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Study shows mobile phones will not give you cancer

Seamus Byrne — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Gadgets, Science Time to rack up some popcorn and get some toasty mobile phones ready to ring, because you just got the all clear that mobile phones do not cause cancer! Of course, when we say ‘do not’, we mean the science...

Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze dead at 57

Kevin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:23 +0000

Actor Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a smoldering dance instructor in “Dirty Dancing” made him one of the iconic film stars of the 1980s, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Swayze, an actor and dancer...

Lisa Ray diagnosed with incurable cancer

Vikash Ranjan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:15:24 +0000

Bollywood actress Lisa Ray has unveiled in her blog “The Yellow Diaries” a terrible hard truth which she has been facing over a couple of months that she is suffering from Multiple Myeloma, a rare cancer of the plasma cells, which...

Scientists Develop Gene Therapy For Effective Treatments For Genetic Disorders And Cancers

Daniel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:57:56 +0000

Scientists in Australia have developed a new gene therapy vector that uses the same machinery as viruses to transport their cargo into cells. David Jans, from the Nuclear Signaling Laboratory at Monash University in Victoria, says that...

Fariha Anwar’s Suffering: A Living Tragedy

Karim Khan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:46:21 +0000

This brief post is meant to catch the attention of philanthropic readers over one of hundreds of thousands of cases in poverty and disease that continue to paralyze the lives of our country’s very own citizens. In the esteemed daily The...

Megrahi backs Lockerbie inquiry

Rachel — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:13:59 +0000

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has backed calls for a public inquiry into the atrocity. Speaking to Scotland’s The Herald newspaper from his home in the Libyan capital, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi said he was determined to clear...

Iraq Shia leader dies of cancer

Sanwali — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:17:03 +0000

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of one of the most powerful Shia Muslim parties in Iraq, has died, his aides say. Hakim had been suffering from cancer and had been receiving treatment in hospital in the Iranian capital...

Hail the HC order, it is a pointer to big medicine companies

Sreeja — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:36:32 +0000

In a landmark judgment, the Delhi High Court has dismissed German drug maker Bayer Corporation’s Writ Petition to sanction the patent linkage system in India through a court direction. While Bayer wanted the drug controller general of India not...

Glenn Ks Blog

Glenn — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:49:09 +0000

Day to day living with Hodgkins Disease (cancer). Gay content. (non HIV)

Beware Lantus can be dangerous

Sreeja — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:16:49 +0000

Beware those who are on diabetes drug Lantus! Sreeja, Mumbai The crores of diabetes patients across the world who use the diabetes drug Lantus, beware! Before you go to the medical store to buy this drug next time, consult your doctor as...