A group of UK health professionals believe that women going for screening for breast cancer are not provided the right information. Some women are given medical treatment which is not required.

The team comprising of Professor Michael Baum, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University College London and Dr Paul Pharoah, Cancer Research UK Senior Clinical Research Fellow, University of Cambridge and others said that there are harms associated with early detection of breast cancer by screening that are not widely acknowledged.

Recent research revealed that children of parents with Alzheimer's having a faulty gene are more prone to risk of memory loss in middle age.

Research team analyzed data collected from a group of 715 people with an average age of 59, including 282 who had one or both parents with diagnosed dementia.

Findings indicated that this result in people with parents who have Alzheimer's disease is equivalent to about 15 years of brain ageing.

Washington, Feb 19 : High-fat diets, even if consumed for a short time, can inflame fat tissue surrounding blood vessels, which could lead to cardiovascular disease, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati.

For the study, Neal Weintraub, MD, and colleagues examined adipose tissue, or fat, surrounding the coronary arteries of humans.

And it was found that these fat cells were highly inflamed, indicating that they could trigger inflammation of the blood vessels, an important component of atherosclerosis.

Washington, Feb 19 : A team researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has found that people who have parents diagnosed with Alzheimer''s disease or dementia are significantly more likely than others to experience memory loss.

The study found that this is true even in middle-aged persons who do not have a diagnosis of clinical stroke or dementia.

For the study, researchers studied 715 participants (372 women, 343 men) of Framingham Heart Study (FHS) (average age 59) using standardized cognitive tests and MRI brain scans.

Washington, Feb 19 : Scientists can now easily tell what's going on in a person's mind, thanks to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that can accurately reveal what people are thinking.

In a new study, led by neuroscientist Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University, volunteers were shown two different patterns and were then asked to picture one or the other.

Using fMRI brain scans, the researchers predicted with 80 percent accuracy which of the two patterns each person was actively holding in memory 11 seconds later.

fMRI images reveal which groups of neurons are active by measuring blood flow.