Swine flu- nation's toll touches 125

latest update-  5thSeptember 2009, 09:09pm IST"NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: Nine people, including six in Karnataka, died of swine flu on Saturday, taking the country's toll from the infectious influenza A (H1N1) virus to 125, health authorities said. The death toll in...

Viral Therapy May Provide a New Weapon in Cancer Fight

A virus that many people have been exposed to by the end of their teens could provide a massive breakthrough in the fight against cancer.The reovirus is being used to produce the drug Reolysin and viral therapy...

Rhododendrons 'should be culled to save UK gardens'

Rhododendrons are loved by the British public but plant experts from the UK National Trust are calling for the plants to be 'culled'. They fear that the rhododendron, which is an alien plant species to Britain, is...

Mich. medical pot law now in effect amid questions

"- Medical marijuana became legal in Michigan on Thursday, but smoking a joint could still get a patient arrested because the regulations needed to protect them won't be ready for months. The law approved by...

AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured

Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...

Some 110,000 kids die of water borne diseases annually in Bangladesh

It is a huge number of untimely death, and the reason is investment of 4-5 dollar to buy  water filters.This world is very very strange, the divide is growing day by day in every pssible form, and the...

WHO: Heart deseases, HIV/AIDS and Cancer remain top global killers

In a new report by the World Health Organization, shows a divide in global killers. While "heart disease is responsible for the majority of deaths in rich nations", pneumonia, diarrhea and HIV/AIDS continue to...

Millions mark UN hand-washing day

Every  20 second a mother mourns a dead child lost to diarrhea - a completely preventable and utterly inexcusable cause of  death. Each year 1.5 million children under the age of five years die from...

Every 20th Pakistani an eye patient

" Every 20th person in Pakistan is suffering from eye diseases and there is a pressing need to rescue people from this menace, says Lt Gen (retired) Jahandad Khan, founder and president of Al Shifa Trust, an eye hospital. He says there were 1.7 million blind in Pakistan...

Climate Change could spread disease

Climate change could be responsible for the spread of a deadly dozen of diseases, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.Because these diseases are caused by an organism or virus that spreads quicker in...

THE ASSOCIATION OF HOLE IN THE WALL CAMPS JOINS IN REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND L...

In marking the passing of its founder, Paul Newman, the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps has issued the following statement: While greatly saddened by Paul's passing, the family of Hole in the Wall Camps...

Now, cancer diagnosis in 15 minutes

" NEW DELHI: Diagnosis of life-threatening diseases such as cancer may become a matter of minutes as scientists have developed a new bio-sensor technol ogy, which they claim provides results within...

Keeping heart diseases at bay on World Heart Day

" Keeping heart diseases at bay on World Heart Day On September 28, the World Heart Day let us understand the symptoms and the causes of all heart diseases that affect more than a million people in India every year and accounts for almost twenty million deaths every...

Rat-brain robot created

Under development The Rat-Bot cometh One of the most fascinating science related books I have ever read is The Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition. This story might as well be right out of its...

ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE UNVEILS WORLD'S FIRST GENOME-WIDE SPINAL CO...

The Allen Institute for Brain Science today unveiled the groundbreaking Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, the world's first genome-wide map of the mouse spinal cord. Researchers can immediately access the free online...

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