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 Iressa is a new pill designed to cure lung cancer. Researchers reported on Thursday that Iressa has shown incredible results when it comes to cure the lung cancer by itself. Even if the disease is advanced, the pill can easily replace the standard chemotherapy. Iressa is released by AstraZeneca and its treatment is a daily one. The...
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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 Prostate cancer has always been a common cancer for men, but second in skin cancer caused both to women and men. Nearly 186,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008, according to the American Cancer Society. This type of cancer takes the fault for almost 9% of the cancer-related deaths in men.AMC also said that...
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 Some Canadian researchers discovered that only three weeks of radiation for the women who have an early-stage breast cancer are correspondent with the five weeks or more of the same treatment. The researchers tracked 1,234 women for almost 12 years and noticed that a shorter treatment does the same with the longer one.This study has just...
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 Measles is caused by a virus and is spread through respiration, commonly through contacts with fluids from an infected person or through aerosol transmission. The virus is very contagious, almost 90%, and people with no immunity who share the same space with an infected person will catch the disease.The period between the time when the...
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 A U.S. study published on Tuesday showed that women who survived breast cancer for five years after they had finished the treatment have lower risks of the cancer recurring. The study also refers to women with stage III breast cancer. They have only 13% risk of the cancer recurring if they got over the first five years without...
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A new study shows that one in five men in their 40s had a PSA test (prostate-specific antigen) in the past year, but black men are more likely to have done the test, than the white men.The PSA scans the men’s bodies for prostate cancer. This is a disease in which the cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the reproductive system of...
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 As more and more people get infected with the HIV virus, the efforts of the U.S. to test everyone for HIV fail and just 40% of adults in the country have been tested for the fatal virus. There are needed more methods to test everybody, because many people are infected and are unaware of this.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
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 According to researchers at the University of Texas,
more Americans are predisposed to suffer from kidney stones in the coming
years, as a result of global warming.
Kidney stones, which usually arise from dissolved minerals
in the urine, can be awfully painful and are regularly attributable to
dehydration, either by not drinking...
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 A new study published in the New England
Journal of Medicine suggests an experimental immune system treatment that uses
the patient’s own cells might be an effective treatment for deadly skin cancers
called melanomas.
A 52-year-old man with recurrent melanoma,
which had already spread to a lung and a lymph node in his groin get...
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 A study conducted by researchers at Cardiff
University’s Welsh School of
Pharmacy at Cardiff University
in Wales
has proven that antimicrobial wipes are often used in ways that favour the
spreading of drug-resistant bacteria and other pathogens instead of killing
them. The findings were released on Tuesday at the 108th General...
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A study published in Wednesday’s issue of PloS ONE points
out the difference of rates as regards mortality in well-educated individuals and
people who have finished less than high-school.
The findings reveal that the gap in overall death rates
between these two categories of Americans increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001....
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 During the next 18 months, The Seattle Biomedical Research
Institute and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative will be asking people in
Seattle to volunteer to be exposed to the deadliest form of malaria, in order
to help them test the effectiveness of more types of vaccines.
With more than 70 scientists focused only on malaria,...
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 According to a
warning launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, it seems
that a powerful type of drug-resistant tuberculosis has started to spread even
faster than the organization’s medical experts had previously feared. In some
countries, the rate of people being infected with this powerful drug-resistant
strain...
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 According to recent scientific discoveries, the mechanism which
controls how cancer cells move around the body has been found.
The discovery will help doctors better understand the spread
of the disease and could lead to improved drugs to prevent secondary tumors.
One in three people will be diagnosed with cancer in...
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 Researchers may have discovered the reason why more than 80
percent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are transmitted via
sexual intercourse.
According to a new study published in Cell, a component of
human semen may facilitate the spread of the virus by targeting immune system
cells, in some cases making the...
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 A component found in semen can enhance HIV transmission by
as much as 100,000-fold, researchers have found. The results, if verified in a
clinical setting, could identify a new way to help prevent the spread of the
disease.
"I think this is tremendous," says Christopher
Pilcher, an HIV researcher at the University of...
