Washington Scientists have identified five new categories of mental illness that cut across the current more broad diagnoses of anxiety and depression. The five categories, defined by their specific symptoms and areas of brain activation, are tension, anxious arousal, general anxiety, anhedonia – the inability to feel pleasure—and melancholia. “WeRead More

London, Women who use hormonal contraceptives, including birth control pills, are at an increased risk of breast cancer, a study warns. The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, are based on a study that followed 1.8 million women between 15 and 49 years of age for moreRead More

LONDON: Regular use of commonly prescribed painkillers may double the risk of developing obesity and cause sleep deprivation, a study has warned. Over the past 10 years, there has been a large increase in the prescription of medications such as opioids and some antidepressants for chronic pain management. Researchers fromRead More

London, December 7 Pregnant women exposed to air pollution from road traffic are more likely to give birth to babies that are underweight or smaller than they should be, a study conducted in the UK warns. However, when it comes to traffic-related noise, the study of more than half aRead More

New Delhi: A study warns that women who use hormonal contraceptives, including birth control pills, are at an increased risk of breast cancer. The findings are based on a study that followed 1.8 million women between 15 and 49 years of age for more than 10 years. Researchers from theRead More

New Delhi: Menopause is a testing phase for every woman, especially when it happens earlier than expected. The fluctuating hormonal changes – including hot flashes and vaginal dryness, sleep disturbances and sometimes even anxiety and depression – can tend to take a toll on them. However, a study conducted onRead More

New York: Fathers of premature babies usually take more stress than the mothers, especially in the transition period from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to home, says a new study. The researchers noted that fathers had high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their saliva prior to theRead More

London: Including nuts, oily fish like salmon, flax seeds, and soybean oil — rich in essential polyunsaturated fatty acids — in your children’s diet may prevent their risk of developing allergic diseases, especially asthma and rhinitis by teenage, a study has suggested. Both asthma and rhinitis affects the kids sinceRead More

New York Doctors have long known that in the average person, blood pressure rises from childhood to middle age, but a new study warns that in the elderly, blood pressure gradually begins to decrease about 14 years before death. The study that looked at the electronic medical records of 46,634Read More

New Delhi Children whose parents smoke are more likely to start smoking themselves, says a study. To understand the smoking habits of youth and their perception of smoking, the Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, under the aegis of Dr Samir Parikh, conducted a survey among adolescents. The teamRead More