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Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a condition where the patient suffers from breathlessness, low blood oxygen levels and lung inflammation that could progress to respiratory fa...
Recent findings suggest new links between lung disease and disease of the heart. An increased blood level of a protein produced by a diseased lung was found to be associated with increase...
It has been ten years since the human genome, the blue print of our life, was decoded and the mystery that marks us as a species, unraveled. Although the significance of genomics is of...
Support Group for Mucopolysaccharidoses or MPS, a rare genetic disorder, was the highlight of the one day event held at Mediscan premises that had almost 200 entries registered on 26 January...
The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine has been announced! It has been awarded to researchers Elizabeth Blackburn , her student Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for studying the way chromos...
Medindia spoke to Dr. Rekha Ramachandran, President of the Down Syndrome Association of India (Tamil Nadu chapter) who has spearheaded the need to understand, support and improve the quali...
May 8, 2008 “ There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” --Woodrow T. Wilson World Red Cross an...
“ I am the love that dare not speak its name ” -Lord Alfred Douglas (From the poem ‘Two Loves’) Homosexuality or same- sex love is the hottest, most...
Have you ever wondered at the colorful display of a magnificent rainbow? Its vibrant hues, in spectral splendor, never cease to amaze! Sadly, colors are a grave blunder on nature’s ...
In the field of research, the embryonic cells are prized for their Midas’ touch. They have the ability to transform into every kind of cell in the body. But this seemingly miraculous trait...
Ever since the discovery of the DNA by Watson and Crick the imperious role of the genes in influencing an individual’s physiology has been widely acknowledged. Genes produce an array of prot...
'The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress'. ...ISAAC ASIMOV The desire to strive towards betterm...
This year, the Nobel prize for medicine has been conferred on two Americans, Andrew Z Fire of the MIT and Craig C Mello of the Harvard University, for their discovery of ‘RNA interference’, ...
One million people will be donating their blood samples and their personal information about their lifestyle, diet, habit and their disease information to one of the two biggest medical rese...
The first International symposium on Stem cell Research and Therapy was conducted in Chennai, on the 6th of January. The programme was organized by LifeCell, a pioneer in stem cell banking i...
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