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Researchers have found that the natural compound sceptrin, which is found in marine sponges, reduces cancer cell motility (movement) and has very low toxicity.

The discovery was made by investigators at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham, formerly Burnham Institute for Medical Research) led by Kristiina Vuori, M. D., Ph. D.

New Delhi, Feb 19 - The film fraternity is mourning Nirmal Pandey of "Bandit Queen" fame, who died of a heart attack Thursday. While superstar Shah Rukh Khan says he would have loved to work more with Pandey, veteran actor Anupam Kher says he was fond of his "casual stance towards life".

"Will miss Nirmal Pandey. Great talent. May his soul rest in peace. Simple and a nice guy. Wonderfully quirky actor. Wish had worked with him more," Shah Rukh posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.

A new study claims that people anticipating taking a break to go on a vacation are happier than those who have no traveling plans.

"Vacations are linked to a number of positive feelings." said Jeroen Nawijn from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and his team.

The researchers have learnt how vacations impact happiness among 1,530 Dutch adults, 974 of whom took a vacation.

Natural gas prices tumbled nearly 4 percent after the government said supplies are

According to a University of Michigan Health System study, lack of adequate vision coverage of older adults may put them at increased risk of Alzheimer''s disease - the most common form of dementia.

Using Medicare data, the study showed that those with poor vision who visited an ophthalmologist at least once for an examination were 64 percent less likely to develop dementia.

Tired of pregnancy pain and pre-menstrual worry, one out of four women wishes she was a man, a new UK research has discovered.

Around 15% women said that while combating mood swings they desired to be male person.

A further 9% admitted that they feel men have it easier physically.

And over half, 55%, said that they were not at their happiest phase of life.

The survey of 2,048 women by Seven Seas Femibion health supplement disclosed that 87% confessed they never felt comfortable with the phase transitions to their body during pubescence.