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Suspect Hip Implants Fit in Countless Folks
Countless people are fit with replacement hips whose flawed design is possibly exposing them to toxic metal, states a probe by the BBC and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) unveiled on Tuesday.
The risk comes from “metal on metal” joints that grind against each other, with the risk of leaking cobalt and chromium into the body, it said.
It pointed the finger at DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of the US medical conglomerate Johnson (and) Johnson, saying that the firm continued…
On Monday, doctors eviscerated a tumour larger than a football from the ovary of a woman who is now in stable condition in a hospital in the northern state Haryana, a medical officer said. 
Illegal internet pharmacies are using social media to lure young customers and sell them illicit drugs and medicines, a UN agency warned Tuesday. 
Revised warnings about diabetes will be posted on the cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins because of a slightly increased risk of diabetes, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
Elevated blood sugar levels have been reported in patients using statins, the FDA said.
"The FDA is also aware of studies showing" statins are associated with an increased risk "of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus," the FDA statement said.
The statin... 
Indian manufactured set of birth control pills for US circulation has been recalled citing a packaging error that could make the pills futile, US health authorities said on Monday. 
Poles have begun to use the internet to circumvent a new animal rights law in Poland which does not permit the sale of dogs and cats without a breeding license.
The law, which came into force on January 1, was intended to tackle the appalling conditions in which some unlicensed breeders kept their animals.
It allows only breeders licenced by national professional organizations to breed dogs and cats for commercial purposes.
And in another measure designed to sh... 
The European Union will allow an expanded use of the drug Glivec to treat certain rare forms of gastrointestinal cancer, Novartis has revealed. 
A patient in Turkey who underwent what was touted as the world's first quadruple limb transplant has lost both the arms and legs due to metabolic complications.
Fifty-two doctors from Ankara's Hacettepe University Hospital performed the transplant on Friday, attaching two arms and two legs to Sevket Cavdar.
Doctors had first removed one leg from the patient after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb and then the other leg and two arms.
"The... 
The pain suffered by people who have lost their legs during disasters is unimaginable. Such is the case of Pov Sopheak, who lost his left leg in a landmine blast in 1990.
Yet some nights the pain in his "left foot" is so bad he cannot sleep. Like many amputees, he suffers from phantom pain.
Now, after two decades of agony, the Cambodian is embracing an innovative technique that promises relief simply by using a mirror to trick the brain into "moving" the missing limb, all... 
Women are likelier to delete friends than men from their online social networks such as Facebook and have an inclination to choose more restrictive privacy settings, states study published on Friday.
The study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project also found that men were nearly twice as likely as women to have posted content online that they later regret.
Sixty-three percent of social network users have deleted people from their friend lists, ac... 
Common sleeping pills are linked to increased risk of death, reveals study published in BMJ. 
A new strain of influenza A virus has been discovered in fruit bats.
"This is the first time an influenza virus has been identified in bats, but in its current form the virus is not a human health issue," said Suxiang Tong, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's pathogen discovery program.
"The study is important because the research has identified a new animal species that may act as a source of flu viruses."
The influenza A virus was d... 
Lawmakers in Maryland have given their approval for a bill permitting same-sex marriage. 
Researchers isolated egg-producing stem cells from human ovaries and these stem cells can produce normal egg cells. This finding could one day boost fertility treatment, says study. 
The term “Miss” would be struck from official documents, along with that of “maiden name” or “married name” for women, the office of French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has said. 
An online privacy proposal was revealed by The White House on Thursday to facilitate privacy by allowing Web users to easily opt out of being tracked on the Internet. 
The frail tender face, dripping with sadness from the eyes of two-year-old Gergana spells starvation of tenderness just like countless other children abandoned in social care homes across Bulgaria.
The child has "the prematurely aged looks of someone who has suffered malnutrition and isolation and is no longer interested in the outside world," French psychologist Boris Cyrulnik said during a UNICEF visit last week to the Ivan Rilski home in Sofia.
Unclear brain malformati... 
Turkish doctors claim to have carried out world’s first successful quadruple limb transplant operation at a hospital in Ankara. 
Nearly 40 people in Nigeria are dead after an outbreak of Lassa fever, according to a recent communication from a senior health official. 
China may soon witness the fading of the Shangahi dialect, unless they work hard to promote this language.
The number of people speaking the rapid-fire language -- a badge of identity for residents of China's commercial capital of more than 20 million people -- is shrinking.
As the government maintains a decades-old drive to promote Mandarin Chinese as the official language, banning dialects from media broadcasts and schools, many young people are unable to fluently speak ... 
A “digital revolution” has been urged by Microsoft founder Bill Gates in order to alleviate world hunger. He says this can be done by increasing agricultural productivity through satellites and genetically-engineered seed varieties. 
Italian engineers have developed a cost-effective prototype for floating, rotating solar panels. 
Protests marked the annual meeting of Novartis as several NGOs protested against the attempt by the company to obtain a patent for its anti-cancer drug Glivec.
The NGOs said that Novartis' action threatens access to generic drugs in poor countries.
The Berne Declaration, Act Up and Oxfam asked Novartis annual management and shareholders meeting in Basel "to abandon its legal action in India for obtaining a Glivec patent."
"We are asking Novartis once and for a... 
Slash in International funding threatens to worsen an HIV crisis in Myanmar, denying countless people of lifesaving treatment, an aid agency said on Wednesday. 
A compound in citrus fruits has been found to reduce stroke risk in women. According to a US study, regular consumption of fruits such as oranges and grapefruit could lower the risk of blood-clot related stroke in women.
Researchers looked at 14 years of data from a US nurses survey that included 69,622 women who reported what they ate, including details on fruit and vegetable consumption, every four years.
The aim was to study the effects of flavanoids -- a class of comp... 
A US study has suggested that bird flu which was believed to be a rare disease, may be more common and less lethal than previously thought.
The research could help soothe concerns about the potential for a deadly pandemic that may kill many millions of people, sparked by the recent lab creation of a mutant bird flu that can pass between mammals.
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York analyzed 20 previous international studies that tested the blood of ne... 
Its subtle poetry with crisp air and warm sunlight filtering through foliage punctuated by pink and yellow flowers while birds and crickets enthuse joggers, cyclists and nature lovers. 
Newspaper reports that doctors illegally approved abortions that were requested due to the sex of the unborn child will be probed by the British government. 
A Japanese researchers has said that monkeys suffering from Parkinson's disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains.
A team of scientists transplanted the stem cells into four primates that were suffering from the debilitating disease.
The monkeys all had violent shaking in their limbs -- a classic symptom of Parkinson's disease -- and were unable to control their bodies, but began to show improvements in their motor con... 
A gene study has rubbished theories that men will eventually become extinct because the Y chromosome which determines maleness is shrinking.
The men-are-doomed scenario leapt to prominence nearly a decade ago when scientists found that the male chromosome had dramatically shrivelled.
It had plummeted from a super-Y of more than 1,400 genes, several hundred million years ago, to a nubby little stump with just several dozen.
That discovery triggered opinion that... 