Italian doctors implanted the world’s smallest artificial heart into a 16-month old baby boy to save his life and keep him alive until a heart donor is found for transplant. The doctors have implanted a tiny titanium pump that weighs merely 11g and can handle blood flow of 1.5-litre per minute into baby boy.

Johnson & Johnson’s and Bayer AG’s anti-clotting drug Xarelto is gaining support for being used as a drug for treating acute coronary syndrome. Therefore, FDA advisory panel will be reviewing the drug on Today to decide whether to approve it or not for treating acute coronary syndrome.

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The tattooist Basma Hammed runs a clinic of her own and helps the burn victims as well as breast cancer patients to cover their burn or surgical scars using cosmetic tattooing therapy. She started practicing cosmetic tattooing on her to cover the burn scar that she had since childhood.

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Australian researchers have claimed that a drug developed by them helps the brain cancer patients to prolong their life span. The researchers from Melanoma Institute Australia said that the drug was basically found to shrink brain tumours in patients with advanced melanoma.

Researchers have revealed that the breast cancer disease is really very complicated after finding out vast differences amongst the cancers on conducting a study of the protein-coding genes in 100 breast cancer tumours. Researchers found 73 different combinations of disease causing mutations involving up to six different genes from a 40 driver genes’ set in tumours.

A 93 year old woman, Tao Porchon Lych from Pondicherry has been honoured with the title of being the world’s oldest yoga teacher by the Guinness World Records. She teaches yoga to a group of dedicated students at a dance studio in Harstdale, New York.

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A panel of 17 experts of the Food and Drug Administration recommended the approval of the OraQuick H.I.V. Test, which may allow Americans to give themselves a simple and the first rapid test for the H.I.V. virus that causes AIDS.

Sperm donation has become one of the alternatives to help partners unable to reproduce due to sterility in men, woman who want to become single mothers and lesbian couples. Pregnancies using donated sperm are achieved with the help of artificial insemination (AI) and also by natural insemination (NI). This process of sperm donation is increasingly gaining popularity as noble cause and a source of earning extra money.