A new technology, known as “a needle-free jet injection” has been developed for treating skin cancer patients. The new way is far more effective than topical application on the skin.

The new system, which generates a high-speed liquid jet with adequate intensity to pierce the skin without using needles, has been developed by Pharmacy PhD student Desmond Morrow from Queen’s University in Belfast.

Zhengzhou: The number of HIV/AIDS cases has been surging fast in China. 18,543 new cases of HIV carriers and 4,314 cases of AIDS have been reported in China in the first six months of this year.

Han Mengjie, assistant to the director of the office with AIDS Control Work Committee of the State Council, said “2,039 people died of AIDS in first half of the year.”

Washington: According to the U.S. administration, the suicide rate for children and young adults aged 10 to 24 has increased 8% in 2004, marking the largest yearly increase in over 15 years.

A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed that the rise followed up a cumulative fall of over 28% in the suicide rate from 1990 to 2003, and was fueled by increases in suicide rates among girls between 10 to 19 and boys 15 to 19.

Washington: According to new study report, scared of side effects, women have stopped taking pills that can help keep breast cancer from coming back, but such women who stop taking pills risk early death.

A study found that women in Scotland were not taking the breast cancer pill tamoxifen as directed, and breast cancer’s new type of pill was causing cryptic aches and pains in women.