Twin viruses linked to prostate cancer
August 3rd, 2012 - 2:26 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 3 (IANS) Two common viruses linked to human cancers are both present and may even be collaborating with each other in most male prostate cancers.A new research has ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
More than 50 pc cancers preventable
April 2nd, 2012 - 5:02 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 2 (IANS) More than half of all cancer is preventable and society possesses the requisite knowledge to act on this information, says a new study.Investigators from the Washington ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Cervical cancer leading cancer-killer among Indian women
March 28th, 2012 - 5:40 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai/New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in India with mortality being three times higher in rural areas than in urban ... Read more...
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Rise in mouth cancer cases in Britain due to oral sex
March 16th, 2012 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 16 (IANS) The number of mouth cancer cases in Britain went above 6,000 last year, probably due to rise in oral sex, a study said.According to charity group ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
US insurers will have to pay for birth control
August 2nd, 2011 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 2 (IANS/EFE) Starting a year from now, US health insurers will be required to pay for women's contraceptives, according to a decision Monday by the Department of ... Read more...
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Panel report on HPV vaccine trials slammed
May 9th, 2011 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The panel report on the clinical trial of the cervical cancer vaccine drive in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, which left seven tribal girls dead, was ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Widely used HIV drug could help prevent cervical cancer
May 4th, 2011 - 3:18 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 4 (ANI): A study has suggested that a simple treatment using a widely prescribed HIV drug could prevent cervical cancer by killing off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Oral tongue cancer increasing in young, white females: US study
March 9th, 2011 - 3:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 09 (ANI): A UNC study has found an increasing incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue in young white females in the United States over the last three ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Oral sex bigger cause of throat cancer than tobacco
February 21st, 2011 - 4:16 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 21 (IANS) A virus spread during oral sex is the main cause of throat cancer in people under 50 years of age.Scientists say the human papilloma virus (HPV) spread during ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Oral sex, not tobacco is ‘main cause of throat cancer’
February 21st, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by ANI
London, Feb 21 (ANI): Scientists have warned that a virus that spreads during oral sex is now the main cause of throat cancer in people under 50.They say the human papilloma virus ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Rust and sand could help detect cervical cancer, diarrhoea
February 1st, 2011 - 6:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Scientists in Vietnam say that the next big thing in medical diagnostics could be magnetic nanoparticles of rust (iron oxide) coated with silicon dioxide, the material from which ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
A woman’s guide to age-proofing health
January 19th, 2011 - 4:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers have said that to age-proof her health, a woman must set health goals for every stage of life."So take ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Circumcision Lowers Chances Of HPV Risk In Women, Study Says
January 9th, 2011 - 9:09 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Jan 9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A study carried out by American researchers in Uganda has revealed that males who have undergone circumcision have more chances of protecting their female partners against ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Circumcision Lowers HPV Risk In Women, Says Survey
January 8th, 2011 - 8:33 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Jan 8, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Lancet medical journal reported on Thursday that the female partners of circumcised men had a 28% lower rate of infection with the human papilloma virus ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
How virus triggers cervical and mouth cancer
December 15th, 2010 - 4:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 15 (ANI): Scientists have discovered an important new way in which the human papilloma virus (HPV) triggers cancer in what could lead to new treatments for cervical and mouth cancer.HPV ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Low cost cervical cancer test can save thousands of women
November 23rd, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 23 (IANS) A low cost cervical cancer test, vastly more accurate than the present smear test, can save thousands of women every year, researchers say.The test also delivers results overnight, ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Oral sex putting men at risk for throat cancer
October 21st, 2010 - 4:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 21 (ANI): HPV or the human papilloma virus has been associated with cervical cancer in women but a new study says that the virus may be contributing to an increasing ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Catherine Zeta-Jones at cancer risk?
