Scientists are on their way to develop a hormone-free contraceptive pill CDB-4022 for men that would prohibit pregnancy without inducing any long-run effect on their fertility. As soon as the intake of this drug is ceased, sperm comes back to...
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Each hour spent after mid-night drives a nail onto your coffin! It probably finds its best manifestation through employees working in BPO sector with factors like long working hours, erratic job-schedule, stress, and heavy work pressure eroding their...
Being pregnant or in other words, the feeling of a to-be-mom is indeed one experience nothing can outdo. Maternity time is not only the happiest times for a mother but even people(except a few) pay all the attention and respect to such a lady. Being...
So, you are overweight and obese and nothing can motivate you to get off the couch to exercise and nothing can stop you from giving in to the temptations of dumping extra servings of food on your plate but you still want to lose that flab without...
When it comes to take wise decisions, alcoholics certainly miss something crucial – the capacity to take decisions firmly, as a new study having brain scans on nine sober recovering alcoholics, confirms that frontal cortex – the part of the...
The auspicious day of Christmas proved fatal for a 24-year-old woman from Jakarta, thanks to deadly bird flu that lulled her forever on this auspicious day after a long struggle of several days. With this death, total number of victims claimed by bird...
Hospitals, drugs and biomedical technology are meant to cure patients in physical and mental distress. However, commercialization of new therapies meant to cure the diseased will cause impoverishment of patients and their families. This has become...
Malaria, the deadly killer which kills more then one million and cause illness to almost 500 million people each year worldwide, can be dealt with the help of sea cucumbers. We do have cures for malaria but as per Professor Sanjeev Krishna, an expert...
Every year, a large number of people through out the world die of cancer. Though there has been much advancement in discovering new drugs for treating the disease, the current therapies have a number of side-effects that at times assume deadly...
Do you remember the popular story by Mary Shelley - Dr. Frankenstein? Dr. Frankenstein created a monster that at the end brought its creator's death. Soon a real person with artificial brain will walk on the face of earth if Henry Markram, director...
Granny always advised not to read in dim light as it would damage the sight and to drink eight glasses of water to keep you going; even the physician said so, and we all happily adhered to them. Many of us believe in some 'fact' or the other and so...
Detecting cancer cells in blood has never been easy. The failure to detect the malignant cells in the blood at an early stage of the disease is responsible for a large number of deaths. According to Mehmet Toner of Massachusetts General Hospital, nine...
A study published in 'Brain', a journal highlighted the massive benefits of a rehabilitation training for patients with spinal cord injuries. The intensive training has been sidelined in the recent years, espeially after the breakthrough of stem cell...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the biggest research universities has come up with a way to create tiny engineered blood vessels. This will be a huge breakthrough in the field of medicine when it comes to the foray. As the...
According to a report there will be 7.6 million cancer deaths out of 12 million cancer cases in 2007 worldwide. This is according to the Global Cancer Facts and Figures, which was released by American Cancer Society on Monday. The majority of deaths are...
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