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 Researchers said on Monday in a study that provides a better understanding of how the deadly HIV virus spreads that people with moderate levels of HIV in their blood are the most likely to infect others.Looking at several groups of HIV-positive people in Europe, the United States and Africa, the researchers found that people with high...
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 According to a new study in the Journal of the American
Medical Association over 19,000 Americans died in 2005 of invasive infections
caused by drug-resistant staphylococcus bacteria, more than were killed by AIDS
The report, written by experts at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, is the latest research to note the...
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 A new study conducted by researchers from University of Michigan
and Wayne State University
depicts that despite all social development and public policies, there are
still serious racial disparities that gravely affects society.
The study focuses on disparities between white and
African-American women that have been diagnosed...
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 Canada
shelters on Sunday beginning 10 a.m. more than 900 runs in the memory of Terry
Fox’s battle against cancer and his belief that it can be cured, one day to
become history.
Since 1981 when the first Terry Fox Run was held, more and
more participants have joined the Canadian yearly event to help to raise funds
for research...
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 American country singer Merle Haggard was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, his spokesman said on Sunday. On Monday he had to undergo a surgery in a hospital from Bakersfield, California, to remove one of his lungs. 71-year-old Haggard is recovering at home and he stated that he had started to feel “better and better each day.”...
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 Michael Crichton created Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World. He will still remain a legendary writer, whose books kept the best-selling place for many years. TV series like ER will never be forgotten by people worldwide. Crichton amazingly managed to make a connection to his master of narrating and the using of technology by...
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 The 17-year-old Britney Spears’ sister gave birth to Maddie Briann Aldridge on June 19, 2008. Still, Jamie Lynn Spears didn’t have the chance to marry the father, Casey Aldridge and they have also recently announced that they don’t hurry toward a future together so soon. They will remain engaged but without their vows made. “Zoey 101”...
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 Britney Spears won’t perform this year at the MTV’s VMA, her manager, Larry Rudolph, said in a report on Monday. He added that the troubled pop star tries to erase her memories about the terrible performance she made last year. A spokesman for Rudolph added that "She did the promo for them, but there never were any plans for her to...
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 The 36-year-old actress was born in Hollywood, California. Robert Applegate, her father, was a record producer and record company producer executive, and Nancy Lee Priddy, her mother, was a singer. She also had to fight both breast and cervical cancer.Christina Applegate will always remain in the audience’s memory as Kelly Bundy in the...
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 The 65-year-old music director of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera is recovering at home after
a successful kidney tumor surgery. The growth on his kidney, which was causing
him pressure and discomfort, was malignant, doctors said.
The music director James Levine was
released over the weekend, according to...
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 Hepatitis C harms the liver gradually and most people who suffer
from the disease do not have any idea about their health problems until liver
damage comes to light decades later.
It is reckoned that approximately 180 million people all
over the world suffer from chronic hepatitis C, with more than 4 million of
these cases in the...
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 Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza, was crowned Miss Universe 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Since the end of the Vietnam War, this was the major USA-based broadcast from the southeastern Asia country. Also, this is the first time that the Miss Universe competition was held in 1080i HD.The winner’s prize package included cash, travelling around...
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 Detroit police is now investigating a serious attempt of arson at Madonna’s former home in the Detroit suburb of Rochester-Hills.
The fire started on Friday and a neighbor said that a woman who was passing by the neighborhood saw the flames and called 911. The same neighbor told CNN that that was the house where Madonna had grown...
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 It seems that Lindsay Lohan, who was recently being spotted
with a diamond ring on her ring finger, has reportedly told former beau Calum
Best that she is willing to marry her lesbian lover Samantha Ronson.
According to several British tabloids, Lohan has not only told friends she
wants to tied the knot with Ronson, but that she...
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 Those who assumed that Amy Winehouse got into a fight,
judging from the bruised and swollen patches on her face, should be ashamed.
The British songstress has in fact been diagnosed with a skin
infection, called Impetigo. Her representative confirmed the news regarding her
skin condition to celebrity magazine “People” on Monday....
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 Surprises at birthday bashes are usually welcomed, but when
it comes to the likelihood of a surprise infection with hepatitis A, everybody
needs to do the same thing: vaccinate!
