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A new report released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that most of the packed foods that are sold in grocery stores contain excessive salts.

The report stated that salt content in those products is lighter than the amount recommended under the federal guidelines.

The researchers from CDC are presently trying to understand why some areas have more cases of hypertension than others.

And as researchers were not able to determine whether location is linked to hypertension, they decided to chose another approach and look at the levels of slat in packaged foods in different locations.

According to a new study by the Johns Hopkins University, babies learn from the unexpected. The study published on Friday in the journal Science found that babies born with some natural smarts, but young people learn about the world when their natural intelligence is challenged.

The study was conducted by cognitive psychologists Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson. The study included babies who could not yet talk. The babies were taken by the researchers through experiments to prove their theory. During the study, the researchers presented the babies with some situation that they could predict and some that were unexpected. The researchers gauged babies’ reactions.

A man from Arkansas was brought to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as he experienced nausea, weakness, fatigue and body aches. The findings were presented in New England Journal of Medicine.

After going through a series of tests researchers discovered that the 56-year-old man’s urine has high levels of calcium oxalate crystals which turned into kidney stones.

The man said that he has never experienced anything like this before and his family also had no history of getting diagnosed with kidney stones.

After a series of question and answer with experts the man finally admitted that he has a bizarre daily intake of 16 250ml glasses (approximately 8 ounces) of iced tea which is equals to over four liters or one gallon.

Researchers have claimed that a blood test that detects markers in DNA can accurately detect Down’s syndrome in fetuses. According to researchers, the new technique’s effectiveness to detect the disorder is much better than the conventional ones. The blood test needs to be used between 10 and 14 weeks of pregnancy.

The same test is also capable of detecting two other chromosomal abnormalities that are rarer than Down’s syndrome. The new technique has been developed by University of California San Francisco researchers.

Researchers in the US have developed personalized cancer vaccines. Highlighting feature of these vaccines is that they target unique genetic errors in a patient’s tumor.

The research published in the journal Science has unveiled that safety tests were carried out on three people. From them, it has been found that the immune system could be trained to flight skin cancer.

The researchers are quite happy with the initial results and said that it marks as a significant step towards tailor-made cancer vaccines. The charity Cancer Research UK has also praised the test results.

On Thursday, the heads of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System signed a landmark collaborative agreement on ‘bench to bedside’ cancer care. According to executives of both institutions, the collaboration is a ‘strategic affiliation’, which will help approximately 16,000 cancer patients, treated each year by North Shore doctors.

The agreement between both the institutions could help benefit more patients in the New York City metropolitan area. The agreement is a new research and treatment affiliation.