Washington” Wearable devices that monitor physical activity – steps taken per day or calories burned during a workout – are not reliable tools for weight loss, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in the US claim that participants without these trackers showed nearly twice the weightRead More

New York Smoking, a leading preventable cause of deaths worldwide, impacts the human DNA for more than 30 years even after one quits, a study has found. The findings showed that smoking leaves its “footprint” on the human genome in the form of DNA methylation — a process by whichRead More

Sleep irregularities may be tied to a variety of health problems, such as diabetes and obesity, that can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, a leading U.S. doctors group says. The risk may go up when people get too little sleep, or too much, according to a statement from theRead More

New York: Greater emphasis on immune system-based prevention should be central to new efforts to prevent cancer, researchers say. “The body’s immune system is capable of intercepting pre-malignancies and preventing cancer. It does so countless times every day in all of us. That natural ability is what we want toRead More

Family physicians were curious to know if their own patients might believe in myths about losing weight. Maybe in the few short years since the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) paper was published, this information has permeated through popular media, and corrected itself. To figure this out, they conductedRead More

Washington: A small device implanted under the skin can improve breast cancer survival by catching cancer cells, slowing the development of metastatic tumours in other organs and allowing time to intervene with surgery or other therapies, scientists say. The finding suggests a path for identifying metastatic cancer early and interveningRead More

The world should prepare for a “global epidemic” of microcephaly, a condition which restricts head growth in foetuses, as the Zika virus takes root in new countries, researchers said Friday. Scientists from Brazil and Britain said they had found additional evidence that Zika is what causes the often debilitating disorder,Read More

Sweden: Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute claim that sleeping till late on weekends disturbs the natural rhythms of the body leading one to feel worse rather than relaxed. Lead researcher Susanna Jernelov said, “It’s partly because of our circadian rhythm, so when you sleep in later, it’s like giving yourselfRead More

An experimental stem cell therapy developed by Asterias Biotherapeutics (AST.A) restored some movement to patients paralyzed by recent spinal cord injuries, according to interim data from a small study being presented on Wednesday. One of the five patients in the trial regained use of both arms and hands, and isRead More

Hyderabad: Breast cancer treatment must be targeted towards the tumour and the breast must not be removed, the Indian Council of Medical Research has said in a consensus document where treatment modalities in one lakh cases were studied. In its document submitted to the Union ministry of health and familyRead More