Recent research has revealed that mood of a person is strongly affected by the people around him. Research team led by Dr Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist at Harvard Medical School, and including Professor Fowler analyzed 53,228 social connections between 5,124 individuals over time.

Researchers said that how grumpy people feel can be influenced not only by the state of mind of those closest to us, but also by friends of friends that we have never met like ripples from "pebbles thrown into a pond".

Earlier studies have shown that cooking meat increases its levels of chemical compounds called heterocyclic amines (HAs), which can cause cancerous tumors.

Recent research by Isabel Ferreira and colleagues at the University of Porto in Portugal revealed that marinating steak in red wine or beer for six hours before frying cut levels of two types of HA by up to 90 per cent compared with untreated meat.

Research team led by Dr. Jiri Krupicka of Na Homolce Hospital in Prague, the Czech Republic conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study to the effect of the long-term administration of candesartan - marketed by AstraZeneca and Takeda as Atacand and BioPress respectively - on patients with Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

Generally people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy display mild symptoms or are completely asymptomatic, up to 1 percent of affected people succumb to sudden cardiac death, often with no previous signs of illness.

Researchers from the company Special K conducted a poll to find a relationship between dress size and general happiness and satisfaction level of the women who wear them.

Recent research revealed that antibiotics as a preventive treatment increases the chances of survival in patients under intensive care. Research team led by Anne Marie de Smet, from the University Medical Centre Utrecht studied the effect of antibiotic treatment on 6,000 patients admitted to intensive care units at 13 Dutch hospitals.

The Assam government has made it clear that the avian influenza has spread to new areas of the state.

Sources in the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department said that the deadly bird flu virus was confirmed in about 15 more villages. The health authorities have been asked to cull nearly 70,000 birds in these areas.

Speaking on this, a veterinary department official said, “So far about 150 villages in eight Assam districts were hit by bird flu and Rapid Response Teams have already slaughtered about 510,000 chickens and ducks since November 27.”