Dropping its case in High Court, Herefordshire Primary Care Trust ended its bid to force a terminally-ill girl to have a heart operation, after a child protection officer revealed that Hannah Jones was insistent that she would not undergo surgery.
Hannah, 13, of Marden, near Hereford, won the right to die after she refused to undergo a heart transplant for a hole in her heart, saying since there were no guarantees it would work, including having to take constant medication following the operation, she wanted to stop treatment and spend the remainder of her life at home, where she could die in dignity.
A large clinical trial has found that calcium and vitamin D supplements don’t help postmenopausal women lower their risk of breast cancer. Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, study author and a medical oncologist at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles said, "The message is that there's benefit from calcium and vitamin D for fracture risk, but taking those supplements won't be doing much for breast cancer risk. You wouldn't expect that you're doing it to improve breast cancer outcome."
Canadian and American researchers have discovered a method to revive immune cells that become "exhausted" from fighting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that leads to AIDS, thereby restoring the person’s immune system’s ability to fight the infection.
Google Inc., through Google.org, is launching “Flu Trends” to track geographic outbreaks of illnesses in time and warn potential victims early enough to enable them to get a preventive vaccine. Working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Flu Trends hopes to track the number of searches by Google users for flu related items like "thermometer" and "cold remedies." According to the Drudge Report "anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week," could indicate a flu outbreak in the area.
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