Category: Features
Oily fish consumption cuts rheumatoid arthritis risk
Eating oily fish once a week can reduce the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, reveals study. The research conducted on more than 32,000 Swedish women found that a fish diet is beneficial because it is rich in omega-3- a good […]
Breastfeeding reduces obesity risk
Breastfeeding for six to seven months has been linked to reduced risk of obesity in kids, finds study. A total of 43,367 singleton Japanese children who were born after 37 gestational weeks and had information about their feeding during infancy […]
Bee sting therapy creating a buzz in China, but some say its “quackery”
BEIJING – Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward off life-threatening illness, practitioners say. More than 27,000 people have undergone the painful technique – each session can involve dozens of […]
‘Haphazard Use Of Vaccines Led To Bird Flu In Nepal’: Government
An official said that bird flu outbreaks in Nepal, which have not yet been controlled, mainly spread due to unverified vaccines being administered haphazardly to chickens by poultry farmers. Poultry farmers imported and used the vaccines haphazardly without first consulting […]
Herbal medicine ingredient linked to cancer
TAIPEI – Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital yesterday published research showing that aristolochic acid is a carcinogen that can cause gene mutation. Science Translational Medicine, an interdisciplinary medical journal established in October 2009 by the American Association for the Advancement […]
Needle-sized robot offers hope to brain hemorrhage sufferers
Scientists have developed a new robot which could help in surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at Vanderbilt University. It employs […]
High-tech gadgets can be produced on the cheap thanks to common salt
Common salt could be the answer of producing low cost high-tech gadgets after researchers found that it can allow mass commercial production of silicon nanostructure, which has a large range of applications from electronics to biomedicine. By melting and absorbing […]
Experimental drug successful in blocking progress of diabetes
Results of a clinical trial looking into the effectiveness of an experimental drug have found it to be successful in blocking the progress of the most acute form of diabetes in its early stages. The latest results of the trial […]
Camels become prime suspects in deadly Saudi virus outbreak
People infected with a deadly virus that emerged in Saudi Arabia last year may have caught it from one-humped camels used in the region for meat, milk, transport and racing. In a study into what kind of animal “reservoir” may […]
First human transmission of H7N9 raises worries
The first scientific analysis of probable human-to-human transmission of a deadly new strain of bird flu that emerged in China this year gives the strongest evidence yet that the H7N9 virus can pass between people, scientists said on Wednesday. Research […]
