Recent research has revealed that transfusion of young blood increased the chances of survival in animals challenged with leukaemia and breast cancer. "Young" blood is the blood which has been stored for less than nine days.

Research team led by Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu from its department of neuroimmunology research unit, Tel Aviv University (TAU) conducted tests on rats with leukaemia and breast cancer. Researchers said that the oldest blood in a blood bank usually sits on the shelf anywhere from 40 to 42 days before it expires.

Research team led by Cardiologist Svati Shah at the Duke University School of Medicine discovered a gene, presence of which increases the risk of suffering a heart attack before a person turn 40. Study revealed that a variant of the gene called NPY makes people susceptible to early coronary artery disease.

Previous studies have shown that broccoli can cut the risk of developing breast cancer. Recent research conducted by Leslie Wilson, professor of biochemistry and pharmacology, and Mary Ann Jordan, adjunct professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology revealed that compounds present in broccoli that help in removing toxic substances from the body.

Researchers found that compounds known isothiocyanates present in broccoli works in similar manner to taxol and vincristine, which are chemotherapy drugs that kill rapidly growing cancer cells.

Scientists have found that dengue fever could be controlled by using parasites to shorten the life span of mosquitoes.

With laboratory-bred mosquitoes, the Australian scientists found that Wolbachia bacteria spread well. Researchers from the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, and the College of Life Sciences at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, conducted the study and published it in the journal Science.

According to a new study, antioxidants do not help women in reducing the risk of cancer.

The study, conducted by Dr. Jennifer Lin and colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston, involved 7,627 women, averaging 60 years. All of them had a cardiovascular disease or at its higher risk, and they were followed for almost a decade.

American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian government four years ago to help improve the health care scenario in India in association with doctors in Delhi.

Sanku S Rao, president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), said the association will first train health care professionals in the rural setting of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, before fanning out to other states at the Indo-US Healthcare summit on Friday.