Ashton Kutcher celebrated his 30th birthday at a West Village
drink and dance club, Socialista. But before the details and gossips of the
party were...
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 Sexually explicit pictures
involving Hong Kong actor-singer Edison Chen have
been circulating over the internet for a month. Police have arrested Wednesday
a Taiwanese man suspected of having posted the photographs in his blog and
instructing the net surfers how to download them.
According to local United Daily
News, Huang...
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 It is known that Brad Pitt is in love with the city of New
Orleans, yesterday he announced the materialization of his closeness to the
city: his “Make It Right” foundation is planning to rebuild a part of the
Katrina-ravaged city.
The Lower 9th Ward is the target venue to erect 150 homes to
repopulate the area that has become...
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 The exquisite institution of sexy-and-pregnant celebrities
started by Demi Moore in 1991 is renewed with the January issues of Marie
Claire magazine, depicting an almost nude and of course pregnant Christina
Aguilera.
X-tina revealed in the issue of the popular magazine details
about her pregnancy and also highlighted that she...
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 Patient privacy infringement led to the suspension of more
than 40 hospital staff members at Palisades
Medical Center
after data was revealed to the press regarding the condition of George Clooney
and his girlfriend, Sarah Larson. The two entered the medical care on September
21, after a motorcycle accident.
Despite the fact...
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 So far so good!After staying out of the public eye for quite a while, Lindsay Lohan is making a comeback by inviting OK! magazine "into her world" at the fancy Cirque Lodge detox center in Sundance, Utah.The troubled actress has already been spotted by photographers while jogging, rafting and even taking shifts at a local...
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 Former televangelist and Christian singer, Tammy Faye Messner lost a long and harsh battle with cancer on Friday morning, CNN's Larry King announced Saturday night. Messner, who became a household name in the US in the 1980s as Tammy Faye Bakker, died at her home near Kansas City, Mo., a spokesman said. The 65-year-old star was suffering...
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 American model Jaslene Gonzalez, born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois, is the winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 8. The Latina beat out Natasha Galkina, the 21-year-old hot Russian-born college student from Dallas."Every little girl has a dream to be something," Gonzalez said, eyes brimming with happy tears. "And to be...
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 Emmy Award-nominated American actress and model Jaime Lynn Pressly, aka Joy on the NBC sitcom 'My Name Is Earl,' welcomed a baby boy named Dezi James on Friday, according to a report by E! News, who received confirmation from her rep. The baby's father is her fiance, DJ Eric Cubiche, so no, it's not the baby of her half-sister...
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Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has rapidly spread to nearly all of the country's 10 provinces, a government minister said Friday.
Health minister David Parirenyatwa was quoted in the state-run daily Herald as saying that nine provinces had reported the presence of the deadly and highly infectious diarrheal disease. The crowded township...
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Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said Wednesday.
The country's four main hospitals, in the capital Harare and the western city of Bulawayo, were "virtually closed,"...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat striking doctors and nurses at a Harare hospital on Tuesday and sent them running for cover in wards, witnesses said, as reports emerged of dozens more dead in a fast-spreading cholera outbreak.
The protest took place at Parirenyatwa general hospital where around 200 doctors and nurses, from that hospital...
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An outbreak of cholera, the deadly diarrhoeal disease that doctors say has claimed dozens of lives in crisis-hit Zimbabwe in recent weeks, has spread to the city's crowded townships, state media reported Thursday.
One person died in the city's Budiriro township and 20 more from across the city were being treated for the disease in...
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left no room for a Thai delegation to doubt his resolve after a meeting with him Monday - Thai troops must retreat, or prepare to fight.
"The situation at the Eagle Terrace area is hot," he said, referring to a border area Thai troops reportedly moved into even as bilateral talks began in the...
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Egyptians on Wednesday celebrated the first day of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
This year, the holiday in Egypt is a week long, due to the coming weekend and the October 6 commemoration of the 1973 war with Israel.
After four weeks of fasting, a holiday mood spread among Egyptians, who began...
