Hyderabad: The toll in the explosion within a chemical reactor at a facility of pharmaceutical firm in the Telangana’s Sangareddy district climbed to six, as officially confirmed by the police on Thursday. Four individuals lost their lives, and sixteen others sustained injuries in the explosion that took place at the SB Organics Ltd’s factory, situated in […]
Chennai: Taking cognizance of the complaints from students alleging poor teaching quality, the Directorate of Medical Education in Tamil Nadu has instructed the faculties of the 11 new medical colleges in the State to focus on improving the teaching quality at the medical colleges. Directions have also been issued to the deans of the concerned new […]
New Delhi: In a remarkable medical achievement, doctors at a city hospital successfully conducted a rare combined liver and kidney transplant on a critically ill 46-year-old patient from Uzbekistan. The complex surgery, which lasted 16 hours, utilized organs donated by the patient’s wife and daughter, marking a significant milestone in modern medicine. Combined organ transplants are […]
Researchers have found in a small randomized controlled trial that an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) to diagnose people with pleural effusion. Image-guided or assisted needle biopsies and the increasing use of medical thoracoscopy (MT) have significantly increased the diagnostic accuracy of pleural diseases. However, there is no consensus […]
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection at the 2024 Asian Pacific Conference for the Study of Liver Disease (APASL) in Kyoto, Japan. The 2024 HBV guidelines provide updated evidence-informed recommendations on key priority topics. These include substantial simplification and expansion […]
Iron plays a vital role in the growth and development of young children. In low- and middle-income countries, anaemia is a significant health issue, and young children are vulnerable to iron deficiency anaemia. Previous research studies have shown the association between low iron and poor development outcomes in children. A study published in PLOS ONE […]
South Korea: A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine has shed light on the potential application of non-invasive optical imaging methods in orthodontic diagnosis. Jae Ho Baek from F.E.S. Research Lab in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, found that non-invasive optical diagnostic devices, including optical Doppler tomography (ODT) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), […]
University of New Mexico researchers have found that even low to moderate alcohol use by pregnant patients may contribute to subtle changes in their babies’ prenatal development, including lower birth length and a shorter duration of gestation. In a new paper published in the journal Alcohol Clinical & Experimental Research, a team led by Ludmila […]
Prostate cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers in men worldwide, often requiring a multimodal treatment approach for optimal management. Among the treatment modalities, combination androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with radiotherapy has been a cornerstone in both localized and advanced disease settings. However, the effectiveness and tolerability of traditional ADT regimens have been a […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to iloperidone (Fanapt) for acute treatment of bipolar I disorder. Fanapt is an atypical antipsychotic agent that has been used for the acute treatment of patients with schizophrenia since its FDA approval in 2009. “Manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder are highly […]