Monthly Archives: February 2017

Cancer and Diabetes: The Disharmonious Disease Alliance

By Dr. Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam | Published: Feb 2017 Volume: |

We need to battle against cancer and diabetes together and in fact, prevention as well as control measures need to be addressed…

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A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the RASGRF2 Gene Is Associated with Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis in Men

By mdCurrent-India staff | Published: Feb 2017

Genetic predisposition plays a major role in susceptibility to alcoholism or ethanol-induced organ damage. Many association studies have been conducted to…

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Longitudinal Study of Transmission in Households with Visceral Leishmaniasis, Asymptomatic Infections and PKDL in Highly Endemic Villages in Bihar, India

By mdCurrent-India staff | Published: Feb 2017

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is a neglected vector-borne disease caused by a protozoan parasite, Leishmania donovani and is transmitted by the…

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Marketing Gasless Surgery

By Dr. J. Gnanaraj | Published: Feb 2017 Volume: |

Gasless laparoscopic surgery is an innovation with great potential. Although the innovation of laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery almost as significant as that of discovery of anesthesia or antisepsis for surgery it has poor market penetration…

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