Latest Health News Updates

The threat of dengue continues to spread across the national capital with more than 1,000 cases registered so far with health experts predicting that the number will rise further. ...  Read more

Despite being common issues, insomnia and other sleep disorders are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals.

Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released up-to-the-minute ...  Read more

A new study has said that 'mindfulness', the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed 155 boys from two independent ...  Read more

Young Asian women who come to the country on student visas are instead working in brothels, the Australian immigration department has found.

In its investigation, it found that the women are earning up to 10,000 dollars a week as sex ...  Read more

Brain surgeries were performed in the Bronze age as evidence in the form of scalpels and skulls were discovered in Ikiztepe, an early Bronze Age settlement in Turkey.

Onder Bilgi director of excavations at Ikiztepe, has discovered a ...  Read more

Plain cotton cloth dipped in a high-tech broth that has silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes makes an effective filter that purifies water 80,000 times faster,researchers at Stanford have discovered.

Instead of physically trapping ...  Read more

Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has urged citizens to smoke and drink more as this will assist in lifting tax revenues for spending on social services.

"If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help ...  Read more

It is not a good idea to resort to the Internet for diagnosis and treatment of diseases , even though we may find all the information we want on this medium,says a new UK survey. ...  Read more

Greek smokers will now need to stop the habit of smoking in public places following the recent legislation on smoking in Europe's most nicotine-addicted nation.

Under the slogan "Stub out your cigarettes, add to your life," the ...  Read more

Scientists have tried to understand the link between beliefs and superstitions and how they affect ratinal decision making.

In a new study, the researchers found that because humans are making decisions based on how we think the ...  Read more

A study in the September 1 issue of JAMA says that women at increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of inherited mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes who had prophylactic mastectomy or salpingo-oophorectomy had an associated ...  Read more

Although chemotherapy is essential to prevent the cancer from reccuring after surgery, it is difficult to say which course of drugs will benefit which patient.

Building on existing knowledge, a study published in the September edition of ...  Read more

A well-known diabetic drug has been found to significantly reduce tobacco-induced lung tumors in mice, a recent study has found.

Researchers led by Philip Dennis, a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), gave the ...  Read more

Eating a healthy breakfast every morning could reduce stress in your life as well as increase the functioning of your brain, a leading nutritional therapist has revealed. ...  Read more

A protein - beta-amyloid - builds deposits in the brain, causing nerve cells to get weak and die leading to Alzheimer's disease.

Drugs designed to eliminate plaques made of beta-amyloid have a fatal problem: they need to enter the brain ...  Read more

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine says that a molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid ...  Read more

An antibacterial peptide promises to be effective in the treatment of infections caused by burn or blast wounds to soldiers.

Otvos and his collaborators found that when given intramuscularly the peptide A3-APO was more effective than ...  Read more

Fruit flies seemed to stay sharp when they were hungry and sleep-deprived , scientists discovered, but will this apply to humans ?

New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that, in fruit flies, being hungry may ...  Read more

Want to live a few years longer? Then a new study suggests that you start drinking, for non-drinkers die sooner than heavy drinkers. Moderate drinkers, however, fair the best. ...  Read more

Birkbeck University researchers in London have established a link between an insecure infant-mother attachment bond and early puberty.

Jay Belsky said that it makes...  Read more

Women fare better than men when it comes to recovering from traumatic injury. Now a new study has discovered why.

In the study, Dr. Ed W. Childs and colleagues at...  Read more

Researchers at Vanderbilt University claim that the malaria mosquito apparently relies on a battery of different types of odour sensors to mediate its most critical behaviours, including how to choose and locate their blood-meal hosts....  Read more

Psoriasis research in US has received a major boost with the release of more than a thousand DNA samples to the University of Michigan Health System. It is hoped the research will...  Read more

To achieve reading skills in Arabic is much more difficult than in English, state researchers who conducted a series of studies to find out why.

Researchers at the...  Read more

A Johns Hopkins-led study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says that intensively treating hypertension in some African Americans with kidney disease by pushing blood pressure well below the current recommended goal may ...  Read more