Recent Scottish survey has shown that various misconceptions and beliefs regarding long-acting hormonal contraception are stopping women to use them. According to medical experts, hormonal contraception is best form of contraception. This survey showed that most women harbor false notion like weight-gain, adverse effect on fertility due to this kind of contraception. These contraceptives are suggested by medical experts because of their reliability and fewer side effects.

Doctors at the Apollo Hospital have carried out a liver transplant on Sivojit Paul, a seven-month-old child from Kolkata, to treat a rare liver problem known as Biliary Atresia, in which there is no link between the intestine and the liver to excrete the bile. 

Sivojit became the youngest Indian child ever to go through a liver transplant.

The liver transplant was performed in September by a group of 20 doctors chaired by Dr. Subhash Gupta, senior consultant with the hospital. 

According to a new study U.S and Dutch scientists have identified two genes and confirmed the involvement of a third gene in increasing the risk of higher levels of uric acid in gout, a common and painful form of arthritis.  

The researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research found that all three genetic variations, taken together, were linked with up to a 40-fold increased risk in developing gout.

According to a new study a single injection of chemotherapy drug can help cure a common type of testicular cancer in many patients. The researchers at Southampton University say that chemotherapy drug carboplatin is commonly used to treat ovarian and lung cancer. Researchers have found that carboplatin injection can effectively cure early stage seminoma with fewer side effects and the patients resume their normal lives much more quickly than radiotherapy.

According to a new study, there should be some extra safety controls in microwave ovens to prevent children from opening them and being burned by hot food. In the study, published by University of Chicago Medical Center, researchers in the October 2008, recommends extra protections, like locking mechanism and stepped up warning campaigns, to reduce accidental injuries to children while removing food from microwave oven. 

When men age, they can develop various kind of problems related to prostate gland. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate is one of the common problem experienced by men. According to statistics it is experienced by 50% of men above 60 years.