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Woman gets cancer from transplanted kidney

For a person with failing kidneys, receiving a transplanted kidney can be a lifesaver. But in rare cases, the transplanted organ may pass on cancer to the recipient. Wisconsin researchers report that a transplant recipient whose donor had previously had lung cancer developed cancer herself several years after her transplant. // The woman has made a full recovery, but her case unders...

Woman prisoner in Bihar found HIV positive

Patna, July 18 (IANS) A woman prisoner in a Bihar jail was detected as HIV positive //and admitted to a government hospital for treatment. The 30-year-old, an under trial in Beur Jail here, was diagnosed as HIV positive at the Patna Medical College and Hospital this month. It is the first such case in a Bihar prison. The woman from a village in Patna district, lodged in the...

Death Of Singaporean Woman After Mysterious Illness

Police are investigating the mysterious death of a woman whose entire body turned black//, skin peeled off and blood oozed from her ears in an ordeal that started with a simple fever, news reports said Thursday. Reeling from shock and disbelief, the family of June Wong, 26, is demanding answers. Officials have classified the case as an unnatural death. Wong is suspected of...

Woman In Coma Gives Birth To Daughter

An American woman who had gone into coma when she was four months pregnant, had been proclaimed //as brain dead, and was on life support. Susan Torres, 26, had given birth to a two-month premature daughter, while being on life support. The medical practitioners of the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington had kept her on the machines for three months after she was pronounced brain dead...

Sexual assault by a HIV positive woman

Jeniffer Murphy from Newfoundland has been charged of intentionally having sex with an soldier. Murphy is a HIV positive woman who has pleaded guilty against a sexual assault. Murphy pleaded not guilty // and expressed that she did not sexually assault any soldier. Meanwhile the defence officials have asked its official to undergo medical tests if they have had sex with Ms. Murphy. The...

Face transplant woman has new graft

The world's first face transplant recipient has undergone a further graft on Friday, even as controversy surrounds her surgery//. Isabelle Dinoire, 38, in Lyons, France, received a second transplant of bone marrow and stem cells from the same donor, which had been successful, doctors said. This is meant to cut the risk of Miss Dinoire rejecting the face. The technique was de...

One-year sentence for HIV-positive woman

An HIV-positive woman has been sentenced for a year under house arrest for having unprotected sex with a soldier.// Jennifer Murphy, 32, who pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault, will serve her term at home. Jennifer, whose sexual exploits at a Canadian Forces base shook the military, is heading home to Newfoundland to serve her sentence. Justice Michele Fue...

Another British Woman In Court For New Breast Cancer Drug

Anne Marie Rogers has won the right to fight for receiving the new breast cancer drug, Herceptin. Ms Rogers has been diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer and wants to make sure that it does not spread.// However the fact that the disease is in its early stage has meant that the primary care trust is refusing to fund the treatment. Many women have already taken legal recour...

Woman swallows mobile phone - assault by boyfriend?

Police are not sure whether the reasons for swallowing the mobile phone by a 24 year women was an assault by her boyfriend or she purposely swallowed the mobile phone. // The Blue Spring Police are investigated the incident in which it is said that the young lady purposely swallowed the mobile phone during an argument with her boy friend in which she did not want to give the mobile phone to her b...

Death Of Woman Following Family Planning Operation Creates Panic

The shocking report of death of a woman in Gopinathpur village after she underwent a family planning surgery at a primary health center camp has created much panic and confusion in the Kendrapara district. // The victim, identified as Jayanti Mohapatra is said to have been operated (tubectomy) as a part of the health camp, held in Badakula village on Monday. According to the victim’s hu...

Life Beyond Cancer - Delhi Woman Tells How

Some people see a hopeless end while some others see an endless hope. This is the secret of conquering cancer, say successful cancer survivors. //Anuradha is yet another breast cancer survivor, who now has a success story to share with others afflicted with the deadly disease. She is now trying to publish her autobiography and screen a short film regarding her fight. The courage and d...

UK Woman To Raise Funds For Women Welfare

An UK born woman will be cycling across the Indian state of Rajasthan in an effort towards raising funds for the health of the women and children living in the state.// She will be covering 425 kilometers of desert land between 16 November and 26 November 2006. Jayne Watson who is a 36-year-old mother is reportedly undergoing training to accomplish this task. Watson, from Guisborough...

New fertility kit, analyzes the woman's ability to conceive

This new fertility kit, which is termed as the Plan Ahead kit comes down as a boon for those who are in a dilemma and helps them to decide about their pregnancy//. The kit is very simple and was successfully launched in the market after completing all the necessary tests. It gives them a clear view about their biological cycle. It measures the hormone levels and compares it with a stan...

Initial tests negative for bird flu in Romanian Woman

Initial tests on a 81 years old Romanian woman admitted to Matei Bals Infectious Disease Hospital from a village in East Romania has proved negative for the bird flu virus. The woman was admitted to hospital soon after she had fever and respiratory tract problem.// The old woman belonged to the village where earlier reports of bird flu virus in birds were detected and the entire village...

