Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 27, 2020
Individuals with osteoarthritis, or “wear and tear” arthritis, have limited treatment options: pain relievers or joint replacement surgery. Now, Salk researchers have discovered that a powerful combination of two experimental drugs reverses the cellular and molecular signs of osteoarthritis in rats as well as in isolated human cartilage cells. Their results were published in the journa...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 26, 2020
As of Sunday, 8am Bangkok time, Chinese health officials released information saying that the death toll as a result of the 2019-nCoV virus (or Wuhan Virus) is now 56 while the number infected is 1975, of which 324 individuals are in severe critical condition. However, based on observations by two of Thailand Medical News ground staff in Wuhan and Beijing, the figures do not make any sense.
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Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 26, 2020
The protocol of using of lithium therapy in treating Alzheimer’s disease is a widely controversial topic in medical circles for a long time. Much of this stems from the fact that because the information gathered to date has been obtained using a multitude of differential approaches, conditions, formulations, timing and dosages of treatment, results are difficult to comp...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 26, 2020
Over 1.3 million cases of gastric cancer are diagnosed each year around the world. Stomach or gastric cancer is the 5th most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world, and the 7th most prevalent. If healthcare providers detect the stomach cancer in early stages when the cancer is still only in the stomach, the five-year&n...
Source : Thailand Medical News Jan 26, 2020
For more than two centuries, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 C) was said to be the average, normal human body temperature. However new research is claiming it is not.
Researchers recently have known that normal body temperature is actually lower than 98.6 and can vary by gender, size, age, time of day and other factors. But now there's also new evidence that shows we've been...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 26, 2020
Since the outbreak of SARS in 2002, there was initially numerous studies and research done to find a cure for the SARS Coronavirus. Most of the research at that time was initiated by researchers from China and also Hong Kong and subsequently as a result of certain breakthroughs; additional research was carried out in countries in Europe and the US.
Unfortunately, the enthusiasm for most of ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 26, 2020
The China health authorities as of 9pm Bangkok time announced that the total death toll is only 58 while the numbers infected is a mere 2147. (the figures released by the health authorities do no tally with actual happening in hospitals all over the affected cities!)
Bodies piling up at a hospital in Wuhan
A Chinese doctor at Wuhan General Hospital speaking on conditions of anonymity told Thail...
Source : Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
Official figures on Saturday morning from Chinese health authorities are that 41 people have so far died from the new coronavirus strain in China while 1,287 people are infected although the numbers in state hospitals all over China are showing a different scenario.
France has reported three cases of individuals infected with the 2019-nCoV virus while a second case has also been reported in the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
A recent study suggests that significant early childhood exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with structural changes in the brain at the age of 12.
Researchers from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center found that children with higher levels of TRAP exposure at birth had reductions at age 12 in gray matter volume and cortical t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
The 2019-nCoV virus that is rapidly spreading in China and nearby countries seems to trigger symptoms similar to those seen in the severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (SARS) coronavirus outbreak in 2003, two new studies show.
The first clinical study was published on Jan. 24 in The Lancet journal, these are the first clinical studies conducted on patients struc...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
Researchers from San Diego State University in a new study suggests that ancient viruses called biophages may be just the set of tools needed to cultivate a healthy microbiome.
Over the last few years, study after study has said that the overall health of the internal microbiome ecosystem in the gut is critical for overall health and can play a major factor in the development of diseases such as...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
Medical researchers are saying that one of the causes of breast cancer may be inflammation triggered by harmful bacteria. The scientists say their idea, as yet unproven is supported by the available evidence, which is that bacterial-induced inflammation is linked to cancer.
The new research published in the journal Medical Hypotheses is by Lancaster University medical stud...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
A recently developed technique could dramatically reduce the number of colorectal cancer patients who unnecessarily undergo major surgery to remove tumors, instead of a minimally invasive procedure.
Leading biomedical scientist Dr Xin Wang of City University of Hong Kong and colleagues have used AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning to identify a gene expression pat...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 25, 2020
18 cities In China now In lockdown affecting 56 million people, death toll now 45 and numbers infected have risen to almost 1,500.
A ghastly scene form the 1918 Flu Pandemic
China has now expanded the lockdown to cover a total of 18 cities affecting 57 million people with more cities coming under lockdown the next few days. It has also declared that the country is in a state of emergency ...
