Suffering from increased blood pressure, high blood sugar? One year of yoga training may help, a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher suggests....
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) have been in existence in India since 2011 to...
Tamil Nadu should double its wind energy capacity to 15 gigawatts (GW) and...
New York, Feb 6 Drinking tea when it is too hot may increase the risk of esophageal cancer in those who smoke cigarettes and consume alcohol daily, a new study warns. However, tea aficionados do not have much reasons to worry as the researchers found that in the absence of both excessive alcohol consumption and smoking, daily tea drinking ...
Researchers have developed a two-minute questionnaire for parents that could help pediatricians and other primary care providers detect autism in toddlers, at a time when intervention might be crucial. According to the researchers, the Psychological Development Questionnaire (PDQ-1) had an 88 per cent likelihood of correctly identifying ...
Stephen Friend, a veteran health researcher, left Apple Inc's health team late in 2017, after serving a little over a year at the job. "His speciality involves rethinking health care research, with a focus on creating open incentives and standards that benefit patients. That was the mission of Sage Bionetworks -- a non-profit organisatio...
People with diabetes are at double the risk of developing cataract as the general population and the relative risk is highest in those aged between 45 and 54, a study says. Cataract is one of the main causes of global sight loss. "The report has shown that having diabetes doubles your risk of being diagnosed with a cataract, and that this r...
Guwahati, Feb 5 (IANS) Over a century after it was first documented and feared to have gone extinct, a rare plant species that contains anti-carcinogenic properties has been rediscovered by a forest officer in Assam. Popularly known in Assamese as Gandheli, the plant species, Nothapodytes nimmoniana, was rediscovered by Forest Officer Jatindr...
A team of US neuroscientists has identified "anxiety cells" in the brains of mice...
Every family has had close relatives who have been victims of cancer. In most cases...
