Feeling worried over the lung damage caused by smoking? Take heart, eating more than two tomatoes or more than three portions of fresh fruits, especially apples, daily may help restore the damage. The findings showed that people who quit smoking and ate a diet high in tomatoes and fruits had slower lung decline over a 10-year period. This s...
Your depression might be the result of your genes associated with anxiety, worry and low mood, researchers say, that the findings may shed light on the causes of depression, and could help improve diagnosis and treatment. The study, DNA analysis of over 300,000 people, revealed 116 gene variations linked to neuroticism -- characte...
Over 1,000 retailers of tobacco products on Thursday protested outside the...
Using the gene editing technology CRISPR, US researchers have edited a gene variant...
Ganga and Jamuna, conjoined girl twins of Odisha's Nayagarh district who...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are "sleeper cells" which can survive doses of...
Eating one to two servings of salad with spinach, lettuce and kale daily may keep...
Combining the treatment for the most deadly form of skin cancer with a common anti-rheumatic drug could provide more effective results, new research has shown. The findings showed that using "leflunomide" -- an immunosuppressive drug approved for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis -- in combination with another melanoma drug, selumetinib almost compl...
In a first, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel gene therapy to treat children and adult patients with an inherited form of vision loss that may result in blindness. The new gene therapy titled "Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl)" -- a treatment for retinal dystrophy caused by a specific genetic mutation -- is th...
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered AIIMS to form a medical board to decide if a 15-year-old girl, who is over 26 weeks pregnant, could terminate her pregnancy. A division bench of Justice S. Murlidhar and Justice I.S. Mehta directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to submit its report by Friday. The court passed the or...
