A new study by an Indian-origin researcher from Australia claims that mobile phones are much more dangerous than cigarettes! Read on to know why he thinks so.
The study’s lead author Dr.Vini Khurana, a cancer expert said, “There is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain […]
A new study has found another benefit of drinking green tea. Besides lowering prostate cancer risk and protecting the bladder from getting inflamed, this tea has been found to assist antibiotics to fight resistant super bugs, making antibiotics up to three times more effective.
Mervat Kassem of Alexandria University in Egypt, “We tested green tea […]
A study has found that regular communication with doctors not only lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease, but is also very important to maintain a healthy heart.
Researchers examined healthy patients in rural and urban areas through frequent patient-doctor communications. The patients and doctors interacted via an Internet-based health reporting system in conjunction with regular […]
A medical magazine has said that cranberry juice is helpful for women who suffer frequently from bladder infections.
It has been found that cranberry juice disinfects the urine and can possibly prevent further illness.
It is known that in older women, bladder infection tends to cause incontinence. Previous infections typically are caused by bacteria of […]
Scientists have suggested that frequent exposure to pesticides could double the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
They found that people who use insect sprays or weed killers at home or on their job were at a 60% greater risk of developing the degenerative nervous system disorders, which increases with the frequency of use.
Parkinson’s occurs when nerve […]
Though the phenomenon of AIDS has been recognized by modern medicine only around 20 years ago due to the discovery of a strain in a species of monkeys found in Africa; Ayurveda appears to have actually established its identity about 2000 years ago.
In Ayurveda, HIV has even been ascribed to unhygienic habits which could […]
U.S. researchers in a report in the journal Science have said that many genetic mutations, each one rare, may contribute to schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia has a strong heritable component. Researchers have long struggled to find the genetic culprits. The working hypothesis has been that the disease is caused by combinations of common gene variants, each contributing […]
A new research has found that a diet rich in omega-3 can actually help reduce the severity of symptoms in eczema patients. Eczema which is also known as dermatitis is a group of skin conditions that causes dry, itch inflammation of the skin.
Purified fish oil supplements which contain omega-3 were found to cut the […]
A new research has showed that human noses have evolved to sniff out the smell of real danger! They found that emotion plays a huge part when it comes to differentiating between similar smells.
Scientists found that volunteers who were previously unable to differentiate between two similar scents, learnt to tell them apart when given […]
Researchers in Sydney have found that bitter melon contains a powerful treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Bitter melon is often used as a traditional Chinese medicine.
The research team was from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. They pulped around a ton of fresh bitter melon and extracted […]
