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India becomes a member of IARC

At a press release Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Information and Broadcasting Minister said that Dr. Manmohan Singh has approved for a six million dollar scheme to join the International Agency// for Research on Cancer (IARC). It helps to prevent and improve cancer treatments in the country. This membership will help in the development of cancer vaccine in India and help us recognize the envi...

Inhuman Error: Medicine Becomes Poison, Causing Death

Blame it on human error, fate, bad luck or just apathy- What do you say , to yet another shocking case of human error, where a woman dies after being given a medicine that was not meant for her.// Barbara Maguire, 51, was admitted to Glasgow's Stobhill Hospital in the emergency ward, after a stomach complaint in 2004. NHS, has confirmed that Miss Maguire, by a quirk of fate...

Nature’s Bounty ,Seaweed, Becomes A Blessing For Diabetes Patient

An Australian lady patient, has become the first receipent of a simple transplant method for diabetes, which depends on seaweed. She is believed to be the third patient world over,to have undergone this transplant procedure, an experiment that will not need anti-rejection drugs. // Janice Stewart was injected with about 200,000 pancreatic cells taken from a dead donor , which was arr...

Mice model becomes surrogate for human prostate

Another importance of stem cells comes to the fore front as claimed by Australian scientists who have grown a human prostate in mice. This is the first time in the world that such a feat has been accomplished. // The feat is to grow a human prostate gland in mice using embryonic stem cells. This would be helpful in treatment for prostate cancer and other diseases....

Studies Show Brain becomes Less Specialized With Age

According to studies published by Yale University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, earlier this month One of two separate areas of the brain light up when young people look at a house or a face // , but each image activates both areas of the brain at the same time in older people. The researchers though not yet sure, one theory according to Christy Marshuetz, assistant...

HIV Becomes More Infectious Due To Human Immune-system Protein

Scientists have found that the human form of immune-system protein, cyclophilin A, changes the shape of HIV particles to make them more infectious//. Cyclophilin A is found in HIV-1 when the virus attacks human and monkey cells, researchers at University College of London said. The researchers, who infected cells from Old World monkeys with HIV-1, found that cyclophilin A c...

Medical Education Becomes Dearer In Scotland

After India now it is time for the medical students in Scotland to voice their opinion against the hike in their fees. British students held demonstrations //outside the Scottish Parliament to show their disapproval. The students said that the fees of up to ￡2,700 were very much close to the top-up fees. But ministers and Scottish Executive say that they were opposed to top-up fees. Bu...

British Psychiatrist At 62 Becomes The Countries Oldest Mother

A 62-year-old child psychiatrist has become Britain’s oldest mother after undergoing IVF treatment//. It was reported that Patti Farrant, professionally known as Patricia Rashbrook, gave birth to a boy, weighing about 3 kg, was born at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, by caesarean on Wednesday. It was reported that she is already a mother to three grown-up children from a...

Disney becomes ‘Food conscious

Nutritionally balanced food will be served at the domestic theme parks of the Walt Disney Co. The company has announced that it would sign movie// and other endorsement deals only with restaurants that t\restrict the sugar and fat content in their menu items. Disney will put the new guidelines into practice in a few years. According to it, by the end of 2007, the trans-fats will be co...

‘Braveheart’- Woman Becomes First to Climb Mountains After Heart Transplat

Kelly Perkins is on top of the world, literally. The brave woman added another mountain to her basket of mountaineering feats, as she scaled another mountain peak,// this time in the Andes. Perkins calls the route the "Charmed Heart”. She led her team up one of several unnamed peaks in the remote Cajon de Arenales region near Argentina's border with Chile, more than 650 mile...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

After getting caught on the wrong foot in the Novartis case, the government of India is moving fast to plug all loopholes in patent law// implementation. It has now been notified that all patent litigations filed in various courts in the country after notification of the amended Patent Act have been transferred to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board, set up at Chennai....

Pregnancy Becomes Safe for Some Women Who Take Low-dose of Aspirin Daily

A review has suggested that women who take a low-dose tablet of aspirin daily to prevent blood clotting, have a reduced risk of pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia. The review, of 31 studies involving more than 32,000 women, found that taking aspirin had a 10 percent reduced rate of complications. And while doctors find the results of the review encouraging,...

Two-year-old Joins Mensa, Becomes Its Youngest Ever Genius

Georgia Brown could count up to ten, identified colours and even dabbled with French, but it was only when the two-year-old took an IQ test that her soaring brainpower was established. Georgia has an IQ of 152 and has become the youngest female celebrated member of Mensa. The youngest daughter of a chief executive and a carpenter, Georgia has been described by Britain'...