HEALTH & MEDICINE

Separation from iPhone causes users to perform poorly on tests and feel disoriented.

Hormonal contraceptive injection Depo-Provera could increase women's risk of HIV infection.

Researchers have found a new class of dengue antibodies that can help to develop a vaccine for the disease.

The U.S. FDA has approved a new treatment for ovarian cancer from AstraZeneca

A law in North Carolina that required doctors to describe to a pregnant woman about her fetus before she has an abortion has been struck down on the grounds that it violates freedom of expression.

Genetics startup 23andMe has tied up with Genentech, a unit of Roche, to find a treatment for Parkinson's, which affects about 1 million people in the United States.

Weight loss surgery is found to increase the chances of long term survival in obese patients.

Female mice fed on a diet containing corn syrup died faster and reproduced slower than those that were fed a diet containing table sugar, a new study found.

E-cigarettes are found to contain toxic vapors and are more harmful than was earlier believed.

Bilingual people constantly do mental workout which makes them better at mental functions than their monolingual counterparts.

Depression is not only a psychological illness as it may be caused by inflammation, a new study has found.

A new study shows that wild geese may carry bird flu virus on their wings when they migrate. The study uses GPS tracking data of four species of Asian wild fowl and genetic analysis of the virus to suggest that the strain H5N1 travels along migratory flyways.

An American man with the rare medical condition called diphallia has just released a book sharing his experiences of having two working penises.

Denee Mallon of Albuquerque, New Mexico, just made medical history by having Medicare cover the cost of her sex reassignment surgery and probably being the oldest who had undergone sex change at age 74.

Researchers at the University of Scranton published a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychology that revealed that out of forty five percent of Americans that make new year's resolutions, only around eight percent of them actually succeed in keeping to the resolutions that they make.

A recent study conducted in the University of Colorado Cancer Centre suggests that there is a way to curb cancerous cells from reproducing, by reprogramming the stem cells after radiation.

A new study explored the possibility that people with diabetes, who have unreliable access to medical supplies and food, may have more trouble controlling their diabetes than people who don't seem to have the same issues.

An experimental programme conducted by the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam has come up with a new treatment procedure for people with arthritis.

Scientists who have been working on finding causes of developmental disorders, may have found twelve new issues that could be attributed to cause developmental disorders.

A recent study suggests that reading e-books right before going to bed, may result in disturbed sleep patterns as well as alertness during the following day.

New developments in bioengineering make it possible to create functional replacements for impaired human organs in the future.

A recent study suggests that smartphones, especially those that are touch screen enabled may be reshaping the human brain.

Recent studies have suggested that natural remedies might help in slowing down the aging process.

Researchers have taken a stab at identifying what truly makes the human mind smile and how it can affect an individual's mental state.

Recent studies may have found a link between the development of autism, and exposure to pollution during pregnancy.

A study has revealed that an experimental Ebola vaccine tested right among African nationals had yielded early promising results.

Researchers found that ibuprofen extended the life span of a human by 12 years.

The scientific community received a strong blow to the gut when Japanese researchers announced that their supposed breakthrough research on stem cells proved to yield no positive results.

Researchers at UCLA have been successful in developing a lens-free microscope that is able to detect cancer as well as other cell abnormalities, developing at a cellular level.