HEALTH & WELLBEING

Health experts advice women who just gave birth to take it easy before resuming exercises and to consult their health providers first after six weeks of delivery.

Scientists, in a quest to find an HIV cure, have uncovered part of the protein TRIM5alpha that may help fight off HIV infection by attaching itself to protein SUMO.

Urine smell may help in the detection of Alzheimer’s disease in near future suggests a mice model study.

Researchers have found that the HPV vaccine uptake is highest among girls in majority of Hispanic and high poverty communities.

Mysterious cancers of unknown origin are extremely difficult to identify and treat though researchers have found a link between HPV and these cancers and results are promising.

A diet of fish is rich in omega-6 and omega-3 that can help promote a child’s healthy brain development.

Acetaminophen, such as Tylenol, ranked first in the list, which includes accidental poisonings in babies, based on a report from the total calls to poison control centres.

Researchers show the association of high urate levels with the risk of Parkinson’s but does not necessarily prove that high levels actually lower the chances of developing the disease.

According to a new study, the substance ebastine, found in hay fever medications, can reduce symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Flavonoids are associated with a reduced risk of developing erectile dysfunction, especially in younger men.

Experts believe that men with low resistance to stress at age 18 years are more prone to develop type 2 diabetes.

Scientists claim that food allergy is linked to hyperactive immunity.

The birth delivery mode and feeding method could impact long-term health in infants.

Scientists have found significant anti-cancer properties in the popular painkiller Diclofenac.

Scientists found that hookah tobacco smoking, also known as pneumatic water pipe, gives off more toxicants than a regular cigarette.

A new scientific research has found a common stress hormone responsible for women’s inability to cope with chronic stress.

While bacterial infection Meliodosis has shown resistance towards a wide range of antibiotics, researchers have not yet found any virus Zika treatment.

People with diabetes have a 60 percent higher chance of developing dementia, suggests a new Australian research.

DNA sequencing costs are expected to dip by 2019 and that will put the cost of the new cancer universal blood test to around US$500 ($AU716.64).

A new research says that women age slower if they have more children.

Chromium has generated the carcinogenic form in living cells and health experts have urged people not to take chromium supplements until and unless doctors recommend it.

Drug-resistant malaria in Cambodia has raised serious concerns regarding the spread of the disease to other parts of the world.

New York officially rolled-out its closely monitored medical marijuana program on Thursday.

A carpenter from Germany invented a valve for male contraception that will be tested in 2016.

The untreatable Alzheimer’s disease may soon have a treatment as a study reveals that blocking the CSF1R brain receptor can check Alzheimer’s progression.

Vitamin D, which is used to strengthen bones and prevent fractures in older patients, can actually increase the risk of fractures and falls, suggests a new study.

Scientists say that the broken-heart syndrome is an actual medical diagnosis, exhibiting the same signs of a typical heart attack.

Oral contraceptive use in early pregnancy does not cause birth defects.

A customer’s food decision at restaurants is influenced by the weight of the waiter.