A digital era in the medical field has arisen where one could find the increased utilization of health apps. But a recent analysis by a research team from the University of Sydney in Australia claims that these apps might lead to insignificant diagnosis and wrong information about the illness.
Viral hepatitis is a major global health issue since it is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide. Around half of hepatitis-related deaths reported are due to the hepatitis B virus infection, which is transmitted through blood and body fluids.
A systematic review revealed the inadequacy of adverse event data in clinical trials of probiotics and prebiotics, rendering it difficult to draw broad conclusions with regards to the safety of interventions to modify gut micro-organisms. These randomized trials assessed probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics, which are products that combine probiotics and probiotics.
A scientists team from the University of Sheffield have discovered that the human pathogen named Staphylococcus aureus especially MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) uses non-threatening bacteria in the skin to initiate infection.
Nowadays fish pedicures have become a popular form of pedicure where fish eat dead skin off a person’s feat. But a woman in her 20’s from New York approached a doctor when her toenails started becoming abnormal. She told the doctor that she had been having the issue for around 6 months, from the moment she had the fish pedicure. There was no pain but a few breaks in her toenails, due to which the bottom portion of her nails got separated from the upper portion.
Recent scientific data revealed that the nonadherence to hepatitis B medicines increases the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis followed by mortality.
Current HIV drugs usually act on enzymes needed by the virus throughout its survival. But no drug targets the outermost layer of the virus named the capsid, which protects the genetic material delivered into the host.
A new technique allows scientists to measure how efficiently cancer drugs reach their targets inside the body in real time, differentiating cells that interact with the drug from those which do not.
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Teesside University researchers helped organize a ‘hackathon’ on 4 and 5 July 2018 at Brunel University in London with an aim to develop virtual reality (VR) tools for patients.
Researchers from South Ural State University (SUSU) found that man has been suffering from Hepatitis B since the Bronze Age with the help of viral traces in the genomes of ancient people. To understand how some of the ancient diseases spread and to find out how they might behave in the future, an international collaboration between researchers had been analyzing DNA of the relics of ancient people found in areas from Mongolia to Europe for several years.
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