Potential therapeutic target for breast cancer identified

LONDON – Scientists have identified a potential target for the treatment of breast cancer.
They have discovered a protein, which could stop cancer tumours from growing and spreading.

Professor Reuven Agami, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, found that the protein, known as BRD7, activates an anti-cancer … Read more : Potential therapeutic target for breast cancer identified.

Lockerbie bomber can live for five more years

TRIPOLI – Terminally ill Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is at the centre of another controversy after it was revealed that he is taking an anti-cancer chemotherapy drug, which can keep him alive for five more years.

According to … Original article on : Lockerbie bomber can live for five more years.

CT scans overuse linked to cancer

SYDNEY – Health experts have warned that unjustified use of CT scans is increasingly becoming a reason behind cancers.

A latest medical research has claimed that more than 400 new cases of cancer a year in Australia … Read more : CT scans overuse linked to cancer.

Get paid 24,000 pounds just to eat

LONDON – TV character Homer Simpson would have loved this job. A company in Britain is looking for a worker who has to do nothing, except eat – and the pay will be nearly 24,000 pounds a year.

Daily Mail Monday reported that the firm Proactol Ltd wants the worker to have a hearty appetite; the …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Get paid 24,000 pounds just to eat.

Cheaper painkillers soon thanks to opium breakthrough

TORONTO – Canadian researchers have decoded opium poppy which will lead to cheaper and mass production of the current costly pain killers. Currently, the morphine is the most used painkiller around the world.

Researchers at Canada’s University of Calgary revealed Sunday that they have decoded the unique genes in the opium poppy that allow it to … Original article on : Cheaper painkillers soon thanks to opium breakthrough.

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s dad, subject of health care debate commentaries, dies in NY at 80

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s dad dies in NYC at 80

NEW YORK – The father of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has died in New York City at age 80.
Theodore C. Olbermann was thrust into the nation’s health care debate through commentaries made by his son on television.
Keith Olbermann says the former architect died Saturday of complications … Read more >>.

White House backs down on pushing Senate to remove special deals from health bill

White House backs down on health bill deals

WASHINGTON – The White House is backing down from trying to get senators to remove some special deals from the health care bill.
Senior adviser David Axelrod says the White House only objected to deals that affected just one state, such one involving Medicaid and Nebraska that’s being cut … Read more »»».

India mends Uganda kids’ hearts, Tharoor bids hearty ‘bye

NEW DELHI – Tired yet relieved, parents and their little ones who came all the way from Uganda to seek treatment for heart diseases were Sunday seen off by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, who said they had managed to “cross international frontiers that divide people”.

As part of aid organisation Rotary International’s … Read more >>>.

Haryana’s low-cost surgery package a big hit: officials

CHANDIGARH – The subsidised surgery package programme of the Haryana government is becoming quite popular in the state with around 48,000 people benefiting from it in just seven months, officials said here Sunday.

The one-of-its-kind programme was launched in July last year in all government hospitals.
“Increasing number of people are coming to government health institutions …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Haryana’s low-cost surgery package a big hit: officials.

Punish pharma firms offering doctors gifts, says MCI

NEW DELHI – After quantifying punishments for doctors accepting gifts, the Medical Council of India (MCI) Sunday said it has also written to the health ministry to regulate pharmaceutical companies luring doctors through gifts and free hospitality.

“Doctors are under our jurisdiction and we have now regulated them. But the other half – pharma companies – … Read : Punish pharma firms offering doctors gifts, says MCI.