Obese kids at greater risk of heart disease: studyIndian ExpressObese children as young as two-year-old run the risk of heart disease, according to a new study which detected early warning signs in kids aged between two to 12. Researchers at the VU Uni…
Biogen Idec Increases Revenue 18% to $1.4 Billion in the Second QuarterMarketWatch (press release)… global pediatric studies for its long-lasting factor VIII and factor IX programs for hemophilia and completing enrollment in the Phase 3 A-LONG and B-…
Scientists rejuvenate aging heart cellsBusiness StandardRight now we can only offer medication, heart transplantation or stem cell therapies with modest regenerative potential, but PIM-1 modification offers a significant advance for clinical treatment,…
Drive to check quality of milk in Kerala during festival seasonThe HinduChecks on milk will be carried out jointly by the two sets of officers as was done during the last Christmas and New Year season, State Food Safety Commissioner Biju Prabhakar told…
100 yrs of Indian cinema, 50 shades of Waheeda RehmanTimes of IndiaShe played a poet's admirer, a married woman who falls in love with a tourist guide, a courtesan who brings a change of heart in a dacoit and a devoted nurse who succumbs to mental …
St. Jude Medical launches Unify Quadra CRT-D in IndiaHindu Business Line"Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's demands. It results in the build-up of fluids throughout the body, which can lead to…
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have opened a clinical trial to test the theory that giving a patient a new immune system can cure severe cases of Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract.
Study represents new use of bone marrow transplantationNews-Medical.netAlthough the CATS clinical trial represents a new direction for bone marrow transplantation, the procedure has precedent. The Hutchinson Center, which pioneered bone marrow and hema…
IBNLive.comIndian-origin doctor defies death in UKDeccan Herald… after an Indian-origin doctor- colleague advised him to take an old cancer drug that only works in around one in five patients. Doctors in Nottingham told Seth, 70, that he had few week…
The night the jet arrived from Cleveland Clinic, Donna Orr knew there was hope. Her husband, David Orr, lay gasping in Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The transplanted lungs that had given him another chance at life two years earlier were failing.