MELBOURNE: An Australian research has shed new light on how dead and dying cells are removed from the human body, a breakthrough which can...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A group of bureaucrats, health professionals and social advocates in Kerala have collectively given a call to ban consumption of tobacco-based paan masala...
WASHINGTON: Scientists have discovered direct genetic evidence that a family of genes are tumor suppressors. Cornell University researchers said that MicroRNA-34 gene family (miR-34), act...
WASHINGTON: Scientists have found that a particular gene in some elderly people may prevent them from fully reaping the health benefits of exercise. Exercise has...
LONDON: Married women are 28 per cent less likely to die from heart disease than unmarried women, a new Oxford study has claimed. This is...
WASHINGTON: Having a big belly is detrimental to your health, even if you have a healthy body mass index (BMI), a new study has...
WASHINGTON: A 46-year-old woman in the US has likely acquired HIV from her female partner in a rare case of female-to-female sexual transmission of...
LOS ANGELES: Far from its reputation as the land of endless sprawl, Southern California has some of the nation's most crowded neighborhoods, according to...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.: A growing model of health care has now come to Tuscaloosa. An estimated 5,500 doctors in the United States are concierge doctors -...
WASHINGTON: E-cigarettes, promoted as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes, may actually be a new route to conventional smoking and nicotine addiction for teenagers,...