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High coronary artery calcium score  a measure of arterial ageing puts people at greater risk not only for heart and vascular disease but also for non-cardiovascular diseases such as cancer, chronic kidney disease and lung diseases, says a study.

Patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) a rare form of cancer  can get huge financial benefits if they start using the generic form of drug Gleevec, the patent of which expired in January this year, a study said.

Scientists have developed a new method for harvesting stem cells, which is less invasive and reduces side effects for donors.The new method eliminates the need for the patient to take growth factor injections to increase cell numbers before a transplant.

A team of researchers led by an Indian-American scientist has developed a portable biosensor that can display the progress of Alzheimer's disease in a patient.

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Offering a potential new approach to preventing deadly heart attacks and strokes, Indian-origin researchers have designed a synthetic nanoparticle that can simultaneously light up invisible plaque build up inside the arteries and also treat it.

Serotonin, a brain chemical which is believed to influence various physiological and psychological factors including our mood and appetite has now been directly implicated in rheumatoid arthritis that can cause chronic inflammation of the joints and other areas of the body.

High levels of insulin are bad for lungs and for Indians who have the lowest lung function, the focus should be on improving diet and lifestyle to tackle pre-diabetes and diabetes, according to a study.

Controlling diabetes by diet or pills such as metformin may decrease the mammographic density or high breast density which poses a higher risk of developing cancer.

Australian researchers have debunked fish oil and vitamin D as treatments for knee osteoarthritis in a clinical trial.The Australian team, from the University of Tasmania's Menzies, found that vitamin D and fish oil, both widely to slow knee cartilage loss and and reduce inflammation, had no distinguishable impact on knee osteoarthritis, Xinhua news agency reported.

A heart pump using flywheel technology, developed by engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Centre, has raised hope of a better life for children born with only one heart ventricle, or essentially half a heart.