Also, mortality rates for newborns are almost 10 times greater in Southeast Asia than in developed countries, according to a major new study that urges more proactive steps to cut down mother and child mortality Researchers at the University of

The groom, five-year-old Rohan Kumar, and his four-year-old bride Soni Kumari were administered polio drops by volunteers of the pulse polio eradication drive at Hisua in Nawada district, about 160 km from here. "A few minutes before the marriage of

To study the matter, Ethan Weiss and colleagues at the university used a mouse model of thrombosis. Thrombosis-related proteins are made in the liver, where expression of the genes containing the information needed for their generation is regulated by growth

During the study, they showed that a single protein, HS1, enables key functions of natural killer (NK) cells, which kill early cancers and fight off viral infections. The protein allows the NK cells to pursue their targets, latch on to

An amount of alcohol that may be beneficial for men is not good for women at all," said Dr. Hiroyasu Iso, a professor of public health at Osaka University who jointly wrote the study report, published in Stroke: Journal of

The researchers have revealed that they derived the muscle-building stem cells from a larger pool of so-called satellite cells, which normally associate with mature muscle fibres and play a role in muscle growth and repair. They say that besides their

Wondering just how this is going to help you shed those extra pounds? Well as it turns out, eating chocolate is part of the new 'Big Breakfast' weight-loss plan that involves 700-calories worth of carbohydrates into your body when you

Washington University School of Medicine researchers actually transplanted the exact complement of sounds to the clinic of Michael Valente, who heads the School's audiology division. "We have a sound-room set up to be an exact duplication of being in a

Although a relationship between thunderstorms and increased hospital visits for asthma attacks has been known and studied worldwide for years, this is the first time a detailed study of the phenomenon has been conducted in the American South. For the

Cardiac diseases had been on the rise all over the world, but emerging countries were the worst affected, Cherian, also Chairman and Managing Director, Frontier Lifeline Hospital, told reporters at Parumala in neighbouring Pathanamthitta. He said the Frontier Lifeline was