A new survey has revealed that 35 percent of women aware of human papillomavirus wrongly believe that HPV vaccine helps preventing ovarian cancer.

London, Sept 4 : A new study has given people another good reason to lose all that extra weight by finding that fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals rather than preventing it.

As a part of their study the researchers set out to find the impact of fat and lipid) and vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on nitrite chemistry in the upper (proximal) stomach.

New York, Sep 4 : Scientists claim to have discovered the gene that influences a person's height and explains why some people are shorter.

U.S. researchers have discovered a gene, which keeps mice and fruit flies lean that might offer a means to put a stop to obesity and diabetes in people.

In the journal Cell Metabolism, the researchers reported that the gene, detected over 50 years ago in fruit flies, makes mice fat when tweaked in one direction and thin when manipulated in a different way.

Washington, Sep 1 : People who smoke are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia than people who have quit or have never smoked, a new study has found.

Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have shown that smokers over the age of 55 were 50 percent more likely to develop dementia than their non-smoking counterparts.

Washington, Sept 4 : Women who have been victims of child abuse and suffer from migraine are more likely to be depressed, a new study has found.

The study revealed that childhood abuse is more common in women with migraine, who suffer depression, than in women with migraine alone.