October 2015

Increasing insulin dose to manage diabetes is unlikely to deteriorate your heart's health, suggests new research.

A total of 106 people have died because of dengue in Taiwan, while 23,821 have been infected since May this year, authorities said on Wednesday.

A private Chinese biotechnology company plans to mass produce a vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese military scientists.

The union health ministry will issue guidelines to the Delhi government on control of swine flu including on vaccination, infection control and standard treatment protocols, an official release said here on Tuesday.

Due to discovery of new immune system biomarker by researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia and the University of Oxford, scientists are now better able to predict how quickly the HIV virus will return after individuals stop treatment. The findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.

A woman's chances of surviving breast cancer partly depends on early detection, despite recent advancements in the treatment, says a new study. The study is published in the medical journal BMJ.

Now diamonds could be used in a novel way to act as beacons in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and identify cancerous tumors before they become life-threatening. The study findings revealed how a synthetic version of the precious gem can light up early-stage cancers in MRI scans. The study was published in the Nature Communications.

A key mechanism of aspirin may explain many of the drug's therapeutic properties, revealed a new study. The study appeared in the Journal Molecular Medicine.