Seoul: South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said on Monday. The capsules were made in north-eastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said. Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or...
09:43 AM, May 08, 2012
Parli, Maharashtra: Amidst the concerns of deteriorating sex ratio, nine female foetuses have been found in a drain in Maharashtra's Beed district. Police have registered an FIR against unknown persons after the story was first reported on IBN Lokmat. The shocking discovery comes amid concerns that Beed district has the lowest child sex ratio in Maharashtra with 801 girls per 1000 boys, while the state's average stands at 883 girls...
07:49 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Mumbai: It was the happiest moment of her life. A positive pregnancy test and yet, just six months later, the devastating news - a diagnosis of advanced breast cancer. John Kazi, Cancer Patient said, "I thought I will die the next day. You know that's the big C word - Cancer. The next thing that comes to your mind is that you're going". Worse was still awaiting 26-year-old Nigerian, John...
08:59 PM, Feb 04, 2011
London: Scientists, including an Indian -origin researcher, claim to have developed a "miracle" stem cell treatment which uses mothers' bone marrow to cure deadly blood diseases in babies who are still in the womb. Stem cell transplants into unborn babies have long been a Holy Grail for doctors. Now, Dr Amar Nijagal and colleagues at California University have carried out a research in which they took bone marrow cells from...
07:00 PM, Jan 19, 2011
Santiago: A Chilean woman, who is 36 weeks pregnant, has been found to carry a foetus which has no brain. After learning about her baby's condition, Claudia Pizarro, who also suffers from cancer of the uterus, has appealed to a court to let her undergo a therapeutic abortion. Pizarro presented an appeal for protection of her constitutional rights on grounds that her foetus, which in any case will not be...
01:13 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Doctors screened the cells of the embryo before implanting into womb. ...
05:08 PM, Jan 12, 2009
The Mehtas' fight to abort their 26-week-old foetus has finally ended. ...
07:48 AM, Aug 06, 2008
There has been a new twist in the Mehta abortion case. ...
07:22 PM, Aug 05, 2008
Ramadoss says one example is not enough to change the abortion law. ...
10:18 AM, Aug 05, 2008
Bio-hazard waste needs to be incinerated say environment rules. ...
10:53 PM, Aug 06, 2007
Should pre-natal sex determination tests be allowed? ...
02:48 AM, Jul 04, 2007
After the female foetus was found on Sunday, the state government removed the chief medical and health officer. ...
01:30 PM, Sep 05, 2006
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