Washington, Mar 24: People who eat red meat and processed meat have a higher risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, says a new study.

However, according to a report in the March 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, a higher intake of white meat is associated with a slightly decreased risk for overall death and cancer death.

Kuala Lumpur - The wives in Malaysian Armed Forces' officers were urged to join a slimming programme to draw the attention of their husbands, a news report said Tuesday.

The recently launched programme, which roughly translates to "From fat, frumpy and lumpy to slim, fashionable and glamorous," was aimed at giving make-overs to the women, organizer Rositah Mohamad Mawi was quoted as saying by the official Bernama news agency.

Sydney, Mar 23: Are you among those who vouch for grandma’s rule eating carrots to boost night vision? Well, then you certainly need a reality check, for an eye specialist has called it the “greatest food myth”.

Paul Beaumont has said that eating carrots does more harm to you than good, as beta carotene rich food can actually increase the risk of blindness.

Beaumont, who has been studying human retinas since 1976, has said that the carrot myth, started in World War II, is a "complete fabrication".

Washington, Mar 23: Heart disease is not only a product of genetic factors or lifestyle choices, air pollution also puts people at an increased heart attack risk, suggests a study led by Aruni Bhatnagar of the University of Louisville.

Evidence has shown that increase in particulate air pollution is also associated with an increase in heart attacks and deaths.

During the study, Bhatnagar found that risk of heart attack increases in parallel with time spent in traffic.

Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged governments in Asia and the Pacific to boost their national health systems, which are vital in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), especially drug-resistant cases.

The Manila-based WHO Western Pacific Office said that effective TB control has been hampered by weaknesses in national health systems, such as chronic staff shortages and inadequate financial resources.

Washington, Mar 23 : In a major advance in cancer treatment, nanotechnology researchers have developed the first hollow gold nanospheres that search out and "cook" cancer cells.

The researchers say that the cancer-destroying nanospheres, smaller than the finest flecks of dust, particularly show promise as a minimally invasive future treatment for malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.