Sept 22: Parents need to make sure that their kids get a good night's sleep, for a new study by researchers from the University of Queens land in Brisbane suggests that children who don't get enough of sleep are more likely to become obese when they grow up.

The scientists have found that lack of sleep prevented the body from producing sufficient quantities of a hormone that repressed appetite.

Washington, September 22: A study of mice by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has uncovered about 350 genes related to female fertility, opening the door to much wider study in the poorly understood field of infertility.

“This study gives us a way to begin to understand the causes of female infertility. It gives us a much more complete list of candidate genes to explore. Before, we didn’t even know where to look,” said Dr. Diego Castrillon, assistant professor of pathology and senior author of the study.  

Washington, September 22: A multidisciplinary team of medical practitioners in the US has started using a real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds in patients with prostate cancer.

Doctors at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jeferson and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia have revealed that the new mechanism is being used for imaging and planning purposes only.

The real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds has been developed by Nucletron, a technology company based in The Netherlands.

The Halton Catholic school board intently overcame a shift Tuesday night that would have made it the first in Ontario to forbid public health functionaries from giving the HPV vaccine to Grade 8 girls.

The vaccine defends against illness from four separate strains of human papilloma virus, which combined cause 70% of all cervical cancer cases.

The program is planned for as many as 85,000 girls’ area wide this year.

It is projected that around 500 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 100 die of it, each year in Ontario.

New Delhi: The health officials stated that an unnamed chikungunya-infected tourist, visiting relatives in Castiglione town of Italy’s Ravenna region, from south India has been found responsible fo

Washington, Sept 21 : A new study has revealed that along with expanding waistlines, diets rich in rapidly-digested carbohydrates may also cause fatty liver, a condition that can lead to liver failure and death, a new study in mice has revealed.

If confirmed in humans, the findings suggest that fatty liver disease that is rampant among Americans as a by-product of the obesity epidemic may be avertable and can be treated through dietary changes.