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A latest study suggested that overweight middle-aged adults shedding weight eating with a protein-rich diet have more chances to have a better sleep than the ones losing weight eating a normal quantity of proteins.

Wayne Campbell from Purdue University in the US said that generally, the researches take into account the effects sleep has on diet and weight control, but their study has flipped that query asking the effects of shedding weight and diet, particularly the quantity of proteins, on sleep.

A new study has claimed that a woman has more risk of miscarriage in case she and her partner consume over two caffeinated drinks regularly during the weeks prior to getting pregnant. The study has been published online in journal Fertility and Sterility

It has also reported that the ones who consumed over two caffeinated beverages every day in the initial 49 days of pregnancy also highly vulnerable to miscarry.

The research team from the National Health Institutes of Health and Ohio State University, Columbus examined the lifestyle habits of 344 couples. They noted down their habits like use of cigarette, caffeine intake and multivitamin consumption. The researchers kept a track of the participants, weeks prior to they had conceived to till seven months into the pregnancy.

On Monday, an agriculture ministry official told Reuters that South Korea has found bird flu in ducks on a poultry farm, 80 kilometers east of Seoul. It has come as the first discovery in four months and has been detected 30 days after the nation gained its bird flu-free status back.

The case included a strain called H5N8, which is the same kind of influenza that occurred in November 2015. The officials said that all 11,604 ducks present at the infected farm in the city of Icheon have been killed.

Sputnik News reported that the virus in avian influenza aka bird flu was detected for the first time in 1997 when it affected many people. Among the people who contracted the flu, six lost their lives. The respiratory disease can spread to humans from the bird species.

A latest study suggested that the Zika virus could have first spread in Brazil around a couple of years before the first reported cases. The mosquito-borne virus may possibly have reached the country in 2013, between May and December.

Though Brazilian health officials observed a cluster of illnesses identified by fever and rash towards the end of 2014, they didn't diagnose the patients with the less-known Zika virus officially before May last year.

As per an analysis of many Zika virus genomes appeared on Thursday in Science, international travel might have spread Zika to Brazil from French Polynesia, which was hit by Zika outbreak during the time period from 2013 to 2014.

Two flavors of chocolate sticks have been recalled by Trader Joe’s. The recall has been announced due to the possibility of the two flavors containing milk and apparently the list of ingredients mentioned on the two products does not include milk. An email was sent by Trader Joe’s on March 25, 2016 to inform the consumers regarding the recall. The company is taking these products off the shelves in an effort to prevent any problems due to the probability of milk being contained in the two flavors.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formulated an outline for a guidance to offer support to pharmaceutical industry in its efforts to develop generic variants of opioid drugs that have been approved by it.

The generic variants will be developed using abuse-deterrent formulations (ADF). However, the FDA has revealed that generic ADF opioids will also be equally abuse-deterrent as the brand-name drug. This guidance is one of the several measures being taken by the FDA under an action plan for the re-evaluation of its advancement towards opioid drugs.