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The Anuradhapura Branch of the Sri Lanka Cancer Society has launched a special fund to assist needy cancer patients warded at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital and others attending clinics to purchas ....

"There are 500,000 cataract patients in Sri Lanka at present. Between 100,000 and 150,000 patients are badly affected and have cataract in both eyes. Fifty percent of them are from under developed rur ....

The Health Ministry will organize a special campaign in the Vauniya General Hospital to perform cataract surgeries free for the resettled community in the North, a ministry spokesman said. He said ....

Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy that uses ....

Scientists of the Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have developed a highly efficient approach for imaging the beating human he ....

Few primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs -- despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose, according to a new study by researchers at A ....

ew research suggests that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could help detect Alzheimer's disease (AD) at an early stage, before irreversible damage has occurred, according to a new study published onl ....

The brains of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease start shrinking up to a decade before symptoms appear, a new study finds. Researchers from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Mass ....

Leading hotel and leisure companies in the world have come forward to make large scale investments in Sri Lanka as the country has become one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the world i ....

Vaccinating men who have sex with men (MSM) against human papillomavirus (HPV) may be a cost-effective approach to the prevention of anal cancer and genital warts, according to a study using decision- ....

Currently, the theory about ligands -- compounds that bind to proteins and trigger a specific biological action -- and how they bind to proteins runs along the lines of a one person-one vote paradigm. ....

The scientists report in Cancer Prevention Research published online September 21 that 25 percent of obese mice fed a vitamin D supplemented diet developed endometrial cancer, while 67 percent of ....

Scientists at the University of Granada have developed a new therapy for the treatment of skin and lung cancer. This therapy involves the use of a suicide coliphage-gene (gene E) that can induce d ....

Physician's confidence in their ability to counsel patients on a healthy diet and exercise may be related to their own personal habits, according to a study by the University of Michigan Cardiovas ....

Smoking may provide an explanation for reduced fertility, results of two studies suggested. The first, by Claus Yding Andersen, MD, of the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues, found significan ....