Butter gives pastry a fine flavor, golden color and a crisp texture. For rich pastries, such as puff or pate sucree, or sweet short crust pastry, where flavor is important, it is best to use butter. Firm margarine can be

On the first day, which was Sunday last, 15.68 lakh eligible children were administered polio drops," a spokesman of Haryana Health Department said here. A total of 5.58 lakh children were administered polio drops raising the total figure to 21.26

The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based on the fringe theory that mercury in vaccines triggers autism — a theory never proved and rejected by mainstream science. Mercury hasn't been in childhood vaccines since 2001, except

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ordered makers of flouroquinolone drugs — a potent class of antibiotics — to add a 'black box' warning to their products, which include Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin and other medications. Patients should immediately stop

In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who'd gotten medical monitoring but no or delayed treatment, another common treatment approach. The study involved nearly

Two studies presented at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology found that in-vitro fertilisation and the freezing of embryos did not significantly increase the babies' chances of medical problems. "These procedures are relatively safe and

Some groups complained the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which cut payments to doctors, would prompt physicians to drop patients or cut back on services. But Alisa Shea of the Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina and colleagues

In a study that followed nearly 1,000 older Finnish men for five years, researchers found that those who were regularly having sex at the start of the study were at lower risk of developing erectile dysfunction (ED) by the study's

Researchers writing in the July/August issue of the journal Health Affairs predicted these rates would double by 2028 unless the Chinese government took action -- with the rest of the developing world likely to follow suit. "What's happening in China

Metformin is primarily used to lower blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes. In the current study, researchers evaluated the effect of adding metformin versus placebo to a program of personal diet and exercise goal-setting for 85 obese adolescents

Neuroscientists at the UK-based University of Cambridge say that a protein found in immune cells may be a reliable marker for schizophrenia risk. Sabine Bahn of the Institute of Biotechnology, affiliated to the University of Cambridge, and her colleagues sought

Here's another reason to keep drinking moderate amounts of alcohol - without it you might end up in depression. According to a new research, stopping drinking, especially at moderate level, may lead to health problems including depression and a reduced

Besides making pasta's curry tangy, the plump and red tomato has far more serious benefits - the humble fruit can be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, says a group of researchers. The study, conducted by

You do not need to keep everything cool when you are rubbing fat into flour for shortcrust pastry, but even if your hands are not naturally cool (and few people's are) you can keep everything else cool, chill the mixing