Health

Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 1 : Turns out, risky alcohol consumption can increase at the time of retirement. Of retiring employees, 12 percent increased their risky drinking at the time of retirement. However, for most people, there was no change in ri…

Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 1 : A team of researchers has improved the vectors for delivering human factor VIII (hFVIII) gene therapy to treat Hemophilia A.The University of Pennsylvania study examined 42 combinations of promoters and enhancers for hFV…

New Delhi [India], Mar. 31 : Heart of a deceased civilian of the Indian Airforce in Delhi was flown to Chennai recently, to save life of an old man, who was awaiting a suitable heart for transplantation.It is the longest haul of donated tissue in India…

New Delhi [India], Mar. 31 : Tennis elbow is a common problem among sportsperson, caused by the overuse of the hand muscles including arm and forearm.However this problem has nothing to do with Tennis! It got its name because this problem is very commo…

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 : A new study has suggested that the use of cannabis may impact treatment in women undergoing methadone treatment therapy.Researchers from McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton have found that women in …

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 : Turns out, placebos alleviate not only physical pain, but also emotional one. In a new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, researchers examined the impact of a placebo on social pain stemming from a rece…

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 : A team of researchers has come up with a method for measuring free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons thought to be partly responsible for making smokers sick, and this could help impro…

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 : A recent research has shown that dopamine levels fall during the migraine attacks. Using PET scans of the brain, the University of Michigan researchers showed that dopamine falls and fluctuates at different times during…

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 : Making your bones stronger may be as easy as getting injections of peptide, according to a recent study.Two University of Delaware researchers and their students have joined forces – applying the mathematical modeling e…

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 : Determining the cause of an ischemic stroke is critical to prevent a second one and now, a new software-based system has offered hope.Investigators at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massa…