Dr Prem Jagyasi and Team

A major government study has found that the osteoporosis drug Evista works as well as tamoxifen in reducing breast cancer risk. It has fewer serious side effects than tamoxifen.

The study included nearly 20,000 post-menopausal women of the average age..

Preliminary Research suggests that exposure of mushrooms to ultraviolet light can be the source of the vitamin D. Mushrooms can emerge as a major source of vitamin D in this way.

Exposing to UV light would be easy and low cost to do. It can turn a…

Two men have suffered terrifying visual and auditory hallucinations after eating poisonous fish in Mediterranean restaurants. They started seeing and hearing terrifying things after contracting a rare form of hallucinogenic poisoning fish….

A study is conducted on families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. It provides a grim portrait of the hurricane’s effects on some of the poorest victim.

34 percent of displaced children suffer from conditions like asthma, anxiety and behavioral problems..

Chinese biomedical scientists are now developing a new approach to medicine. It will be by combining traditional Chinese medicine and western biomedical science. This is the current medical trend in China. Some significant results have already been…

A state Senate bill would create a department to handle disease outbreaks such as a flu pandemic and deal with bioterrorist threats. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced for a new state Department of Public Health in California.

The governor is…

There has been a longstanding belief among some new mothers that ‘placentophagia’, the practice of eating the placenta, can yield benefits. One supposed reason is that it can reduce the incidence of post-natal depression. It is also been claimed to…

Top British transplant surgeons have accused China of harvesting the organs of executed prisoners to sell for transplants. They condemned the practice as unacceptable and a breach of human rights.

Just last week a Chinese health official said publicly..

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer. A person’s risk of the disease doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns. It came in the report of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter.

In the same study, the researchers found that just 60% of the…

Researchers have discovered a unique strain of mouse. It can re grow body parts without any scarring. They hope this could lead to new therapies for people. It is exciting that mammals may not have lost the ability to regenerate, the way amphibians or…