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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UNAids latest report shows Aids-related deaths are down 21% and they are at the lowest level since their peak at 2005. Globally, the number of new HIV infections in 2010 was 21% down on that peak, seen in 1997.
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Doctors in London treated an 8 months old baby with a new technique in which implanted cells are acting as a temporary liver, allowing the damaged organ to recover.
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New research shows that the percentage of Americans with heart disease continues to fall. 6% of adults had heart disease in 2010, down from 6.7 percent in 2006. Experts say this can be because of better treatments for high blood pressure and high cholesterol, as well as declines in smoking.
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A new research leaded by doctors at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital gave prostate cancer patients a powerful alpha radiation drug. The new drug was a success – doctors found that the patients who were given the treatment lived longer, and experienced less pain and side effects.
The medics then stopped the trial, saying it was unethical not to offer all of them the treatment.
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