The US Food and Drug Administration has given approval today for Botox injections to be administered as treatment to prevent chronic migraine headaches in adults. This follows similar approval which was given by the United Kingdom drug regulators on Health authorities in July. The UK approval came after trials involving up to 1300 people found [...]

The 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology has been awarded to fertility specialist Robert Edwards who with Patrick Steptoe developed the in vitro fertilization procedure which has brought happiness to millions of couples unable to conceive naturally. In making the announcement the Nobel Committee said in Stockholm, Sweden “Today, Robert Edwards’ vision is a [...]

In a press conference on a short while ago in a hotel in his hometown of Pinto, outside Madrid, three times Tour de France winner Alberto Contador said, “It is a case of food contamination to which I was the victim.”  This was his response to the provisional suspension by the International Cycling Union (UCI), [...]

The successful trials of collagen based synthetic corneas could provide a welcome alternative to cadaver corneas. Eye surgeons primarily use cadaver corneas for transplant which also require patients to use anti-rejection drugs and are carry a risk of infection. The new artificial corneas are produced in yeast using collagen and permit the cells from the [...]

Veteran 65 year old Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has been diagnosed with throat cancer. He is scheduled to undergo eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy treatment for the cancer.  There has been no mention that he may require more drastic surgical treatment for the tumor. Douglas is known to be a long time smoker and [...]