Medical News

July 21, 2008

Woman Awakens From Surgery to Find Panty-Line Tattoo

A New Jersey woman has sued her orthopedic surgeon after awakening from surgery to find a temporary tattoo below her panty line. Elizabeth Mateo, of Camden County, N Next…

July 15, 2008

Roche to drop HIV therapy research

Roche, one of the world’s largest international pharmaceuticals groups, has decided to abandon research on medicines to treat HIV in a significant blow to doctors treating the spiralling international Aids epidemic. In a memo circulated this week to Aids specialists and activists, executives said because of disappointing results in clinical trials, the company had cancelled its programme for the compounds in development that were targeting two different ways to attack HIV Next…

July 3, 2008

DUTCH SMOKING BAN: NO TOBACCO IN YOUR JOINTS, CAFES ORDERED

Dutch coffee shops, long considered as synonymous with the Netherlands as tulips or attacking football, face a new challenge from today when a ban on smoking tobacco in restaurants and cafes comes into effect. The owners claim the law, which will allow customers to light up potent tobacco-free pure cannabis joints but ban milder spliffs in which tobacco is mixed with cannabis, threatens to put hundreds of them out of business Next…

June 30, 2008

NEW STUDY EXAMINES THE VALIDITY OF EPO TESTING

BETHESDA, Md. (June 26, 2008)—Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) is a genetically engineered hormone sometimes misused by high-performance athletes such as cyclists and marathon runners to boost their endurance Next…

June 17, 2008

HUMAN EGG MAKES ACCIDENTAL DEBUT ON CAMERA

“The release of the oocyte from the ovary is a crucial event in human reproduction,” says Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Brussels, Belgium. Observing ovulation in humans is extremely rare, and previous images have been fuzzy Next…