Health

Diets with reduced protein may be key to lowering the risk for heart disease

Lower protein diets may lessen the risk for cardiovascular disease.

New tool to identify sleep stages accurately

This opens up new avenues for the diagnostics and treatment of sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnoea.

Babies born with low birth weights more likely to have poor cardiorespiratory fitness later

Get easily out of breath? It may be because you were small at birth.

Role of uric acid on Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is a collection of conditions that happen together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. These conditions include...

New antiviral materials made using sugar

This compound could also be effective against new emerging viruses such as the recent coronavirus currently of concern in China.

A new gene may help produce pain killers

A joint team of scientists from the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Mohali, Punjab, and Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Manipur,...

Men and women store fat differently. How?

Ask the fruit fly.

Indian scientists discovered a new way to fight TB

Tuberculosis kills. When it doesn’t, its effect stays for what is a lifetime. To make things worse, the current approach for treating TB consumes...

Trojan Horse: A nanoparticle that eats away plaques that cause heart attacks

A potential treatment for atherosclerosis.

Smoking ban in cars have lasting impacts on a child’s health

A public ban on smoking in cars in England and Wales has led to fewer children being exposed to cigarette smoke

Could depression be linked to our cells’ metabolism?

EPFL researchers have discovered a compound that stimulates brain-cell metabolism and reduces signs of depression in mice. The next step will be to test their findings on humans.

Drug to effectively improves Autism symptoms by targeting the brain’s chemical messengers

The study demonstrates for the first time that the drug improves the symptoms by decreasing the ratio of the GABA to glutamate in the brain.

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