More than 4200 walkers and runners participated in the annual ‘Komen Maine Race for the Cure’ on Sunday. The annual event sustains breast cancer survivors and raises money for education, screening and treatment programs for breast cancer. This years event saw an all time high of more than $250,000 being collected in donations. 

Flowers are the symbol of happiness and greetings and a recent study carried out by a team of German Researchers has put forward the fact that sleeping with flowers in your bedroom will give you the experience of sweet dreams.  

The team used 15 female volunteers to reach this conclusion, and they analyzed their sleep for full 30 days.  

The Chinese Health Ministry announced in a statement, released late on Sunday, that the number of children affected by consuming contaminated milk products has doubled, with about 12,900 in hospital and 104 of them seriously ill. This has reportedly been one of the worst product safety scandals in years.  

More than 80 percent of the sick were reported to be under age two. Hitherto, four deaths have been blamed on toxic milk powder causing kidney stones and agonizing complications.

While, Baroness Mary Warnock, a medical ethics expert has been advocating euthanasia for people suffering from dementia for several years now, Alzheimer’s charities term her remarks as ‘insensitive and ignorant’.  

Talking to BBC, Lady Warnock said that more research is required to establish whether people with Alzheimer’s and dementia are mentally competent to decide whether they preferred to die, than be a burden on their families and the National Health Service.

A new rapid test for the human papillomavirus (HPV), for use in regions with scarce resources has been reported to be 90 % accurate as compared to current methods in use.

HPV is the primary cause of cervical cancer and the new vaccine has been developed by Qiagen NV in partnership with PATH, with funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
 

A patient, suffering from Aids, was refused treatment by Mumbai’s prestigious JJ Hospital because he was not Maharashtrian. The patient, a native of Bihar, approached the JJ Hospital in Mumbai for “second line of ante-retroviral (ARV) drugs”.

A Bihar hospital had told him that the “first line of ARV drugs” was not working for him so he needs “second line of ARV drugs”. He bought the drugs worth Rs6,000 from open market as the treatment is not available in any Bihar government hospital. Soon he ran out of money for treatment. Bihar Network of People with HIV+ (BNP+) advised him to approach JJ Hospital in Mumbai for free treatment. JJ Hospital refused him treatment saying that the medicines were available “only to Maharashtrians”.