One year course of the drug Herceptin showed considerable benefits in serious breast cancer patients. The drug reduces the risk of return of disease by half and clearly improves survival. This study came in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Biomedical Tissue Services, a New Jersey company, is accused of taking bones, tendons, ligaments, skin and other tissue from infected dead bodies and planting them in different people. At least 8,000 people received BTS tissue.
Lawsuits have been…
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problems of erectile dysfunctions are no more confined to middle age and old age men, the young men too are coming across similar problems. Dr. Najah S. Musacchio, of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and other fellows came out with a surprised…
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Skin cancers, like melanomas, are strongly linked to sun damage. It arises on exposed areas of the skin. But melanomas can show up in covered parts of the body as well. It can be on the soles or the palms or between the toes and even on the scalp.
So…
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Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman, is the first person who received first partial face transplant. She has now complete feeling in the new tissues. It is now five months of operation. She told it in a press conference on April 30, 2006.
She becomes…
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The research team in Wayne State University made two new studies on the use of Birth control pills. It says that birth control pills may be helpful to reduce the risk of certain cancers and heart diseases in women.
It is found that the pills have…
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Vitamin D is an important requirement of the body. Lack of vitamin D can be linked with some chronic diseases, common cancers and Type 1 diabetes too.
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone and regulates body levels of calcium and phosphorus, and in…
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has driven out all the worries of lacking the support to fight against fatal diseases. It has given the new grant of millions of dollars for this purpose. The Global AIDS Alliance and ActionAid…
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Children should have or should not have the right to know their genetic parents, is a burning question in the medical world as well as organs of Human Rights. However this right has been introduced in Britain last year. Ireland hasn’t confirm this law…
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Scotland is finally ready to ban the sale of cigarette to youth aged under 18. The expert group is set to look at the problems of youth smoking. It is likely to advise to raise the permissible age for buying tobacco products to 18.
People can’t buy…
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