London, Feb 24 : Women who consume more calcium appear to have lower risk of developing certain cancers, a new study has found.

The research found that low fat milk, cheese and yoghurts could reduce the risk of some cancers by almost a quarter in women.

According to the study, which included almost 500,000 people, women who consumed the most calcium from dairy products or supplements were 23 per cent less likely to develop cancer than woman with the lowest consumption of calcium.

Manila - The Philippines' agriculture department has ordered the extermination of some 6,000 pigs afflicted with the Ebola Reston virus, a senior official said Tuesday.

Davinio Catbagan, director of the Bureau of Animal Industry, said the culling of the hogs in a farm in Pandi town, Bulacan province, 35 kilometres north of Manila, will be done within two to three days.

Beijing - At least 70 people in southern China have been sickened after eating pig organs tainted with a banned food additive, a newspaper reported Monday.

Three people remained in hospital in Guangzhou after consuming the organs containing the banned substance clenbuterol, which is used to build muscle and is also banned in sport, the China Daily said, citing local health officials.

The patients complained of stomach pains and diarrhoea after eating organs bought at local markets since Thursday.

The organs originated from pigs raised on farms in Hunan province.

Washington, Feb 23 : Spanish researchers have found that defects in skin cell regeneration mechanism may increase the risk of skin cancer.

Telomeres are DNA sequences that cap chromosomes and control the number of times a cell may be copied.

The new study has explained how telomere dysfunction in skin cells can lead to increased skin cancer risk and pigmentation.

London, February 23 : American researchers at the Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that they have developed a novel approach to analyse cellular data, and have been gaining new understanding of Parkinson's disease's destructive pathways.

Thus far, the researchers have used the new computational technique to analyse alpha-synuclein, a mysterious protein that is associated with Parkinson''s disease.

London, February 23 : In what may spark a completely new class of drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, University of Oxford researchers have developed a cheap and efficient drug discovery method that can be helpful in identifying a new player in the body''s insulin secretion process.

The researchers say that the new approach may allow small academic labs to search a large database of drugs to find treatments for diabetes and many other diseases.