London, Apr 7: Are last night’s festivities making your head pound, stomach queasy and skin a deathly shade of grey? Well, then go ahead and grab a big, fat bacon sandwich to save your life, say scientists.

The yummy grub has always been a popular cure for a hangover, and now scientists have come up with proof to claim that it really works, reports The Mirror.

Beijing  - The Chinese government announced a three-year action plan on health care reform on Tuesday, pledging improved facilities, universal access to basic insurance and the introduction of an essential drug system.

Admitting that health care services in rural areas lag behind those in the country's cities, the government has pledged to build 2000 new county-level hospitals which adhere to national standards, and to provide each village with a local clinic.

Washington, April 7: Smoking cigarettes is not the only risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it may also change the body''s immune responses to bacteria that commonly cause exacerbations of the disease, according to a study in mice.

Washington, Apr 7: People who gain weight early in life are three times more likely to develop mobility problems in old age, even if they eventually lose weight, says a new study from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Lead researcher Denise Houston added that dropping weight later in life could lead to problems with mobility because weight loss later in life is usually involuntary and the result of an underlying chronic condition.

London, Apr 7: In a novel study, French scientists have found that transplanted hands successfully activate the brain region linked to muscular movement, thus raising the prospect of regaining full movement.

It is known that motor cortex, the part of the brain region that maintains a physical map of the body with different areas registering sensations in different body parts.

When the hand gets amputated the brain region linked to it goes unused.

Washington, April 7: A new study led by UK and German researchers has shown that schizophrenia patients can correctly see through an illusion known as the ‘hollow mask’ illusion, probably because their brain disconnects “what the eyes see” from what “the brain thinks it is seeing”.

The observations made during the study attain significance as they may help understand why cannabis users may also be less deceived by the illusion whilst on the drug.

The study — carried out by scientists at the Hannover Medical School in Germany and UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in the UK — confirms that people with schizophrenia are immune to certain vision illusions, and that they are not fooled by the ‘hollow mask’ illusion.