Medical Dialogues

New research from San Diego State University's School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences reports that eating prunes daily has a protective effect on bone health in men over 50. This study is the first of its kind to examine the beneficial prune effect on bones in men.

Advanced AMD consists of geographic atrophy (GA) and neovascular AMD (nAMD). Treatment is currently only available for nAMD and comes in the form of intravitreal injections of anti–vascular endothelial growth factor.

The researchers in a recent study have demonstrated modest improvement in insulin sensitivity, glycose homeostasis, and disease development in diabetes and prediabetes with vitamin D supplementation of 25(OH)D<30 ng/ml. The study appears in the Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition.

Vitamin D supplementation beneficial in diabetes and prediabetes cases  

Increased alcohol intake- a  risk factor for Geographic atrophy in eye  

Prunes show promising effect on men's bone health  

Transparent masks may improve daily communication and patient-clinician interactions  

Blood Pressure During Exercise Stress Test helps predict Hypertension & Cardiovascular Events

A 50-year-old businessman was cheated of Rs 43 lakhs by two fraudsters who promised him of getting his daughter an MBBS seat in the premier Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) Puducherry in 2019.

"The Medical Assessment & Rating Board of National Medical Commission has decided to request the medical colleges/institutes to display the information of the college/institution on their website linked to National Medical Commission."

1. Make All Admissions, Establishment Details Public: NMC Gives Deadline To Medical Colleges  

2. Promise Of MBBS Seat  At JIPMER: Businessman Cheated Of Rs 43 Lakh  

3. Kerala medical college hospitals hit as doctors protest, urge govt to meet demands  

4. Cardiologist Commits Suicide By Injecting Poison Through IV Drip  

5 .Doctors Seek 1:5 Seat To Candidate Ratio In NEET PG Counselling: Supreme Court Asks To Approach HC 

 6.  38 Medical Colleges Approved This Year By Centre, Maximum In TN, UP  

7. NPPA Panel Rejects Neon Labs Plea To Discontinue Local Anesthetic Lidocain

Patients with asthma often experience a worsening of asthmatic symptoms at night in so-called "nocturnal asthma." According to reports, more than 50% of asthma deaths occur at night, exposing a link between nocturnal asthma symptoms and asthma deaths.

the testis does not do well during COVID," said lead author Clayton Edenfield, a doctoral environmental health science student in UGA's College of Public Health. Edenfield worked under the direction of associate professor Charles Easley, a co-author on the paper.

Tapinarof cream is a topical aryl hydrocarbon receptor–modulating agent under investigation for psoriasis treatment. Tapinarof modulates the expression of interleukin-17 and the skin-barrier proteins filaggrin and loricrin. Mark G. Lebwoh and the team conducted two identical phase 3 randomized trials of tapinarof in patients with mild-to-severe plaque psoriasis.