Cancer Drug Studied in Children with Rare Form of Leukemia

"STI-571, also known as Gleevec, was approved for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML, one of the four main types of leukemia. It has also achieved remarkable clinical trial results in the treatment of...

Cause of 'Treeman's' barklike growths revealed

"(CNN) -- For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots. ...

Sri Lankan Alcohol Kills 10

10 people are dead and at least 67 more have fallen ill after conuming a local alcoholic brew in the Western Province of Sri Lanka."    The people who had consumed this contaminated local brew of...

Medical marijuana: a valuable treatment for autism?

"Medical marijuana: a valuable treatment for autism? Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. Autism Research Institute 4182 Adams Avenue San Diego, CA 92116 I am certainly not an advocate for drugs-either legal or illicit. I have never smoked and I don’t care at all for alcohol. And I...

HRT 'can cut risk of breast cancer for at-risk women'

HRT treatment can cut the risk of breast cancer for 'at risk' women a new study from Toronto University reports. the use of HRT has been a controvesial issue with some studies claiming that it actually increased the...

PETA wants Ben & Jerry's to make breast milk ice cream

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has asked Ben & Jerry's to make breast milk ice cream.  No, it isn't a flavour request, but a call for Ben and Jerry's to reformulate all of their ice...

Palin on Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped'

"By SARAH PALIN | September 22, 2008Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled to speak today at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance here of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers...

Developments in Diagnosing and Treating Breast Cancer

Two considerable breakthroughs in the fight against breast cancer - a new diagnostic tool can detect tumours that mammograms may miss, and intense radiation treatment can be just as effective for early onset...

Treatment of Tourette’s syndrome with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol.

"Tourette’s Syndrome Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder of unknown etiology that is characterized by involuntary vocal tics. Severity of this condition varies widely among patients. Though there is no cure for...

Grey’s Anatomy Makes Viewers Health Aware

In an episode of last season's Grey's Anatomy, researchers from the Kaiser Family Foundation worked with the show's writers to inject some real-life facts into the show to see if audiences would retain the knowledge after watching the medical drama.In the episode, an...

Calling B.S. on the Idea of 'Marijuana Addiction'

"It's laughable that the Feds are pushing the concept of pot addiction when science shows that withdrawal symptoms from caffeine are far worse.The U.S. government believes that America is going to pot -- literally.Earlier this month, the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse...

Church to make posthumous apology to Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin created a big controversy with his evolutionary theory and powerful church leaders castigated him. Now after 126 long years Church of England has realised their mistake and agreed to issue an an apology. Darwin in his theory had said that man descended from the...

When sex becomes an addiction

Sexual addiction is not new. There is an old saying that if God had not intended for people to enjoy sex, he would have made it boring. Or if God had meant for people to not Masturbate, he would have made all our...

Fertility clinics urged to use single embryo

IVF and Surrogacy have become very popular among expectant parents. Lot of people all over the world uses assisted reproductive mechanism. But sometime due to more than single embryo multiple pregency happens and it creates for the mothers. Now Doctors have made an...

Horse Whisperer author poisoned by mushrooms

The author of the best-selling book "The Horse Whisperer" is in the hospital in Scotland after eating some poisonous mushrooms. He had cooked the mushrooms himself after finding them in the woods."Bestselling author...

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