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In case you are 45 or above and have a sales job, then there are chances that you have elevated risk for heart disease and stroke in comparison to workers in management and professional positions. Same applies to people working in office support or service-linked jobs.

For better understanding of how cardiovascular disease risk is linked to profession, CDC researchers carried out a study by including 5,566 employed black and white men and women belonging to age group 45 years and above. The findings were presented by them this week at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology/Lifestyle 2016 meeting, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Northwestern Medicine researchers have conducted a study in which they found that aggressive cases of prostate cancer are significantly linked to low levels of vitamin D.

As per the Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit medical research and practice group, prostate cancer is among the most common forms of cancer among men. It occurs in the prostate, a tiny gland that makes seminal fluid for sperm nourishment and transportation.

Prostate cancer goes in aggressive mode once it steps outside the prostate and possesses a high Gleason score, which indicates that the cancer tissue is extremely different from usual prostate tissue and has more chances of spreading.

A latest study has suggested that scientists could have the first proof that Zika virus can lead to temporary paralysis. The study was conducted on patients who suffered the rare condition in the virus outbreak in Tahiti two years back.

Zika is presently spreading at an alarming speed throughout the Americas. Several weeks back, the World Health Organization announced that the epidemic is a global emergency on the basis of suspicions that it could be the culprit of an increase in disturbing birth defects and in a neurological illness known as Guillain-Barre syndrome that generally lasts a few weeks.

Researchers have probably found the first gene associated with gray hair, as per a search that involved hair types and genomes of over 6,000 people belonging to five Latin American nations.

They tracked down these populations as they are representative of a good mix of backgrounds, consisting of Europeans and their fair or curly hair, Native Americans and African-Americans and their traits dark and straight hair.

Many people are already aware that they are highly vulnerable to going gray at an early age in case they have witnessed older relatives with gray hair at early age. Kaustubh Adhikari, a research associate in cell and developmental biology at University College London said that the present study has more strongly backed the belief that graying is genetic.

High cost of cancer medicines isn’t the sole reason why they are so expensive for insurers and patients. A study has found that wasted medicine also adds to the bill because the distribution of infused cancer drugs is done in vials in the US that generally include more medicine as compared to what most patients require.

In most cases, insurance companies or patients end up paying for surplus medicine, which is generally thrown out. The cost of wasted cancer medicine has been calculated in billions of dollars.

New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have estimated that in the US wasted cancer medicine will add up to around $3 billion in excess costs this year.

Shooting owls is rarely a typical part of the conservation toolbox; however, California's northern forests’ biologists have been doing just that.

Lowell Diller, a biologist working with Jack Dumbacher, curator of the California Academy of Sciences Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, has been mapping parts of the forest where both owl species live. They have been given permission by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In some regions, Diller drew in and shot the banned owls; but others he left alone.