Scientists at Southern General Hospital, Glasgow are developing a new stem cell treatment to repair brain damage in stroke patients. More than 130,000 people suffer a stroke in Britain every year, half of whom die. Physiotherapy (physical therapy) is the only therapy available for the treatment of permanently disabled.

Earlier researches have shown that lifestyle and environment determines a person's risk of developing many types of cancer. Recent study showed that presence of a particular kind of genes increase the risk of developing five different types of cancer - skin, lung, bladder, prostate and cervical cancer.

Previous studies have shown that smoking and drinking increase risk of various cancer like lung cancer and liver cancer.

Recent research revealed that periodic pneumatic compression can greatly benefit restless legs syndrome patients. Research team led by Dr. Christopher J. Lettieri and Dr. Arn H. Eliasson, from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC conducted a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 35 patients, the majority of them with moderate to severe symptoms of RLS at baseline.

Emailing is the latest addition to the list of involuntary actions which a person can do in sleep. Emailing and chatting has become most popular way of communication and boosting social life.

Millions of people spend numerous hours before their computer screen interacting with old friends or finding new ones on many popular social networking sites without being aware of the fact that this affecting their cognitive behavior.

A high cholesterol level is one of the major problems created by sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits. Recent research has given hope of effective cholesterol control with the new weapon - synthetic high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the 'good' cholesterol.

Researchers believe it could fight chronically high cholesterol levels and the deadly heart disease that often results due to higher cholestrol.

Recent studies revealed that women should take break from work before and after birth of the baby.

In first study, Sylvia Guendelman, professor of maternal and child health at UC Berkeley''s School of Public Health and her collogues found that women who took leave before they gave birth were almost four times less likely to have a primary C-section as women who worked through to delivery.