U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved carotid stent for the treatment of patients with carotid artery disease. The stent will be manufactured by Boston Scientific Cardiovascular Business.

Hank Kucheman, Senior Vice President and Group President of Boston Scientific's Cardiovascular business said,"We are pleased to bring this proven technology to physicians in the United States.Excellent patient outcomes and ease of use in complex anatomy have already made this system the number-one stenting option for treating carotid artery disease in Europe and other countries outside the U.S. It offers a less-invasive alternative to surgery for treating carotid artery disease, and can help reduce the risk of stroke, which can have devastating effects."

The U.S. Government panel has urged that cancer should be the top priority as it is the “terrorist within”. More funds for cancer research should be sanctioned by the government.

With the cancer cases on the rise and the funding on the decline with the inflation on the rise, it becomes a priority for the government to consider this aspect.

Dr. LaSalle Leffall of Howard University in Washington said that less funding means decline in the basic research and clinical trials.

"We have become complacent about this fearsome disease and have lacked the will to change aspects of our cancer-fighting enterprise that are preventing significant and rapid reductions in cancer illness and death," Leffall said in a statement.

A fear that 50 students might be exposed to HIV, led health officials to test students at Normandy High School, in St Louis, Missouri. The scare began when the St. Louis County Health Department said last week that a positive HIV infected person told health officials that as many as 50 students might be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

A five-member team of Ministry of Health arrived in Assam’s Baksa region and started its investigation following administration of measles vaccines that is suspected to have resulted into death of four infants.

The State government, however, said no to the allegations that the infants’ deaths were caused because of botched vaccines.

The government declared ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh to parent of each of the four babies, who died after receiving the vaccines in four different villages under Nimua Public Health Centre of the district.

Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, State Health Minister, said that the government was sure that deaths had not been caused by measles vaccines given to them.

According to a new study published in Human Reproduction, women who were severely depressed during early pregnancy were twice as likely to have a preterm delivery. The worse the depression the greater was the risk of giving birth prematurely, the leading cause of infant mortality.