A new study has exposed that drinking a glass of wine after a hard day’s work doesn’t make women fat, contrary to the dietary advice that alcohol consumption leads to weight gain.

People who consume sugary drinks every day face a greater risk of diabetes and heart disease, a new US study has found.

Stress not only hurts your brain, but also has a bad effect on teeth, claims a new study.

Boffins writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Head & Face Medicine studied the causes of ’sleep bruxism’, gnashing teeth during the night, finding that it was especially common in those who try to cope with stress by escaping from difficult situations.

According to an investigator in Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, an urine test that can concurrently measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and a marker of garlic consumption in humans has been studied, the test suggested that the more garlic people consumed, the lower the levels of the potential carcinogenic process were.

Confronted with critical unavailability of vaccines, the Centre had given its affirmation for stimulation of three state owned vaccine manufacturing units, the Central Research Institute at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh, Pasteur Institute of India at Coonoor and BCG Vaccine Laboratory in Chennai.

A leading newspaper in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald published about a research that was carried out by Nepean Hospital in Sydney. The study said that 10 percent of the people who are regular players of the video games suffer from symptoms of addiction.

Scientists at UMass Lowell have discovered a new contrivance by which a key protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease can spread within the human brain. According to the researchers, the finding gives new hope that the disease may someday be cured.

Prostate cancer is treated by diminishing male hormone testosterone from the patient- but while this kills most of the cells, the few that remain lead to recurrent, incurable disease.

With the increasing number of research labs developing a line of medicines made of cow feces and urine in India, the cows are now are again becoming the most sacred animal. The medicines developed from the cow feces and urine combines both the practical and spiritual aspects and scientists in Ahmedabad, India formulate cures ranging from cancer to bad breath.

According to a recent Australian study, mums working part-time nurture healthier children than their colleagues who stay at home or have a full-time job.

The study, ‘Do Working Mothers Raise Couch Potato Kids?’ shows that kids of part-time mums have less junk food, watch less TV and are less likely to be overweight or fat.