Health & Medicine
Physicians’ political beliefs affect medical treatment
04 Oct 2016
Researchers have found that on politically sensitive health issues across the US, patients receive substantially different care depending on whether their doctor is a Democrat or Republican
World's first robotic surgical system with sense of touch developed
04 Oct 2016
A world-first innovation will give surgeons the sense of touch while they drive a robot to conduct keyhole surgery via a computer
Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins 2016 Nobel for Medicine
03 Oct 2016
Yoshinori Ohsumi's elucidation of `autophagy’, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, has helped in the understanding of how the cell recycles its content as also the many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection
Dental fillings raise levels of mercury in the body, UGA study says
29 Sep 2016
Assistant professor Xiaozhong (John) Yu and scientist Lei Yin, both from the University of Georgia's College of Public Health, conducted research that shows dental amalgam can contribute to prolonged mercury levels in the body
Tattoo therapy may help control chronic diseases
24 Sep 2016
By 2050, drug-resistant infections could cause global economic damage worse than 2008 financial crisis
24 Sep 2016
Drug-resistant infections have the potential to cause a level of economic damage similar to — and likely worse than — that caused by the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report by the World Bank Group
Another reason to quit smoking – avoid DNA damage
21 Sep 2016
While most of the disease-causing genetic footprints left by smoking fade after five years if people quit, some appear to stay there forever
Industry role in studies downplaying sugar risks bared
15 Sep 2016
At the behest of a sugar industry lobby group, Harvard researchers in 1967 overstated the literature on fat and cholesterol, while downplaying studies on sugar, in concluding that reducing cholesterol and saturated fat was the only dietary intervention needed to prevent heart disease