By Vidushi Sinha from Washington Global life expectancy can be increased by almost five years and millions of premature deaths prevented if five risk factors affecting health are addressed, according to a report by the World Health O...
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Women calling 911 with cardiac symptoms took longer than men to get to the hospital after an emergency medical services team had arrived in response to the call, a new study found. It's not clear why this was the case, but a number of gender diffe...
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Reviewed By: Steven A. King, M.D. Do you toss and turn at night, wishing for sleep but unable to get a decent night's rest? If so, you are not alone. About half of all Americans occasionally have trouble falling or remaining asleep, accord...
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Washington, December 20, 2008: A Cornell researcher has adopted a new way to study exactly how birds communicate-recording their songs and then playing them back to other birds of the same species. Behavioural ecologist Sandra Vehrencamp records b...
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By Dennis Thompson SUNDAY :June 8, 2008: The pace of life gets faster and faster, and people try to cram more and more into every minute of the day. As things get more hectic, sleep tends to get short shrift. It's seen as wasted time, lost fore...
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Scientists began releasing the robotic arm on NASA's new Mars spacecraft on Wednesday, one day late because of a radio problem. The Phoenix lander, which arrived on Mars on Sunday, is in excellent shape, said project manager Barry Goldstein. He said ...
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A prototype of an inflatable space station module has successfully expanded and deployed its solar panels after being launched into orbit, a private developer said. A Russian rocket lofted the Genesis II module, developed by Bigelow Aerospace of N...
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Wednesday December 20, 11:11 PM New Delhi: “Almost all diseases are curable permanently without spending money on costly medicines, operations or surgery. Hope you shall take this in positive spirits & give it a serious thought. It is surprisin...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. : Saturday: December 09, 2006: NASA is marching toward another evening launch attempt for Discovery on Saturday, but bad weather could keep the space shuttle grounded again. Even as final preparations were made Friday night i...
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SANTA FE, N.M.Saturday: Dec 9, 2006: 1:05 AM ET: Here's the latest buzz on detecting explosives: bomb-sniffing bees. A study at Los Alamos National Laboratory has found that honeybees can be trained to detect explosives, even in tiny quantities. "The...
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HELSINKI, Finland : Saturday: Dec 9, 2006:3:53 AM ET: Alcohol is now the leading killer of Finnish adults, with consumption reaching an all-time high last year in the Nordic nation, officials said Friday. More than 2,000 people between the ages o...
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CANBERRA,Australia:Wednessday: 06 December, 2006: Australia legalized the cloning of human embryos for stem cell research with a vote by the House of Representatives Wednesday that lifted a four-year-old ban on the procedure. The legislation pass...
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BERLIN:Friday:Dec 01,2006: World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths...
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PARIS : Tuesday; November 28, 2006: A year after a Frenchwoman received the world's first partial face transplant, doctors say the operation was a success and she is gaining more and more sensitivity and facial mobility. As British and American d...
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Monday: November 27, 2006: LONDON Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death worldwide, according to a study published online Monday. When global mortality projections were last calcula...
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