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The Nigerian government has closed down a private television station after it reported that President Umaru Yar'Adua was preparing to resign after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Channels Television quoted the the state-run News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), which vehemently denied it was the source of the story.
Olusegun Adeniyi,...
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Scientists have detected for the first time in Nigeria a new strain of the virus that causes avian influenza - also known as bird-flu - a United Nations agency announced Tuesday.
The find comes in the wake of Nigeria recently reporting two new Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano, the...
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The Zambian government is extremely dissatisfied with the
fact that the South Africa’s
media made public the supposed death of President Levy Mwanawasa in a hospital
on Thursday. The government states that reports, which are unprofessional and
deplorable, are triggering torment and worry among Zambian people, says Voice
of...
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 At least four people died Tuesday in Kenya after the killing
of an opposition member triggered another wave of violence that swept the slums
of Nairobi.
The member of parliament was reportedly gunned down near his
house in Nairobi by unknown assailants, opposition leader Raila Odinga saying
he suspects “the foul hands of our...
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Traders were glad to see the back of a worrying week on the three Baltic stock exchanges Friday with the Baltic Benchmark Index (BBI), combining data from the Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius exchanges, closing down 2.31 per cent on the day at 228.82.
The BBI managed to drop by more than 10 per cent during the week as the small Baltic...
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Trichina worms, which infect pigs and cause a nasty rheumatic illness in humans, have returned to Germany, animal-health officials north of Berlin said Friday.
Trichinosis infects people who have undercooked pork containing the nematodes.
The worms were found at a slaughterhouse in a pig from a private home, veterinarian Holger...
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The alleged kingpin of the main Russian organized-crime family in Germany's Bavaria state went on trial Friday.
Lawyers for the alleged mobsters showered the court with motions to stop the trial. Security at the Munich courthouse was strict.
The defendant, 39, was indicted with running a criminal organization.
Two alleged mafia...
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Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
The fungus is capable of causing heavy damage to wheat crops and is a major threat to food security, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture...
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A World War II wreck of a German submarine that sank off Norway loaded with 65 tons of mercury should be encased and not raised, the Norwegian Coastal Administration said Monday.
The wreck of U-864 was found in 2003. Since the discovery Norwegian authorities have investigated various options of raising or encasing the wreck since the...
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German investigators sought Wednesday to find out how a fire began in the toilet of a coach and quickly spread through the vehicle, killing 20 pensioners on a day's outing.
Uwe Schuenemann, interior minister of Lower Saxony state, stressed the cause of the Tuesday evening inferno, on a highway just outside the northern city of...
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A Spanish prime minister considered declaring a war against neighbouring Portugal to stem the spread of communism in the final year of General Francisco Franco's 36-year dictatorship, the daily El Pais reported Monday.
Carlos Arias Navarro, Franco's last prime minister, met with US deputy secretary of state Robert Ingersoll in...
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Some 40 per cent of women and girls over 16 in Germany have been victims of physical or sexual abuse, a government official said Thursday, quoting from a study.
Handicapped, elderly women and those requiring care suffered more than others, said Marion Caspers-Merk, secretary of state at the ministry of health.
"The issue of...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy late Tuesday joined British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in calling for an increase in funding for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cut the risk of "financial contagion."
"We must find the ways and means to provide more funds for the IMF to support a certain number of countries -...
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Belgian insurance and banking giant KBC joined the country's bail-out club Monday by securing a capital injection of billions of euros from the state.
"KBC and the Belgian government have reached an agreement to further strengthen KBC's financial position. This will create an additional core capital buffer for KBC and enable it...
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The Frankfurt Book Fair opened for business Wednesday, with world publishers to spend five days trading book rights and discussing how to cope with the internet age.
Some 280,000 visitors are expected at the annual event, which is being held in Germany for the 60th time. This year Turkey is guest of honour.
Turkish President...
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European shares plummeted Friday as panic selling spread from Asia and the United States amid fears the global credit squeeze could trigger a global recession.
By early morning trading, Europe's benchmark Stoxx 50 had plunged by 8.0 per cent to 2,109 points, after shares on Wall Street dropped by 7.3 per cent to their lowest level in...
