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- Read more about Using Western BP guidelines may up stroke risk in Asian patients
European and North American blood pressure guidelines, issued last year, may actually increase the stroke risk if adapted for Asian patients, particularly the elderly, experts have warned.
- Read more about Adolescent deaths from AIDS tripled since 2000: Unicef
The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years, most of the patients having acquired the disease when they were infants, according to new data released on Friday by Unicef.

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- Read more about New drug that may cure baldness found
In some good news for people with receding hairlines, scientists have identified new drugs that could stimulate rapid and robust hair growth, offering a potential cure for baldness. The drugs inhibit a family of enzymes inside hair follicles that are suspended in a resting state, restoring hair growth, researchers said. In experiments with mouse and human hair follicles, Angela M Christiano from Columbia University Medical Center and colleagues found that drugs that inhibit the Janus kinase (JAK) family of enzymes promote rapid and robust hair growth when directly applied to the skin.
- Read more about Lab-grown functional human liver cells to aid treatment
Researchers have developed a new approach to rapidly expand the number of human liver cells in the laboratory without losing their unique metabolic function.
- Read more about New gene map shows cancer's weak link
Scientists have mapped out the genes that keep our cells alive, thereby revealing which genes are crucial in diseases like cancer.
- Read more about High-potency cannabis kills white matter in brain
Smoking high-potency cannabis can damage a crucial part of the brain responsible for communication between the two brain hemispheres, researchers warn.
- Read more about Cocoa, green tea can help combat diabetes: study
Cocoa and green tea contain substances that can help prevent and treat renal complications or diabetic retinopathy, a study has shown.
- Read more about HIV infection surged to record numbers in Europe in 2014: WHO
A record number of people -- over 142,000 -- were diagnosed with HIV in Europe in 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Thursday.
- Read more about Overweight? Lose kilos, not hope with proper BMI screening
When 49-year-old Veena Gandhi came to Dr Tarun Mittal, a laparoscopic and obesity surgeon at Sir Gangaram Hospital in the capital, she had difficulty walking with shortness of breath and acute pain in her joints. The culprit: obesity.
- Read more about Effective therapies for liver damage come closer
In a major advancement towards therapies for patients with liver damage, scientists have developed a new technique for growing liver cells from stem cells that is cost-effective and could be adapted for mass production of clinical grade cells.

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