London As little as one minute of daily high-intensity, weight-bearing exercise, such a run or a jog, can boost your bone health, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Exeter and University of Leicester in the UK found that those who did “brief bursts” of high-intensity, weight-bearing activity equivalentRead More

Washington DC Turns out, you can benefit from a medically prescribed, slow and progressive approach to physical fitness. Gyms, walking groups, gardening, cooking clubs and volunteering have all been shown to work in improving the health and well-being reported by a group of people with long-term conditions. Key to theRead More

London, Solving crosswords daily may boost brain function in later life, say scientists who found that people who engage in word puzzles perform better in cognitive tasks involving attention, reasoning and memory. Scientists at the University of Exeter and Kings College London in the UK analysed data from more thanRead More

Washington, July 16 Practising yoga may protect against cognitive decline in old age by increasing the thickness in brain areas associated with attention and memory, a study claims. Scientists in Brazil imaged elderly female yoga practitioners’ brains and found they have greater cortical thickness in the left prefrontal cortex, inRead More

New York Pregnant women with restless legs syndrome (RLS) are more likely to have poor sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness and poor daytime function, researchers say. RLS is a condition characterised by a nearly irresistible urge to move the legs, typically in the evenings. The results showed that 36 perRead More

Houston, July 1 6 An experimental Zika vaccine administered during pregnancy may protect the unborn baby from infection and birth defects, scientists have found. Although rapid and promising progress on developing vaccines has been made with animal models, the study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in theRead More

Washington DC Planning a baby? You may want to shed those extra kilos as a recent study has linked maternal obesity during pregnancy to behavioural problems in sons. The study found that the heavier mothers were when they entered pregnancy, the higher the risk of behaviour problems for their sons.Read More

Melbourne Children born through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) have similar physical health and mental well-being as their naturally-conceived peers, a study has found. The study of 224 children aged between 5 and 11 was the largest to date to examine the psychosocial development of school-aged children conceived using donor sperm. ThisRead More

Washington DC According to a recent study, researchers found that depression has different effects on the brain activity of male and female patients in certain brain regions. The results suggest that adolescent girls and boys may experience depression differently and that sex-specific treatments might be beneficial for adolescents. When researchersRead More

New York If students and teachers of a school appear to be stressed, the chances of the same feeling percolating to a new colleague are quite high, suggests new research. The study, published in the journal Teaching and Teacher Education, found a significant link between burnout among early-career teachers andRead More