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Bangladeshi twins separated after marathon surgery

A team of Australian surgeons has “successfully” separated three-year-old joined-at-the-head Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna after a marathon 24-hour risky surgery. The team of 16 surgeons and nurses at the Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital began the surgery on Monday morning on separating the girls, who were brought to Australia by the Children First foundation Trust [...]

Govt for Public Health Cadre to deal with infectious diseases

The Centre has favoured creating a public health cadre for the southern states to effectively deal with all kinds of infectious diseases. “There is a need to create and establish a Public Health Cadre which has the necessary capacity to effectively deal with all infectious diseases,” Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told his state [...]

Scientists map body bacteria

American scientists have identified over 4,200 species of bacteria that live in various parts of a human body and mapped them into an atlas. The researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, also found unexpectedly wide variations in bacterial communities from person to person. “Not only did the bacterial communities vary from person to person, [...]

World’s oldest person dies in Los Angeles at 115

Gertrude Baines, the world’s oldest known person who once quipped she had won the genetic lottery, died at the age of 115 on Friday in a nursing home. Baines likely suffered a heart attack, but an autopsy will be conducted to confirm the cause of death, said her longtime physician, Dr. Charles Witt. “I saw [...]

UK swine flu vaccine trial shows ‘strong response’

Results from the first swine-flu vaccine trials taking place in Britian have revealed a strong immune response after administering just one dose. The pilot study, run by the University of Leicester and Leicester Hospitals, was tried with 100 healthy volunteers, aged between 18 and 50. Dr Iain Stephenson, who led the trial at the Leicester [...]

Ovarian Cancer, a silent killer

Though the incidence of ovarian cancer was not alarming in India compared to other forms of the disease, it was emerging a silent killer as symptoms could not be easily identified. Inaugurating a seminar on Ovarian Cancer, organised by the Department of Medical Oncology, SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre at its campus in [...]

Govt upgrades National Institute of Communicable Diseases

In a boost to the country’s health infrastructure, the Govt on Thursday decided to upgrade the premier National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) to enhance its services and renamed it as the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The institute in its new ‘avatar’ would play a more meaningful role in the development of public [...]

State govts asked to fill up vacancies in ESI hospitals

With over 70 posts of specialised doctors lying vacant in various ESI hospitals in the country, the govt has said states have been asked to undertake staff redeployment to ensure all the vacancies are filled up. “ESI corporation has taken up the issue of filling up of vacancies in a time bound manner and chief [...]

Healing brain ’causes seizures’

Scientists claim to have found that chronic seizures following head injuries may be a result of the brain trying to repair itself, a finding which could prevent some of the most common forms of adult epilepsy. For decades, researchers have focused on neurons as the culprits in seizures, which can actually be characterised as debilitating [...]

Neuroscientists locate encoding of fear in brain

In a landmark research, neuroscientists have located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain, a development that will facilitate better understanding and treatment for human phobias and anxiety disorders. Researchers at the University of Washington used an imaging technique, which enabled them to trace the process of neural activation in the brains [...]

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