Washington, Mar 13 : Aspirin may reduce the risk of death in postmenopausal women who have heart disease or who have had a stroke, according to a new study.

The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Observational Study also provides new insight into aspirin dosing for women, suggesting that a lower dose of aspirin (81 milligrams, or mg) is as effective as a higher dose (325 mg).

Washington, Mar 13: A new study has found that kids living in greener neighbourhoods are more active.

Researchers from Universite de Montreal, Canada have shown that the presence of nearby parks was strongly associated with girls walking to school and boys engaging in leisure walking.

For every additional park located within a half mile of their home, researchers found, the likelihood of walking to school more than doubled among girls and leisure walking by boys increased by 60 percent.

Washington, Mar 13 : Forget forcing yourself into gruelling exercise regime to shed those extra pounds, for a diet rich in calcium is more than enough to spur weight loss, say researchers.

A research team led by Angelo Tremblay from Universite Laval''s Faculty of Medicine boosting calcium intake can aid in losing weight, but only in people whose diets are calcium deficient.

During the study, the team conducted a 15-week weight loss program on obese women.

Washington, March 13 : Wellcome Trust scientists in Britain say that it may be possible to "read" a person's memories just by looking at his/her brain activity, as a study conducted by them has shown that memories are recorded in the regular patterns.

Demis Hassabis and Professor Eleanor Maguire at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London (UCL) say that their study has shown that how the hippocampus-a small brain area which is crucial for navigation, memory recall and imagining future events-records memory.

Rome  - A retired Serie B footballer has said he contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a nervous-system disease with an unusually high incidence among former Italian players.

Italian media reported Thursday that Stefano Turchi, 40, a forward with Ancona between 1990 and 1992 has suffered from ALS since 2005.

Turchi, in an interview with the Ancona-based newspaper Corriere Adriatico, said he considers himself lucky to have been hit by a less aggressive form of the illness that still allows him to talk and walk.

Washington, March 12 : A reduction in salt consumption by people may help decrease the incidences of death, say researchers.

Making a presentation at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, University of California-San Francisco researchers said that for every gram of salt that people reduce in their diets daily, a quarter of a million fewer new heart disease cases and over 200,000 fewer deaths would occur over a decade.