Health Update

US doctors use real-time system to plant 'seeds' against prostate cancer

Washington, September 22: A multidisciplinary team of medical practitioners in the US has started using a real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds in patients with prostate cancer.

Doctors at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jeferson and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia have revealed that the new mechanism is being used for imaging and planning purposes only.

The real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds has been developed by Nucletron, a technology company based in The Netherlands.

Halton Catholic Board Gives Sanction To HPV Vaccinations

The Halton Catholic school board intently overcame a shift Tuesday night that would have made it the first in Ontario to forbid public health functionaries from giving the HPV vaccine to Grade 8 girls.

The vaccine defends against illness from four separate strains of human papilloma virus, which combined cause 70% of all cervical cancer cases.

The program is planned for as many as 85,000 girls’ area wide this year.

It is projected that around 500 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 100 die of it, each year in Ontario.

South Indian Communicates Chikungunya To Italy

New Delhi: The health officials stated that an unnamed chikungunya-infected tourist, visiting relatives in Castiglione town of Italy’s Ravenna region, from south India has been found responsible fo

Diets rich in carbohydrates linked to fatty liver

Washington, Sept 21 : A new study has revealed that along with expanding waistlines, diets rich in rapidly-digested carbohydrates may also cause fatty liver, a condition that can lead to liver failure and death, a new study in mice has revealed.

If confirmed in humans, the findings suggest that fatty liver disease that is rampant among Americans as a by-product of the obesity epidemic may be avertable and can be treated through dietary changes.

Harnessing cell death protein may help prevent cancer, stroke, and Alzheimer’s

Flu virus migrates globally during summer off-season

Washington, September 21: Biologists have revealed that the influenza A virus does not lie dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains before returning to the Northern Hemisphere as a genetically different virus.

The new finding settles a key debate on what the virus dues during the summer, when it is not afflicting people.

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