London Being diagnosed with cancer in now a more common life event than getting married or having the first baby, a research in the UK has found. Researchers found that there are over 70,000 more new cases of cancer each year in the UK than new marriages. Latest figures alsoRead More

New York Lifting heavy weights may help you enhance your muscle strength more than light weight training because the nervous system facilitates improvements in strength during high-load training, researchers suggests. The study aimed to find out how the brain and motor neurons, cells that send electrical signals to muscle, adaptRead More

London, July 9 Children who are obese are more likely to suffer from a painful hip disease in their teens or adulthood, a study has found. Significant hip deformities affect around 1 in 500 children. Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE) is the most common hip disease of adolescence. The conditionRead More

New York Researchers have discovered a key mechanism in the tuberculosis bacteria, which may lead to a novel drug target for potentially treating the disease. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which currently infects nearly 1.5 billion people and causes more than one million deaths each year, requires host lipids (cholesterol and fattyRead More

Washington Researchers have developed a new method that modifies the surface of nanorods, making them more efficient in transporting cancer-killing genes into cells. The method involves coating gold nanorods, which produce heat when exposed to a near-infrared laser, with the lipids oleate and DOTAP. The lipids enhance the nanorods’ abilityRead More

London Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly boosts brain wiring between regions that process sound and control movement, according to a study that may pave the way for novel therapies to restore motion in stroke patients. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK recruited 30Read More

London, July 7 High intake of sugar during pregnancy may increase the risk of allergy and asthma in the baby, a study has found. While some research has reported an association between a high consumption of sugar-containing beverages and asthma in children, the relation between maternal sugar intake during pregnancyRead More

Los Angeles, July 7 The ability to smell food may be making you fat, while its absence may trick the body into thinking that it has already eaten, scientists say. Researchers, including those from University of California, Berkeley in the US found that obese mice who lost their sense ofRead More

LONDON: A “brain training” game app developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia, suggests a study. In the study, published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, the researchers tested the effects of the game onRead More

London Children who suffer from psychiatric disorders such as depression or ADHD are at a higher risk of developing addiction later in life, a study has found. Children’s health and well-being while growing up can be indicators of the potential health issues they may encounter years later. Based on aRead More