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London, Aug 23 (ANI): Mandy Kelly and six-year-old Eve are more than just the ordinary mother-daughter duo – they’ve beaten cancer four times between them.

Mandy and Eve have both struggled with cancer and have successfully fought it off each time.

The Mirror quoted Mandy as saying: “We have beaten it together, and that really is [...]

London, Aug 20 (ANI): A new British government poll has revealed that most people do not know that drinking too much of liquor affects a good night’s sleep.

In a government-funded survey, conducted by YouGov, half of 2,000 drinkers reported fatigue the day after drinking more than the recommended daily limit.

And 58 percent of them [...]

London, Aug 18 (ANI): Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was killed by a bacterial infection akin to MRSA, claim Dutch researchers.

Mozart died at age 35 – young by even 18th century standards. His untimely death has remained a mystery ever since he passed away in the early hours of 5 December 1791.

Some claimed he [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): Johns Hopkins experts have successfully completed the first 16-patient, multicenter “domino donor” kidney transplant.

Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital carried out the eight-way, multihospital, domino [...]

London, July 07 (ANI): An Indian photographer is living with five kidneys after members of his family donated three and doctors decided to leave his non-functioning organs inside him.

Jaswant Singh, who lives in Punjab, has had three transplant operations after his own kidneys failed; his two sisters and mother donated their organ to keep [...]

TORONTO: In a major breakthrough for AIDS cure, Canadian scientists have finally found where the HIV virus hides in the human body to become impervious to medical treatment.
This breakthrough could pave the way for a total cure of the deadly disease, claim the scientists who carried out the study with researchers from the US.
The [...]

London, May 26 (ANI): The mother of murdered British teen Scarlett Keeling has revealed that authorities in Goa have finally released her girl’s remaining bodily organs.

They have been sent to a coroner in the UK. He is reportedly keen to [...]

Heidelberg, Germany – People sensitive to salt can best protect their kidneys by consuming as little sodium as possible, a German nephrology association said.
Too much salt can lead to high blood pressure in some people, and this in turn can damage the kidneys, the Heidelberg-based association said. A higher sodium content in the blood causes [...]

London, May 17 (ANI): Eminem has been cautioned against serious harm if he continues to crash diet during his taxing 70-date European tour.

The nine-time Grammy-winning rapper, who had bloated after feasting on fried chicken, fries and burgers, was said to have [...]

New York, May 11 (ANI): Singer Katy Perry has joined the league of artists like N.E.R.D and Esteele by designing a signature line for the ‘Fashion against AIDS’ campaign.

The ‘I Kissed A Girl’ hitmaker can be seen posing for the campaign in a body suit, featuring a smiley face in heart designed by her.

“I like [...]

Dehradun, May 10 (ANI): Senior Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday denied having played any role in the decision taken over getting close to Bharatiya Janata Party’s rebel leader Kalyan Singh.

“I want to make this clear that I have nothing to do with the decision taken on Kalyan Singh,” Amar Singh said here.

“Kalyan [...]

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Washington, Apr 27 (ANI): Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Centre have shown that robot assisted kidney cancer surgery is more beneficial for patients compared to open surgery./pp
The standard treatment for kidney cancer is to surgically remove the entire or a portion of the kidney./pp
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Washington, April 27 (ANI): Two new studies have shown that kids with a history of consuming melamine-contaminated milk powder are at a higher risk of developing kidney stones and other urological complications. /pp
The study found that melamine calculus occurred mostly in infants at six months to 18 months after consuming melamine-contaminated milk powder after birth [...]

Washington, Apr 15 (ANI): Renowned vocalist Natalie Cole, who is known for her utter professionalism, decided to undergo chemotherapy treatment in her concert dressing room, in a bid to continue performing.

Cole, who is battling with Hepatitis C, did not check into a hospital to get treated because she did not want to take time off [...]

Lucknow, April 8 (IANS) Hours after he publicly threatened to quit the Samajwadi Party owing to his ego clash with senior party leader Azam Khan, Amar Singh took a U-turn, claiming he had been misunderstood.
Differences within the Samajwadi Party flared up Tuesday, when general secretary Amar Singh dared party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to choose [...]

London, Apr 4 (ANI): Researchers at Monash University’s Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics have developed a new catheter-based therapy that can be an effective alternative for lowering high blood pressure when medication fails.

The new surgical technique disrupts nerves around the kidneys to dramatically reduce high blood pressure.

“Patients who underwent the procedure had [...]

Sixteen-and-a-half-month-old Abhilasha Rahurika became the youngest cadaver donor in the country when her parents agreed to donate her organs after she died of liver failure. What made this donation truly touching is the twist of fate that Abhilasha’s parents brought her to Delhi from Bhopal looking for a liver donor, but ended up donating her [...]

London, Mar 26 (ANI): A team of Canadian researchers has found a novel way to stop the most aggressive cancerous tumours from growing and spreading.

They found that simply modifying a natural tumour-inhibiting protein, von Hippel-Lindau, could suppress growth in even the [...]

Pune, Mar 12 (ANI): Over 50 enthusiasts cycled down the streets of Pune today to raise awareness about various kidney ailments among citizens on the occasion of World Kidney Day.

World Kidney Day, the complication that can be associated with it focuses on the importance of kidneys in the human system.

Celebrated [...]

London, Feb 27 (ANI): Soap queen Wendy Richard has died of cancer. She was 65.

Richard, who graced the small screen as Miss Brahms in hit BBC comedy series ‘Are You Being Served?’ and later as matriarch Pauline Fowler in soap EastEnders, had breast cancer, reports The Daily Express.

Wendy’s agent, Kevin Francis, said she remained “incredibly [...]