Respiratory Viruses Most Common Cause of Pneumonia in Children

Respiratory viruses, not bacterial infections, are the most commonly detected causes of community-acquired pneumonia in children, revealed a multicenter Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community (EPIC) study. The EPIC study was a prospective, population-based study of community-acquired pneumonia hospitalizations among children in the United...

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One Billion Young People at Risk of Hearing Loss from Loud Music

More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through listening to loud music, revealed the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN agency estimates that 360 million people suffer from hearing loss worldwide, and apart from noise related causes and aging, it is also brought on by infectious diseases, genetic conditions,...

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can Now be Identified Through Blood Bio-markers

Chronic fatigue syndrome can now be identified through bio-markers in the blood, revealed scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study offers hope that earlier diagnosis may improve treatment. This is the first robust physical evidence that the syndrome is a biological illness as opposed to a psychological...

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Adjuvant Chemotherapy After Bladder Cancer Surgery Improved Survival

Patients who received chemotherapy after bladder cancer surgery demonstrated an approximately 30 percent lower risk of death than those patients who underwent surgery alone, revealed an analysis by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. Researchers used a large database of patients...

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Princess Margaret Cancer Center and Vall D'Hebron Institute of Oncology Partner to Advance Personalized Cancer Medicine

Two internationally acclaimed cancer centers announced a partnership to accelerate academic and clinical research to advance personalized, targeted therapies against cancer. The partners, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto and Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, signed a Memorandum of...

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