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  • India UK sign MoU on cooperation in health sector

    India and Britain have signed an MOU for cooperation in the field of health. The MoU was signed by Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Secretary of State for Health, UK, Jeremy Richard Hunt last evening in Geneva. Describing the agreement as a historic event and a great milestone, Azad noted with optimism that this agreement is going to usher in a new era of cooperation in the health ...

  • Toddler who survived Saudi car crash found moving in body bag

    A toddler, who survived a car crash horror, was taken to a morgue in a body bag before doctors realised that he was actually breathing. Eisa Hayat was the only survivor of the car accident that took the lives of five members of the then one-year-old's British family on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Daily Star reported. Doctors in Saudi Arabia saw the toddler moving in the bag just before they ...

  • Commonly used catheters double blood clot risk in ICU and cancer patients

    Compared to other central venous catheters (CVCs), peripherally inserted central catheters (known as PICCs) -- an often preferred route for delivery of IV medications-more than double the risk of dangerous blood clots - especially among patients who are critically ill or who have cancer. This was found in a new University of Michigan Health System study including an Indian origin scientist. ...

  • Cancer survivor Kleybanova makes victorious comeback

    After a victorious comeback to professional tennis, former World No. 20 and cancer survivor Alisa Kleybanova vowed Monday to return to the sport's biggest competitions. The Russian, 23, won two WTA titles before being forced to quit the sport in July 2011 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. After an aborted comeback bid last year, Kleybanova made a successful return last week at a ...

  • Examining pancreatic juices may help identify pancreatic cancer

    Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising method to distinguish between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis - two disorders that are difficult to tell apart. They found that a molecular marker obtained from pancreatic "juices" could identify almost all cases of pancreatic cancer. "Many researchers have been working on such a diagnostic test for a long time - for me, it has ...

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Narc

Narc

Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore film, Narc, is, except that it is filmed with such energy and bravado and boasts two performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric that are so impressive that it rises above its generic roots and be ... ...

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  • Badminton becomes a victim of Chinas bird flu outbreak

    Badminton has become an indirect victim of bird flu that has been affecting the country, given that the extensive slaughtering of infected ducks has created a shortage of feathers, an essential raw material for the birdies used in the sport, media reports said. Many cases of H7N9 bird flu have been detected at farms in the eastern Chinese provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian, which are the ...

  • DCS faces challenges over medical maltreatment cases

    Beginning on the day he was born six weeks premature last year, an East Tennessee infant had to fight just to stay alive. Born with an array of heart conditions - a hypoplastic right ventricle, pulmonary atresia and a ventricular septal defect - the baby had a shunt implanted in his heart to regulate the blood flow. Because of his courage and ability to flash a smile even as he battled ...

  • IRS Illegally Seized Medical Records of 10 Million Americans Lawsuit Claims

    lawsuit filed in California in March claims that in the course of serving a warrant for tax records related to a single former employee of a southern California business, IRS agents "stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans." The agents did this in spite of the fact that such a seizure was not authorized by the warrant, was irrelevant to their ...

  • Watkins diagnosed with cancer

    34-year old former Wales back Matthew J Watkins has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer according to the WRU. In a statement released on Monday, the governing body in Wales confirmed that Watkins was undergoing treatment for a rare form of the illness in his right pelvis at Venindre Hospital in Cardiff.Watkins played for the Scarlets, Newport Gwent Dragons and for Gloucester in the ...

  • IFP calls for resignations over cancer saga

    Durban - The Inkatha Freedom Party on Monday called for KwaZulu-Natal's health MEC and the head of department to quit over their failure to keep two cancer radiotherapy machines operational at a Durban ...

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