HEALTH

While high heels may help you put the best fashion foot forward, their prolonged use may be a step backward for the health of your feet, new research says.

Childhood stress may have a bigger influence on weight gain by women than stress during adulthood, says a study.

Men in the age group of 31-45 years are at greater risk of thyroid dysfunction, a study says. The study conducted by SRL Diagnostics said...

New research the first time reveals that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for our basic understanding of pain, how we develop the next generation of medications for chronic pain—which is by far the most prevalent human health condition—and the way we execute basic biomedical research using mice.

New understanding of the effect of insulin on the brain's chemistry may open new routes for drug therapies that may have fewer side-effects.

A special protein found in the brain's tiniest blood vessels may increase the risk of stroke,

Daily bathing of paediatric patients with disposable clothes containing two percent chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) reduces bloodstream infections by 59 percent, a study shows.

Students with longer secondary education had an eight percent lower risk of HIV infection, about a decade later, from about 25 percent to about 17 percent infected, found the research

Dental x-rays are just as effective as traditional diagnostic methods in measuring bone density. Dental x-rays offer advantages over other imaging techniques because dental x-rays are common and are less expensive than other diagnostic imaging methods.

A new device that can accurately track chemical signals within cells and find out how cancerous growth begins has been invented by biomedical engineers.

The exquisite fibres of the famed mulberry silk can trigger regeneration of nerves and restore activity in limbs affected by traumatic injuries, courtesy a new technology developed by Indian scientists.