Low thyroid levels in the cardiac tissue of diabetics may be the major cause of their associated heart disease, a study has said, indicating that restoring thyroid hormones in heart may prevent heart disease in diabetics.


Thyroid treatment may prevent heart disease in diabetics


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Patients with persistent ringing in their ears - a condition known as tinnitus - process emotions differently in the brain compared to those with normal hearing, says a study.


Tinnitus patients process emotions differently


How happy you are in your marriage affects your heart in more ways than previously thought as researchers have found that unhappy marital interaction is linked to thicker carotid arteries and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.


Happy marriages lead to healthy hearts!


Career women who postpone motherhood have reason to cheer as researchers have found that women who have babies later in life are likely to live longer.


Ladies! Postpone motherhood to live long!


Making the case for nuclear power over coal or gas-based plants that hasten climate change, Russia's atomic energy corporation has unveiled the "atomic kilowatt hour" as a new cost-effective product of immense importance to energy-hungry emerging economies.


Russia seeks to make nuclear power cost-effective


Age-old misconceptions could be a blockade in the path of research and treatment for patients with cancer metastases to the brain, warns a new study.


Misconceptions hindering research in brain metastases: Experts


The war on cancer may never be won, warn researchers who discovered primordial cancer in a primitive animal.


Cancer may never be completely eradicated: Study


You now have some more reasons to lose weight as researchers have found that obese adults who lose at least 5 percent of their body weight sleep better and experience improved moods.


Weight loss lifts mood, improves sleep quality


In what could lead to new strategy to treat kidney cancer, researchers have discovered that a gene known to control brain growth and development is heavily involved in promoting clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer.


Gene in brain linked to kidney cancer


A virus can be used to kill triple-negative breast cancer cells and tumours grown from these cells in mice, finds a new research.


Virus that kills cancer and tumour cells


Are people with episodic amnesia really "stuck in time" as is widely assumed? No, asserts a new research.


People with episodic amnesia have sense of time


The answer to why some people cast their vote and others do not may be hidden in hormones, says a study.


Hormones can affect voting behaviour: Study


In new findings, scientists have discovered how clusters of a protein are linked to cancer damage cell membranes.


Dynamics of cancer chain in cell membrane unravelled


It might have had a mere 5 MW capacity but it was on June 26, 1954, that Soviet scientists connected the world's first nuclear power plant here to an electricity grid.


When civil nuclear power dawned 60 years ago


Two Canadians of Indian origin have developed a device that detects marijuana in a person's breath. Police say it helps to find if a driver is high on the contraband drug.


Indo-Canadian duo develops device to detect drug usage


Radiation from standard X-rays do not significantly raise cancer risks for young children, in general, but children undergoing more complex procedures with higher radiation have higher risks, says a study.


Complex heart tests raise cancer risk


Antiviral therapy can reduce the risk of liver cancer in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection, researchers have found.


Antiviral therapy may lower risk of liver cancer


Short, healthy children who are treated with growth hormone (GH) may become taller, but they may also become more depressed and withdrawn over time, a new study warns.


Treatment for height may cause depression in kids


The ultraviolet (UV) radiation lamps used for indoor tanning put adolescents and young adults at risk for basal cell carcinomas (BCC), the most common form of skin cancer, says a study.


Indoor tanning ups skin cancer risk


In a major breakthrough that has long term implications for cancer patients, researchers have discovered the pain pathway in chemotherapy and also a potential way to block it.


Chemotherapy likely to get less painful


Ever heard of a molecular sunscreen? It is a defence mechanism that the molecular building blocks that make up DNA mount to prevent the damage by ultraviolet rays, reveals new research.

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