Woman suffering from degenerative disorder committed assisted suicide

Mrs. May Murphy from Glasgow was confirmed to have committed suicide five months ago using a lethal dose of drugs. Mrs. Murphy was 75 years old and was suffering from degenerative disease// which made her life very traumatic and she had painful days. Mrs. Murphy wanted to end her life to escape from her traumatic pain so she went to Dignitas Clinic in Zurich. Mrs. Murphy went to Zurich...

Woman Tests Negative For Japanese Encephalitis: Health Minister

Blood tests of a Malaysian woman have turned out to be negative for the presence of Japanese Encephalitis virus, // according to a statement issued by the health minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek. The Malaysian health officials are closely monitoring the situation, however. The victim, Norhayati Awang is currently being treated at the High Dependency Ward at Hospital Raja Perempuan Zaina...

A Cicero Woman held accountable in baby kidnapping

A Cicero woman apparently kidnapped a couple’s 26 day old baby from a Stroger Hospital clinic and took to her heels, according to authorities//. The woman is now in police custody. Aurelia Gonzalez, charged with aggravated kidnapping had appeared before Judge Raymond Myles of the criminal court. The kidnapping took place after Gonzalez sought permission from the baby’s father to hold...

HIV-Positive Woman To Be Congress Candidate In Assam

A 29-year-old HIV-positive woman in Assam is all set for a plunge into politics by becoming the ruling Congress party candidate for next month's assembly elections.// Jahnabi Goswami is expected to be the party's candidate from the Barhampur assembly constituency in eastern Assam's Nagaon district, about 140 km from here. Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta i...

Chip of a Woman: A 'Human Dairy', Who Has Scientists’ Eating Out Of Her Hands

Call it a human memory chip or whatever fancy name you could possibly conjure to articulate this 'memory feat'. This wonder woman can instantly recall dates and events, with such detail, that has caught the scientists’ //curiosity! She is portraying almost a perfect 10 ability to remember big events, garnished with minute details, like a calendar. California researchers are simply awed by this wo...

Numerous Reasons behind the Death of a Woman during Pregnancy and Birth

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the leading cause of maternal death are hemorrhage and high blood pressure in Asia//, Africa and Latin America. Statistics show that about 8 million women suffer pregnancy-related complications and over half a million die every year. Dr A. Meting Gulmezoglu, of the WHO's department of reproductive health and research said that hemorrhage...

Ostracised Woman Cremated Her AIDS-Affected Husband Alone

A woman belonging to a village in Bihar was left for herself to cremate the body of her husband, who had died of AIDS, as nobody turned up// give a helping hand. The widow dragged his body to the backyard of her hut and performed his last rites herself. Grief-stricken Dhanua Devi (named changed), a 36-year-old resident of Khaira village in Darbhanga district, says not a single person vis...

Woman’s Degree of Sexual Freedo

According to the study conducted by psychologists from Sheffield University most women still believe one-night stands are immoral//. The study of women's attitudes towards sex revealed that women of all ages believe that sex outside marriage or a committed relationship is wrong. The women community despite achieving liberation still feels that those who have one-night stands do so out o...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Reduce Heart attacks On Woman Under 60

A new study that analyses many trials together concludes that HRT can reduce heart attacks by about one-third in women under age 60 but has mixed results for older women. // In other words the study concludes that Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may prevent heart attacks in women under 60.The statistical analysis of 23 trials with more than 39,000 women was done by researchers from Cornell...

Woman Was "Physically Sick" After Being Apprised Of IVF Clinic's Blunder

A white couple has revealed how a mistake at an IVF clinic almost destroyed their lives. In an interview to The Sun, the couple spoke of the emotional trauma// that they had to undergo when they came to know that the woman's eggs had been impregnated with an Asian man's sperm. The couple had twins and it was quite obvious that they were different. They were treated at a fertility clin...

Woman Delivers Identical Quadruplets

A 26-year-old woman has delivered identical quadruplets, a rarity claimed to be occurring once in forty lakh cases globally, at a corporate hospital here. // Shruthi Vivekanandan, a software professional based here, delivered the girl babies- Aditi, Aakriti, Akshathi, Aapthi, at the Apollo Hospitals on April 25 last, ten weeks prior to her full term, without any medical complications, d...

Men Think Of Sex When They See A Woman For The First Time

According to a new study conducted in U.S. the high sexual rating is closely tied to physical attractiveness. The study explains that men are more //likely to think of sex when they meet a woman even it’s for the first time. The study appears in the June's issue of ‘Psychology of Women Quarterly’. According to an online edition of a health magazine Maurice Levesque who had worked on t...

Woman Elects For Mastectomy: Prolonged Wait For Genetic Results

A 36-year old, Scot woman, Oonagh Wilson, elected to undergo hysterectomy and mastectomy. due to a 4-year delay in finding out the degree of susceptibility her family harbors to develop breast cancer //. Oonagh’s decision came after being told that she would have wait for at least two more years for the results of the genetic tests. Lack of funding and trained professionals, changes...

