Washington DC Dear moms! Your insomnia symptoms could affect your child’s sleep quality, states a recent study. The findings have been published in the journal Sleep Medicine. Sleep plays an essential role for adults’ and children’s well-being. Short sleep and poor sleep quality may affect mental health, learning, memory, andRead More

Toronto, August 31 Consuming a diet low in fats and high in carbohydrates may increase the risk of early death, according to a major global study that contradicts dietary advice handed out for decades. The findings, published in The Lancet journal, may explain why certain populations such as South Asians,Read More

London, August 31 People who are slow walkers may be at higher risk of death due to heart diseases compared to the general population, a study has found. The data analysed was collected between 2006 and 2010 by the UK Biobank from nearly half a million middle-aged people across theRead More

Washington Compounds in cocoa may help delay onset of type 2 diabetes, researchers suggest. BYU researchers have discovered certain compounds found in cocoa can actually help your body release more insulin and respond to increased blood glucose better. Insulin is the hormone that manages glucose, the blood sugar that reachesRead More

London Parents, take note! Hanging wind- chimes in the kitchen or dining area may encourage your children to eat more green vegetables, an Oxford study suggests. Researchers found that playing high chirpy notes like wind chimes while children eat, inadvertently improves flavour by sweetening the taste. Charles Spence, a professorRead More

Melbourne,Exercising just after learning something new may help students – especially girls – retain the information they learn in school, a study has found. In four experiments, 265 participants performed either five minutes of low-impact step aerobics after learning, or no exercise after learning.Although the strength of the effect variedRead More

Washington, August 22 Statins, used to lower the risk of heart attack or stroke, may also provide protection against a host of infectious diseases, including typhoid fever, chlamydia and malaria, a study claims. Scientists from Duke University in the US have discovered that a gene variant which affects cholesterol levelsRead More

London Researchers have developed cardiac muscle tissue made of spider silk, to investigate whether artificial silk protein could be suitable for engineering cardiac tissue. Ischaemic diseases such as cardiac infarction leads to irreversible loss of cardiac muscle cells, which is the main cause of reduced cardiac functionality that affects theRead More

WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed a new way to track HIV infection that can identify how individual particles infect each cell, and lead to novel therapies for prevention and treatment of the disease. It has become routine to visualise the movement and progression of individual virions – individual infectious particles –Read More

NEW YORK: Breast milk has protective sugars that could provide a one-two punch against deadly bacterial infections in babies, according to a study which may lead to new antimicrobial drugs. Researchers at Vanderbuilt University in the US found that some of the carbohydrates in human milk not only possess antibacterialRead More