Vitamin E may help cut liver cancer riskTruthDiveTo determine the relationship between vitamin E intake and liver cancer risk, Wei Zhang, M.D., MPH., Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, and collea…
Hindustan TimesHookah smoking becoming increasingly common among 1st-yr university womenIndian ExpressOriginating in ancient Persia and India, hookah smoking is a highly social activity during which users smoke tobacco filtered through a water pipe, ac…
Dave Bakke: Doctors have told John Wood the average wait for a heart transplant is eight months. He is in his sixth month on the waiting list. It’s a mental game now, this waiting. John could drive himself crazy if he thinks about it too much.
French TribuneIn US, girls getting hooked to hookahTimes of IndiaWASHINGTON: One out of four college girls in the US are hooked on to the hookah during early years, and many of them mistakenly believe that it is safer than cigarettes, a new study has f…
CHICAGO, July 20 — A team of global scientists has devised a strategy to find a cure for AIDS, an effort inspired by the remarkable story of a single US patient named Timothy Ray Brown who was cured from the disease. Brown's treatment in Berlin i…
Deccan ChronicleWrong diagnosis proves costly for kidney patientDeccan ChronicleAbdul Samad 40, a kidney patient had to face innumerable problems after a lab wrongly diagnosed him as having Hepatitis C. After being diagnosed as HCV positive at the Para…
SACRAMENTO — For children receiving kidney transplants, a potentially correctable blood condition present in about one in four recipients is associated with a moderately increased risk of the graft's later failure, suggesting that clinicians shou…
Logan Kidd and his sister suffer from the same heart issues and his dad died from heart disease.
Gulf TimesBlood donation driveGulf TimesChiyoda Almana Engineering has conducted a blood donation drive as part of its corporate social responsibility programme in conjunction with Hamad Medical Corporation. Human resources and administration departmen…
148 MLAs vote for Pranab MukherjeeTimes of IndiaWhile Choubey is in London to participate in the meeting of medical associations of Indian doctors with Bihar origin there, the JD (U) member is recuperating at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AI…