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A new study has revealed that divorcees are prone to heart attack compared to those who remain in wedded bliss.

Duke University conducted the study among nearly 16,000 US aged 45 to 80. They followed them over two decades, between 1992 and 2010. During the course of the study, all were either married, widowed or roughly one in three people were divorced at least once.

They found that those who were divorced at some point faced had a higher heart attack risk than those who stayed married.

The analysis also showed that women were worst affected. The team found that depression symptoms partly account for the link between divorce and heart attack risk in women. According to the researches, remarriage is not the remedy as the risk barely gets reduced.

A recent study, published in the American Journal of Hypertension, has revealed that eating out too often may be linked to high blood pressure or hypertension. Researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore have observed that there is a connection between meals away from home and a higher intake of salt, a higher intake of calories and a higher intake of saturated fat, all of which are linked with hypertension.

In the study, the researchers looked at the eating behaviors that raised the risk of high blood pressure in 500 subjects aged between 18 and 40 years. They also took into consideration lifestyle factors and the body mass index levels of the participants.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is has supported the move to raise the age to qualify for Medicare and it is part of a bold plan to reform entitlements that was released by him on Tuesday morning.

"Obamacare soaks up the people who would otherwise be displaced by raising the eligibility age for Medicare", said Avik Roy, a prominent Republican expert in health care policy who has argued that conservatives should use Obamacare to promote their own policies rather than repeal the law.

A meteorite created a huge crater on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago. It is believed that the impact was so strong that it caused the demise of the most of the dinosaurs along with 75 percent of all species on Earth. Scientists have now come up with a plan to drill into the middle of the crater.

The reason why it took so long for researchers to finally implement such a plan is the Chicxulub crater's center is inaccessible, buried under ocean waters and now thousands of feet of sediment. Scientists participated in a meeting last week in Merida, Mexico, to discuss the odds of expedition to get to the bottom of it.

IBM is taking steps towards more holistic approach to health care. Its data analytics software is already there in well-known medical research trials conducted at the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Sloan Kettering.

The company is now changing the basic Watson technology into a cloud platform, Watson Health Cloud, which will be useful for hospitals, doctors, insurers and patients. And that offering would be the attraction of a new Boston-area business unit, IBM Watson Health.

According to IBM Senior Vice-President John Kelly told Fortune, "We are going into the health care business in a big way. We all recognize that outcomes aren't what we hope for. Costs are skyrocketing. On the other side, so much data is collected. . We want to provide better insights, for better outcomes".

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is planning to organize a public hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The next 'Python Challenge' could be organized early next year and registrations for the same will open in October.

In 2013, around 1,600 people took part in the python hunt that continued for a month on state lands. In total, 68 pythons were captured.

As per experts, there may be tens of thousands of pythons present in the Everglades. Kristen Sommers of the wildlife commission's exotic species coordination section said that around 200 pythons are caught on an average in a year.