Washington, Sept 30: A new study has revealed that by determining the genetic profile of a particular lung tumor doctors may be able to decide which chemotherapy treatment to try first.

The study led by researchers from the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) found distinct differences in the susceptibility different tumors have to the widely used chemotherapy drugs.

Washington, September 30 : Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that working during adolescence raised the risk of a child’s taking to smoking at an earlier age.

The researchers focused their study on 14 to 18-year-old adolescents, and found that the subjects who worked more than 10 hours per week also started smoking at an earlier age than their peers.

Washington, Sept 30 : Researchers have discovered that uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease may be treated with a compound that blocks the action of aldose reductase, an enzyme essential to the production of inflammatory signaling molecules.

Uveitis, the inflammation of the uvea, a layer of tissue that lies just below the outer surface of the eyeball and includes the iris, is a condition that can be caused by both autoimmune and infectious diseases.

Washington, Sept.29 : U.S.First Lady Laura Bush has problems sleeping if she hasn't read a few pages first.

But her husband, the President, apparently has no such issues. Having made a gaffe by recently referring to children as 'childrens", the President's staff is taking great pains to plant stories in the press of how he reads while exercycling.