In patients with advanced alcoholic cirrhosis, colchicine does not reduce overall or liver-specific mortality, and is not recommended for treatment in these patients, finds the latest issue of Gastroenterology.

Rimonabant 20 mg produced significantly greater improvements than placebo in waist circumference, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, and insulin resistance, and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and was well tolerated, reports this week's The Lancet

April's issue of Endoscopy finds that the proposed technique could be a simple, safe, and inexpensive method for easier and less painful colonoscopy as well as facilitate difficult examinations.

THE number of children suffering from diabetes brought on by obesity in the UK appears to have been vastly underestimated, experts have warned.

A NEW book linking autism and infant vaccines could cost the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars. In Evidence of Harm, US author David Kirby tells the story of parents who claim mercury in vaccines contributed to an "autism epidemic" in

NEARLY 70 women in Scotland have been warned they could have contracted hepatitis C after being treated by a gynaecologist suffering from the virus, it was announced yesterday.

THE number of children suffering from diabetes brought on by obesity in the UK appears to have been vastly underestimated, experts have warned.

A YOUNG woman who suffered a miscarriage in hospital later found her dead foetus in a plastic bag which had been accidentally handed to her family, it emerged yesterday.

One in five people appear to be born with a blood protein that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke in later life.

A simple blood test can predict whether men are at heightened risk for prostate and kidney cancer, researchers report.

Bute Sub District Hospital clinical officer in charge Abdikadi Alasow Hussein and nurses ponder what to do with an expectant mother who had not come to hospital with water.

The United Nations yesterday described malaria as a national tragedy for Kenya.

Parliament was yesterday asked to vote for more funds to finance reproductive health and population management.

A local pharmaceutical firm, Surgipharm, has signed an agreement with Medtronic Africa to supply medical equipment to local hospitals.

Pope Benedict XVI has his job cut out for him. He has the unenviable task of striking a delicate balance between what his predecessor, Pope John Paul II stood for, and what the rest of the world expect of him.

Hair-raising is the only way one can describe the many, unique and incredible hairstyles displayed at the East Africa Glamour and Beauty Expo 2005 held at Garden City on Sunday.