Ban Ki-moon Urged Donors To Contribute To AIDS Fund

Posted in General Support group on Wed, 01 Apr 2009

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday urged donors to maintain contributions to a major international fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria despite the global economic downturn, saying it ha...

Bedbugs Explode in New York

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 31 Mar 2009

Bedbugs are exploding in New York. Various strategies are being contemplated to combat the menace. Visitors are coming back with horror stories. Bedbug service calls have gone up 300% in the last five...

Angiogenesis Inhibitor Improves Brain Tumor Survival by Reducing Edema

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 31 Mar 2009

The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema – the swelling of brain tissue – a...

High-Deductible Health Plans Often Enroll Low-Income Vulnerable Families

Posted in Health Insurance Support group on Tue, 31 Mar 2009

Study finds that high-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incure high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many low-income, vulnerable famil...

Bangalore Hospital Gets Stem Cell Bank

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 30 Mar 2009

Narayana Health City, a hospital in Bangalore, has come-up with a public stem cell bank named the Rotary Narayana Tissue Bank and Stem Cell Research Centre. Stem cells are used in the treatment of dis...

Want Boobs Big And Waists Small? Stem Cell Therapy Could Help

Posted in Others Support group on Mon, 30 Mar 2009

Scientists in Britain are going to provide double bonanza to women looking for boob-jobs: a stem cell therapy that offers "natural" breast enlargement, and cuts stomach or thigh fat in the process. Th...

One More Witness Repudiates Knox’s Alibi, Another Says She Heard Terrifying Scream

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 29 Mar 2009

These are rather disturbing days for the 21-year-old US student Amanda Knox in the Italian court. More witnesses turn up to nail her alibi as false. The trial of Knox and...Read More

Incest in India-How Safe are Our Daughters?

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 28 Mar 2009

Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl’s trial shook the West like never before. But how serious is the prevalence of incest in India? How safe are our own daughters from their depraved fathers and uncle...

You Can Die Of a HeartBreak - But Scientists Are Trying To Save You!

Posted in Others Support group on Sat, 28 Mar 2009

Love is not the proverbial bed of roses - and when the thorns prick enough to cause a heartbreak, your very life can be at danger! This is what a new research on the "broken Heart...Read More

Pope ‘Publicly Distorted’ Science With Condom Comments

Posted in General Support group on Fri, 27 Mar 2009

One of the world's top medical journals accused Pope Benedict XVI on Friday of having distorted scientific evidence in his remarks on condom use and demanded he make a retraction. ...Read More