Tag Archives: Harvard Medical School

Indian-origin American researcher has found that antibiotics affect delirium in brain and cause confusion to brain function and leads to hallucinations and agitative mindset. “Delirium is a common and costly complication of hospitalization. Although medications are a known cause of delirium, antibiotics are an underrecognized class of medications associated with delirium,” said researchers in their article. They reviewed the clinical, ...

Every house and every teenager is prone to spending more sleepless nights unaware of the fact that they mobile phones are to be blamed for the new phenomenon. Research has shown that short-wavelength blue light may disrupt the production of melatonin, a hormone that helps us go to sleep. More so when you have devices like the iPhone, iPad and ...

Scientists have successfully conducted trials on monkeys a drug that can block AIDS virus strain Hiv1 and HIV2. The promising results obtained by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida, Harvard Medical School and about dozen more institutes, shows that the new drug candidate tested on rhesus macaques, or monkeys which can carry simian HIV virus that is similar ...

A large study of nearly 15,000 men and women has found that having up to seven drinks a week is associated with a 20 percent lower risk of men developing heart failure and 16 percent reduced risk for women, perhaps in a desperate move to counter the studies which are proving it otherwise. “The findings suggest that drinking alcohol in ...

The old adage “You are what you eat” is true with the Mediterranean diet with nuts, vegetables, fruits, beans and peas, unrefined grains, olive oil and fish. With minimized dairy, meat and saturated fats, Mediterranean diet keeps you live longer, says a new study. Led by Immaculata De Vivo, associate professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Harvard ...

The invention of a new online tool has become a matter of amusement for many as it provides an opportunity for people to check how healthy ones heart is, where one will be able to estimate your risk of developing cardio-vascular disease (CVD) in the next 20 years. The Healthy Heart Score developed by researchers at the Harvard School of ...

Brown fat cells which help in energy generation seem to be the clue to eradicate white fat cells which store fat but turn foe in increasing the incidence of fat in our bodies. White fat cells also increase risk for diabetes and heart disease since it is linked to visceral fat, which is the build-up of fat around the organs ...