Unexpected that unassuming mice and zebrafish can help repair damaged hearts, a new study has revealed. The zebrafish has the ability to stitch its severed spine again and the mouse has a substance surrounding its hearts that can patch up the injured or broken heart. The researchers injected the extracellular matrix of the zebrafish into […]
Pregnancy is a time when you are prone to sleepless nights. When you frequently catch yourself being wide awake at 2:30 am, you are far away from a healthy sleep cycle! And the impacts of which you may have already started to feel or will feel in the forthcoming days. Excess fatigue, tired looking skin […]
Being a mother is probably the most joyous experience for a woman! The fact that she is now the vessel of a new life brings her immense happiness and a tad bit apprehension, because every mother wants a safe delivery so that their little one can walk out of the womb all healthy to experience […]
Now that I have my little one sleeping peacefully in my arms, I can look upon all the 3 trimesters of my wife’s pregnancy and our journey with mood swings with a light-hearted smile. Sailing through the experience was certainly puzzling and fearful at times. So, here’s the story! When the doctor affirmed my wife’s […]
Despite all the planning and caution, life seems to be unpredictable at one phase or the other! And it’s mostly, when individuals are faced with a health crisis, where the ailment at hand is chronic and irreversible. Humans try to secure the health of their children and loved ones in many ways. One such way […]
Whenever anyone suffers from cancer, chemotherapy is the most well-known option that they receive from the doctors. This is true that taking chemotherapy can save or extend the life of a cancer patient, but taking chemotherapy is just like destroying an ant hill with an atom-bomb. The chemotherapy drugs not only divide the cancer cell […]
Umbilical cord blood plays a potent role in treating life-threatening ailments like sickle cell anaemia, lymphoma, leukaemia and the like. Today, over 25,000 patients round the globe have had cord blood transplants since their parents had a long-term vision that made them donate the child’s umbilical cord blood to a prominent cord blood bank. In […]
I never knew babies would be such a delight. All I knew was ‘babies are adorable’. But when I had my own baby, I came to know that babies do many wacky things apart from just being adorable. In spite of all those wacky things, I admit that babies are still adorable. I also learnt […]
Cord blood has opened a new gateway in the field of alternative medicine. Even though the concept of cord blood has been around since 1983, the first ever successful cord blood transplant was conducted on a six year old boy, who was suffering from Fanconi’s Anemia in 1983. Since then umbilical cord blood has been […]
My mother always wondered how female celebs postpone their childbirth till their 40’s. I have heard medical professionals over the years stating that 30 years is the ideal for a woman to give birth to healthy children. Down’s syndrome and congenital abnormalities are on the list of possibilities if one has to bear a child […]