In UK almost 8000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer every year and it is the fifth most deadly cancer, A new study, published in the journal Nature, showed that a gene was being switched off in the cancerous cells.
A new set of drugs which according to researchers already being tested has the potential to turn the gene back on and stop the spread of the cancer.

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Researchers say that the new drug which is in developing can reduce tumors size and if given at early stages can even be a cure. The drug works on breast, prostate, ovarian, bowel, brain, bladder and liver cancers, and previous studies even show it can also be used against  some blood cancers.

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Scientists say that injecting stem cells during a kidney transplant could beat kidney rejection and by that remove the need for a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system.

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A 9 years old girl from Maine is back home from a Boston hospital after receiving a 6-organ transplant - stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace her own that were being choked by a huge tumor.

A new yoga room is now available at terminal 2 at San Francisco airport. The room which has low lights, and soothing blue walls aim to afford travelers a place to stretch out and meditate before they get on a plane.

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A group of researchers from Oxford university is at an early clinical trial of a hepatitis C vaccine which is showing  “promising” results. The World Health Organization estimates there are 170 million people globally infected with the virus.

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Annaliza Tumanda, A Filipino woman, had to give birth on a roof of a flooded health center after brought there by rescuers when her house got destroyed.

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Experts say that 2 new breast cancer medicines could mark the biggest advances in the last decade.  Both drugs significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse.

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A group of researchers from Georgia university have developed a vaccine that attacks tumours in mice and could begin phase I clinical trials to test the safety of the vaccine by late 2013.

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Canadian Scientist used deep brain stimulation in which doctors apply electricity directly to regions of the brain. In 2 Alzheimer’s disease patients, the brain’s memory hub reversed its expected decline and actually grew.

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