians as another factor.
The researchers analysed the associations between the incidence of acute myocardial and average pollutant concentrations on the same day, the previous day, and an average of the three preceding days among all patients according to baseline characteristics.
To this end, scientists and clinicians have established a range of risk factors for serious illness with COVID, including older age, obesity, and several underlying health conditions.
The results from a 109,000-patient Israeli study are likely to renew questions about the U.S. government’s use of Paxlovid, which has become the go-to treatment for COVID-19 due to its at-home convenience.
Supported by funding from the Washington Research Foundation, Lynch is now working to expand testing to a group of 300 or more 2- to 4-year-olds across a larger number of clinical sites.
Tomato flu is a common illness that mainly affects people who are allergic to tomatoes. Symptoms of tomato flu include: a sore throat, headache, fever, and body aches. More severe cases can lead to pneumonia.
This discovery could pave the way for new advances in medical adhesives, particularly in situations where adhesives are difficult to apply, such as on wet skin.
The results of neuroscientists at Emory University’s study on Mongolian gerbils were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Mosquitoes can cause diseases like malaria and dengue fever, but there are other types of mosquitoes that can cause harm too.
With the DCGI’s nod, Lynparza is now approved in the US, EU, Japan, India and several other countries for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer, it added.
Since COVID-19 involves viral inflammation, the research team thought the combination of anti-inflammatory plus antiviral action was intriguing enough to test the drug.
Records from COVID-19 patients infected during different pandemic waves were also compared to investigate differences in the impact of the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variants on the risk of neurological and psychiatric diagnoses.
There is no cure, but since a vaccine was found in the 1950s, polio is entirely preventable. Globally, the wild form of the disease has almost disappeared.
Researchers from the University of Leeds examined the risk of hip fracture in occasional meat eaters, pescatarians–those who consume fish but no meat–and vegetarians in comparison to regular meat eaters.