Kashipur, Orissa: Cholera has preyed more than hundred people in Orissa’s Koraput and Rayagada districts. More than 6000 people have got treatment thus far.

A study in Diabetes Care unveiled that treating women to normalize blood sugar, who develop diabetes during pregnancy, intensely lessens the risks of their infant turning obese in puerility,

A recent study has revealed that sons born to fatty women can be less productive and may have poorer quality sperm cells. Obesity is believed to have an effect on a woman’s possibilities of pregnancy, and the latest study is the initial to discover a relation between overweight and the fertility of the next generation.

Drinking wine or beer could lessen the risk of kidney cancer, says a recent Swedish study. The researchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute studied the relation between intake of different types of alcoholic drinks and the chance of developing kidney cancer.

A report released in ‘The Lancet’ revealed that intake of calcium supplements in addition to vitamin D, radically lessens the risk of breaking a bone in people over 50.

Ranbaxy promoted healthcare Company, Fortis Healthcare plans to set up a medicity in Gurgaon, and another 28 hospitals by 2010. The group will invest Rs 1,800 crore on the project.