Researchers have discovered a new metabolic process in the body that can switch...
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If you only smoke marijuana there are higher chances that you may end up smoking cigarettes too, a new study suggests. According to the researchers, cannabis use is associated with an increased initiation of cigarette smoking among non-cigarette smokers. While cigarette smoking has long been on the decline, marijuana use is on the rise and,...
Spending a fun-filled childhood with friends can help boys to have good physical health in adulthood, according to a new study. "These findings suggest that our early social lives may have a small protective influence on our physical health in adulthood," said co-author Jenny Cundiff of Texas Tech University in the US. "It's not just o...
Patients with alcohol-related liver cancer do not live as long as patients with liver cancer that is not associated with alcohol consumption, a new study suggests. The findings suggest that patients with alcohol-related liver cancer have a reduced overall survival time mainly due to worse liver function and tumour characteristics at diagnosis...
Scientists have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person's own memory patterns to facilitate the brain's ability to encode and recall memory, an important step towards finding a way to restore memory loss. In the pilot study, published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, the researchers found that shor...
Consumption of choline -- an essential nutrient found in liver, eggs, wheat germ -- ...
Scientists have succeded in turning off the excruciating pain that often accompanies...
Researchers have found that an anti-inflammatory drug -- licensed for treating rheumatoid...
A new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs and has been successfully used to treat an infection could lead to the first new class of antibiotic drug in 30 years, says a team of Indian-origin scientists. In the study, published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, scientists successfully created a simplified, synthesised form of "tei...
