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Separation of conjoined twins is not a new thing is modern world where we have effective techniques to do the job, but Swiss surgeons registered their names in record book by successfully separating youngest ever conjoined twins.

Last month, a team of five doctors separated eight-day-old tiny identical twin sisters who were conjoined from liver and chest. The team, assisted by six anaesthesiologists and two nurses, took about five years in the operation theatre to perform the successful surgery, as per a report of the Le Matin Dimanche.

Americans are celebrating February as Heart Month to protect women from the life-threatening heart disease that doesn’t discriminate. The American Heart Association has been working to eliminate the issue since 1997 which is the leading killers of women.

The US non-profit organization launched Go Red For Women to educated women about heart disease and its consequence. Through the move, the association fought for 12 years to tell women how risk of heart disease can be eliminated. In additions, the Go Red For Women helped women by providing them tools necessary to live a healthy life.

A recent study suggested that mothers who are obese at the time of their pregnancy have almost double chances of delivering a child with autism as compared to the ones who weigh less.

Published in the journal Pediatrics, the latest findings have also shown that the risk can become four times if a woman is obese and have diabetes during pregnancy.

As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), statistics have shown that nearly one in 68 children suffer from autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Researchers have discovered a chemical known as benzaldehyde in flavored e-cigarettes, mainly in cherry c-cigs, which can irritate airways of the users. A latest study has suggested that flavored e-cigarettes, specifically ones that taste like cherry, have a chemical in it that can irritate users’ lungs.

Benzaldehyde is a vastly used chemical, a flavoring agent that is generally found in food, medicines and cosmetics. Generally, the chemical is considered safe but can be dangerous if inhaled– mainly in long term. The chemical not just irritates airways but also the flavored e-cigarette vapor can cause irritation to eyes.

A new study suggested that common insecticides used for killing bedbugs may not be as effective as thought.

Nature World News wrote that Virginia Tech and New Mexico State University study has discovered that bedbugs have built up a resistance to the general chemicals used for killing the insects because of overuse.

In a news release, Troy Anderson, an assistant professor of entomology in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said, “While we all want a powerful tool to fight bed bug infestations, what we are using as a chemical intervention is not working as effectively it was designed and, in turn, people are spending a lot of money on products that aren't working”.

Schizophrenia is a very common and is among heavily researched conditions, but still, the scientific community doesn’t have much idea about it.

Ranging from the exact cause of the condition to the mechanics of its effects on the brain, effective treatment has proved comprehensively elusive.

But, Harvard Medical School researchers have noticed an abnormality in the brain, which may potentially explain the mechanics of schizophrenia in detail. A theoretical description may make a way for revolutionary advances in treatment. It has been hypothesized that a natural synapse ‘trimming’ process could be exaggerated or overactive in the brains of people suffering from schizophrenia.