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Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that scientists can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which holds the promise of curing Parkinson’s disease and diabetes but raises ethical concerns about the limits on human life.Six of the court’s 11...
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Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure is a routine treatment for Aids, a lawsuit will claim.
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Health officials assuring citizens of availability of swine flu medicines. Over the past weekend, mobile phone text messages were sent with the message that swine flu...
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Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to...
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The adult film industry said it was the first case since the 2004 outbreak, the LA Times reported.
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Venezuela’s Health Ministry said Friday it banned sales of Coca-Cola Zero because the company failed to declare that the no-calorie soft drink uses an artificial...
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Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
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The oldest himan had died aged 134 couple hours ago. Moloko Temo lived all her life in Limpopo Province of South Africa.
If Temo was born in 1874 she is almost...
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Throughout the Second World War Eton College was adamant it would not close its doors as a result of any threat from the Germans. It would not, its then headmaster...
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Implanting a pacemaker-like device deep in the brain helps some Parkinson’s disease patients move better, but could less risky zapping of the spinal cord work...
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Parkinson’s sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, according to the biggest test...
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Former six-term Sen. Claiborne Pell has died after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.
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The same kind of deep brain stimulation used to treat some patients for Parkinson’s disease also helped a few people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
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Phil Hill, the only American-born Formula One champion, died Thursday of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 81.
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In past, the government was not in favor of creating human-animal embryos and hence, it had decided to delay its decision on giving its verdict, which means that it did...
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To combat Parkinson’s disease FDA(U.S. Food and Drug Administration ) has announced the approval of first skin patch called Neupro that is especially designed to...
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It is for the first time, a human embryonic stem cell has successfully treated a fatal brain and nerve disease in mice. This study is published in the journal Nature...
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Anesthetics, which are used to reduce or take away sensation temporarily in order to carry out surgical procedures, may have long lasting side effects on a patient....
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Commonly used drugs to treat Parkinson diseases, dopamine agonists Permax (pergolide) and Dostinex (cabergoline) have been associated with an increased risk of...
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Researchers have found out that brain cells resulting from human embryonic stem cells resulted in the improvement of conditions of rats suffering from Parkinson but a...
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Britain should be the world’s number one centre for genetic and stem cell research, these are the views of Gordon Brown and Sir John Pattison. However, these...
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