Kuala Lumpur, July 13 (ANI): Women better avoid late marriage and men tight pants, for they may lead to fewer babies, according to a Malaysian study. Dr V. Jeyabalan a Pantai Hospital fertility specialist, says that blames smoking, casual sex, and junk food are the other factors that are to blame for causing infertility. “The changing role of women is the main reason for their infertility,” the... 

Ahmedabad, July 9 (ANI): With the death of 25 more people, the death toll following the consumption of spurious liquor in Ahmedabad rose to 73 on Thursday. According to police, 25 more people died during treatment at various hospitals. Over hundred people are still undergoing treatment.   The new cases were reported from Odhav, Amaraiwadi and Rakhial. Residents and shop-keepers from the affected... 

Washington, July 8 (ANI): Chinese herbs have been found to be effective in relieving side effects of the endometriosis treatment, say researchers. Endometriosis is a gynaecological disorder affecting as many as one in six women of reproductive age. It can cause pelvic pain, irregular and painful periods, and infertility. A systematic review by Cochrane researchers has shown that women experienced... 

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Scientists have found a genetic function behind breast cancer cells’ ability to survive and spread to the bone years after treatment has been administered. Led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), the study comes as scientists are looking for therapies to target this survival capacity and force the death of latent breast cancer cells before... 

New York, July 7 (ANI): American actress Carla Gugino has admitted that she doesn’t like the way aging actresses are treated in Hollywood. “It is bizarre, certainly in Hollywood, when you hit 23 [and] people start to ask you, ‘How does it feel to get older?’ the New York Post quoted her as telling Moves magazine. “It is absolutely surreal because, as a woman, when you... 

London, July 6 (ANI): Taking a big leap towards finding a treatment of vascular diseases, a team led by an Indian-origin scientist at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) has discovered a key switch that makes stem cells turn into the type of muscle cells that reside in the wall of blood vessels. Dr. Deepak Srivastava’s study claimed that the same switch could be used in... 

Washington, July 2 (ANI): A new study has suggested that people with ankle injuries who do not respond successfully to initial treatment may fully recover with the help of two new procedures. The study reviews emerging techniques that have shown promise in treating injuries to the talus, the small bone, which is located between the heel bone and the lower bones of the leg. The talus helps form the... 

Washington, July 2 (ANI): A simple blood test can now tell whether In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) would be successful in a particular patient or not. Dr. Cathy Allen and her team from the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, have for the first time identified genetic predictors of the potential success or failure of IVF treatment in blood-a discovery, they reckon, can help understand why IVF works for... 

London, June 11 (ANI): Scientists at University of Edinburgh have found that a treatment that prevents premature births in single pregnancies may be not work for women expecting more than one child. The study suggests an underlying difference between the way in which premature births occur in women with single and multiple pregnancies. According to researchers, the findings could help inform improvements... 

Washington, June 11 (ANI): Scientists in the UK have identified a new appetite suppressant for promoting weight loss. Prokineticin 2 is a recently discovered signaling molecule that occurs naturally in the part of the brain that helps control hunger. According to researchers, the brain molecule could one day be used to develop an effective anti-obesity treatment. In the study, when both lean and obese... 

London, June 10 (ANI): Taking a big leap in medical trials, scientists have now created virtual twins-different personalised simulations of living body parts of a person-so that medications or surgery are tested before the patient undergoes the real treatment. Researchers around the world are creating virtual body parts, so that bespoke therapies can be tested and optimised without risk to the patient. A... 

Washington, June 8 (ANI): A large number of women with breast cancer go for antioxidant supplements while undergoing cancer treatment, despite the possible side-effects of the practice remain unknown, according to a study.   The study called for additional research to determine the effects of antioxidant supplementation on the health and survival of breast cancer patients. Antioxidant supplements... 

London, June 8 (ANI): Brit plastic surgeons have warned women that the cosmetic fillers used for breast enlargements could prove to be risky for them. According to the poll for the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), in the last one year, some surgeons have seen almost 10 to 12 women suffering complications following treatment with the injectable filler, Macrolane.   Costing... 

London, June 8 (ANI): Researchers have found that a two-drug combination of Zileuton and Gleevec could be a potent treatment of a lethal cancer, called chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Dr, Shaoguang Li, The Jackson Laboratory Adjunct Professor, led a team of researchers who identified a gene, called Alox5, involved with the inflammatory response that could hold the key to treating or even preventing... 

Washington, June 6 (ANI): An extensive review of previously reported studies suggests that the consequences of tobacco use and dependence for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities can be especially severe. “This is too important an issue to ignore,” said Dr. Marc L. Steinberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the article’s...