Health & Fitness
Gene test aid to cancer treatment
Published on: 1st March, 2010
Scientists have developed a gene test which predicts how well chemotherapy will work in cancer patients.
Starting with 829 genes in breast cancer cells, the team whittled down the possibilities to six genes which had an impact on whether a drug worked.
They then showed that these genes could be used to predict the [...]
Medicine and ‘luck’ on multiple heart attack survivors’ side
Published on: 24th February, 2010
A fifth heart attack, such as the one suffered this week by former Vice President Dick Cheney, is not rare because of advances in modern medicine, cardiologists say.
“It’s something we see often enough that we’re not surprised about it,” said Dr. Cam Patterson, chief of cardiology at the University of North [...]
Baby who can walk at just six months old
Published on: 17th February, 2010
A six-month-old baby has shocked his parents and doctors by learning to walk unaided.
Mary King, 30, and her husband David, 27, said they knew their son, Xavier, was a fast learner when he started sitting up on his own at just three [...]
Pregnancy baby brain lapse ‘a myth’
Published on: 3rd February, 2010
Expectant mums need to stop blaming their bump for memory lapses, say experts who want to dispel the “baby brain” myth.
Neither pregnancy nor motherhood addle a woman’s brain, say the researchers based on their study of 1,241 women both before and after having babies.
The Australian researchers say we have been misled by [...]
‘Internet addiction’ linked to depression, says study
Published on: 3rd February, 2010
There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said.
The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were “internet addicts”, and many of these were depressed.
The Leeds University team stressed they could not say one necessarily caused the other, and that [...]
Why Don’t More Hospitals Calculate the Risks of Surgery?
Published on: 2nd February, 2010
New risk calculators from the American College of Surgeons aim to help evaluate individual patients’ risks of complications and death from surgical procedures, as I write in my column today.
But access to the calculators, which will cover 20 different types of surgery eventually, is limited to about 250 hospitals in the American College of Surgeon’s [...]
Pregnency and Fashion
Published on: 1st February, 2010
Flaunt Your Pregnancy
If you want to be on the forefront of fashion you have to keep yourself updated about the latest trends in the fashion world and then adapt them to your new body. Check out the fashion magazines and pick the latest style and trend. Fashion is not just aping others but how you [...]
House, Senate leaders say push for health care reform continues
Published on: 28th January, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that Congress would pass a health care bill this year, while his counterpart in the House — Speaker Nancy Pelosi — outlined a two-step plan intended to maintain public focus on the issue.
“We’re going to do health care reform this year,” Reid told reporters, the day after President [...]
Kareena’s Glowing Skin secret exclusive
Published on: 28th January, 2010
Swine flu toll reaches 14,142: WHO
Published on: 27th January, 2010
The death toll from the swine flu pandemic has risen to at least 14,142, up 588 from a week ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
Announcing its latest data on the spread of A(H1N1) virus, the UN health body said North Africa, South Asia and limited areas of Eastern Europe were now seeing [...]