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Japan's Kei Nishikori reached his first ATP quarter-final since a February title win as he defeated Slovak veteran Dominik Hrbaty 6-1, 1-6, 7-5 on Thursday at the Stockholm Open.
The 18-year-old winner, ranked 77th after rising more than 200 ranking places this season, heads into a Friday clash with Croatian Mario Ancic at the...
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Despite the current panic on financial markets, a recession is not in prospect in Germany, leading economic research institute, DIW, said Wednesday in Berlin.
DIW said the effects of the financial crisis were "manageable" and predicted the crisis would not spread to the rest of the economy. It forecast German gross domestic...
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 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French scientists together with German researchers Harald zur Hausen, sheared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday. The three Europeans discovered different viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer which helped doctors to fight against these diseases.The French scientists...
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The findings of a virus that causes cervical cancer and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
German Harald zur Hausen was awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...
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The banking crisis spread to Germany on Monday, with the government and fellow banks forced to throw a 35-billion-euro (50-billion-dollar) lifeline to Hypo Real Estate (HRE), a mortgage lender.
The bail-out, the same day as Britain nationalized lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) and a day after three governments took stakes in...
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The British government intervened Monday to save major mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) by taking it into public ownership and selling off its savings and deposits business.
"We will do whatever it takes to ensure the stability of the financial system in the wake of the nationalization of Bradford & Bingley...
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The European Commission is ready to provide "up to 500 million euros" (714 million dollars) in additional aid to Georgia to help it recover from the war with Russia, EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said Monday.
The European Union executive hopes that its proposal of a Stabilization and Growth Package...
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Some 30,000 workers rallied at Volkswagen's Wolfsburg headquarters Friday in support of retaining the "VW law" that gives enhanced rights to the German state of Lower Saxony, in the face of calls for its abolition from the European Commission.
The rally was called after the commissioner for the European Union's internal...
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Paris Friday for a four-day visit, his first trip to France since he was elected to succeed the popular John Paul II in April 2005.
The 81-year-old pope was greeted at Paris's Orly Airport by President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who will host a reception for him at the Elysee Palace...
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New finds of a livestock disease known as bluetongue do not give reason to extend current restrictions in south- western Sweden, Swedish authorities said Thursday.
The National Board of Agriculture said eight cases have been detected on two neighbouring farms in Halland.
Two cows tested positive for bluetongue disease over the...
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A mass-transit train caught fire in Germany on Friday and its driver was injured by toxic smoke, fire crews said.
Four train staff in the western city of Essen ushered all the passengers to safety in the open air.
The driver applied the emergency brake just as the train was leaving Kaiser Wilhelm Park underground station in the...
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Uniqa Versicherungen AG, one of Austria's largest insurers, said Friday its net profit slipped by 3.5 per cent to 109 million euros (161 million dollars) in the first half of 2008, as falling income from investments outweighed growing premiums.
The insurer reported the value of its written premiums had grown 10.4 per cent to 3 billion...
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Germany's giant Games Convention opens its doors this week with organizers saying Wednesday they expect a record year for one of the key events on world games industry's calendar.
The number of exhibitors at this year's Games Convention has risen from 503 last year to 547 this year with organizers expecting the number of premieres of...
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Lack of access to sanitation remains a major impediment to global development while claiming hundreds of lives daily, experts agreed Monday as the annual World Water Week opened Monday.
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander one of the dignataries at the meeting, that said despite progress to build latrines and improve sanitation around...
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The UN Security Council was studying Tuesday a draft resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional end of hostilities in Georgia and the complete withdrawal of Russian and Georgian forces to their positions held prior to August 7.
The draft written by France, which holds the current presidency of the European Union, was...
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Tributes to Soviet dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn poured in on Monday as the world mourned the death of one of Russia'sgreatest literary figures.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the Nobel literature laureate
as 'an outstanding writer and committed citizen,' in a letter of
condolence sent to Russian President...
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After weeks of talks at a conference that
ended Sunday, Anglican bishops from around the world were unable to
reach an agreement on the issue of homosexuality which threatens to
split the church. The once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in the
south-eastern English city of Canterbury, the seat of the Anglican
Church, failed to issue a...
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