Afza Kandrikar Fathima

Digital health revolution arrives at a time when the United States population is getting older, sicker and sedentary.

A research by Thomas Perls, director of New England Centenarian Study, suggested that women who have children after the age of 33 have a bigger chance of living longer than women who gave birth to their last child before the age of 30.

A study published in Science by a team at the University of Virginia showed that people would rather shock themselves than be left alone.

Autistic children can develop their social communication skills by using computer tablets as part of their treatment, suggest a new study by the University of California in the United States.

A new Australian research has shown there will be an accelerated ice melt in Antarctica and a consequent increase in the sea level.

Physicist Louis Del Monte believes that new artificial intelligence technology will threaten the survival of humankind and in 30 years, probably, the top species on our planet, Earth, will not be humans.

A perfect candidate for contraceptive has been developed by a U.S. tech start-up MicroCHIPS.

'Consciousness' is a term that many scientists have been researching for more than a centrury, trying to figure out what it is and how it works.

Astronauts are keen to go on a one-way trip in Mars One by 2018.

NASA is usually associated with fascinating jobs like that of astronauts, rocket ship engineers and scientists. A job, classified as weird, which joins this list of fascinating jobs is that of a staff sniffer.

Australian surgeons from Monash Children's Hospital have successfully carried out a complex procedure involving the removal of a huge growth from the face of a Filipino boy.

Nicole Scherzinger, ex-Pussycat doll and X-factor UK judge, has suffered from bulimia, an eating disorder, for eight years.

A Tucson-based start-up is planning to use a helium balloon to take passengers on a luxury space tour.

A study in Biology Letters suggests that a walking kangaroo propels itself with its tail, essentially transforming the appendage into a fifth "leg".

High tech "reverse" vending machines have been installed in Sydney that lets people deposit recyclable waste like plastic bottles and cans in turn for rewards like bus tickets.

A new study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the frequency with which pain killers are prescribed varies from state to state whereas the medical conditions involving pain does not. The study shows that Alabama prescribes 143 pain killers for every 100 people, making it the top most state to prescribe painkillers.

One of the most extreme ecosystems but beautiful hot springs in the planet are in New Zealand.

Women's fertility starts to deteriorate when they hit their mid-thirties.

To help find a cure for hypertrophy, scientists from Abertay University in the United Kingdom have grown tiny beating hearts.

A project that screened scientific titles and papers on safety of vaccine concluded that vaccination for children is safe.

Australians will be proud of the national health report released in 2014. The report, title Australia's Health 2014, by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare showed that Australians are living longer, healthier and happier lives.

Like every coin has two sides, e-cigarettes, too, have two sides to it, in which one side suggests that it helps smokers quit smoking, and the other suggests that these devices may be seen as a portal for nicotine addiction by teen smokers.

The new national commissioner's priority is to save threatened species, with a fatal bait called "curiosity," which is designed to kill wild cats.

A psychiatric report found that Oscar Pistorius, South African track star, when he shot his girlfriend, was not suffering from any mental condition that might have impaired his ability to judge between right and wrong.

A national park wil be established on the landing sites in the Moon, used by missions between 1969 and 1972 by Apollo, proposed legislation in the House of Representatives.

A study done in a Los Angeles middle school shows that students sending and receinving "sext" messages were more likely to be sexually active than the non-sexting students. Younger teens see sexting as a substitute for real sex.

Robert Downey Jr, after the arrest of his son, Indio, for the possession of cocaine, said, "Unfortunately there's a genetic component to addiction and Indio has likely inherited it.

A recent experiment conducted by the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital involved preserving some organs for a longer period using anti-freezing technique.

Without expensive testing, it is difficult to diagnose genetic diseases but now a new computer program is designed to help diagnose rare genetic diseases by using family photographs.