Acupuncture can bring significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in as little as eight weeks for early stage breast cancer patients, a study shows.


Acupuncture boon for breast cancer patients


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Does the mere sight of food ignite desire to gorge upon high-calorie meals? This may well be due to low blood sugar levels in your body.


Response to food images linked to glucose levels


Typical experiences of life stressors like death, care-giving and job loss may accelerate cellular ageing, but these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well, says a study.


Healthy lifestyle can fight stress-related ageing


In what could open up new career paths and educational opportunities for the visually impaired, researchers have developed a digital system that allows them to read graphical material.


New device allows blind to read graphs


Limit your sugar-sweetened beverage intake if you are a teenager. An alarming study shows that daily consumption of beverages can impair your ability to learn and remember.


Sweetened beverages can impair memory


If you have ordered the wrong food at a restaurant, do not blame yourself. Curse the menu instead.


Menu design can spoil diners' mood


Social network Instagram has launched its messaging app called Bolt which makes sending visuals easy. The easy to use app allows you to tap once to send a photo and long press to send a video.


Instagram launches messaging app


If we continue doing what we are doing today to meet our energy demands, there will not be enough water in the world to quench the thirst of the world population by 2040, says a study.


Drinking water shortage to hit world by 2040


Researchers have identified the mechanism in the brain that is key to sensing glucose levels in the blood, linking it to both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.


Brain 'switch' controlling blood sugar levels discovered


Two beneficial variants of a gene controlling red blood cells development have spread from Africa into nearly all human populations across the globe, a study reveals.


Useful blood gene variants spread in humans worldwide


Infants can smell fear. They learn to detect threats and remember these for long just by smelling the odour their mother gives off when she feels fear, says a study.


Infants smell threats by mother's odour


Researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University have developed a method to automatically identify topics that people search for on Google before subsequent stock market falls.


Google can predict market crashes


Where expecting mothers live can also have a bearing on the birth weight of their babies as researchers have found that mothers who live near green spaces deliver babies with significantly higher birth weights.


Green spaces impact birth weight positively


Obese women who use oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy can now heave a sigh of relief as researchers have identified ways to make birth control pills more effective.


Effective oral contraceptives for obese women soon


Did you feel guilty after having sex for the first time? Take heart as young women today are actually "enjoying losing their virginity" compared to earlier days.


In changing times, women find losing virginity enjoyable


In a first, British researchers have devised a simple blood test that can be used to diagnose whether people have cancer or not.

Simple blood test can now detect cancer

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If the killer asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs 66 million years ago had hit a few million years earlier or later, dinosaurs probably would have been much better equipped to survive, an interesting study reveals.


Giant asteroid hit at 'bad' time to kill dinosaurs


Following a healthy lifestyle may lower childhood cancer survivors' risk of developing the metabolic syndrome, says a study.


Healthy lifestyle key for childhood cancer survivors


Do you work for long hours? Check your smoking habits. New research has revealed that people who work longer smoke more.


People who work longer smoke more


A research has found that drugs widely used to treat lung diseases like asthma or pneumonia work better with the body clock.


Shift work can worsen asthma, pneumonia


Know why just looking at an attractive face stimulates sexual arousal? Well, it takes two to tango!

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