A 300-kg Briton, who is looking forward to getting married, became the heaviest patient to undergo weight loss surgery in Asia when he went under the knife at a clinic in Maharashtra's Pune city, a doctor said Tuesday. Doctor Shashank Shah at Ruby Hall Clinic and his team conducted the surgery upon 35-year-old Zachari Andrew Smith from London Nov 4. < ... Read more »

Women experiencing heart attack symptoms delay going to hospital for nearly three hours on an average, says a new study.

The US study confirms that women are more likely to ignore life-threatening symptoms because they think a heart attack is predominantly a 'male problem'.

A recent survey found that fewer than a third of British women ... Read more »

Painkillers taken by pregnant women could expose their unborn sons to risk of infertility, researchers say.

Prolonged use of medicines such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen may harm the development of boys' sexual organs.

Around half of women take over-the-counter painkillers during pregnancy, usually for headaches, according to t ... Read more »

Respiratory infections such as influenza and other causes of pneumonia kill 4.25 million people every year, many of them young children, according to a report released on Tuesday.
These infections account for 6% of all deaths globally, the World Lung Foundation said in releasing its Acute Respiratory Infections Atlas.
"We know that at least 4 million people die from acute respiratory infections, yet the global health community does not even recognise them as a distinct disease g ... Read more »

Children who text and e-mail late at night may become depressed, anxious or suffer learning difficulties.

The US researchers said that unlike watching TV, which is a passive activity, sending e-mails and texts involved more interaction and kept the brain busy at the time when it should be shutting down.

The pilot research team from the JFK Sleep Center in Edison, New Jersey, gave questionnaires to 40 people aged between eight and 22, asking about their sleep habits and use o ... Read more »

A newly developed crystal, sprinkled on food for added flavour, can help you lose those extra pounds by tricking your brain into believing that you have consumed more food than the actual quantity.

The result of using the crystals is that smaller portions are eaten and the pounds just roll away, their creators say.

They have already be ... Read more »

Sexually abused children are likely to develop psychotic illnesses later in life, a study says.

Researchers from Monash University, Australia, say that such children are more likely to develop schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, which includes post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal behaviour and substance abuse.

Margaret Cut ... Read more »

A new drug therapy could unlock paralysed arms and legs of stroke and head injury victims and radically ease their lives.

The discovery by researchers from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and University of California, US, can also restore mobility of a stroke victim by 50 percent.

If successfully tested on humans, the therapy wou ... Read more »

Pedestrians stare, motorists mock, but Rajeev Arora rides along on his bicycle unfazed. The 72-year-old saysis his "second love, first being single malt whisky".

"I swear by cycling. I encourage my children and grandchildren to cycle. I cycle rigorously every day for almost two hours. It allows me to de-stress completely," Arora told IANS . ... Read more »