London, March 9 : British surgeons are offering to permanently treat excessive armpit perspiration with the aid of a new 60-minute laser operation.

The Laser Sweat Ablation service, launched on Monday, will cost around 3,500 pounds.

It can end the embarrassing problem called axillary hyperhidrosis, say reports.

Surgeon Mark Whiteley, who pioneered keyhole surgery to remove varicose veins ten years ago, is offerering the treatment at his clinic in Guildford, Surrey.

He has revealed that his latest procedure involves a local anaesthetic under the arms, after which a laser permanently destroys the sweat glands, and then the treated tissue is removed using a suction method.

London, Mar 9 : After comparing 500,000 snippets of human DNA, scientists at the University of Bonn have found that people with cleft lip and palate are frequently found to have a genetic variant on chromosome 8, which may be linked with the disease.

Cleft lips and palates are among the most frequent innate abnormalities in children and is usually characterised by a gap remaining between lip, jaw and sometimes the palate, because different tissue processes of the face and mouth area do not fuse together or do so insufficiently.

While both environmental influences affecting the child in the womb and genetic factors contribute to the deformity, the new study has claimed that genes play a major role in the formation of clefts.

London, Mar 9 : Scientists have identified certain genetic mutations that appear to play a key role in medulloblastoma - the most common of childhood brain cancers.

The team led by Dr. Michael Taylor, a paediatric brain surgeon at Toronto''s Hospital for Sick Children, has found eight similar genes linked to the childhood brain cancer.

Washington, Mar 9 : Regular family meals result in better eating habits for adolescents, a new study has suggested.

During the study, researchers at the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota found that adolescents who participated in regular family meals reported more healthful diets and meal patterns compared to adolescents without regular family meals.

Data were drawn from Project EAT, a population-based, longitudinal study designed to examine socio-environmental, personal, and behavioral determinants of dietary intake and weight status among an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents.

Washington, Mar 9: A new study has found that ecstasy may help patients with post-traumatic stress disorder learn to deal with their memories more effectively by encouraging a feeling of safety.

Previous studies have shown that a type of psychological treatment called exposure therapy – where the patient repeatedly recalls the traumatic experience or is repeatedly exposed to situations that are safe but still trigger their traumatic feelings – can be effective in relieving stress responses in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder

Washington, Mar 9 (ANI): A new study, led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has revealed that both red and white wine are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk.