A five-minute session of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps reduce pain by at least 60 per cent, said scientists at the University of Reading. Studies reveal that positive thinking can relieve an individual of pain by changing the way it is "experienced."
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 22, 2014
Antiviral VivaGel in Ansell condoms, which is capable of inactivating 99.9 per cent of HIV virus, will be available in the Australian market within few months. The special technology has been designed by Australian biotechnology firm Starpharma.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 22, 2014
HIV researchers hope for an effective and functional cure may have a little setback called "long-term remission" instead of full annihilation of the virus. The status means that someone can still have detectable levels of the virus but not active enough to require further treatment.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 22, 2014
Purdue Pharma LP's hydrocodone bitartrate tablet (HYD) is undergoing "priority review" by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company recently announced.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 22, 2014
A drug combination that will help cure tuberculosis sooner has been devised by South African researchers.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 22, 2014
An article published in the journal Nature looked into psychological therapy that causes brain changes within patients of mental disorders. Though neuroscience and clinical science are different and there is a "culture gap" between the two, the essay suggests that the two disciplines must be combined and explored together for the best results.
Sarah Thomas
Jul 21, 2014
Particular parasites Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), found in cat’s intestines can help cure cancer, say scientists. The parasite, according to researchers causes a person’s immune system to react in a particular manner that parallels how the immune system attacks a tumor.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 18, 2014
Canola oil, along with low- glycemic-load (low-GL) food (legumes, temperature-climate fruit, and barley), help lower blood sugar levels in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes, reveals a study published in the journal Diabetes Care.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 17, 2014
Tracey Ann Ridley, 30, from Hastings, reportedly ended her life after her several calls to the helpline went unanswered. In order to make the 108 helplines (spread across the nation) more accessible and organised, the Ministry of Health, on the recommendation of Coroner Garry Evans, will be implementing a single, integrated telephone helpline.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 17, 2014
An Australian professor from Southern Cross University, Philip Hayward, said that people should start eating cane toads, sea urchins and camel meat for future sustainability and that it would become regular options in supermarket freezers.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 17, 2014
New findings suggest that vampire bat venom can help cure stroke and high blood pressure.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 17, 2014
Sass Mahuika, a grandmother from Gisborne, New Zealand, has set an example to thousands of 57-year-olds by losing 120 Kg’s and starting to walk, even though the doctors had told her that she would never walk again.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 17, 2014
A new study shows that babies, until they are eight months, can differentiate between speech sounds in languages more than one and that babies' brains practise speech even before they begin to talk.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 17, 2014
Tessa Evans was born without nose, a very rare facial anomaly called ‘arhinia’. The little girl, who is now 18-months-old, has helped in spreading awareness about her condition across the globe.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 17, 2014
Running, in place of ‘recreational drugs,’ brings in an endorphin rush, which in turn gives rise to a feel good factor, reveals a study. The ‘high’ that one can experience during a race, or a training session, is being referred to as ‘flow’ by psychologists.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 15, 2014
Four-year-old Madison Merrick, who was born with a bowel outside of her body, has been waiting for a bowel donor at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK, for the past one year.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 15, 2014
Men, after 39, lose their sex appeal and begin looking like father figures to younger ladies, reveal a study conducted by Crown Clinic in Manchester. According to a new study, men after the age of 39 become sexually invisible to younger women
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 15, 2014
About 48,000 X-rays taken at public hospitals at the Gold Coast since 2013 were not reviewed by a radiologist.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 15, 2014
Scientists have claimed that to fight the obesity crisis in Britain and to reduce type II diabetes, 'food capsules' can be used.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 15, 2014
Regular eye tests can help diagnose onset of Alzheimer’s disease, even before the symptoms appear, revealed studies. Two different techniques were used and both showed there was an indication of probable Alzheimer's disease in retina and lens of the eyes of individuals tested.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 14, 2014
The weather is not responsible for back pain, said researchers at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. According to the study, published this week in the journal ‘Arthritis Care & Research’, there is no connection between the weather and chronic pain conditions, which include severe back ache as well.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 14, 2014
Cycling does not cause infertility, contrary to age-old belief. However, it does raise risk of prostate cancer, say scientists at the University College London
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 14, 2014
Forty-year-old Willis Tepania, a father from Kaitaia, reportedly died of a cardiac arrest, five hours after participating in the ice challenge, which also included consuming nearly a liter of bourbon.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 11, 2014
Rotten Eggs and flatulence have hydrogen sulfide, which when used in the right dosage, can help in the treatment and cure of diabetes, arthritis, heart failure, dementia and aging, says scientists at the University of Exeter.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 11, 2014
Americans prefer to consume weight loss medications drugs and weight loss surgery in comparison to self-modification, which includes a healthy diet and exercise, reveals a study published in the Science Daily. However, previous studies have shown that weight loss medications drugs and weight loss surgery have extreme side effects and is not recommended by most doctors.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 11, 2014
Saskatchewan health-care workers have been advised to wear mask or get influenza vaccination to avoid the spread of flu. The Ministry of Health announced the "immunize-or-mask" ultimatum after recommendation from the Saskatchewan's medical health officers and other professionals in the health industry.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 11, 2014
Junior athletes, as young as 12, are reportedly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 10, 2014
Scientists have found indicators that can help predict if a teenager is into binge drinking.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 09, 2014
A registered nurse, 46 years of age, has been charged with the murder of two elderly women at an aged care facility in New South Wales.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 09, 2014
Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers and it looks like a breakthrough has been made for its care by researchers at the University of Queensland.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 09, 2014
