Category: Top Story
Moms who give birth at older age live longer
Women who are able to get pregnant naturally and give birth in their mid-30s and after tend to live longer than other women, a new study suggests. Researchers found that women who gave birth after age 33 were twice as […]
International SOS provides advice for a healthy Ramadan
Tips can assist travellers and expatriates during the holy month. Singapore – International SOS is providing travellers and expatriates with seven key tips for staying healthy during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. Dr David Teo, Regional Medical Director, Assistance […]
Scientists explain stress-heart attack link
Scientists said yesterday they may have unravelled how chronic stress leads to heart attack and stroke: triggering overproduction of disease-fighting white blood cells which can be harmful in excess. Surplus cells clump together on the inner walls of arteries, restricting […]
Precision therapy, innovations: A boon for cancer patients
In the age of precision therapy and technological innovations in cancer treatment, oncologists now claim that cancer is the only disease that can be cured besides nutritional deficiencies and infections. With new-age targeted therapy in cancer, curing the disease has […]
Processed milk is bad for your bones
Most milk does a body Bad, not good, but it’s the biggest lies that are more likely to be believed, and there are myths that refuse to die. So, in the name of good health, let’s try to rid ourselves […]
Arthritis drug makes hairless man very hairy
It turns out an FDA-approved rheumatoid arthritis drug might just cure baldness—at least the form caused by a rare immune disease. During an eight-month trial of the drug, a 25-year-old man whose body was nearly hairless grew, well, a lot […]
‘Super’ banana to face first human trial
A super-enriched banana genetically engineered to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Australian researchers said Monday. The project plans to have […]
APHM 2014 focussed on healthcare partnerships
The APHM International Healthcare Conference and Exhibition 2014 was held from 3rd June to 5th June 2014 at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia. The 22nd edition of the annual event was organised by the Association of Private Hospitals […]
‘Promising’ results of anti-dengue vaccine tests noted in PHL
Tests conducted on Filipino children involving possibly the first vaccine against dengue fever yielded “promising” results, the head of a local group conducting research on the mosquito-borne disease said Monday. In a phone interview, Dr. Rosario Capeding, head of the […]
Healing via art
The failure of traditional and modern forms of treatments has always served a launching pad for other innovative forms of therapies and art therapy is one such new method getting popular, gradually and steadily. Speaking to DT News, Bahrain’s first […]
