Tag: Health

Are wireless phones linked with brain cancer risk?

NEW YORK- Swedes who talked on mobile or cordless phones for more than 25 years had triple the risk of a certain kind of...

Sickness stalks Indian village, bordering Pakistan, with toxic water

DONA NANKA- Through his bloodshot, ruined eyes, ten-year-old Roshan Singh struggles to read his favourite comic book before readying for school in this remote and...

Anti-typhoid gene found, may improve vaccines

Paris - Scientists say they have found a gene variant that may provide better protection against typhoid fever, which infects millions of people each...

Nursing facility holds Kidney Disease Awareness event

LAHORE— FRESH Nursing Facility held a Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Awareness event on Saturday, November 1st. Attendees were educated on identifying risk factors early on because...

Scientists see mechanism for spontaneous HIV ‘cure’

PARIS- French scientists claimed Tuesday to have found the genetic mechanism for a "spontaneous cure" in two HIV-infected men, proposing a new strategy for combating...

Conflicts at home affect teens at school and vice versa

NEW YORK- Conflicts in a teen's life can spill over at school and at home for days afterward, a new study suggests. Finding out why...

Experts sound alarm as diabetes fuels cases of TB

Anthony Harries of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease told a foreignnews agency he was most concerned about India and China, since...

New study links high milk intake to high mortality rate, raises...

PARIS- Drink lots of milk to strengthen your bones and boost your health, doctors say. But a study in The BMJ medical journal Wednesday said Swedes...

Google seeks way to scan bodies for disease

  SAN FRANCISCO- Google is exploring a way to search inside people's bodies for early signs of deadly illnesses such as cancer or heart disease. A Life...

Mobile app helps track Ebola epidemic

NAIROBI- A new mobile telephone based mapping service has been created in a bid to track Ebola and better help communities hit by the...

Australian doctors transplant ‘dead’ hearts in surgical breakthrough

SYDNEY- Australian surgeons said Friday they have used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in what they said was a world first that...

Marital rows, depression raise obesity risk: study

   Blistering marital rows and depression can lead to people piling on the pounds, according to a study. The double whammy of arguing with a spouse...

Ebola death toll edging to 4,900 mark: WHO

GENEVA - The death toll in the world's worst-ever Ebola outbreak has edged closer to 4,900, while almost 10,000 people have now been infected,...

Antibiotics may lead animals to spread salmonella: study

  Giving animals antibiotics may make them sicker and could lead some to spread even more salmonella than they would have otherwise, US researchers experimenting...

Everything you need to know about Ebola Virus

  WASHINGTON- People who shared an apartment with the USA’s first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two...

Paralysed man walks again after breakthrough treatment

 LONDON-  A paralysed Bulgarian man can walk again after receiving revolutionary treatment in Poland in a breakthrough hailed by one of the British scientists responsible...

Surgeons carry out open heart surgery in mobile phone light during...

 It is among the most delicate of operations, requiring fine precision from a steady hand. But for a team of cardiac surgeons in Kyrgyzstan, performing...