Woman is first to have baby with ovaries frozen as a child

A 24-year-old Dubai native has become the first woman to give birth after having her fertility restored from ovarian tissue frozen during her childhood. She is the first person in the world to have had a successful pregnancy using ovarian tissue that was harvested before the onset of puberty and the only person to have her ovaries transplanted back after 13 years in storage.

Special cancer hospital in limbo

… cancer at a very early stage, spending several crores of rupees for the proposed hospital. On August 18 this year, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the 200-bed cancer hospital at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital would be inaugurated …

How to lose weight – and keep it off

… that comes with living an over-stressed lifestyle, according to Professor Selena Bartlett from QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. But it depends on how a person reacts to stress that determines the outcome of a situation and in …

Deendayal katha

For the past three days, several ministers and key leaders in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh sat through two-hour-long recitals on Deendayal Upadhyaya’s life and philosophy, almost along the lines of the Ram katha , underscoring the Jana Sangh ideologue’s status within the parivar. Among those who sat and heard Alok Kumar, a senior RSS functionary, narrate the story of Upadhyaya’s life were chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Assembly Speaker Sitasharan Sharma, state party chief Nandkumar Chauhan and several ministers.

Sharp rise in premature kidney deaths

… failure deaths in adults with diabetes still in their 40s and 50s,” Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto who led the study, told The Telegraph . “This suggests diabetes in Indian adults is …

Here’s what it’s actually like to be colorblind

I don’t see much of anything – just a bunch of reddish-brownish-greenish circles. Other colorblind people, apparently, might spot the digits 21. Sighted people should see a 74. Assuming you aren’t colorblind as well, you can see what I can’t because the cone cells in your eyes work better than mine.

Corpus Christi lifts water ban after tests find no corrosive

A nearly four-day ban on drinking the water in Corpus Christi, Texas, was lifted on Sunday after test results showed no contamination due to a chemical leak, the city’s mayor announced. None of the 28 drinking water samples the Environmental Protection Agency reviewed tested positive for Indulin AA-86, an asphalt-emulsifying agent that’s corrosive, the federal agency said Sunday in a statement.

CenCal Rated in Top 10% of Nation’s Medicaid Plans

Results Illustrate High Quality of Health Care Provided for Low-Income Residents in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties This year, CenCal Health rated in the top 10 percent [1] of Medicaid plans nationally for nine areas of care in the most recent state quality measurement ratings. This marks CenCal Health’s best overall performance over the 15 years the State of California has been measuring quality indicators.

Trump action on health care could cost Planned Parenthood

One of President-elect Donald Trump’s first, and defining, acts next year could come on Republican legislation to cut off taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood. Trump sent mixed signals during the campaign about the 100-year-old organization, which provides birth control, abortions and various women’s health services.

Top finishers hit brakes as conditions sap energy

Like everybody else who competed in Saturday’s Jacob Wells 3 Bridges Marathon in Little Rock, top finishers Tyler Pake and Tia Stone worked up a good sweat. At 7 a.m., a field of 403 began their journey with temperatures nearly 40 degrees higher than typical for a mid-December morning in central Arkansas.

Zoos shut down as bird flu approaches Seoul

… in the country’s disease control system. As a result, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said that health authorities are entitled to close any chicken farm or cote if necessary. On Sunday, a chicken farm in Gimpo, Gyeonggi …

Global Vaccine Partnering Terms and Agreements: Deal Trends, Players and Financials Outlook 2010-16

Global Vaccines Partnering Terms and Agreements 2010 to 2016: Deal trends, players and financials report provides a detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter infectious vaccines partnering deals. The majority of deals are development stage whereby the licensee obtains a right or an option right to license the licensors vaccine technology.

Duterte painkiller use draws concern in Philippines

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s admission that he used a powerful painkiller has prompted concern about his health, with lawmakers urging him Sunday to undergo a medical examination and disclose the results. Duterte on Monday revealed that he used to take fentanyl, often prescribed for cancer pain and other chronic ailments, because of a spinal injury from previous motorcycle accidents.

Family of 7-month-old refuse to get son’s liver operation done in Mumbai

With Mumbai unable to match Chennai’s success rate in liver transplants, patients prefer the south for the high-risk surgery; doctors say there are very few specialists in the city While the city is hoping to perform a record-breaking surgery on the world’s heaviest woman, when it comes to life-saving liver surgery, Mumbai lags far behind Chennai. The family of seven-month-old Parth Rajwade is testimony to this.

Diabetic women using IUDs less prone to heart attacks, strokes

New York, Dec 18 : Diabetic women who use contraception measures such as intrauterine devices and under-the-skin implants are less likely to have strokes and heart attacks, researchers have found. [NK Health] The study found these birth control measures are the safest options for women with diabetes than using hormonal contraception.

Henry Heimlich, inventor of Heimlich maneuver,a

Henry Heimlich, namesake of the maneuver that has saved the lives of an estimated 100,000 potential choking victims, has died. The famed Hyde Park physician was 96. Henry Heimlich, inventor of Heimlich maneuver, dies at 96 Henry Heimlich, namesake of the maneuver that has saved the lives of an estimated 100,000 potential choking victims, has died.

Japan culling 210,000 birds amid spreading avian flu

Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said Sunday. It is the fifth mass cull this winter in Japan with hundreds of officials working to prevent the spread of the virulent H5 strain, which has been detected at several farms across the country.