September 12th, 2010 - 3:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 12 (ANI): Hollywood beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is taking care of her cancer-stricken husband Michael Douglas, has been warned she too is at risk of contracting the disease.Douglas, who ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Breakthrough could protect people at risk from pain of shingles
June 9th, 2010 - 3:59 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 9 (ANI): Scientists at a Scottish University may have found a solution to the acute pain of shingles - a vaccine for people who have had chicken pox and are ... Read more...
Posted in Feature |
After deaths, cervical cancer vaccine trials stopped
April 16th, 2010 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The government Friday said that the cervical cancer HPV vaccination drive in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh was indeed part of approved clinical trials. But after the death ... Read more...
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Brinda questions cervical cancer vaccines programme
April 8th, 2010 - 12:31 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Communist leader and parliamentarian Brinda Karat has written to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad asking him to spell out the government's stand on the cervical cancer ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Today’s women have far more sexual partners than those in swinging 60s
March 18th, 2010 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 16 (ANI): Today's young women have slept with three times as many men as girls of the same age in the so-called "Swinging Sixties", known for mini skirts, the Rolling ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Using home cervical cancer testing kits can increase diagnosis
March 12th, 2010 - 3:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, March 12 (ANI): A new research has suggested that more high risk cases of human papilloma virus (HPV) could be detected by offering home testing kits to women who do not ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Human parasites can cause fatal liver cancer
October 12th, 2009 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 12 (IANS) Human liver fluke can bring on one of the most fatal forms of liver cancer by secreting granulin, a hormone known to trigger unbridled cell growth.
Michael Smout ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Cervical cancer eradication possible within next 50yrs, says expert
September 25th, 2009 - 1:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 25 (ANI): A cervical cancer screening expert believes that this disease can be eradicated within the next 50 years by implementing across the world national screening programmes based on detection ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Screening for HPV virus can check cervical cancer: study
April 2nd, 2009 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) In a major breakthrough, scientists from India and abroad have found that screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer could significantly reduce deaths by 47 percent. ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
HPV-vaccine may even help reduce number of pre-term births
March 18th, 2009 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): Calculating the benefits of HPV (human papilloma virus)-vaccination, Norwegian scientists have found that it may even reduce the number of pre-term births.Chronic HPV -infections can lead to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Noble Prize, AstraZeneca under scrutiny for corruption claims
December 19th, 2008 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 19 (ANI): The integrity of the Noble Prize was questioned on Thursday night after it was revealed that a member of the jury also sat on the board of ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Anti-cancer shots will lead to more sex, feel parents
December 18th, 2008 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) Fears that it will lead to runaway promiscuity are preventing use of anti-human papilloma virus by young women to protect them from genital warts and cervical cancer, according ... Read more...
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AIDS vaccine within four years: Nobel laureate
October 7th, 2008 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 7 (IANS) A vaccine that would prevent the HIV virus from progressing in the body could be ready by 2012, says Luc Montagnier, the medical researcher who has won this ... Read more...
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German, French scientists share 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine (Lead)
October 6th, 2008 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 6 (IANS) The Nobel Foundation announced here Monday that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be shared by Harald zur Hausen of Germany, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc ... Read more...
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German, French scientists share Nobel Prize for Medicine
October 6th, 2008 - 5:14 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 6 (IANS) Harald zur Hausen of Germany, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France Monday won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008."The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska ... Read more...
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The half man half tree still hope to be cured
August 27th, 2008 - 6:25 pm ICT by Bupha Ravirot
A former fisherman, Dede, from Indonesia feared he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor.Dede lives in a village in ... Read more...
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Common viruses may contribute to lung cancer development
April 26th, 2008 - 12:55 pm ICT by admin
Washington , Apr 26 (ANI): Common viruses, like human papilloma virus (HPV) and measls virus, may lead to development of lung cancer, according to new reports.While the experts maintain smoking to ... Read more...
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Sexually transmitted disease big among US teenagers
March 12th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by admin
Xinhua
Washington, March 12 (Xinhua) More than a quarter of US teenage girls have at least one common sexually transmitted disease (STD), according to a new study. Roughly 3.2 million girls between ages ... Read more...
Posted in World |