Shorter mothers are at an increased risk of delivering smaller, premature babies, says a new study.


Shorter women more likely to have premature babies


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Not just four cups of coffee, as new research suggested this week, just a daily cup-full of the cranberry super fruit can also combat colon cancer.


A cup of cranberries daily can fight off colon cancer too


While electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are generally assumed to be less harmful, new research has found that teenagers who use these cigarettes are more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes, cigars and hookahs over the next year compared with nonusers.


e-Cigarettes can trigger smoking in teens


In what could help millions of women suffering from low sexual desire globally, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world's first "female Viagra" to treat acquired and generalised hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in premenopausal women.


US FDA approves world's first Viagra for women


If you love to include chillies in your diet, you have another healthy reason to do so. According to a study, consumption of hot chillies can prevent overeating via an action on nerves in the stomach, thus curbing obesity in chilli lovers.


Eat hot chillies daily to stay in shape


Even light to moderate drinking -  up to one a day for women and up to two a day for men - may increase your risk of contracting cancer, especially if you are a smoker, says a new study.


Even moderate drinkers are at high cancer risk


Giving the search for Alzheimer's therapies a shot in the arm, researchers have identified the steps that a molecule takes to protect the brain from toxic effects of protein fragments known as  amyloid beta, a hallmark of the progressive brain disorder.


Protective molecule against Alzheimer's identified


A simple ultrasound technique that measures stiffness in the cervix may be used to detect risk of preterm labour in pregnant women, new research has found.


Ultrasound may spot risk of preterm labour


In a major breakthrough, researchers have found that the common diabetes drug metformin's primary effect occurs in the gut and not the bloodstream as previously thought.


Common diabetes drug works in gut not bloodstream: Study


A study by an Indian-origin researcher may soon help doctors diagnose patients with Alzheimer's disease over the phone -- just by listening to their voices, according to a media report.


Indian's research to help develop voice test for Alzheimer's


Scientists have discovered the mechanism in our brain that makes stressful or fear-related memories inaccessible.


How traumatic memories get hidden in brain


While we may consider our memory as being essential to who we are, others consider our moral traits to be the core component of our identity, suggests new research.


Moral traits key component of identity


Researchers have identified how over-activation of certain brain chemical receptors trigger disruption in the brain's communication channels linked to symptoms in psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia.


What disrupts brain in psychiatric disorder


The use of heroin is not only increasing, but it is now being coupled with the abuse of prescription painkillers, says a new study.


Heroin-painkiller abuse increasing in US


After analysing with an app, participants who wore a smartphone around their neck, scientists have seen for the first time evidence of where the brain records the time and place of real-life memories.


Smartphone necklace reveals how brain maps memories


In patients with stage III disease, the cancer has been found in the lymph nodes near the original tumour

Four cups of coffee daily may cure colon cancer

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After analysing blood samples from NASA astronauts, a team of US geochemists is set to develop a new bone test that will offer the possibility of near real-time monitoring of bone diseases such as osteoporosis and multiple myeloma (a form of bone cancer).


Space samples help scientists develop real-time bone test


A tweezer shaped molecule that targets the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in semen can help prevent HIV infection and other sexually transmitted viral diseases, new research has found.


Molecule that targets HIV in semen to prevent infection


Children with larger oral vocabularies by age two arrive at kindergarten better prepared academically and behaviourally than their peers, a study says.


Kids with larger oral vocabularies better at studies


Scientists have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding specific signals from within the user's brain.


Controlling exoskeleton through brain signals


An international team of paleobotanists has identified a 125-130 million year old freshwater plant as one of earliest flowering plants on Earth.

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