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A teenage boy in the former Soviet Union has been found living with a flock of sheep for eight years, and thought to be sharing the shelter meant for animals.

He cannot speak any language and lacks basic cleanliness and hygiene. ...  Read more

National Knowledge Commission Sam Pitroda today said that there is a need to adopt the traditional Indian model in the healthcare system for a comprehensive solution to our healthcare shortcomings, as it has shown a remarkable improvement in some of ...  Read more

Sensing the increasing number of militancy related injuries like bomb blasts in Jammu and Kashmir which has left many victims with facial injuries, a seminar was organized here to make the doctors aware of the latest treatments and ...  Read more

A team of Canadian scientists has developed a fast, inexpensive 'dipstick' test to identify small amounts of pesticides that may exist in foods and beverages. ...  Read more

Paediatric oncologists are likely to accept religion as a resort when medicine has failed the patient, according to a new study. ...  Read more

The anxious wives were on the phone again to their husbands in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi, a terrorist target where daily routine can turn to horror in an instant. ...  Read more

New data presented by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers has it that rescue workers who were exposed to dust and pollutants following the 2001 World Trade Center (WTC)...  Read more

Links between city walkability and air pollution exposure has revealed that some neighborhoods might be good for walking, but they could have poor air quality, analyzes a new study. ...  Read more

An international study led by Fox Chase Cancer Center radiation oncologist Mark K. Buyyounouski, M.D., M.S. says that men whose prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels rise within 18 months of radiotherapy are more likely to die of their disease. The ...  Read more

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center report that it may be safe to treat these HER2-positive breast cancer patients with both Trastuzumab and adjuvant radiation therapy. The study will be presented today at the annual meeting of the American ...  Read more

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found that radiation treatment for women who had a lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer can be safely reduced to four weeks, instead of the usual six to seven weeks, by delivering a higher daily dose, ...  Read more

What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients (37 percent) prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during important office visits, ...  Read more

Ohio State University scientists have designed tumor-penetrating microparticles (TPM) may offer treatment hope for those suffering with pancreatic cancer. ...  Read more

Cutting back on the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and actually help restore the body's natural defenses regardless of age or health status, ...  Read more

Seven African countries including Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania are a part of the world's largest trial of one of the leading malaria vaccine candidates, called RTS.

The trial, which is expected to ...  Read more

A huge quantity of rare cells that can help counter autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and multiple sclerosis have been developed in the lab by British scientists. ...  Read more

Researchers at The Ohio State University and the Harvard School of Public Health have revealed that blood vessels in prostate cancer could act as predictor of how the cancer would behave in future.

The study of 572 men with localized ...  Read more

A potential therapeutic target for curbing inflammation in obese people has been identified byresearchers from University of California, San Diego. ...  Read more

A technological advance in the study of gene expression and regulation in the genome's three-dimensional folding and looping state through the development of a novel technology has been reported in this week's NATURE, Genome Institute of ...  Read more

A new study published in the November 4, 2009, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology says that patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have relapses within the first five years of onset appear to have ...  Read more

Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have found that a specialized type of radiation therapy offers the same local control in optic nerve sheath meningiomas and has fewer adverse effects on vision as compared to surgery. The ...  Read more

Research presented by investigators at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting says that positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of non-small cell lung cancer prior to receiving radiation therapy should not be the ...  Read more

New evidence may explain how saturated fatty acids can lead the immune system to respond in ways that add up to chronic, low-grade inflammation, researchers have revealed. ...  Read more

A possible cure for debilitating Parkinson's may not be as far away after scientists from Iowa State University recently made a novel discovery.

Parkinson's disease sufferers lack a sufficient amount of a brain chemical called dopamine....  Read more

The results of a new study are now giving you another reason why you should leave that packet of fries untouched. Reducing the consumption of processed and fried foods, which ...  Read more