Former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Died of Cancer
...mittee (Indira). (A.I.C.C.(I)), he was arrested under Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) during the 1975-emergency. He has authored two books "Meri Jail Diary" and "Dynamics of Social Change" in Hindi and English respectively. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and several political leaders hav...World's First Face Transplant Patient Feels She is Alive Again
... and chin were bitten off by her dog while she was under the influence of sleeping pills in 2005, said she was struggling to deal with her new identity and the debt she owed her donor. "One part of me and my identity has disappeared forever, and I guard preciously the memory of what I was," she was quote...Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males
...op HCC than women; however, in individuals who are under 50, HCC is seen seven to 10 times more frequently in men. A similar or even more pronounced gender disparty is seen in mice. In order to understand the mechanisms underlying gender disparity in HCC, the UCSD researchers used a chemical carcinogen, ...Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US
...n. Drug regimes, which vary widely, can be kept to under $1,000 annually for many patients by prescribing generic drugs, but ablation advocates say the true cost of relying on drugs includes more frequent hospitalizations, lifestyle restrictions for patients on blood thinners and poorer outcomes. They al...An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk
...disease or diabetes , there are 3.2 million adults under the age of 75 in Britain at high risk of developin...ted towards those most likely to benefit.In people under 75 years without pre-existing cardiovascular disease or diabetes, QRISK identifies 3.2 million patie...Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese
... the Ships of Hope in a Valley of Flood programme, under which ships carrying medical personnel are conducting camps in the islands of the Brahmaputra. There are around 3,000 such islands inhabited by more than 2.5 million people. In most of these islands, there are no health centres, schools or power su...Singapore Firm Launches MBBS Programme in Eastern India
...s from various Philippines universities accredited under the Commission of Higher Education, Government of Philippines. Many Philippines universities, such as the University of Northern Philippines, Davao Medical School Foundation, Cagayan State University and Emilio Aguinaldo College are included in the...Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost
...k, stroke and breast cancer putting this treatment under a scanner. The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy Estrogen has been used to treat the symptoms of menopause for years, beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1970s, medical studies found that postmenopausal women who used estroge...Marilyn Monroe was Just too Hygienic for Clark Gable!
... a lot in bed - shoving what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep." Bret's biography of Gable hits bookstores this September....Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections
...r after the Healthcare Commission was given powers under the Health Act 2006 to issue improvement notices. As part of the NHS Hygiene Code, trusts are required to declare whether they meet the three standards laid down - these relate to cleanliness, infection control and safety procedures. Points again...Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse
...ir formal rights. Kosovo, for example, is governed under a postwar UN mandate. It has laws banning discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation and has an active, liberal press. None of that, however, was enough to protect Prestreshi or his friend Korab Zuka, 23, who also fled to the ......es are the cause. Doctors suggest that obese kids under 12 should be taken into care. These overweight children could have complications such as type 2 diabetes or cholesterol problems. Over the years there has been an increase in number of overweight kids. Dr Swati Karandikar has been treating number o...BioCryst Receives Special Protocol Assessment for Fodosine
...t with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA's Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) process for the design of its planned pivotal clinical trial of the oral formulation of the company's lead oncology compound, Fodosine(TM) (forodesine hydrochloride) in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymph...Invisible Gases Form Most Organic Haze in Urban, Rural Areas: Study
...tribute to the problem. The study was undertaken under the auspices of the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and is published in the July 7 online issue of Geophysical Research Letters....Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice
... says that the phase I clinical trial will advance under a National Cancer Institute Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in pancreatic cancer. SPORE awards are designed to translate scientific findings into the clinic. "There are no good options for pancreatic cancer patients now. T...FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome
... In the US an orphan drug is any drug developed under the Orphan Drug Act of January 1983 ("ODA"), a federal law concerning rare diseases ( or orphan diseases"), defined as diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the United States, prevailing in less than 5 per 10,000 in the community. Becau...FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients
... Further clinical testing with stroke patients is under way at the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital in Massachusetts. And a study involving patients with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury, including veterans of the Iraq war, is in the planning stages at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in...Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers
...cs as well . The Pfizer manufactured drug, sold under the name Chantix, which has been used quite successfully by smokers , was tested to reveal the same effects in alcoholics too, of the furry kind, lab rats. Says Selena Bartlett, a University of California, San Francisco neuroscientist who led the s...Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer
...tients diagnosed with colon cancer at a young age, under 50 years. Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., the co-leader of the Michigan-Israeli team and first author of the new paper, says that the new finding is particularly interesting when considered alongside recent discoveries in the genetics of prostate and ...... white fat, and implanted the white fat precursors under the skin of the animals. The PRDM16 gene coaxed those cells to generate brown fat cells. "These results illustrate that the gene we identified can turn on a broad program of brown fat cell development when we insert it into precursors that otherwis...