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POSTED October 24, 2011 - 15:53 | POSTED BY Jyoti Pal

RCP recommends new drinking norms – avoid alcohol three days a week

Experts at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) opine that drinking everyday makes people more likely to slip into a cycle of binge drinking, raising their risk of liver disease and other life-threatening illnesses.

According to the new drinking limits suggested by the RCP men should have no more than 21 units of alcohol a week and women should be restricted to 14 units.

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New genes linked to liver functioning identified

Another breakthrough came in research industry when new genes were identified that helps in the regulation of liver functions thereby assessing disorders linked to liver.

The research was conducted by team of scientists of Imperial College London, including one Indian scientist.

POSTED October 14, 2011 - 14:50 | POSTED BY Neharika Sabharwal

Indian surgeons perform breakthrough robotic liver surgery

In a pioneering procedure doctors in India have successfully carried out the nation’s first robotically assisted liver transplant giving a fresh lease of life to a four-year-old child.

The doctors carried out the procedure on 36-year-old Rahmatullah, last month at Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon using the Da-Vinci robotic surgical system.

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