Bengaluru: State-run Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) has successfully completed its first-ever bone marrow transplant (BMT) for a child with thalassemia. A seven-year-old boy with the ...

"We are truly excited today (to be) offering this life-changing treatment for our thalassemia patients at the Children's Hospital of Michigan," Savasan said, adding that it's just the first of two ...

What is much more concerning is the combination of poor eating, weight gain, and a distended abdomen. This suggests fluid in the abdomen, called ascites, which can be associated with liver disease ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a generally healthy, 63-year-old woman. I haven’t been feeling well for months. I have experienced bloating and a poor appetite, and I’m not eating much. But somehow I ...

At least 129 people have died in Nepal, as rivers swollen by heavy rains flooded homes and created deadly landslides. Rescue, recovery, and clean-up efforts continued on Sunday, as the rain ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m an 80-year-old woman in pretty good health, except for severe spinal stenosis. My problem is I wake up several times at night with the feeling that I need to urinate.

A 30-year-old woman, described as a "drug mule" by South African police, was carrying 68 "cocaine bullets" in her stomach with an estimated weight of 850g when she was detained at Johannesburg's ...

Mandi Benson, 44, from Rochdale, claims she has suffered from rapid weight loss and other issues including a swollen stomach and migraines. She has also noticed random lumps and bruises starting ...

Angela Mincolla (@day.by.a), from Buffalo, Wyoming, decided to bling up her swollen stomach using silver tiles for a local cancer fundraiser, which had a disco theme. The impressive result ...

Barry Griffiths, 57, died after he accidentally plunged the blade into his stomach at his home in Powys, Wales, in July last year, the Western Telegraph reported. Griffiths, who lived alone and ...

perlmani use their needle-like ovipositor organ — the stinger in stinging wasps — to stab and deposit an egg within a fruit fly's abdomen. The egg then hatches into a tiny wasp larva ...