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Lately you must have heard or even read the words ‘Zika virus' on the news, in the newspapers and even on the Internet, right? Well, just like numerous other diseases which affect humans, Zika virus also causes a number of serious ...

What Is Total Knee Replacement? Total knee replacement is an operation to restore pain-free motion to the knee joint and function to the muscles, ligaments and other soft-tissue structures that control the joint. It has become the gold standard treatment for ...

A pregnancy is considered high risk when there are certain complications that could hamper the mother or baby, or both. Meanwhile, health issues among the delivering mothers like pregnancy-induced hypertension, diabetes and anaemia are among the major causes that might put ...

A urine test which can diagnose colon cancer is coming in the near future. Such a test would compliment or sometimes reduce the need for the current mainstay screening tests to diagnose the disease, including colonoscopy. Experts say that the analysis ...

Providing antibiotics to some newly diagnosed HIV patients could save tens of thousands of patients, but the scientists do not utilize this opportunity, say researchers. The Lancet, which is an addition of the inexpensive antibiotic co-trimoxazole, can prevent the mortality rates ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore have suggested an alternative for screening and diagnosing diabetes that may not require patients to fast. They examined the current criteria for screening and diagnosing the disease and ...