Saturday, May 9th, 2009
London, May 9 (ANI): Scientists have found the gene, called SLC25A38, which causes congenital sideroblastic anaemia-a rare disease mainly characterized by the presence of ringed sideroblasts in the patients' bone marrow.
The research is a Genome Canada project, which is co-directed by Dr. Mark Samuels, an investigator with the Sainte-Justine University ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
London, May 8 (ANI): Tired of morning sickness? Well, take heart, for chances are that your unborn kid will have a high IQ.
Irena Nulman and colleagues at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, have concluded that women who suffer morning sickness during pregnancy may be more likely to ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Mardan (NWFP, Pakistan), May 7 (ANI): Over 22,000 refugees have asked for help in the Mardan area of Pakistan's strife-hit North West Frontier Province alone, and most of them in the past 10 days.
Thousands of people are reported to have queued up outside a hospital in Mardan, reports ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
New York, May 7 (ANI): After the much-publicized fight between Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, it has now emerged that the two of them have agreed to jointly raise their son Tripp.
Both, Palin, 18, and Johnston, 19, revealed their child-rearing rapprochement in duelling morning television show appearances.
"She seems to ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 7 (ANI): A study suggests that the use of drug-eluting stents on heart attack patients undergoing angioplasty is more effective and as safe as that of bare-metal stents.
Lead researcher Dr. Gregg W. Stone, a professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, has revealed that in ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 06 (ANI): A new study has shown that working with an asthma coach helps to significantly reduce hospitalizations of low-income, African-American children with asthma.
For the study, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill worked with nearly ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Tamluk (Kolkata), May 6 (ANI): The death toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal is rising as more and more people fell ill.
Unofficial reports say at least 24 people have died in Tamluk region while another 100 people are undergoing treatment at various hospitals. But officials said only ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
London, May 6 (ANI): Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson was in a shaken state after he was informed that two of his grandchildren were injured in a car crash on Tuesday.
Charlie Ferguson, ten, was "serious but stable" after the smash - hours before Manchester United's Champions League victory at ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
London, May 6 (ANI): Marilyn French, one of the most renowned feminist writers, has passed away in New York after suffering a heart failure. She was 79.
The author breathed her last on May 2 in a Manhattan hospital, said Carol Jenkins, her friend and president of the city's Women's Media ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Washington, May 5 (ANI): Due to respiratory problems as a result of projected climate change, more children will end up hospitalised over the next decade, says a new study.
The study by Mount Sinai School of Medicine was presented on Sunday, May 3, 2009 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting ...
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