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Tumour Grown Human Body by Chinese Scientists

Chinese scientists have claimed a breakthrough in cancer research. They say they have been able to grow cancer tumors outside the body//. That could lead to a new generation of cancer treatments, they hope. Liu Hua, a visiting professor at the Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai, poi...

New Device Against Harmful Compounds in Air

...a Central R&D Labs in Japan and fellow researchers claimed to have developed a new material that they say very effectively removes VOCs as well as nitrogen and sulfur oxides from air at room temperature. The system involves highly porous manganese oxide with gold nano-particles grown into it, a report in ...

Figures on Substance Abuse in School Going Teens Released

...ts aged 11 to 15 light up daily. The research also claimed that surprisingly, it was girls who outnumbered boys in smoking. Government’s targets are aimed at reducing smoking in school children to less than 9 percent in the next three years. It was also reported that drinking was maintaining its downward ...

Bob Woolmer Was Strangled With A Towel

...any details. Now a local newspaper, The Sun, has claimed that Woolmer was possibly strangulated with a towel, or ligature. It speculated it was perhaps a mafia-style killing aimed at preventing the coach from blowing the whistle on match-fixing. The tabloid quoted Deputy Commissioner in Jamaica Police Ma...

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed that the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has lev...aviglione, Director of the WHO Stop TB Department, claimed in a message that they had a clear plan for checking XDR-TB and MDR-TB. But paucity of funds was s...

Bone in Woolmer’s Neck Found Broken, Say Police Source

... A reporter of 'Radio Jamaica', Rohan Powell, also claimed that the former England cricketer could have been strangulated. "I made contact with the ongoing investigation. Police will tell the public and journalists that the cause of death was strangulation", the reporter predicted It was also reported th...

Madhya Pradesh to Stop Sex Education in Schools

...it forced the government to close it. These groups claimed it was too early for Class 9 and 11 students to study about sex. Chouhan reportedly called a meeting of principal secretaries of the school education and the health departments Thursday, following which it was decided that AEP should be ended in th...

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

...d against the fatal Japanese encephalitis//, which claimed 119 lives in the state last year. "Children are vulnerable to the disease and unless parents get their wards immunized against Japanese encephalitis, the situation could be frightening,"Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told IANS. A massi...

Drug-resistant Form of Plague Identified

...turies. Successive pandemics are estimated to have claimed some 200 million lives. Antibiotics brought the disease under control, but in recent decades the World Health Organization has recorded outbreaks in 125 countries. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1174 suspected cases were reported last year a...

Woolmer’s Death Suspicious, Say Jamaican Polic

... Already former Pakistan pacer Sarfaraz Nawaz has claimed that Woolmer had been murdered and a match-fixing mafia was behind the crime. Mushtaq Ahmed, who has taken over as coach for Pakistan's last game in the tournament, against Zimbabwe on Wednesday, described the mood among the players as one of 'tot...

Malaria-resistant Mosquito Developed

...e day help block the spread of an illness that has claimed millions// of lives around the world. When they fed on malaria-infected mice, the resistant mosquitoes had a higher survival rate than nonresistant ones, meaning they could eventually replace the ones that can carry the disease, according to a rep...

Fire at Russian Nursing Home Kills 63

...huge methane gas blast at a Siberian coalmine that claimed 97 lives. It was described as the country’s deadliest mining disaster in a decade. The nursing home fire is only the latest in a number of deadly blazes at schools, dormitories, hospitals and other state-run facilities. They only point to rampant...

President of an African Nation Claims Herbal Cure for AIDS, Experts Skeptical

... herbs and spices.” They also report many patients claimed satisfactory results after consuming the medicine. President Yahya Jammeh, 41, is a former army colonel and has no formal medical training. He wears white robes and carries a copy of the Quran with him. Muslims constitute more than 90 per cent o...

Vitamin C Could Help in Curbing Cancer

New Zealand researchers claimed Friday that vitamin C was vital for good health and could even help beat cancer by making chemotherapy treatment more effective//. Dr Margret Vissers, from Otago University's Free Radical Research Group, said laboratory experiments showed for the fi...

Powerful Anti-breast-cancer Pill on the Anvil

...for its breast cancer// pill Tykerb. It has been claimed that Tykerb is far more potent in combating advanced stages of breast cancer than the drugs currently available for the purpose. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. According to statistics, about a million...

CT Scans may Not Benefit Lung Cancer Patients

...rations. Another previous study of CT scans had claimed that more than 80 per cent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented with CT scans. But there were methodological problems in that study and hence the inference cannot be fully trusted, others say. Screening tests are worthwhile, these researcher...

Hope for Obese Canines

...n of the vital nutrients. The treatment is also claimed to slightly reduce the dog's appetite, which means that the dog is less likely to beg for its favorite snack. Studies across Europe have showed the drug has helped dogs lose on average ,8 per cent of their body weight. Obesity in canines not only ...

Six Medicos in Libyan HIV Case Plead Not Guilty

...octor, the medicos pleaded not guilty//. They also claimed that they were tortured brutally to give false testimonies. The six medicos were sentenced to jail in 1999 when they were accused of starting an HIV epidemic in a hospital in Benghazi in Libya. But according to scientists, the infections have begun...

Older Adults May Be Unreliable Eyewitness, Study Shows

...rable rates of suggestibility errors in which they claimed to have seen events in a video that had been suggested in a subsequent questionnaire. However, older adults were “alarmingly” likely to commit these suggestibility errors when they were most confident about the correctness of their response. Younger ...

Dream On- It Does Not Mean You are Waking Up During Surgery

... Hospital of Australia did a study on patients who claimed they had a dream or more while undergoing surgery. Out of a total of 300 persons who were operated upon, 22 percent of them reported dreaming during an operation after being given general anesthesia. An index used to measure the effect of anes...

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