Postmenopausal women who slept nine or more hours per night were 70 percent more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than women who slept an average of seven hours a night, according to the study published in Stroke: Journal of

Yoshiro Nagao and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say that dengue, which is also known as "breakbone fever", is generally not fatal for the first time around. The researchers say that the real threat is

Contrary to popular belief, a mosquito bite does not hurt. It is the anticoagulant saliva that the creature injects to stop the blood from clotting that causes inflammation and pain. The new biocompatible microneedle has been designed by Suman Chakraborty

Teen smokers make their first serious attempt to quit after only two-and-a-half months of smoking, by the time they have smoked for 21 months they have lost confidence . . .to quit, said Jennifer O'Loughlin Universit de Montral, co-author of

The program allows people who have been in hospital for a heart attack or heart surgery to undergo a six-week walking exercise rehabilitation program wherever it's convenient, while having their heart signal, location and speed monitored in real time," said

Atherosclerosis is a disease affecting arterial blood vessels that leads to heart disease. Professor Marc Feldmann will tell scientists attending the 2008 Congress of European Pharmacological Societies (EPHAR) - hosted by the British Pharmacological Society - that drugs he and

But if sleeping too much is bad then so is sleeping too little, with getting less than 6 hours of sleep modestly increasing risk of stroke in postmenopausal women. The study, led by Jiu-Chiuan Chen, M.D., Sc.D., assistant professor of

The new way of diagnosis can also enable earlier more objective detection, and intervention. The scientists, funded by the Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust, have discovered that people with OCD and their close family members show under-activation of brain

More research is needed, but we are encouraged by the effect the drug Dimebon had on Alzheimer's patients" said Dr. Rachelle Doody, professor of neurology at BCM and lead author of the study. In the study, the authors noted that

In a piece of comment published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, they write that there is evidence that particular medications may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others because of differences in their genetic makeup. The

In the first study, MUSC researchers along with a team from the University of Virginia Health System have found that topiramate, an effective therapeutic medication, not only decreases heavy drinking, but also cuts risk factors associated with heavy drinking. The

Utrecht University researchers say that their study focuses on detailed interactions between a mutating virus and the immune system. A research article in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology highlights the fact that HIV relies upon viral variants called "escape

Lazy eye, also named amblyopia, is a condition that is the most prevalent cause of visual impairment in a single eye, affecting about six million people in the United States alone. "If not detected early enough-before seven to twelve years

Panchamirtham' of the Dhandayuthapani Swamy temple was famous like the "laddu" of Lord Venkateshwaraswami temple of Tirupati and regarded as the oldest form jam. Temple authorities told pti that their main objective to introduce the automated plants was to produce

No militant group has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack, aimed at a security patrol in Banihal town, 110 km (68 miles) south of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital. "The injured included some security personnel and school going children," a police

MDMK leader Vaiko told reporters here that he has authorised party MP C Krishnan to issue a three line whip to other members A Ravichandran and dissident members L Ganesan and Gingee N Ramachandran to go by the party directive.

Samajwadi Party MP Munnawar Hassan has said he will defy the party whip and vote against the government. He claims the support of seven more MPs. ''Mayawati has my unconditional support. There are few others who are ready to vote

Menon had a brief meeting with the IAEA Director General, sources said. However, the details of their talks were not known. The Foreign Secretary is here to brief the 35-member IAEA Board and 19 NSG members, which are not part

The meeting, addressed by party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and General Secretary Amar Singh, has assumed importance as the SP has become a crucial ally of the Congress-led coalition at the Centre ahead of the confidence motion. While MPs Ateeq

On a tip off, troops and police launched a search operation in Gurha Marmath area of Doda district and recovered a cache of 20 kg of explosives which include, magazines, rounds, detonators and grenades, on Thursday night, official sources said.