Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an infection that targets the body’s immune system, specifically the white blood cells called CD4 cells. HIV attacks these CD4 cells, thus hampering a person’s immunity against infections such as tuberculosis and various cancers. If HIV infection is not treated, the infection develops into a prolonged and a fatal condition-AIDS…
Depression is a mood disorder that leads to feeling of sadness and loss of interest. While sadness is a normal human feeling and we all do feel sad, moody or low often, in depression, some people feel these feelings intensely, for longer duration of time may be for weeks, months or even longer and sometimes…
Sickle cell disease is a group of hereditary disorders of the red blood cell. People suffering from sickle cell disease have an unusual protein in their RBCs. In this disease, the red blood cells are not shaped as they should be. Normally, RBCs look like round discs, but in sickle cell disease, they’re shaped like…
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that consists of strains that cause potentially deadly diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses spread through airborne droplets of liquid produced by infected people. Few of the most uncommon but notable strains of coronavirus like SARS-CoV-2, the causative of COVID‑19, SARS-CoV the ones responsible for severe acute…
The COVID-19 infection is a major health challenge for diabetics all around the world. Diabetes has been identified as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 infections. Leading international health associations like the WHO and the CDC have warned about the COVID complexity arising due high blood sugar levels. As a matter of fact, when patients…
Contagious diseases spread by either bacteria or viruses and are like, always present in society. Generally, infected cases are present below an expected threshold, but from time to time there might be an outbreak, a new strain or a new sickness that has a huge impact at either a local or global level. The speed…
Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) are a large group of genetic diseases which is caused by inherited deficiency or lack (or abnormality) of proteins that have structural, receptor, enzymatic or carrier roles. IEMs include disorders arising due to failure of metabolic pathways involved in storage and/or breakdown of various food end products like carbohydrates, fatty…
A pandemic is an outbreak of global proportions, caused by a variety of agents – the most recent and ongoing one being the coronavirus pandemic the world is coping with. A virus transmission can take place not only among patients and workers or staff in healthcare settings, but also among co-workers and members of the…
In December 2019, a bunch of patients with a novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, China. Initially, named 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the virus has now been named SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). This virus is the causative of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which has brought economies to halt,…
Diagnosis is better than Disease. The word diagnosis hasn’t probably received so much attention and acclaim as it has now, during a worldwide pandemic, when detection and timely treatment have clearly emerged as the need of the hour. Diagnosis helps improve patient care, contributes to protecting a patient’s health and in some cases even helps…
