A new study, which happens to be the first of its kind, suggests that women who have long ring fingers are more likely to face a greater risk of developing arthritis of the knees. Arthritis is an inflammation of a joint accompanied by pain, swelling and stiffness.
The study was conducted by researchers from Nottingham [...]
A student in New Zealand Fleur de Vere Beavis, who is currently all of 20 years has been diagnosed with the country’s first known and reported case of texting tenosynovitis, simply known as text-messenger’s thumb.
Fleur de Vere Beavis has been known to send up to 100 text messages a day on her mobile phone.
It [...]
An Indonesian man named Dede has been dubbed as the “Tree Man” because he has got massive bark-like warts growing on much of his body. He may be barred from traveling to the US to receive treatment.
Interestingly, Dede was seen in a Discovery Channel documentary this month that showed his woody growths and root-like [...]
A new study in Britain has indicated that handwriting can reveal whether a person has a heart condition. However, some scientists disagree with this.
Handwriting researcher Cristina Strang, who led the study in Britain, said previous studies have only focused on the effects of neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s diseases on [...]
According to a study by researchers at the University of Kentucky, tooth loss and oral diseases may be indications that a person could develop dementia later in life.
The team of researchers, led by Pamela Sparks Stein in the UK College of Medicine’s Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, analyzed data collected from 144 participants in [...]
Sanofi-Aventis, French pharmaceutical group has stated that the U.S. health officials have approved another application of its anti-cancer drug “Taxotere.”
The company said that the drug has been sanctioned to treat locally advanced head and neck cancer before chemo-radiotherapy and surgical treatment.
The approval is based on the outcomes of a phase III clinical examination, which [...]
US health officials have said that they are very much concerned about a rise in the number of people killed by a microscopic bug living in lakes. This killer amoeba enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds. This eventually leads to death.
In spite of encounters with the deadly [...]
A woman the north-western state of Rajasthan in India was actually thrown out of her house and denied custody of her nine-year old daughter because she is HIV positive.
As reported by the NDTV network, the woman had married a soldier from whom she contracted the disease. She was then thrown out of her home [...]
An Indian-born Australian doctor Vini Gautam Khurana and his team at Canberra Hospital have performed the world’s first awake brain keyhole surgery to remove a life-threatening aneurysm or a large blister from a patient’s brain.
‘We believe it is the first time that this kind of aneurysm and malformation have been shut down through a [...]
Sometime ago, we had reported about an anti-wrinkle cream developed by researchers.The Camel milk may soon lead to a cream that keeps the skin glowing and wrinkle free.
The National Research Centre on Camel (NRCC) here is carrying out experimental research on the cream, and scientists say they have had “positive results”.
“We and a local [...]
