A new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis indicates that inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors. Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation indicates this. The skull, known as Xujiayao 11, has an unusual perforation through the top of the brain case -- an enlarged ...
Early screening method is the best option to manage kidney disease in India, say doctors on World Kidney Day. "Kidney disease often goes undetected because symptoms may not appear until the organs are actually failing. Those who have poor diabetic control, high blood pressure, smokers and have a family history of chronic kidney disease should do early detection by simple urine analysis and blood test," said Dinesh K. Dhanwal, a professor of medicine and an ... 
A key indicator of acute kidney injury has been discovered by a team of scientists. Acute kidney injury, a common and serious complication of hospitalization, is on the increase worldwide, affecting an estimated 6 percent of all hospitalized patients and 30-40 percent of adults and children having cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. "Semaphorin 3A appears to be a sensitive biomarker that we believe will give physicians an early and accurate heads-up that their ... 
