Recent research showed the importance of flu vaccination in protecting children against respiratory diseases.

Two year study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center has shown that the administration of all recommended flu vaccines to kids reduces their likelihood of catching the respiratory virus, due to which many children are hospitalised every year.

The World Health Organization classifies around 400 million people as obese, 20 million of them under the age of five. The condition raises the risk of diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart problems. Recent research has found a connection between sleeping hour during childhood and obesity in adulthood. Children who do not get proper amount of sleep have more chances of becoming obese in adulthood.

Recent research has shown association of four new genes with Alzheimer. Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston found that few genes that are linked with Alzheimer's are somehow, also associated with the already known genetic risks that cause degenerative brain disorder.

On Monday, Amazon.com informed about its initiative under which it is working with retailers to cut back on the packaging to provide the consumers with easy to open packaging.

It has been decided by the Seattle-based company that instead of putting a pre-boxed or plastically sealed item inside another Amazon box, it will start shipping items in plain brown cardboard boxes.

MySpace, the social networking site and MTV networks are all set to launch a new technology, which would allow them to make profit from piracy.

MySpace and Auditude are working together with Viacom’s MTV to earn money from video clips put online by users in breaching of copyright. Auditude is an online advertising technology company.

It is quite common for people to update video content every day to popular sites such as YouTube or MySpace through the help of simple technology, even when they do not own the rights to the content being uploaded. This content is usually removed once the copyright owners complain about it to MySpace or Google, which owns YouTube. MySpace is owned by News Corporation, parent company of The Times.