WHILE crying, a 42-year-old woman of Lusaka’s Zingalume narrated how her own son, 22, undressed and tried to force himself on her in her bedroom. Regina Mbewe testified before Lusaka magistrate Mutinta Mwenya how her second boy son, while in a drunk state, got to her bedroom, undressed with an erect manhood trying to rape her […]
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Cardiac arrhythmias affect millions across the world and are responsible for a fifth of all deaths in the Netherlands. Currently there are multiple treatment options, ranging from life-long medication to invasive surgical procedures. Research from Amsterdam UMC and Johns Hopkins University, published today in the European Heart Journal, sets another important step in the hunt for a one-off gene therapy that could improve heart function and protect against arrhythmias.
Residents in a central Manila neighborhood lined up Wednesday, as dengue cases spike nationwide, to collect a bounty—one peso for every five mosquitoes, dead or alive.
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive and most common malignant brain cancer in adults. It is currently treated with surgery, followed by radiation and chemotherapy. The prognosis is poor even with treatment. A challenge in conducting clinical trials in brain cancer is that it can be difficult to detect the cellular effects of new agents, as investigators are often limited to using imaging data and patient symptoms.
About 740,000 suicides are reported annually: that’s one death on average every 43 seconds, one of the many disturbing findings in the latest and most comprehensive analysis published today in The Lancet Public Health.
Patients affected by sinus thrombosis are treated with blood thinners. Traditionally, these patients are prescribed vitamin K antagonists (VKAs). In order to give the correct dosage, regular check-ups at the thrombosis service are necessary.
Spine injections should not be given to adults with chronic back pain because they provide little or no pain relief compared with sham injections, say a panel of international experts in The BMJ .
Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and metabolic surgery) is one of the most common reasons people engage in so-called “medical tourism”—where they travel to another country for a procedure usually offered a much lower price than in their home country.
Human health is strongly intertwined with the health of the microbiome. A large number of studies have shown that the human microbiome plays a critical role in tumorigenesis, tumor progression, and the efficacy of anticancer therapies such as radiotherapy through a variety of mechanisms.
A software robot has proved to be faster than doctors at detecting side effects during a drug treatment for cardiac arrhythmia, while also cutting unnecessarily frequent follow-up lab tests and controls, according to a study at the University of Gothenburg.