Dr Prem Jagyasi and Team

The World Health Organization report releasd on 7 April, World Health Day with a warning. It says that 57 nations in southern Africa and Southeast Asia are facing a serious shortage of health care workers. More than four million additional doctors,…

The main sources of information about Cancer are television soap operas, health campaigns and celebrities. It can be as well direct experience of relatives or friends’ parents with cancer. Parents sometimes misunderstood their children’s reactions…

American researchers are very close to create genetically engineered microbes. It will produce a less expensive version of the life-saving anti-malarial drug ‘artemisinin’.

University of California team led by Jay D. Keasling achieved the goal by…

Waterfowl, Shorebirds and Songbirds are arriving in the Alaska Peninsula, the Yukon Delta and the westernmost Aleutian Islands to begin mating. More than 40 species of waterfowl and shorebirds are considered susceptible to infection by H5N1.

Species…

A Psychologist argues that human foetuses do not feel pain although it can produce response to a pain stimulus. According to the British Medical Journal, the basic physical mechanisms need to feel pain do not develop until the 26th week of…

Scientists at Glasgow University who studied 1,258 Scots at the ages of 11, 13, 15 and 19. They discovered that 47 per cent of those identifying themselves as goths had attempted suicide. Goth stars like Marilyn Manson have been criticised for…

As the avian flu spread in Egypt, the government decided to vaccinate domestic poultry. There were not enough vaccine and the government faced medical and scientific battle. The human cases shown up primarily in three Delta governates. A 16-year-old…

Normally transplant patient’s original heart does not left inside the body. But doctors had a thought ahead in Hannah Clark, a 12 year old girl’s case. The girl had enjoyed good health with the donor heart for 10 years.

In November, a cardiologist..

French fries or hot wings in U.S., a study reveals, may contain trans fats more than anywhere else on the globe. Consumption of trance fats usually helps in artery blockage. The study further reveals that variations in trans fats content varies place to..

Certain antibiotics can quickly recover the asthma patients. It may have a beneficial anti-inflammatory effect. But experts caution that further research is necessary before prescribing it. Antibiotics are not formally approved to treat asthma. Some…