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New blood test to rapidly diagnose thousands of rare genetic diseases in kids
New Delhi: Australian researchers have developed a new, rapid testing method to help diagnose rare diseases in babies and children. There are more than 7,000 types of disease caused by mutations in…
- Health
Cardiovascular risk underestimated for people in HIV, finds global study
New York: A team of US researchers has found that for people with HIV, current risk models underestimated cardiovascular events in both women and black men in high-income countries. Cardiovascular disease is…
- Health
Study shows tumour DNA in blood can predict lung cancer outcome
New Delhi: A team of British scientists has found that a blood test used to detect circulating tumour DNA can predict the outcome of lung cancer. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is fragments…
- Health
New AI method to pick up arthritis, lupus early in high-risk patients
New Delhi: Artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly aid in early detection of autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus especially in high-risk patients, leading to better outcomes, finds a study. In people…
- Health
Heart muscle can regenerate after failure in some people with artificial hearts: Study
New York: Heart muscle can regenerate after failure in some people with artificial hearts, an international research team has found. The team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College…
- India
Report confirms mother’s blood samples used as replacement: cops in Porsche crash case
Pune: A forensic laboratory report shows that the blood samples of the mother were swapped with those of her 17-year-old son involved in the Porsche crash that claimed two lives here, police…
- India
Pune car crash: ‘Minor’s parents manipulated his blood sample by visiting hospital’
Pune: The parents of a 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in a Porsche car accident tampered with his blood sample by visiting the state-run Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, a court was told…
- India
Pune police arrest juvenile”s mother in Porsche car accident case
Pune: Pune police have arrested the mother of the juvenile in the Porsche car accident case after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with those of his mother, the city police…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Blood Bank raided for unauthorised sale of components to patients
Hyderabad: A blood bank in Hyderabad was raided by the Drugs Control Administration (DCA) and blood components were seized from the establishment for selling the same without permission. DCA officials raided ‘Asian…
- World
Blood supplies running low in China due to a spike in respiratory illnesses
Beijing: China is facing a shortage of blood — a problem blamed on the current spike in respiratory illness, the cold snap and a fall in the number of donors, the media…
