Mamata Banerjee who has taken the charge of health department in West Bengal takes care of every thing that had been pending for implementation and one of the pending schemes is going to be followed for implementation and it is selling condoms through vegetable outlets, groceries and pan shops.
Though National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) directive was passed in 2009, the past government failed to implement the inexpensive project of selling condoms through non-traditional outlets.
An official of the health department at Sasthya Bhavan said that they have taken up the …

Babanrao Mhaske, a 58 year old man, a farm laborer from Aadas village of Kaij tehsil in Beed district has not even touched the money approximately for the last 22 years.
It is unbelievable that he is a man with difference and he does not want to touch money and keeps up his promise he had taken before 22 years.
Mhaske said that he found that a dispute over money caused death of few persons before 22 years which made him to take the oath not to touch money since then.
He added …

Albert David Limited, a Kolkata based drug manufacturing company has resumed its production of its product PLACENTREX extracted from human placenta.(HPE) which has been banned during May of this year.
The ADL has stopped its manufacturing and sales ever since May 30 on the basis of safety of the drug.
The central government banned the Placentrex along with other drugs like cisapride and nimuselide during Feb 2011 and the court allowed the ban from MAY 30.
The placentrex was used for pelvic infection and wound healing.
The ban of the drug was imposed …

The new studies have revealed that the eyes are more ionizing radiation sensitive than thought before.
The new study said that professionals including interventional cardiologists should take care of their eyes from radiation since new studies provides that safe line radiation quantity has been reduced.
DR.K.S.Parthasarathy and Raja Ramanna, fellow of the department of atomic energy and former secretary of atomic energy regulatory board said that till now, that the eye lens was considered to be a moderately radiation sensitive tissue, but, the new scientific evidences showed that it is among the …

Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that involves skin, joint and nails. The chronic condition of the disease even alters the quality of the life of the patient. It always involves arthritis and joints.
Though the skin shows earlier symptoms, the other parts of the body like nails and joints are affected at a later stage only.
The inflammatory disease of the skin is found to associate with overweight and obese children.
The psoriasis if often viewed as a condition that affects children with skin. But the recent studies revealed that it …

Scientists at Centre for Integrative Clinical and Molecular Medicine in Australia have claimed that taking fenugreek extract twice will enhance sexual drive or desire.
Fenugreek is an herb commonly found throughout Asia and it is vastly used in curries now entering into bed room and found to improve male libido.
Low libido is a common problem encountered in men throughout the world and it is estimated that about 18 per cent of the men are affected by this problem.
Low sex drive or low sex drive are caused by overweight, depression and …

Breast cancer is so far treated with surgery and chemotherapy and now a gene test has been identified to predict whether chemotherapy is essential and the possibility of recurrence of cancer in individual cases.
Now, doctors predict the recurrence by the size and grade of the tumor and the number of lymph nodes affected in arm pit.
As on to-day doctors could not tell whether chemotherapy would benefit or not in individuals. More over, chemotherapy is horrible and is having more side effects such as nausea and hair falling.
A new gene …

The team of scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland has developed a new device which they claim can improve the success rate for surgery on a knee injury.
Sportsmen around the world have their knee injury by rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Until now, the treatment for the injured ACL is treating the patient by binding the damaged ligament to the bone using screws which in some cases slips out of place.
Now the team of scientists at the University of Aberden has developed the new device GraftBolt …

The researchers at University of Auckland have claimed that they have observed the link of having higher risk of stillbirth with sleeping pattern of the women during pregnancy.
The study observed that women who have not slept by their left side during the last night of pregnancy had twice the chance of having stillbirth when compared with women who slept in the left side.
The study revealed there were 1.96 stillbirths per 1000 women who slept on their left side just before giving birth compared with 3.93 stillbirths per 1000 women who …

A machine which is made from France assures cure cancer at India.
The machine has been introduced at L.H.Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai and the machine is called the Hyperthermic Intra-Peritonial Chemothrapy (HIPEC) and it is believed to be the life saver in stage IV cancer of certain types.
Many patients are waiting for their turn towards treatment by the traditional method of chemotherapy and in this situation the new machine is promising for cure and it reduces the waiting time.
The machine cost is Rs. 6 million and the procedure uses a high concentration …