Investigation Launched Into Death Of Elderly Woman

The death of a 65-year-old woman at the Heatherside Hospital is being investigated by the Gardai. Ms Hannah Comber died //from asphyxiation after she apparently became caught in the straps of her special chair.The HSE said, it is fully co-operating with the investigation and will launch its own into the incident at a continuing care facility in Cork. The HSE added that the hospital has a safe...

Geordie Woman Victim to Foreign Accent Syndrome

A Geordie woman has woken up after a stroke to find that her Geordie accent has gone, leaving in its place a Jamaican patois kind of accent//. Lynda Walker, 60, is the victim of a rare affliction that leaves sufferers with a different accent. She regained consciousness after a stroke in March last year to find that she had lost her strong Geordie twang for a different accent....

Indian Origin Woman is the New Head of British Medical Association

An eminent Indian origin woman physician has taken over as president of the British Medical Association (BMA).// Parveen Kumar, gastroenterologist and a practising physician, quoted from poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali", "Where the mind is without fear..." during the function to take over office. Kumar, who was born in India, is also a professor at Barts, Ro...

Woman Pregnant with Conjoined Twins

A BC woman, 21 weeks pregnant, has recently learnt that she is expecting conjoined twin girls. Felicia Simms says she's trying not to focus on her rare type of pregnancy// and the attention she's getting because of it. Simms choking back tears on Friday told about the babies who are joined at the scalp. She said, ‘I just try and keep my head where it has to be, keeping th...

Woman in Toronto Tests Positive For West Nile Virus

Public health officials have advised residents in Toronto to take precautions after a 45-year-old Etobicoke woman tested positive for the West Nile Virus (WNV). The first// case of 2006 was officially confirmed last week after the woman spent two weeks in the hospital with the disease. WNV is a flavivirus (genus Flavivirus) that causes an illness marked by fever, headache, muscle a...

Overdose of Chemotherapy Drug kills a woman

A 43-year old cancer patient died after getting an overdose of chemotherapy drugs. The Alberta Cancer Board apologized to her family, yesterday.// Dr. Tony Fields told a news conference on Thursday, “The woman's death last week is a most unfortunate incident. She died from internal bleeding and multiple organ failure.” "This is one of our worst nightmares," said Fields, the cancer boa...

Woman Critically Ill After Getting Wrong Blood

Ranchi: A woman at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) here is battling for life after doctors gave her the wrong blood group.// Leela Devi, who had been admitted to RIMS for a surgery, received B+ blood instead of her A+ group and is presently in the ICU. Doctors say the next 48 hours are critical for her. She was admitted to the gynaecology department and was...

Pregnant HIV Positive Woman Forced To Abort Fetus On Her Own

A pregnant HIV-positive woman in Kolkata was forced to abort her fetus on her own after hospital staff declined to help her after they came to know about her status. //The incident occurred last month in a state-run Kolkata hospital. Reuters quoted Roshni Mulani, a mother of a two-year-old child, as saying it was tough since nobody stepped forward to help her. "The hospital had no sym...

Childbirth Does Not Affect Woman's Sexual Function

It is a common fear in women that their sexual performance is affected after delivery. But a study in BJOG, an international journal of obstetrics and gynecology says that //there is no evidence that childbirth affects a woman's sexual function in the long term. Dutch researchers followed 350 women who had given birth for the first time. They found that delivering either by vaginal or...

How a Woman Holds Fort in Her Little Kingdom – The Kitche

The route to a man’s heart is through his stomach, they say! Is that why the women are always in charge //of the kitchen? Food for thought, of course! Meanwhile, what could be the route to good eating habits and consequently good health? Grab the attention of the lady of the house, says a new study. Researchers from Newcastle University’s Human Nutrition Research Centre embarked on a...

A Woman's Sporting Ability Is In Her Fingers!

A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine says that a woman's sporting ability may be measured by the length of her fingers//. Researchers said that the finding could provide an insight into the link between ratio and fertility, vulnerability to serious disease, intellectual ability, certain personality traits, and musical talent. Most of the sporting research in this area has...

Calgary Health Authorities Apologize to Woman over Miscarriage

The Calgary Health Region has apologized to a woman who had a miscarriage in a packed emergency room and was denied a private place to go through the process.// On Tuesday Health region CEO Jack Davis said, "On behalf of the region, we are sorry that this situation occurred and we empathize with this patient and her family." "We are reviewing the circumstances of this case, as...

Chinese Woman Hoodwinks Hospital with Fake Passport avails $50,000 worth treatment

A foreign woman suffering a heart ailment, masquerading with a Chinese name and fake passport that belonged to a dead person, has got herself treated in a hospital in// Auckland to the tune of $50,000. She has apparently fled the country. While outlining the apparent difficulties in sifting the grains from the chaff, Auckland District Health Board chairman Wayne Brown explained how th...