Stem cell therapy enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), can help mend broken bones in fractures that are not healing normally, a new animal study finds. The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting will host presentation of the results on Sunday in Boston.

CHICAGO — A drug now used to prevent recurrences of breast cancer can also reduce the risk of it occurring in the first place, providing a new option for women at high risk of getting the disease, researchers reported here on Saturday.

Dr. Donald Leslie, medical director at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, has high hopes. "We want to cure paralysis," he said. "We want to stop spinal cord injury. How incredible would that be?" Leslie's mission has begun with T.J. Atchinson, the first step in research that he believes could lead to many steps for those who were told they would never walk again. Atchinson, 21, was the first human with a spinal cord injury to undergo embryonic stem cell therapy.

‘I HATE dentists . . . no offence but I hate dentists.” “I hate being here.” “If I never see this place again, it’ll be too soon.” Believe it or not, these lines occur more frequently than you’d imagine in the dental surgery. I can almost see a few heads nodding as you read them.

When you look in a mirror, do you see saggy cheek wrinkles running down at an angle from each side of your nose? If so, you’re on your way to understanding the significance of a Michigan biotech company called Fibrocell Science, Inc. (FCSC). Those wrinkles are called nasolabial fold wrinkles, and are considered the single most revealing indicator of your real age. Try it yourself. Use your hands to stretch your face back so that those sag wrinkles go away, and notice how much younger your face looks.

A study of the two leading weight loss surgeries in Canada is calling for a set of national standards after suggesting that private surgery clinics provide lower quality care to patients.

Twenty stone schoolboy,10, becomes the youngest person ever to have a gastric band operation. A 20 stone 10-year-old has become the youngest boy ever to have a gastric band operation.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organisation, has classified the radiation emitted by handsets as “possibly carcinogenic” although it did not find evidence of a clear link.

Plastic surgery has become increasingly popular in South Korea, according to KABC-TV in Los Angeles.

Brisk walking might be able to help men who have been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer to cut their risk that the disease will progress, a new study has found.