KUALA LUMPUR : Your mother always told you to do it, but thanks to a study presented at the 13th International Congress of Infectious Diseases (ICID) held at Kuala Lumpur this week, you'll now know why washing your hands is the first line of defence against a number of highly contagious respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. The study was presented during the 13 International Congress of Infectious Diseases (ICID) held at Kuala Lumpur this week highlighted how easy it is to prevent infectious gastrointestinal, skin and respiratory illness.

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Jeremy Laurance A 52-year-old man with advanced melanoma, the lethal form of skin cancer, has been successfully treated using just his own blood. The development has been hailed by British experts as an "exciting advance' in the use of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to fight the disease.

The Heart Care Foundation of India president Dr K.K. Aggarwal with model Priyanka Sharma and designer Rahul launches the Foundation's helpline in New Delhi on Thursday. The Heart Care Foundation of India president Dr K.K. Aggarwal with model Priyanka Sharma and designer Rahul launches the Foundation's helpline in New Delhi on Thursday. Tribune photo New Delhi, June 19 The Heart Care Foundation of India today launched a toll-free helpline, which will answer queries related to cardiovascular prevention.

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Atiq Khan Nearly 99 lakh families living below the poverty line (BPL) in Uttar Pradesh can look forward to getting quality medical care under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in hospitals of their choice, including private nursing homes, from this coming July 1. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed between the Union Government and the UP Government on Friday. The signatories to the MoU were the Director-General, Union Labour and Employment Ministry, Anil Swaroop, and Principal Secretary in the State Rural Development Department, J. N. Chamber.

In what was described a "courtesy visit', Mr Anthony Salim, the Salim group chief spent more than an hour closeted in a meeting with Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, chief minister and Mr Nirupam Sen, state industries minister and senior officials at Writers' Buildings even as the city lay paralysed following a strike call by Trinamul Congress today. While Mr Salim declared that his group will go whichever way the state government asks with regard to its projects in the state, he also speculated the possibility of launching new projects in healthcare and food processing, reports said.

The cancer drug Erbitux prolonged the lives of patients with advanced lung cancer by five weeks, according to a new clinical study described as an important gain for such individuals. "Patients with advanced NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer) have limited treatment options and life expectancy is short, so the survival increase shown in this study is an important step for these patients,' said Robert Pirker of the Medical University of Vienna, a lead investigator in the study.

V Mayilvaganan | TNN Thanjavur: An anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centre at the Thanjavur medical college has given expired drugs to at least 60 people living with HIV/AIDS. While experts say it isn't dangerous to take such drugs after the expiry date, some HIV positive people have complained of itching, vomiting and giddiness.

Cash Incentives Making People Suspicious Kounteya Sinha | TNN Frequent polio vaccination rounds is causing fatigue among vaccinators while cash incentives to mothers for getting their child vaccinated is actually making them suspicious about the repeated oral polio vaccine (OPV) rounds.