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Gulf War veteran Bryan Ashley-Selleck attempted suicide eleven years back. He said that being a patient of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), he'd sought help from the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has been visiting in and out of psychiatric wards.

He has been taking part in weekly gatherings with other veterans to ski in the winter and kayak, hike and bike during rest of the year. The initiative has given him an opportunity to aid other veterans by speaking out his story. He said that it's also helping him in healing himself.

In spite of back-to-back recommendations for adults to take proper sleep of at least seven hours every night, a latest study has shown that over one-third of people in the US aren’t getting enough of sleep. It has revealed the states across the country that are most sleep deprived.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study evaluated data from the 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to find out whether adults have been getting sufficient sleep or not. The respondents of the survey involved 444,306 people in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Researchers have discovered that over one-third of the adults reported sleeping less than seven hours per day.

A freshly published Finnish study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has shown that consumption of high-cholesterol foods doesn’t raise heart disease risk, opposing earlier heart health and cholesterol-rich food consumption researches.

While speaking to TIME, Dr. Luc Djoussé, an associate professor and heart disease researcher at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, said that dietary cholesterol doesn’t turn into high blood cholesterol levels.

For the study, researchers tracked more than 1,000 healthy men of the age group 42 to 60 years, nearly a third of who were carriers of ApoE4-a gene variant that could raise the risk of both heart disease and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

In a recent clinical trial, researchers have discovered that a clot-busting drug used for non-bleeding strokes and heart attacks can be consumed to decrease post-stroke disability and mortality in patients suffering from a kind of bleeding stroke.

Researchers have reported at the 2016 International Stroke Conference that the drug Alteplase, a tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, can empty the blood that was in excess in the brains of intraventricular hemorrhage patients, cutting death rates by 10% and roughly doubled the probability of a more functional recovery.

What is causing rare birth defects in Brazil? Health authorities of vast South American country have already declared that mosquito-borne Zika virus is behind the latest surge in microcephaly cases, but some health experts think the virus’ presence in the country doesn’t mean it caused the birth defect.

Last week, Mr. Arthur Chioro, health minister of the country, announced that Zika is undoubtedly behind microcephaly, but Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, said even if Zika virus cases are rising in the country, it doesn’t mean it is causing microcephaly.

Climate scientists worldwide are highly concerned about the current level of decline in the ice sheets. The manner in which these ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctic are turning into stream is thought to cause less serious climate concerns, claimed a new study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

To conduct the study aimed at understanding the nature of ice stream in regions of Greenland and Antarctic, researchers examined 117 ice streams that appeared throughout the ancient Laurentide Ice Sheet, which melted during a period from around 22,000 to 7,000 years ago. These ice streams were frozen once covering millions of square miles throughout most of the northern region of North America, an area proportionate to area presently occupied by Antarctica.