ATHENS : The next time youre offered a choice between Earl Grey and green tea, you might want to go green.
A new study shows that the beverage, which is more popular in Eastern cultures, can protect heart arteries by keeping them flexible and relaxed, and therefore better able to withstand the ups and downs […]
London: Want to shed those extra pounds? Well, all you need to do is start eating a big breakfast, according to a new study.
Washington, June 20 (ANI): A new study has shown how minor genetic differences between individuals alter the way a common drug affects the body paving the way for personalized medicine that is based not only on symptoms but also on the patient’s own genetic ‘baggage.
Washington, June 20 (ANI): Researchers at Yale University have offered new insights into how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires’ disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients.
They have reported that in order to stay alive, the gram-negative bacteria use genes that have evolved in tandem with ones in their hosts to […]
HYDERABAD: Tobacco is a major world killer and the problem will get worse “if no action is taken and there will be 10 million deaths by 2020 and a billion by the end of the century if we allow current trends to continue.”
By Edgar Bauer Bonn, May 27 (DPA) Halfway through a two-week conference in Germany on biodiversity, enough progress has been made to avoid total failure, but much more remains to be done at the UN event. More than 6,000 delegates from 200 nations have debated and pored over tonnes of conference papers. After a […]
The number of drug users in Britain being admitted to hospital with cocaine overdoses is four times higher than what it was eight years ago, new figures reveal. Official Government data showed that an average of more than two people a day are admitted to accident and emergency units for “˜cocaine-induced health emergencies.’
London, May 26 : A virologist and a biophysicist at Rockefeller University have become the first researchers to see in real time hundreds of thousands of molecules coming together in a living cell to form a single particle of HIV, using a specialized microscope that only illuminates the cell’s surface.
Geneva- World health leaders at the annual policy-making meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday endorsed a public health, innovation and intellectual property strategy to promote new approaches to drug research and development and improve access to medicines.
Washington, May 24 : Researchers have discovered a potential target for the development of new therapies to treat hypertriglyceridemia, a lipid disorder commonly seen in obese and diabetic people.