Health and Lifestyle

London, Mar 14: Despite giving you sleepless nights, constant worry and financial headaches, parenthood may be key to having a longer life, particularly in older age when health and capacity start to decline, a new study has claimed. By the age of 60, the difference in life expectancy, which does not seem to be influenced by the sex of the children, may be as much as two years, the findings

Mar 13: The ability to perform astonishing feats of memory, such as remembering lists of several dozen words, can be learned, according to a team of researchers. After 40 days of daily 30-minute training sessions using a strategic memory improvement technique, individuals who had typical memory skills at the start and no previous memory training more than doubled their memory capacity, going from

Washington, Mar 12: Children who are bullied may experience lifelong health effects related to chronic stress exposure such as increased risk for heart disease and diabetes in adulthood, new research has found. Recent advances in understanding of the negative health effects of chronic stress highlight a pressing need to clarify the longer-term health implications of childhood bullying, researchers

Berlin, Mar 12: Walking or jogging may help cancer patients cope better with the side effects of chemotherapy, a new study has found. Exercise as a therapy to complement chemotherapy has a positive effect on muscles, balance and tumour-related fatigue syndrome, researchers said. Patients tolerate the therapy better and experience less disease recurrence (relapses) later on. This has already been

Washington, Mar 11: Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have identified a chemical signal in the zebrafish brain that helps it regenerate retina, a finding that may help cure blindness in humans. The discovery raises the possibility that human retinas can be induced to regenerate, naturally repairing damage caused by degenerative retinal diseases and injury, including age-related macular

Mar 10: Women beware before dying your hair or using hormonal contraceptives, as they may increase your chances of breast cancer. Researcher Sanna Heikkinen from the University of Helsinki in Finland and Finnish Cancer Registry evaluated the contribution of the use of hormonal contraceptives and hair dyes on breast cancer risk factors. "The biggest risk factor in breast cancer is high age and

Washington, Mar 8: Trying to stick to a diet? You may want to avoid eating out with friends, say scientists who found that the temptation to overeat is stronger in social settings such as restaurants. Researchers from University of Pittsburgh in the US, used smartphones and a custom-developed application to capture data of 150 dieters, 90 per cent of which were women, moved through everyday life

New Delhi, Mar 6: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said that each year environmental pollutants claim the lives of 1.7 million children under five. The new numbers equate to these unhealthy environments being the cause of one in four deaths of children one month to five years old. "A polluted environment is a deadly one - particularly for young children," says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO

Washington D.C, Mar 5: Urban noise pollution and hearing loss are closely linked, according to rankings of 50 large cities in both categories released on Friday. High-decibel urban areas-such as Guangzhou, New Delhi, Cairo and Istanbul-topped the list of cities where hearing was most degraded, researchers reported. Likewise, cities least afflicted by noise pollution-including Zurich, Vienna, Oslo

London, Mar 4: Air pollution may increase the potential of bacteria to cause respiratory infections by reducing the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment, scientists have found for the first time. The study by researchers at the University of Leicester in the UK has important implications for the treatment of infectious diseases, which are known to be increased in areas with high levels of air