Indian star cricketer has flown to U.S. on January 2012 for taking chemotherapy and recently he has been affected by a malignant type of tumour in his lung. Now, he is undergoing chemotherapy at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston.
Earlier, it was told by his family that he was only having a non-malignant type of tumour and two reports he received at India were not able to confirm it for a malignant type.
Yuvraj’s physiotherapist Jatin Chaudhary said on Sunday that Yuvraj has been confirmed for.having developed a malignant tumour …

Craig Lewis aged 55 was dying from a heart condition due to abnormal production of bad protein which tends to deposit excessively in the human organs and tissues and in this condition doctors were not able to save his life and told that he would survive only for hours or a day.
Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier of Texas Heart Institute ventured to save his life by installing a ‘continuous flow’ device after removing his heart and they did so.
The installation of the continuous flow device started circulating blood …

A police constable from Assam had done impossible records in running with barefoot and is set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
Abhijit Baruah, aged 22 belonging to Jorhat town in the area of Upper Assam has crossed 156.2km with barefoot in just 24 hours.
He started the barefoot running on Monday by 3.56 p.m. from Jorhat and ended his running by 3.56 p.m. on Tuesday.
The highest record done by Baruah was crossing the longest distance in barefoot in the world and the Indian representative of the Guinness …

The two year old Baby Falak is responding to treatment and she was taken-off ventilator support said doctors at AIIMS.
Dr. Deepak Agarwal, neurosurgeon said that she was put off ventilator at 6 a.m. to-day and her parameters of blood are being checked carefully for the response she has now for antibiotics. Doctors said if she continues responding for the treatment, she has to undergo another life saving surgery in a coming few days.
He added that Falak is still in the stage of coma and developed septicemia from brain …

The National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) has developed low-cholesterol ghee and they have achieved the result by a new technique which removes about 85 percent of the cholesterol from the natural ghee like cow or buffalo milk cream.
NDRI has commercialized the technology through the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC).
The researchers have said that they have removed the cholesterol up to 80 to 85 percent without affecting the quality parameters specified under the prevention of food adulteration rules (PFA).
The natural form of ghee is having 300mg of cholesterol in 100 …

Of all the countries surveyed in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), India is found to be the worst in the effects of polluted air on human health and India ranked the lowest at 132.
The annual survey was conducted by Yale and Columbia universities in the United States and it was based on the satellite data to measure air pollution concentrations.
The survey report was recently released at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The survey report revealed that India is having the fine particulate matter nearly five times the limit …

Scientists have said that sugar is found to be responsible for illness including obesity, cancer, heart disease and liver diseases and warned that its sale should be regulated as cigarettes and alcohol.
Scientists advise that the usage of sugar should be brought to control through taxation and legislation since they claim that sugar causes 35 million deaths per year through out the world.
Scientists wrote in the journal Nature that sugar is not a problem when it is taken in small amounts but when it is taken in lot, it …

A bio-pharmaceutical company on Sunday said that an oral powder form of HIV drug Viread will be available soon after getting approval from US food and administration (FDA). This drug is expected to extend the benefit to millions of children affected by HIV.
Norbert Bischofberger, the executive vice president, research and development and chief scientific officer at Gilead Sciences said that there is a critical need of such HIV drug which is heat-stable, taste-neutral pediatric formulations that do not require cold storage where mother to child transmission is high and availability …

The Bihar Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, a senior minister of BJP has reportedly has threatened the government Junior Doctors of the state who are planning to go on strike from January 31.
However, he has taken back his words of threatening against doctors when severe criticism forced him to take back his words.
While answering questions to a television, he told that he would fulfill whatever the demands they have and he would seek forgiveness with folded hands if he was unable to fulfill it and nobody could stop hospitals …

Scientists at United States have said that the general health of the children could able to predict the health of their parents in their future.
It said that health conditions like high blood pressure and cholesterol levels of children could able to predict the chances of having diabetes and heart diseases of their parents in future.
The study involved about 519 families at Ohio and the study results were published in the journal “Journal of Peadiatrics.”
The study was conducted on children of 12 year old including their weight, height, blood pressure …