A recent at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research has given a new insight about the development of breast cancer. Researchers have made two crucial findings related to functions for Notch in breast tissue. 

Dr Toula Bouras and colleagues found that the mechanism by which inappropriate expression of the Notch pathway may contribute to breast cancer. 

Researchers found that the Notch helps in restricting breast stem cell number hence when Notch is 'switched off ', there is a resultant expansion in breast stem cells. 

According to a new study, consumption of red wine may reduce the risk of lung cancer in people, who had ever smoked and who drank at least a glass of red wine daily.

The study, published in ‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention’, found red wine contained compounds such as resveratrol and flavonoids, which may be protective against lung cancer.

For study, Chao and her colleagues looked at 84,170 men aged 45to 69 years old covered by Kaiser Permanente California health plans. 210 cases of lung cancer were identified from that data.

The FDA has told the Laboratory Corporation of America that it is illegally marketing to detect ovarian cancer at its earliest stage by a blood test. 

According to a warning letter posted Wednesday on F.D.A.’s Website, also said that the test ‘OvaSure’ was designed, developed, and validated by investigators at Yale University and not LabCorp.

Dresden, Germany - Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday.

It was the first proven appearance of the disease this year in Germany. Officials were preparing to slaughter the whole flock of ducks at Goerlitz, near the Polish border.

Phnom Penh - Sir Elton John, British superstar and heavyweight activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS, has told a US magazine he is planning a visit to Cambodia.

Sir Elton and partner David Furnish have raised more than 150 million dollars for projects to assist people living with the virus through the Elton John Aids Foundation since it was set up in 1992.

"This year, we look forward to traveling to Cambodia to visit projects in that country," Kansas City-based Camp Magazine quoted Sir Elton as telling journalist and gay rights activist Mark Segal.

At the Apollo Hospital doctors have conducted a liver transplant on a seven- month-old child Sivojit Paul from Kolkata. He was born with a rare disorder, called biliary atresia, in this condition there is no connection between the liver and the intestine to excrete the bile.

Sivojit was brought to the Indraprastha Apollo hospital when he was only six months old. The liver transplant was performed last month by a team of 20 doctors led by Dr Subhash Gupta, senior consultant with the hospital. His father Indrajit Paul, a lawer, donated his liver parts for the surgery. It was a 16-hour long surgery to give a new lease of life to Sivojit Paul. He was the youngest child to undergo such a surgery in India.