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Wearable smart veins locator could help nurses see below the skin
Getting a needle into a patient’s vein can sometimes be a complicated process, especially if the veins aren’t visible. Vein-spotting spectacles that see through a patient’s skin could help avoid the damage caused by repeated needle pricks, and that’s exactly […]
More Chinese suffer from strokes
Some 1.88 percent of China’s population suffered a stroke in 2011, up from 0.27 percent in 1986, according to a Wang Longde, an academic with the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Wang, also vice director of a special committee on stroke […]
Oxygen therapy that helps heal wounds
A therapy that involves inhaling pure oxygen in a submarine-like chamber, and that can speed up healing of diabetic foot wounds as well as help autistic children has come to the UAE. The facility offering this hyperbaric oxygen therapy was […]
Saffron: Ancient healing powers confirmed by science
Clearly there is something magical about the Crocus sativus flower, from which the spice saffron is derived. If its striking beauty does not immediately cast a spell on its beholder, often it simply takes experiencing the spice to fall into […]
Drugs that fight MERS-coronavirus revealed
A number of existing pharmaceutical drugs and compounds under development may be effective against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, researchers have found. In the first study, researchers screened a library of 290 pharmaceutical drugs, either FDA-approved or in advanced clinical […]
China winds could carry childhood disease to Japan
An airborne toxin that is blown into Japan from northeast China could be the cause of the mysterious Kawasaki disease, a childhood illness that mostly affects the very young, researchers said Monday. Kawasaki disease occurs worldwide but is most common […]
Measles virus to treat cancer?
Viruses are known to cause diseases. But can they also cure a life-threatening one? Yes, measles virus can potentially be used to cure cancer, a promising research reveals. A high dose ‘blast’ of a specially engineered version of the measles […]
Training the immune system to target brain cancer
Scientists have made headway in the treatment of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) with the use of immunotherapy. This study was published in the journal Cancer Research. Study leader, Professor Rajiv Khanna of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research […]
Walking may help prolong life of kidney patients
Suffering from kidney diseases? Take up walking at the earliest as researchers have found that walking may help patients with kidney disease prolong life and reduce the risk of needing dialysis or a kidney transplant. “A minimal amount of walking […]
How to not get bored all the time
Do you find yourself staring inordinately into space or examining your finger nails, whenever you have some time off? Boredom can creep in uninformed in the middle of a busy day, or worse still, on a laidback weekend. Lack of […]
