Ayurvedic Medicines

Genetic changes that make some forms of glioblastoma, the most common type of primary brain cancer, more aggressive than others have been revealed in a new study.

Doctors in Italy implanted an artificial heart into a 15-year-old boy on Saturday, the first time the procedure has been performed on a child, the hospital said. Heart surgeons at Rome’s Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital carried out the 10-hour breakthrough operation on Thursday, and the hospital said it was “cautious” over the boy’s condition

Thousands of people took part in Africa’s biggest Gay Pride event in Johannesburg on Saturday, aimed at drawing attention to the persecution of homosexuals across the continent. Organisers said more than 18,000 people took part in the protest in the economic capital of South Africa, the only country in the continent which allows same-sex marriages. On one float, a transvestite dressed as an angel sat on a swing on a giant map of Africa which carried ..

Four-year results of the Look AHEAD study have shown that an intensive lifestyle intervention program designed to achieve and maintain weight loss improves diabetes control and cardiovascular disease risk factors in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) is a multi-center, randomized clinical trial investigating the effects of an intensive lifestyle intervention program

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and its clinical care partner, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, are offering research-based tip sheets related to breast cancer, including breast cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment, and survivorship.

Lack of private health insurance and its consequent lack of access to care appears to affect mortality among patients with uterine cancer and may partly explain the mortality disparity between African-Americans and other racial groups, according to data presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities. “African-Americans were twice as likely to die within four years compared to white patients after adjusting for age, facility and ..

Scientists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, are testing a next generation “smart” cane, which provides detail and dimension to enable the sightless to navigate in a physical environment. “There are no devices available that assist blind travellers in the way that Dr.

A museum displaying the famed shoe collection of ex-first lady Imelda Marcos has reopened in the Philippines, heralding a fightback by its beleaguered shoe industry against a flood of cheap imports.

A new large-scale research has proved that people who have had cancer are 40 percent more vulnerable to experience memory problems that interfere with daily functioning than those who didn’t have the disease. The finding is believed to be one of the first derived from a nationwide sample of people diagnosed with different cancers. It supports the findings of cancer-related memory impairment in smaller studies of certain cancers, such as breast …

People living in economically deprived neighbourhoods were more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage, non-localized colorectal cancer, according to a new study at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.