Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Smokers face heightened risk of seizures, says a new study. It is the first study to examine potential risks associated with smoking, caffeine intake, and alcohol consumption as ...

Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): People who smoke are more likely to have seizures than those who don't, says a new study by Boston-based researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical ...

Sydney, Nov 19 (DPA) One of the Bangladeshi conjoined twins Australian surgeons separated this week is talking and cuddling her stand-in mother while the other is wiggling her fingers and soon will ...

Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction has been found to improve heart function in children and young adults, say researchers. Single-ventricle defects are a collection of cardiac malformations ...

Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) Sildenafil, a drug for treating impotence, also perks up cardiac function in kids and young adults with single-ventricle congenital heart disease post Fontan surgery that redirects deoxygenated blood ...

London, Nov 19 (ANI): One of the Bangaldeshi twins separated in a 25-hour operation in Australia has awoken from an induced coma. Trishna and Krishna, who were rescued from an orphanage in Bangladesh ...

Washington, November 19 (ANI): Secondhand smoke exposure is worse for toddlers and obese children, according to a new study. The researchers, who presented their study at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009, ...

London, Nov 17 (ANI): Declan Gray, 10, is often mistaken to be a teenaged boy because of a rare form of cancer that induced rapid growth in him when he was just ...

London, Nov 17 (ANI): Surgeons at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital have separated conjoined Bangladeshi twins, who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue, after ...

Washington, Nov 17 (ANI): People who are uninsured are more likely to die following admission to the hospital for trauma, reveals a new US study. The research involving 687,091 American patients age 18 ...

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who show normal blood pressure (BP) at the doctor's clinic have high BP when tested at home, indicating many of them are ...

London, Nov 16 (ANI): British scientists have identified certain genetic mutations that contribute to inflammatory disorder, ulcerative colitis. Four genes namely LAMB1, CDH1, CDH3 and HNF4A play vital roles in keeping the intestine ...

Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): If patients with acute leukaemia are transplanted with two units of umbilical cord blood (UCB), their risk of the disease recurrence is significantly reduced, according to a new ...

Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): A new American study suggests that medical tests often fail to diagnose high blood pressure in kids with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The report indicates that those children, who ...

London, Nov 13 (ANI): A hospital in the UK has banned fat women from giving birth at its maternity ward. Mums-to-be who have a body mass index (BMI) of over 34 will be ...

Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) A newborn baby died in an Uttar Pradesh hospital after falling from a bed that was shared by him, his mother, another woman and another infant, an official ...

Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): A new study in monkeys has put scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients ...

Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): Texas Children's Hospital has become the first paediatric hospital in the US to discharge a child while on an intracorporeal ventricular assist device (VAD), a feat previously accomplished ...

Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Centre have developed a new microscope that will help easily identify brain tumours and precisely remove it ...

New York, Nov 10 (ANI): High-school male athletes are 1.4 times likelier to binge drink and 1.3 times likelier to fight, according to a new study. The survey, conducted by Susan Connor, a ...

Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): A major, long-term study of pregnant mothers and their foetuses as well as infant children has been launched to determine just how profoundly environmental factors early in life ...

Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has shown that school-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities. Researchers at the University of ...

Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids' physical activity in child care centres. A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati ...

Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids' physical activity in child care centres. A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati ...

Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has shown that school-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities. Researchers at the University of ...

Melbourne, Nov 5 (IANS) There is an alarming lack of sexual knowledge among international students in Australia, says a study that followed statistics indicating one in three abortions at a hospital in ...

Ranchi, Nov 5 (ANI): Income Tax sleuths on Thursday made it clear that former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda will be arrested as soon as he is discharged from hospital. The Enforcement Directorate ...

London, Nov 4 (ANI): Brit footballer Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen have taken their newborn baby boy, Kai Wayne Rooney, home from hospital. The Manchester United star picked up Coleen, 23, ...

By Meena Kar Nov. 3, (THAINDIAN NEWS) World Series Game 5 between Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees was dedicated to the Major League Baseball fan, Michael Goldsmith, who died recently. According to ...

London, Nov 3 (ANI): Brit footballer Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen have become proud parents of a baby boy and they have named him Kai Wayne Rooney. The unusual first name had ...