Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
Sri Lanka and Germany has officially announced that both countries now have one case each of individuals infected with the new 2019-nCoV virus while Sri Lanka has another 17 individuals under observation while Germany has about 6 more under observation.
The number of coronavirus infected cases internationally stands as :Thailand (8 cases), Hong Kong (8 cases), United States (5 ca...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
Typically affecting more than 7 million adults in the United States, and about 52 million people wordwide, gout is characterized by a sudden onset of pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints and caused by the formation of urate crystal in small spaces between joints that builds up when high amounts of uric acid circulate in the blood. While gout is linked to consuming some foods, including red m...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
For many years, a widespread, fast-growing algae plant called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii the green, single-celled organism, which primarily grows in wet soil, has served as a model species for research topics spanning from algae-based biofuels to plant evolution. While other species of algae have been used as dietary nutraceuticals that provide beneficial oils, vitamins, proteins, c...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
The Permanent Secretary From The Ministry Of Public Health, Thailand, Dr. Sukhum Kanchanapimai has just announced that 6 more cases of individuals have been confirmed to be infected with the new 2019-nCov virus from China. Of the six, 5 were a family from Hebei that came to Thailand for a more than a week now and initially never had any symptoms when they entered Thailand. Another also a Chinese n...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
AI or artificial intelligence can help cancer patients start their radiation therapy sooner and thereby decrease the odds of the cancer spreading or metastasizing by instantly translating complex clinical data into an optimal plan of attack.
Typically cancer patients must wait several days to a week to begin radiation therapy while doctors manually develop treatment plans. But new research ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
In less than a mere 8 hours since morning, the China coronavirus epidemic seems to be escalating at an even faster rate, current death toll in China now stands at 121 (all new deaths were in Hubei), number infected have risen to 5017, those in critical condition 672 and more than 172,670 patients are under observation all over China for being suspected of having the virus but pending t...
Source: Thailand Medical news Jan 28, 2020
Researchers from New York University Grossman School of Medicine, following up on their landmark 2016 study, found that a one-time, single-dose treatment of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, combined with psychotherapy appears to be associated with significant improvements in emotional and existential distress in cancer patients. These effects persisted nearly five years after...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 28, 2020
From filler, facelifts to facials, there's no shortage of ways to reduce the inevitable signs of aging. But there's one aesthetic surgical procedure that most people don't think about as a tool that can make women and even men look years younger. Rhinoplasty, or cosmetic nose surgery, may make a woman or man look up to three years younger, according to a new study led b...
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 27, 2020
China Health authorities initially said in a Monday morning statement that the death toll from the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has risen to 80 but at 7.45am (Bangkok time), Wuhan City officials revised the figure to 83. All new deaths were only from the Hubei province and affected cities there and that apparently there were no new deaths reported in other provinces in China. The number infected ha...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 27, 2020
According to a new study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) can increase an individual's susceptibility to pneumococcal disease.
Typically, the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of pneumonia and meningitis and the leading cause of infectious disease deaths in under-5s an...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 27, 2020
A common prescription drug for oedema (the build-up of fluid in the body) called Bumetanide has shown to improve some of the symptoms in young children with autism spectrum disorders and has no significant side effects, according to a new study from researchers in China and the UK.
The study demonstrates for the first time that the drug improves the symptoms by decreasing the ratio of the...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 27, 2020
Biomedical researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of smart contact lenses that can prevent dry eyes. The self-moisturizing system, which is described in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, maintains a layer of fluid between the contact lens and the eye using a novel mechanism.
Typically, smart contact lenses are wearable devices that could accele...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 27, 2020
Have you ever eaten something, gotten sick and then didn’t want to eat that food again because of how it made you feel? That’s because a signal from the gut to the brain produced that sickness, creating a taste aversion.
Typically, conventional wisdom renders there’s one circuit in the brain that suppresses eating and it comes from the stomach and makes you feel sick if yo...
