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A new study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that routinely screening pregnant women for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) may not be as beneficial as previously thought. ...
Colostrum is the pre-milk fluid or the first milk produced by a female mammal. It is produced by the mother’s mammary glands in the first 24 - 48 hours after giving birth. Colostrum i...
A recently published study in PLoS Medicine shows that handwashing with soap and regular nail clipping in children can reduce the chances of intestinal parasitic infection or infestation...
Most people consider allergy to be a not-so-serious problem, maybe because they are generally not life-threatening or debilitating. But ask someone who sniffles 365 days a year with a ti...
Malaria now has a proven herbal remedy, says a new research! In a recent study, scientists have demonstrated that the powdered dried leaves of the plant, Artemisia annua (swee...
A study indicates that new oral anticoagulants are similar in efficacy to the conventional ones in venous thromboembolism treatment, with a possible slightly reduced risk for bleeding, e...
Biologic therapy, also known as immunotherapy, is a treatment that aims to restore the ability of the body’s immune system to fight infection and disease. Immunosuppressive drugs are presc...
Can meat in diet increase the chances of suffering from allergies like rhinoconjunctivitis in pregnant women ? A study from Japan suggests that the answer is probably 'yes'. Rh...
People from the industrialized countries often suffer from diarrhea while traveling to countries like Latin America, Southern Asia and Africa. Traveler’s diarrhea, as the condition is re...
As humans it is natural for us to think the world of ourselves but in doing so we face the risk of obscuring the vast majority of co- habiting creatures, mostly the single-celled kind, that ...
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