Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Reduction of intra ocular pressure (IOP) is well established treatment modality for glaucoma to halt disease worsening. IOP can be reduced either by ENT or surgical methods.......

An analysis of data on a long-term study of ageing adults showed that those who report being very sleepy during the day were nearly three times more likely than those who didn't to have brain deposits of beta amyloid - a protein that's a hallmark for Alzheimer's disease - years later.......

Earlier Mumbai’s KEM hospital run by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had carried out a liver transplant surgery. The hospital comes under the civic-run category.......

The U.S. health regulator has asked for including this risk in the drugs' labeling.......

Parkinson's is caused by a lack of dopamine made by brain cells and researchers have long hoped to use stem cells to restore normal production of the neurotransmitter chemical.......

Earlier, such a patient might have been treated through open surgery, which requires long incisions and takes a patient a long time to recover from. There is also greater risk of infection and scars of stiches.......

The case involved a two-and-a-half-year-old child suffering from end-stage liver disease.......