London Researchers have found that a simple blood test can detect breast cancer up to five years before there are any clinical signs of it. The blood test identifies the body’s immune response to substances produced by tumour cells, according to the research presented at the 2019 NCRI (National CancerRead More

This may appear as a good time of the year, when the weather is pleasant and festivity is in the air because many major Indian festivals fall during this period. However, festivity is not the only thing in the air that becomes even more toxic than rest of the year,Read More

London Researchers from the Queen’s University Belfast have found that people who have grandiose narcissistic traits were more likely to be “mentally tough”, feel less stressed and also less vulnerable to depression. While narcissism may be viewed by many in society as a negative personality trait, the researchers have revealedRead More

New Delhi A newly approved three-drug treatment for tuberculosis will be available in 150 countries including India and South Africa, priced at $1,040 for a complete regimen, more than twice the cost proposed in the past by advocacy groups for other treatments. The United Nations-backed Stop TB Partnership said onRead More

MELBOURNE Researchers have developed a simple, low cost method to predict the onset of a pregnancy condition called preeclampsia—a disorder that causes premature birth, and brain and liver injuWhen the researchers combined the questionnaire scores with blood tests that measured women’s calcium and magnesium levels, they could accurately predict theRead More

PARIS: Researchers have shown that delta waves—a pattern of high amplitude electrical activity in the brain emitted during sleep—are not silent resting periods for the brain’s cortex, but play an essential role in long-term memory formation. The study, published in the journal Science, noted that when humans sleep, the seahorseRead More

WASHINGTON: Fat can accumulate in the lungs of people, particularly those who are overweight or obese, researchers have shown for the first time. Scientists already know that people who are overweight or obese are more likely to suffer with wheezing and asthma, but the reasons for this have not beenRead More

LOS ANGELES Researchers have invented a new technique in genomics to track down the causes of rare genetic diseases like muscular dystrophies. For the new technology, the researchers, including those from Scripps Research Institute in the US, applied the fact that each person inherited two copies of every gene, orRead More

NEW DELHI Feeling down in the dumps, consumed with anxiety at the thought of the day ahead or unable to muster the energy to face the outside world? Your mood enhancer is as close as the fridge, stocked hopefully with “happy food” like banana and berries, kale and cabbage. ‘YouRead More

London People who can reduce their weight by 10 per cent or more within the first five years of diagnosis with type 2 diabetes have the greatest chance of going into remission, according to a study which suggests that it is possible to recover from the disease without intensive lifestyleRead More