Health Care Blog

A couple from Leicester have been given permission by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to have a “Saviour Sibling” to help their sick daughter, who is 20 months old, and has a rare blood condition called diamond blackfan anaemia.

Timothy O’Brien, director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute (Remedi) in NUI Galway (Ireland) , is preparing tests involving 10 patients suffering from chronic heart conditions. They will have stem cells grafted on to their hearts, to see if this helps to repair the damage organs, avoiding the need for replacement. This would be the first [...]

The first ever (in Clinical history) Cystic Fibrosis cord blood collection was made at the Mercy Hospital in Werribee on Easter Saturday.

At present, the stem cell research is moving from labs to clinics in India as sufficient pre-clinical data are being generated to take up clinical application, says Dr C M Habibullah, director, Centre for Liver Diseases and dean, Deccan College of Medicine at Hyderabad, while speaking at the Third All India Conference on Regenerative Medicine [...]

Trials of Tykerb, a breast cancer drug targeting tumours that fail to respond to Herceptin have been stopped early because the treatment appears dramatically to improve patients’ chances of survival by decreasing the cancer growth.

Researchers warned that obese children face heart attacks in their forties.

Scientists have diagnosed 50 per cent of patient who are suffering from prostate cancer, one of the most common male cancers, with high level of cholesterol.

Scientists have diagnosed 50 per cent of patient who are suffering from prostate cancer, one of the most common male cancers, with high level of cholesterol.

Experimental cancer drug panitumumab Amgen Inc. slows tumor growth in patients with advanced colon cancer who had failed to respond to chemotherapy as said by the company.

A process by which ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), a small protein acts directly within muscles to increase the body’s metabolism to burn fat while simultaneously suppressing appetite was discovered by researchers as they said.