New Delhi (PTI): In a ray of hope for millions of leukaemia patients, American scientists have claimed to have developed a technique which multiplies the small number of stem cells in the donor blood, making it much more potent for the treatment of the fatal disease.

London: Breaking News! The latest findings published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, revealed how the sunlight affects skin cells. The study suggests that sunlight can damage a skin's DNA, leading to hazardous diseases such as skin cancer.

Kolkata: Breaking News! Just when the Health Ministry was thinking that India was free from Bird Flu, new cases of Bird Flu were reported from Khargram block of Murshidabad district of West Bengal.

New Delhi: Breaking News! Eight more Swine Flu deaths took the death toll In India to 1,106. While one death occurred on Thursday, the remaining seven deaths occurred in recent days, but were confirmed yesterday.

New Delhi: Breaking News! At least 18 Swine Flu deaths were reported across the country on Wednesday, taking the A H1N1 death toll to 1,098. Out of the 18 deaths, four were reported yesterday, while others were previous deaths, which got confirmed later.

New Delhi: Breaking News! The Swine Flu death toll in India has gone up to 1,082, as 12 more A H1N1 deaths reported from across the country on Tuesday. Gujarat reported 11 deaths, out of which, 9 were confirmed only on yesterday.

Washington: Breaking News! A research study conducted by the Ohio State University, revealed that Vitamin E can prevernt nerve cells from dying after a stroke and thus minimizing the impact from the stroke.

New Delhi: Breaking News! According to a latest study conducted by the Ohio State University researchers, yoga can cut the inflammation on the body of a person, which rises because of normal aging and stress.

New Delhi: Breaking News! Nine Swine Flu deaths were reported across the country on Monday, taking the Swine Flu death toll to 1,070. Two deaths were reported from Delhi, while four deaths were reported from Rajasthan.

New Delhi: Breaking News! India launched a new type of oral polio vaccine to combat the polio menace in the country. The launch of the new vaccine is seen as a significant step to eradicate polio from the country.

Even though the mass immunisation efforts made in India in the last decade has brought down the number of polio cases to a big extent, the disease still exists in many parts of the country. The bivalent oral vaccine is expected to eradicate it completely.

The bivalent oral polio vaccine is intended immunise children against two types of wild polio viruses - P1 and P3. The P2 virus was already eliminated from India in 1999.

The bivalent oral polio vaccine (BOPV) was launched in Bihar on Sunday, followed by Uttar Pradesh. It will be launched in other state in a phased manner. In 2009, India reported over 700 fresh cases of polio. Out of these, 641 were P3 infections. Of these, UP accounted for 571 cases, followed by Bihar (114).