When team members are motivated towards helping others, they are higher-performing and can stay in their teams for a longer time, says a new study.


Motivation to help others improves team performance


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Living longer may not be a joyride as researchers have found that people get more depressed from age 65 onwards.


Depression get worse after 65


Of the eight million cancer deaths worldwide in 2012, five million occurred in middle-income countries and 500,000 in low-income countries, says a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher.


Middle-income countries bear maximum brunt of cancer deaths


Wild birds readily sacrifice access to food in order to stay close to their partner over the winter, a study says.


Birds sacrifice food for love


The extinction of one carnivore species can trigger the demise of fellow predators, new research has found.


Extinction of one predator can trigger demise of another


Researchers have discovered a species of duckbilled dinosaur that prowled the earth some 79 million years ago.


New species of duckbilled dinosaur found


The rate of new HIV infections rises significantly in the five years leading up to violent conflict in a country, says a new study.


HIV spread peaks before violent conflict breaks out


A new blood-based biopsy that requires analysing a sample equivalent to one drop of blood can make cancer detection a lot simpler, says a new study.


Blood-based biopsy to improve cancer detection


If you are asthmatic, reducing anxiety can help you better manage the respiratory condition, new research has found.


Anxiety can aggravate asthma


An experimental drug aimed at combating Alzheimer's disease has a host of unexpected anti-ageing effects in animals, a new study says.


Alzheimer's drug that shows anti-ageing effects


If you are a diabetic, having diets rich in potassium may help you protect the heart and kidney health, says a new study.


Diabetic? Potassium-rich diets may protect kidney, heart


West Bengal's drug controller has sounded an alarm on the indiscriminate use of pregnancy hormone oxytocin in dairying, which could lead to major hormonal imbalance in humans, an official said on Thursday.


Use of oxytocin in dairying on Bengal drug controller's radar


Charity among parents is affected by the sex of their first child, claims a new study which finds that parents who have a first-born son and have two or more children are more likely to give larger amounts than people whose first-born is a daughter.


First child's gender influences parents' charity: Study


Do you keep worrying about work even when you are away from office? Planning how to resolve incomplete work tasks can help employees switch off from work and enjoy their evenings, advises a new study.


Precise planning may keep work worries off: Study


Two centuries after its invention, the ubiquitous stethoscope may be on the way out -- a smaller device connected through an app to smartphones may replace the old Y-shaped instrument.


HeartBuds could mark end of stethoscope


The death of a parent in childhood may increase long-term risk of suicide, finds a study of children from three Scandinavian countries who were followed for up to 40 years.


Death of a parent in childhood ups suicide risk


Humans realised the usefulness of honeybees as far back as the Stone Age, says new research that found evidence of early farmers exploiting beehive products at least 8,500 years ago.


Our love for honey dates back to Stone Age


A common genetic variation linked to Alzheimer's disease greatly raises the likelihood of brain bleeding in men as compared to women, scientists have found.


Men with Alzheimer's gene at higher brain bleeding risk


Apologies are important even to children who are six or seven years old -- an age when they build social skill foundations that last a lifetime, suggests new research.


Don't forget to say sorry even to kids


A new drug can help patients with blood cancers who are resistant to current chemotherapy lead a normal and active life, show results of an international clinical trial, a first-in-man study of the drug.


New blood cancer drug shows promise in clinical trial


A team of doctors has conducted what they say is the first scar-free facial reconstruction in the history of plastic surgery in Canada.

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