A recent study, conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Foundation Medicine, indicates that a gene commonly linked to colorectal cancer may also contribute to the development of other solid tumors

Dr Rajeev Jayadevan 
15 August 2024

We are familiar with the term mpox that has replaced the stigmatising word monkeypox, a severe and contagious viral infection that apparently originated from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa. The virus is a zoonosis that jumped to humans from rodents in the nearby forests in the 1970’s.

Metabolic syndrome in children with overweight and obesity: a hospital based cross sectional study

Madhava Vijayakumar , Ajitha Balakrishnan , Sabitha Sasidharan Pillai

Researchers, led by Prof. Sadeer Al-Kindi and Prof. Sanjay Rajagopalan from University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA, along with Dr. Zhuo Chen, a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. Rajagopalan's laboratory, have utilized Google Street View to analyze numerous aspects of the built environment.

Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered a significant correlation between delirium in older patients and the likelihood of developing dementia, with those experiencing delirium being three times more likely to develop dementia.