Medical
Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser he had called credible witness
Trump mocked Ford at a rally in MS on Tuesday night, listing what he described as holes in her account as his audience laughed. "I had one beer, right?" 'How did you get there?' I don't remember. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of CT, who sits on the Judiciary Committee and is a frequent Trump critic, slammed Trump for the remark. According to a New York Times report , Brett Kavanaugh , c... [Full Article...]
American-Japanese duo wins 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for landmark cancer research
Tasuku Honjo was born in 1942 in Kyoto, Japan. But a powerful system also needs powerful regulation, for which our bodies have evolved so-called "checkpoints", or brakes, that guard against overactivity of the immune response. Both Allison and Honjo discovered how to lift the molecular "brakes" that keep our immune cells from attacking ourselves - specifically for the cancer cells that spa... [Full Article...]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded
The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter for their work that harnessed evolutionary principles to create new proteins. All three "have taken control of evolution", using the principles of genetic change and selection to create proteins, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences wrote in its announcement. [Full Article...]
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for work on antibody drugs and detergents
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 was awarded today with one half going to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. The first pharmaceutical created using this method was adalimumab, approved for use in 2002, which is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel diseases. [Full Article...]
'Brain-eating amoeba' kills man at Texas surf resort
A New Jersey man has been killed by a brain-eating parasite he may have contracted at a wave pool in Texas, reports claim. According to a GoFundMe page dedicated to him, Mr Stabile felt unwell while mowing his lawn on September 16. The amoeba can infect people when it enters the body through the nose. "The CDC collected water samples and are now investigating to find the source", Kelly Crain... [Full Article...]
Children in Maharashtra, Telangana, UP given contaminated polio vaccines
Moreover, another health department official said that they had 30,000 doses of vaccine (contaminated). As the vaccine was administered as part of the government's universal immunisation programme, the ministry has also ordered immediate withdrawal of the particular manufacturer's vaccine. [Full Article...]
China HIV/AIDS cases surge by 14%
But the number of people who received HIV this way was down to nearly zero, Chinese health officials said at a conference in Yunnan province. China has experienced scandals related to HIV transfusion through blood transfusions in the past, the number of HIV infections by blood transfusions has "essentially been reduced to zero", according to Xinhua . [Full Article...]
Smile and keep stress at bay for a healthy heart
Being the carrier of blood to every part of the body, heart is a key organ that is prone to suffer. World Heart Day takes place this Saturday. This makes it the number one cause of death in the world today. As diabetes is quoted as one of the major reasons for getting heart-related ailments, the doctor states that withdrawal of tablets could affect the blood vessels going to the heart, brain... [Full Article...]