Scientists have identified brain regions that caution people from buying stocks, a finding that may explain why many people shy away from making supposedly riskier forms of investment, despite long-term profit expectations. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany have developed a model that makes real-life stock buying behaviourRead More

Older women with osteoporosis who consistently take medications for the condition may have a lower risk of fractures and lower total health costs than their counterparts who stop taking these drugs, a US study suggests. Researchers examined data on 294,369 women who were at least 66 years old, insured byRead More

While moderate exercise can improve your health, overdoing it can stress you out or even make you depressed, the Daily Mail reported. Experts at Yale University in the US and Oxford University led a study of 1.2million people.   The team found those who did the most amount of physicalRead More

Ketogenic diet, an increasingly popular weight loss strategy, may cause a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, a study warns. The findings, published in the Journal of Physiology, raise new questions about ketogenic diets and whether or not they are actually healthy. Type 2 diabetes is one of the mostRead More

London: Men only have to believe that they have bested another man in competition to get an inflated sense of their own value as a sexual prospect, and indulge in promiscuous behaviour. Scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK found that this hormonal and psychological shift made menRead More

Washington DC: Women undergoing menopause face serious health concerns including osteoporosis, decreased physical activity and weight gain. In a new animal study, researchers from the University of Missouri now have discovered that soy protein found in food might counter the negative effects of menopause on bone and metabolic health.  Read More

The planet urgently needs to transition to a green economy because fossil fuel pollution risks pushing the Earth into a lasting and dangerous “hothouse” state, researchers warned on Monday.   If polar ice continues to melt, forests are slashed and greenhouse gases rise to new highs—as they currently do eachRead More

Washington: Severely obese people could reduce the risk of developing atrial fibrillation – irregular and often rapid heart rate – with exercise. “The risk of atrial fibrillation was lower, the more physically active a person was. This turned out to be especially true for people with obesity,” said Lars ElnanRead More

Two more Chinese drugmakers have announced that a blood-pressure medication they exported to Taiwan contained a potentially cancer-causing impurity, a month after the same problem at another Chinese manufacturer prompted a global recall. Tianyu Pharm and Rundu Pharma said batches of valsartan, an active ingredient widely used in medications forRead More

Turns out, older people recognize errors less often than younger ones. In a new study, researchers from the University of Iowa devised a simple, computerised test to study how readily young adults and older adults realise when they have made a mistake.   Older adults performed just as well asRead More