Vitamin D supplements can reduce the risk of potentially fatal lung attacks in some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), suggests a new study.
COPD is a group of lung diseases including emphysema and chronic bronchitis ...
Patients suffering from cancer and those treated with chemotherapy may be at 40 per cent increased risk of developing shingles, compared with those not having cancer, finds a new study.
Shingles (herpes zoster) -- marked by painful rashes and skin blisters -- is ...
Excessive use of social media platforms like Facebook can make its users take decisions as bad as drug addicts tend to do, a new study suggests.
"Around one-third of humans on the planet are using social media, and some of these people are displaying maladaptive, excessive use of these sites," said ...
In a village called Aam-bagan in Nagaon district of Assam, Sumitra Biswas summoned her grandson to help her pour water into the filter kept in the courtyard of their house. The filter -- three buckets, fitted with taps, at three different levels -- was set up by the family itself through a ...
Are you obese and worried about your excess weight? Take heart. New research suggests that with irregular fasting and a strictly controlled diet, you can lose more weight and improve your health too.
The study showed that women who fasted intermittently as well as restricted ...
Poor sleep quality may signal the risk of Alzheimer's disease in older adults, a study suggests.
People with Alzheimer's tend to wake up tired and their nights become even less refreshing as memory loss and other symptoms worsen....
Even moderate alcohol consumption, described as intake of two drinks daily or 14 per week, could increase the risk of irregular heart rhythm condition, warn researchers.
The team from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, found that regular...
A team led by an Indian American researcher has received a grant for studying thrombosis -- a life threatening condition of blood clots being formed in the veins and arteries.
Sriram Krishnaswamy, a researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and...
While scrolling through Facebook or Instagram, did you ever feel that everyone else is living their life better than you? Such social media behaviours are linked with major depressive disorder (MDD), said researchers.
In a study of over 500 millennials who actively use Facebook, Twitter, ...
People with autism can recognise complex emotions such as regret and relief in fellow humans, shows a research that breaks a persistent stereotype that people with mental, emotional and behavioural disorders lack empathy and cannot understand emotion.
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