A recent study has shown that combination of Avastin with gemcitabine-cisplatin chemotherapy improves the time lung cancer patients live without progression of the disease. This combination also increased the tumor response rate by 70 percent as compared to treatment with chemotherapy alone. This study was led by Christian Manegold of Heidelberg University in Mannheim, Germany.

Avastin approved in several countries as a treatment for colorectal, lung, breast and kidney cancer. This drug works by directly inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor, a key mediator of the growth of new blood vessels. The lack of blood vessels prevents oxygen from reaching the tumor cells and they die.

The Chinese health Ministry had reported the death of one more infant on Monday. The authorities however failed to give any details about the death.

Earlier last week, one infant had died from kidney stones in the northwest Gansu Province of Xinhua. Due to the expanding food safety scandal in the country, nearly 500 babies have been reported sick by the tainted formula within a period of few days. Out of these nearly 102 belong to northwest region of Gansu alone.

According to a report published by Xinhua news agency the second infant died due to the contaminated infant milk powder, manufactured by the Sanlu Group, based in the northwest region of Gansu province. The police had so far arrested two traders for selling up to 3 tonnes of contaminated milk.

According to a new research of the consumer habits of the nation, only 12% of the British people are able to hit the target recommended by the experts. Global market insight group TNS found in the study that 12% people eat five portions of fruit and vegetable in a day, and other 12%people do not eat any portion of fruit and vegetable.

The study, titled ‘Health of Britain – Perspective on Nutrition 2008’found the differences between age, gender and social class .On an average, people in Britain eat two and a half portion of fruit and vegetable in a day.

It has been suggested that taking more exercise and eating the right kind of food, helps in increasing the levels of an enzyme, which guards against the damage to cell due to aging.

Professor Dean Ornish, from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in California along with his team, desired to know if the improvements in the diet and living habits had any reverse effects.

 30 men, who were in the ‘low risk of prostate cancers’ category, were asked to participate in a three month trial with change in their life style.

A 35 year old woman suffered a paralytic stroke after having sex with her boy friend. A case repost published in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease revealed that the stroke paralyzed many functions of the woman’s left side and her speech became slurred as she had lost sensation on the left side of her face.

According to doctors birth control pills increase the risk of blood clots. Sexual intercourse can cause pressure changes in the heart and enable the clot to travel through the hole from the right atrium to the left one.

In the case of the present patient, the doctors found a small clot formed in one of the veins in her thigh. It broke loose and moved to heart's upper right pumping chamber.

State AIDS Control Society has expressed anguish over the incidence of unprotected sex in IT companies and call centres. As a corrective measure, it plans to install condom vending machines at the campuses. Call centers and BPO’s have already been contacted to persuade them to co- operatein the venture. "This is under process. The machines will be installed soon," APSACS project director Chandravadan said here recently.